{"id":537832,"date":"2026-07-12T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/537832\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:35:12","slug":"all-vessels-can-pass-through-strait-of-hormuz-safely-u-s-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/537832\/","title":{"rendered":"All Vessels Can Pass Through Strait of Hormuz Safely, U.S. Military Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Here are Sunday&#8217;s updates:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Israeli far-right lawmaker Tzvi Succot, chair of the Knesset Education Committee, visited a school in Rahat, the largest Arab city of Israel, on Sunday after the municipality announced it would shut down all educational institutions in protest of his visit. The municipality described the visit as a political provocation, saying it had been arranged without coordination with the city&#8217;s leadership or education officials.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 A pilot plan for the phased deployment of Lebanon&#8217;s army in the country&#8217;s south has yet to be scheduled because the Lebanese military refuses to coordinate directly with Israel and will not enter any area before Israeli troops withdraw, Lebanon&#8217;s Al Mayadeen newspaper reported, citing an official source in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Qatar condemned Iran&#8217;s attacks on its territory and other Arab countries, calling them a serious escalation that complicates efforts to contain tensions in the region, the Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 U.S. \u200cSenator Lindsey \u2060Graham died on Saturday evening after a brief \u200cand \u200csudden illness, the communications director for his \u2060office said in \u200ca \u2060post \u200con X early on \u2060Sunday. <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The U.S. Central Command said it completed a third round of strikes against Iran on Saturday, hitting approximately 140 Iranian military targets with precision munitions.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Iran&#8217;s IRGC said on Sunday it struck and disabled a second vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, targeted the U.S. strategic air base at Al Udeid in Qatar with ballistic missiles, destroying its fighter jet maintenance center and command and control facility and destroyed logistical support centers and refueling platforms for U.S. aircraft carriers at the Port of Duqm in Oman.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Qatar&#8217;s former ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, died at age 74, the state news agency reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Sunday&#8217;s updates: \u25a0 Israeli far-right lawmaker Tzvi Succot, chair of the Knesset Education Committee, visited a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157718,49,54,50,51,42,86,1031,9152,17397,1513,43,3215,40,38,41,39,77],"class_list":["post-537832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-settlers","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-october-7","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}