{"id":452052,"date":"2026-02-06T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452052\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:01:12","slug":"source-u-s-drops-demand-for-iran-talks-to-cover-ballistic-program-proxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452052\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: U.S. Drops Demand for Iran Talks to Cover Ballistic Program, Proxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Here are Thursday&#8217;s updates from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Hundreds of right-wing activists are participating today in a planting event called &#8220;Reconnecting to the Gaza Strip,&#8221; near Kibbutz Mefalsim along the Israeli side of the Gaza border. In posters shared on social media, the settler group calls for &#8220;no surrender to Trump&#8217;s dictates, no to an international Gaza, yes to a Jewish Gaza!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The United Arab Emirates has drafted plans to build a housing compound for thousands of displaced Palestinians in a part of south Gaza under Israeli military control, according to a map seen by Reuters and people briefed on the plans.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that the &#8220;rats are leaving the ship&#8221; in Iran hours before the U.S. is set to have with the country on its nuclear program, ballistic missiles and regional proxies, with discussion set to take place in Oman.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The High Court ordered the state to help residents of the village of <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2026-01-11\/ty-article\/.premium\/palestinian-villagers-leaving-after-2-years-of-settler-attacks\/0000019b-a9ba-da2a-abdf-ebbb80d20000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ras Ein al-Auja<\/a> in the West Bank return to their homes, who left after an escalation of settler violence.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Israeli police announced the arrest of two Israeli Jerusalem residents in their 20s on suspicion of spying for Iran, in addition to other security offenses.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The IDF announced strikes against &#8220;Hezbollah terror targets in several areas in Lebanon,&#8221; following what the military called &#8220;repeated violations of cease-fire understandings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Israel&#8217;s opposition leader, Yair Lapid, harshly criticized what he described as the &#8220;extremist Jewish left-wing&#8221; group, the Jewish Council of Australia, for calling on the Australian government to disinvite Israeli President Isaac Herzog, ahead of his visit next week, following the Bondi Beach massacre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Thursday&#8217;s updates from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East: \u25a0 Hundreds of right-wing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,5620,198471,12,5618,5617,13467,801,211919,124437,60805,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-452052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-board-of-peace","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-idf","tag-iran","tag-iran-u-s","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}