Here are Thursday’s latest updates:
■ Syrian authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle advanced weapons and missiles over the border from Iraq, the state news agency SANA reported on Thursday, citing an Interior Ministry source, who said preliminary investigations showed the shipment was intended for Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
■ MK Dan Illoz said that Likud MKs worked to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a few weeks after October 7, 2023, in an interview in Ynet, adding that the campaign fell through because of “ego struggles” within the party over who would be its next leader.
■ Iran will “target all infrastructure in the region” if President Donald Trump “follows through with his threats of attacking Iranian infrastructure,” a spokesperson for Tehran’s top joint military command said.
■ In the northern West Bank, settler attacks were reported in the Tulkarm and Nablus area that included rock throwing and setting fire to several cars.
■ The government has approved a budget of over a billion shekels for paving roads and securing settlements in the West Bank.
■ Trump is considering expanding U.S. military operations in Iran following briefings from top aides, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal.
■ The United States intensified its strikes targeting Iran early Thursday, hitting targets further north as American forces also fired into a ship it accused of trying to break its naval blockade on the Islamic Republic. Strikes also reached into areas around Iran’s capital, Tehran, for the first time in the latest round of violence.
■ Several international airlines have suspended or canceled flights to destinations across the Middle East amid the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran.