{"id":90393,"date":"2026-04-30T04:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90393\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:35:10","slug":"israeli-defense-officials-confirm-seizure-of-gaza-bound-flotilla-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90393\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Defense Officials Confirm Seizure of Gaza-bound Flotilla Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Here are Wednesday&#8217;s latest updates:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 A 16-year-old Palestinian teen has succumbed to wounds sustained after being shot in the stomach by the IDF in Hebron, the West Bank, Palestinian reports said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Six Iranian crew members of the Iranian-flagged container ship Touska have been freed and 22 are still being held after a seizure by U.S. marines, Tasnim news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The USS Gerald R. Ford \u2013 one of three U.S. aircraft carriers in the region \u2013 will depart the Middle East, the Washington Post <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/04\/29\/us-aircraft-carrier-iran-war\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, citing multiple U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Russian President Vladimir Putin floated ideas on resolving the conflict over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program \u200cin a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 U.S. President Donald Trump said that &#8220;now Iran just has to say &#8216;we give up,'&#8221; that phone calls are being held between the sides and that &#8220;Iran has come a long way, but the question is whether they will go far enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he will bring together on Thursday &#8220;criminal justice agencies to ensure we have effective and swift justice&#8221; following Wednesday&#8217;s stabbing attack that wounded two Jewish Men in London&#8217;s Golders Green neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Synagogues near Berlin were vandalized with grafitti of swastikas, and the words &#8220;kill all Jews&#8221; were spray-painted on a residential building <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish\/2026-04-29\/ty-article\/.premium\/antisemitic-graffiti-found-in-berlin-and-2-meter-swastika-painted-on-synagogue\/0000019d-d9da-d153-a3df-f9feae630000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the German capital <\/a>over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Wednesday&#8217;s latest updates: \u25a0 A 16-year-old Palestinian teen has succumbed to wounds sustained after being shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90394,"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-90393","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\/116491801324898549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90393","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=90393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}