{"id":1085159,"date":"2026-07-12T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1085159\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:52:17","slug":"explosions-reported-in-irans-bandar-abbas-as-tehran-strikes-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1085159\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions Reported in Iran’s Bandar Abbas as Tehran Strikes Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are Sunday’s updates:<\/p>\n

\u25a0 U.S. and Iranian forces<\/strong> exchanged heavy missile and drone assaults, with Tehran targeting U.S. facilities in states across the Gulf on Sunday and saying it had again closed the vital Strait of Hormuz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Israel’s governing coalition announced that the upcoming election will be held on October 27, 2026<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 the last possible date for holding an election, meaning the government will have served out a full term.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Teenage activists from the group “Mesarvot<\/strong>,” an advocacy group that supports conscientious objectors<\/strong>, unfurled a giant banner reading “We hereby refuse to enlist<\/strong>” in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, while a high school in central Israel summoned a student and her parents to a disciplinary meeting after she gave out leaflets calling to refuse military service.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna<\/strong> of California recalled on NBC’s Meet the Press the incident on Wednesday of being blocked by armed settlers<\/strong> in the West Bank and detained by the IDF<\/strong>, and said the “IDF is lying<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Israeli attacks killed \u200cat least six people<\/strong> in the Gaza Strip<\/strong> on \u200cSunday, including a 9-year-old girl, Palestinian health officials said.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 U.S. Central Command<\/strong> announced that the Strait of Hormuz is “open<\/strong> to all vessels seeking to lawfully transit the international waterway” following U.S. strikes on coastal Iranian bases.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 President Donald Trump<\/strong> and Prime Minister Benjamin<\/strong> Netanyahu eulogized the late Senator Lindsey Graham<\/strong> on NBC’s Meet the Press, calling him “one of Israel’s greatest friends<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u25a0 French anti-terrorism<\/strong> prosecutors have launched an investigation after weapons<\/strong> were discovered in a vehicle near a synagogue in a Paris suburb<\/strong>, a statement from the prosecutor’s office said on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Sunday’s updates: \u25a0 U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged heavy missile and drone assaults, with Tehran targeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1085160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[246093,6505,32,2194,835,836,88931,170853,20406,178103,12,92426,13131,26],"class_list":["post-1085159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-israel-settlers","tag-news","tag-october-7","tag-west-bank","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116908756045926097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}