Here are Wednesday’s latest updates:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Washington asked U.S. embassies in the Middle East to prepare to continue operating with reduced staff, and displaced personnel are allowed to cut their assignments short as the Iran war is expected to continue, CNN reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington has “total control” over the Strait of Hormuz, adding, “I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!”<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The Israeli military said IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir held a meeting on Wednesday, ordering to deploy more soldiers in the northern West Bank after settlers took over a Palestinian family’s house.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The Israeli military said it killed a Hamas militant in the northern Gaza Strip, saying he planned to attack IDF soldiers. The army added that it sought to “mitigate harm to civilians,” but didn’t provide details on the extent of civilian casualties.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Israel and Lebanon have agreed on Britain, Italy, Switzerland and Indonesia as potential contributors to a \u2060proposed mechanism that could see foreign troops deployed to Lebanon to verify Hezbollah’s disarmament, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The Israel Police and ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clashed in central Israel after the protesters blocked a major highway in the area.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 The European Union \u200cand 26 countries \u2060condemned Iran’s executions \u2060of protesters in a joint statement, French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot said \u200con Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Wednesday’s latest updates: \u25a0 Washington asked U.S. embassies in the Middle East to prepare to continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-582696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/582696","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=582696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}