Here are Tuesday’s latest updates:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel will not withdraw from its current lines in Gaza <\/a>until Hamas has completely disarmed and pushed back on a recent deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Israel’s political leadership instructed the military not to carry out assassination strikes in Gaza without the IDF chief of staff’s approval, allowing troops to strike without such approval only in cases of “imminent danger.”<\/p>\n \u25a0 Qatar said on Tuesday that mediators were making progress in efforts to end the U.S.-Iran war<\/a>, driving oil prices lower, although Tehran has denied President Donald Trump’s assertion that talks are already under way.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Israel and Lebanon began a new round of talks in Rome<\/a>, as Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem<\/a> rejected direct negotiations with Israel and urged the Lebanese government to cooperate with the group instead.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Israeli military vehicles advanced deeper into Lebanese territory while shelling the area of the new incursion, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian<\/a> said Tehran would defend its borders but does not seek a broader war, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with Iran were underway despite Tehran’s denial.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Iran said it had prepared strikes on three locations in Ukraine after an alleged Ukrainian attack on an Iranian merchant ship in the Caspian Sea, but canceled the operation after Kyiv said the strike was accidental.<\/a><\/p>\n