rebuilds its defenses amid war with the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u25a0 Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement is considering imposing fees on commercial ships sailing through the southern Red Sea, sources said, while China’s shipping fleet is expected to be exempted from any Houthi fee system.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Iraq’s Iran-backed Shi’ite popular mobilisation forces said at least 20 of its members were killed and 32 were wounded in U.S.-Saudi strikes. Iran’s Foreign Ministry and Iraq’s presidency issued statements condemning the strikes, while Iraqi Prime \u200cMinister Ali al-Zaidi \u2060called off \u2060a planned meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Together party head Naftali Bennett reiterated his vow that a government under his leadership would declare Qatar an enemy state after the Gulf state condemned what it called disinformation spread by the former Israeli prime minister.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Police and Tax Authority inspectors conducted a law enforcement operation in the southern Bedouin village of Tarabin, during which they raided several businesses and private homes, conducted audits and blocked roads throughout the village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Wednesday’s latest updates: \u25a0 A Hezbollah drone struck an Israeli military engineering vehicle in the area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157718,49,54,50,9150,51,42,86,1031,9152,1513,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-565209","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-gaza-aid","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565209","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=565209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}