Here are Wednesday’s latest updates from the U.S.-Iran cease-fire and Israel’s war with Hezbollah:
■ The IDF announced that it has blown up tunnels in the IDF’s so-called buffer zone in southern Lebanon, totaling a length of about two kilometers, calling it one of the most significant infrastructures uncovered so far.
■ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added that the Israeli military is “killing dozens of their terrorists – and more is to come.” Defense Minister Israel Katz said the IDF will destroy all “terror infrastructure” as the Israeli military has re-occupied areas of southern Lebanon, which will be dealth with “just like in Gaza.”
■ Three Lebanese civil defense members were killed in an Israeli strike during rescue operation in southern Lebanon, according to a statement by the rescue service.
■ Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrated outside the home of Military Police Commander Yuval Yamin, where several protesters broke into his yard in the central Israeli city of Ashkelon. Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters blocked a highway interchange in response to the arrest of conscription dodgers, shouting, “We will die and not be drafted.”
■ Israeli President Isaac Herzog invited representatives of Netanyahu and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to discuss a plea bargain for Netanyahu amid his ongoing criminal trials – he is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
■ A revised cease-fire proposal from Tehran is expected to be drafted in the next few days for Pakistani mediators, after President Donald Trump said he would not accept a previous version, sources close to the mediation process told CNN.
■ Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged the UN Security Council to support the implementation of the Israel-Gaza cease-fire per President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan, backed by the Board of Peace, calling the cease-fire framework a “strategically coherent framework” that “succeeded in bringing the war in Gaza to an end.”