Here are Friday’s latest updates:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Iran urged countries not to enforce new U.S. sanctions against Tehran<\/strong>, calling them an attempt to impose one country’s “unlawful will” on others<\/a>, while Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi<\/strong> said diplomacy could resume if Washington recognizes that pressure does not work<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei denied a report of a potential plot to assassinate Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, calling it a lie in an interview with Lebanon’s Al Manar TV. The U.S. Secret Service said it was aware of an Iranian state television video discussing such a plot.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir rejected<\/strong> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for a joint election slate<\/strong> with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich<\/strong>, with his Otzma Yehudit party saying the decision was “final and absolute.” Netanyahu had invited the two to meet Sunday, saying they “must unite to save the right-wing bloc.”<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 Israeli forces entered villages in southern Syria<\/strong> and fired two shells near Beit Jinn, according to Syrian reports<\/a>, days after Mossad chief Roman Gofman met Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani in an effort to ease tensions between the countries.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The IDF said it killed two Hamas operatives<\/strong> in separate strikes in Gaza<\/strong>, saying one was a commander in the group’s anti-tank unit and the other an operative in the Khan Yunis Brigade, and that both were involved in efforts to restore Hamas’ military capabilities and plan attacks against Israeli forces and civilians.<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 The IDF said it killed two Palestinian militants in Gaza<\/strong>, including a Hamas commander whom it said participated in Hamas’ October 7 attack<\/strong> and an Islamic Jihad observation platoon commander. The military said their activities constituted a “systematic violation of the cease-fire.”<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 The IDF said it struck several Palestinians in Jenin<\/strong> whom it described as militants, in a “targeted attack” in the northern West Bank<\/strong>. Palestinian reports<\/a> said Israeli forces subsequently surrounded the site in the al-Saada grove, west of the Jenin refugee camp. <\/p>\n \u25a0 An Israeli strike<\/strong> killed three Palestinians<\/strong> in Qarrara near Khan Yunis, the Shehab News Agency reported<\/a>, identifying the victims as members of the Abidin family and saying their bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Police and the Shin Bet<\/strong> said they arrested a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old suspected of pledging allegiance to ISIS<\/strong> and planning attacks in Israel<\/strong>. The authorities said the minor had studied how to make explosive belts and planned an attack on security forces<\/a> at the Temple Mount\/Al-Aqsa compound, while the 19-year-old allegedly planned an attack on an IDF base in northern Israel.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Germany and Turkey postponed talks<\/strong> on reopening the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong> due to a scheduling conflict involving one participant, with no new date set. The meeting was to bring together the foreign ministers of Germany, Turkey, France<\/strong> and Britain<\/strong> and counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan <\/strong>and Egypt<\/strong> to discuss regional security and freedom of navigation.<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 Britain<\/strong> warned Israel that removing its representatives<\/strong> from the U.S.-led Gaza coordination center<\/strong> in Kiryat Gat could undermine the cease-fire, after reports that Israel was considering the move over Britain’s criticism of its policies in the West Bank and Gaza. London said it was “committed to the implementation of the 20-Point Plan.”<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 Finland<\/strong> said it would end its multi-year funding agreement with UNRWA<\/strong>, while continuing to provide aid to the Palestinian territories through other channels. Israel’s Foreign Ministry welcomed the decision, citing what it called evidence of UNRWA employees’ involvement in the October 7 attack<\/a> and the agency’s links to Hamas.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The United Nations<\/strong> human rights office condemned Washington’s designation<\/strong> of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization<\/strong>, calling it “a disproportionate and unnecessary restriction” on freedom of expression and warning that an expansive use of the term terrorism<\/a> could have a chilling effect on civic space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Friday’s latest updates: \u25a0 Iran urged countries not to enforce new U.S. sanctions against Tehran, calling…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":984110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[266635,372,69,70,4527,4783,4784,119115,30578,50,36737,23312,103],"class_list":["post-1029689","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-news","tag-october-7","tag-syria","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117173846465883547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029689","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=1029689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029689\/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=1029689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}