{"id":114755,"date":"2026-05-15T05:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114755\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:39:11","slug":"israeli-soldier-killed-in-southern-lebanon-combat-idf-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114755\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Soldier Killed in Southern Lebanon Combat, IDF Announces"},"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 the U.S.-Iran cease-fire and Israel&#8217;s war with Hezbollah:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 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 &#8220;death to Arabs&#8221; and &#8220;May your village burn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The Prime Minister&#8217;s Office announced that it has instructed a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times to be initiated, following a <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/11\/opinion\/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report on sexual abuse<\/a> endured by Palestinians at the hands of Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Defense Minister Israel Katz said at the annual memorial ceremony of the Six-Day War and War of Attrition that Israel is &#8220;prepared for the possibility&#8221; that the country will relaunch military strikes in Iran, at an event that simultaneously celebrates the &#8220;reunification&#8221; of Jerusalem in 1967 marked on Jerusalem Day.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 A police officer in Jerusalem&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Israeli and Lebanese officials are meeting in Washington to resume cease-fire negotiations, mediated by the United States.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 King Charles III visited Golders Green in northern London to &#8220;show his support&#8221; for the neighborhood&#8217;s Jewish community following a series of antisemitic attacks that included arson and a stabbing, Sky News reported.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 CENTCOM Chief Bradley Cooper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis are &#8220;cut off from Iran&#8217;s weapons supply and support&#8221; as a result of the U.S. military campaign in its war against Tehran.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Saudi Arabia has suggested a non-aggression pact between Middle East states and Iran as part of discussions on the region&#8217;s postwar future, the <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ab78e60e-7a41-4943-a1a5-bd60b4ca31b9\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump said China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping told him the country will not provide Iran with military support, but would like to continue to purchase Tehran&#8217;s oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Thursday&#8217;s updates from the U.S.-Iran cease-fire and Israel&#8217;s war with Hezbollah: \u25a0 Tens of thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2490,41,38,496,1411,100,423,37,5941,7401,8221],"class_list":{"0":"post-114755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-2026-israel-iran-war","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-hamas","13":"tag-hezbollah","14":"tag-idf","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-israel-u-s","17":"tag-israel-gaza-war","18":"tag-october-7"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116576987510811761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}