Here are Thursday’s updates from the U.S.-Iran cease-fire and Israel’s war with Hezbollah:
■ Tens of thousands of Israelis, many of them teenagers, took part in an annual Jerusalem Day march through the Old City; before the parade even began, young Israelis beat Palestinian residents in the Muslim Quarter, damaged storefronts and shouted racist slogans like “death to Arabs” and “May your village burn.”
■ The Prime Minister’s Office announced that it has instructed a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times to be initiated, following a report on sexual abuse endured by Palestinians at the hands of Israeli authorities.
■ Defense Minister Israel Katz said at the annual memorial ceremony of the Six-Day War and War of Attrition that Israel is “prepared for the possibility” that the country will relaunch military strikes in Iran, at an event that simultaneously celebrates the “reunification” of Jerusalem in 1967 marked on Jerusalem Day.
■ A police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City pushed a Haaretz journalist wearing a press card after refusing her request to accompany her out of the area, as Israeli teens rampaged through the Muslim Quarter ahead of the annual march for Jerusalem Day.
■ Israeli and Lebanese officials are meeting in Washington to resume cease-fire negotiations, mediated by the United States.
■ King Charles III visited Golders Green in northern London to “show his support” for the neighborhood’s Jewish community following a series of antisemitic attacks that included arson and a stabbing, Sky News reported.
■ CENTCOM Chief Bradley Cooper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis are “cut off from Iran’s weapons supply and support” as a result of the U.S. military campaign in its war against Tehran.
■ Saudi Arabia has suggested a non-aggression pact between Middle East states and Iran as part of discussions on the region’s postwar future, the Financial Times reported.
■ In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump said China’s President Xi Jinping told him the country will not provide Iran with military support, but would like to continue to purchase Tehran’s oil.