Here are Friday’s latest updates:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Iran said on Friday that its response to any new U.S. threats<\/strong> would be “devastating<\/strong>” after<\/strong> Washington<\/strong> pledged<\/strong> to impose the toughest financial penalties <\/a>in history with the aim of toppling the Iranian leadership.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> an “antisemitic dictator<\/strong>” and accused him of massacring<\/strong> Kurds<\/strong>, harboring<\/strong> Hamas<\/strong> operatives, occupying half of Cyprus and imprisoning<\/strong> journalists<\/strong> and politicians<\/strong> who oppose him.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The Israeli<\/strong> military<\/strong> said Friday that troops operating in southern<\/strong> Gaza<\/strong> shot<\/strong> a Palestinian who crossed the IDF-controlled area<\/a> and approached the soldiers “in a way that posed an immediate threat.”<\/p>\n \u25a0 The Israeli<\/strong> military<\/strong> said that it struck a building in the area it controls<\/a> in southern<\/strong> Lebanon<\/strong> after it alleged that several<\/strong> “suspects<\/strong>” crossed<\/strong> into the territory.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Turkey<\/strong> has asked<\/strong> Interpol<\/strong> to enforce an arrest warrant issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> in November, Justice Minister Ak\u0131n Gurlek said.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The Israeli<\/strong> military<\/strong> said Friday that its soldiers were dispatched to the area near the West Bank<\/strong> village of Sa’ir, north of Hebron, after receiving a report that Palestinians<\/strong> were throwing<\/strong> rocks<\/strong> at a group<\/strong> of Israeli civilians who were in the area without prior authorization<\/a>. The IDF did not comment on reports that the gunfire killed a 17-year-old Palestinian and seriously wounded a man in his 70s, or provide further details about the incident.<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 Belgium<\/strong> on Friday condemned Israel’s<\/strong> plans to advance construction in the E1 settlement area of the West Bank<\/strong>, saying the move threatens the prospects for a two-state solution and violates international law. Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Belgium <\/a>said in a joint statement that Israel’s decision to issue tenders for construction in E1 is “unacceptable.”<\/p>\n \u25a0 China<\/strong> rejected<\/strong> U.S. President Donald Trump’s<\/strong> threat<\/strong> of an “economic D-Day” against<\/strong> Iran<\/strong>, saying sanctions and pressure tactics are not a solution and urging disputes to be resolved through negotiations and dialogue.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Friday’s latest updates: \u25a0 Iran said on Friday that its response to any new U.S. threats…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":984110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[266635,372,69,4527,4783,4784,99,119115,310396,50,17262],"class_list":["post-1016650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-news","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117138095568739187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}