{"id":98656,"date":"2026-05-05T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/98656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:21:19","slug":"israeli-court-extends-gaza-flotilla-leaders-arrest-again-till-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/98656\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Court Extends Gaza Flotilla Leaders&#8217; Arrest Again Till Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Here are Tuesday&#8217;s updates for Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran and the Middle East:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 A six-day extension was court-approved regarding the detention of Gaza flotilla activists who were brought to Israel following the naval <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/gaza\/2026-04-30\/ty-article\/.premium\/israeli-forces-seize-gaza-bound-flotilla\/0000019d-db16-d85b-a1fd-fb364c790000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interception of the flotilla vessels<\/a> off the coast of Greece last week.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 A surge in skin infections in the Gaza Strip due to pests, including rats, lice, fleas and mites, has been reported by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says the timing is not right for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stressing that any such step must follow a security agreement and an end to Israeli strikes, Lebanese media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the establishment of a government coalition with Arab party Chairman Mansour Abbas is &#8220;more grave than the October 7 massacre&#8221; in an interview with 103FM radio station.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 IDF Arabic Spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued urgent evacuation notices to Lebanese residents located in the towns of Jibchit and Srifa, beyond the Israeli-controlled buffer zone in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran would need to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer, when analysts estimated that a U.S.-Israeli attack had pushed back the timeline to up to a year, according to three sources familiar \u200cwith the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Tuesday&#8217;s updates for Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran and the Middle East: \u25a0 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2490,41,38,496,1411,100,423,34,37,5941,8221],"class_list":{"0":"post-98656","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-iran","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-u-s","18":"tag-october-7"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116521709316387528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98656","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=98656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98656\/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=98656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}