{"id":559566,"date":"2026-02-01T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/559566\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:26:11","slug":"idf-says-it-struck-hezbollah-militant-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/559566\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF Says It Struck Hezbollah Militant in Southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are Sunday’s latest updates on everything taking place in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the wider Middle East: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u25a0 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a discussion on tensions with Iran, with Defense Minister Israel Katz and senior defense officials.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 U.S. President Trump<\/strong> said the Iranians<\/strong> are talking seriously to the U.S., and added that he hopes Iran “negotiates something that is acceptable.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25a0 Iran’s Supreme \u2060Leader \u200cAyatollah Ali Khamenei \u200d<\/strong>said that if the \u200dU.S. \u200cattacked Iran<\/a>, it would become a \u200cregional conflict,<\/strong> the semi-official \u200cTasnim \u200dnews agency reported. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi later told CNN he was “confident” Iran and U.S. can achieve a nuclear deal. <\/p>\n

\u25a0 Foreign ministers<\/strong> of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey issued a public letter<\/strong><\/a> in which they “strongly condemn <\/strong>Israel’s repeated violations of the<\/strong> cease-fire in Gaza<\/strong>,” which they say hinder progres in Trump’s 20-point cease-fire <\/strong>plan for the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Six former hostages<\/strong><\/a> and 72 relatives of hostages demanded the resignation of Israel’s top hostage coordinator, Gal Hirsch, in a scathing public condemnation of his remarks to Haaretz on Friday, in which he said that protests calling for the captives’ release helped Hamas. <\/p>\n

\u25a0 The Rafah crossing opened<\/strong> Sunday morning in both directions, but a security source told Haaretz that residents are not expected to pass<\/a> through it today.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Israel’s government announced it had approved a plan allocating funds for the rebuilding and redevelopment<\/strong> of Kiryat Shmona, Metula and Shlomi in northern Israel.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 Doctors Without Borders<\/strong> said it has rejected an Israeli demand <\/a>to share a list of its Palestinian employees and will cease all operations<\/strong> in Gaza and the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Sunday’s latest updates on everything taking place in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the wider…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":559567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[372,69,70,58674,4527,4783,4784,83,119115,30578,50,36737,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-559566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-gaza-aid","12":"tag-hamas","13":"tag-hezbollah","14":"tag-idf","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-israel-u-s","17":"tag-israel-gaza-war","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-october-7","20":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115997729743229283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559566","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=559566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}