Here are Wednesday’s latest updates:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Iranian missile<\/strong> and drone attacks caused “unprecedented damage” to U.S. intelligence facilities<\/strong> and surveillance equipment across the Middle East, NBC News reported<\/a>, citing people familiar with the matter. The damage to buildings and equipment used by the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair<\/strong> or replace, according to the report.<\/p>\n \u25a0 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told foreign ministers from several allied countries that the United States is not expected to launch new strikes against Iran<\/strong> for the time being, Axios reported<\/a>, citing a U.S. official and another source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n \u25a0 President Donald Trump sent Congress a proposed civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia,<\/strong> while insisting that the deal will only move forward if Riyadh normalizes relations with Israel, a U.S. administration official said<\/a>. Saudi Arabia has demanded an irreversible path to Palestinian statehood before recognizing Israel.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Only five commercial vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong> on Tuesday, according to preliminary shipping data<\/a>, down sharply from a 10-day average of 15. At least three Indian oil refiners and a major global energy company plan to stop using vessels blacklisted by Iran<\/strong>, including for ship-to-ship transfers, four sources said. Iran has threatened <\/a>to fine or detain the vessels and confiscate their cargoes.<\/p>\n \u25a0 One person was killed and several wounded in an Israeli strike<\/strong> on a displaced persons’ tent west of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza<\/strong>, according to Palestinian media reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Israeli strikes<\/strong> were reported at several locations in southern Lebanon, including the Dabcha area and the villages of Qantara, Sibrine and Kfar Roummane, according to Lebanese media.<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 Qatar<\/strong> condemned Defense Minister Israel Katz’s entry into southern Syria<\/strong>, calling it a violation of the country’s sovereignty and a “transgression of international borders.”<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 Religious Zionism lawmaker Tzvi Succot refused to express regret for smashing a Palestinian memorial<\/strong> in the West Bank<\/strong>, south of Nablus, while under IDF protection<\/strong>. “What do I have to regret?” Sukkot said, claiming the memorial honored people who had killed Israelis and that “every minute it stands there is incitement to terrorism.” He blamed Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and the IDF spokesperson<\/a> for negative international coverage, saying they had “caused the damage in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Wednesday’s latest updates: \u25a0 Iranian missile and drone attacks caused “unprecedented damage” to U.S. intelligence facilities…\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":[372,69,4527,4783,4784,99,119115,310396,30578,13192,50,271],"class_list":["post-1025107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-saudi-arabia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025107","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=1025107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025107\/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=1025107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}