Here are Wednesday’s key updates on Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Middle East:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Turkish Foreign \u2060Minister Hakan Fidan<\/strong> \u200cwill travel to Washington<\/strong> instead of President Tayyip Erdogan for the \u2060inaugural meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board \u2060of Peace” on Thursday<\/strong>, the foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The commander of the Iranian Navy<\/strong> warned the Islamic regime would respond to foreign military fleets in the region with “greater force,”<\/strong> as reported in the semi-official Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The IDF<\/strong> announced that during Ramadan<\/strong>, 10,000 Palestinians from the West Bank<\/strong> will be allowed to attend Friday prayers<\/strong> on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem<\/strong>, in accordance with police recommendations. The IDF said that entry is only allowed for men above the age of 55, women above the age of 50, and children up to the age of 12, accompanied by an adult of first-degree kinship.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The IDF<\/strong> announced that Staff Sergeant Ofri Yafe<\/strong> was killed by Israeli fire during an IDF search of a suspicious building in the southern Gaza Strip<\/strong> and was mistakenly identified as a terrorist.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Iran \u200cand Russia<\/strong> will \u200cconduct navy drills<\/strong> in \u2060the Sea of Oman \u2060and the northern Indian Ocean on Thursday, the Iranian semi-official Fars news \u200cagency reported, a few \u200cdays after Revolutionary Guards conducted military drills in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The court ordered Kan journalist Omri Assenheim<\/strong> to give police the raw interview with former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Eli Feldstein<\/strong>, who leaked a highly classified IDF army document to German tabloid Bild.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The Vatican<\/strong> will not participate in Trump’s Board of Peace<\/strong> initiative, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomatic official, said on Tuesday, while adding that efforts to handle crises<\/strong> should be managed by the<\/strong> United Nations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u25a0 More than 80 actors, directors and other artists<\/strong> who have taken part in the Berlin Film Festival<\/strong>, including Tilda Swinton and Javier Bardem, signed an open letter to the organizers published on Tuesday calling for them to take a clear stance on Israel’s war in Gaza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u25a0 On a Fox News<\/strong> interview Tuesday evening, U.S. Vice President JD Vance<\/strong> described the recent talks with Iran as “in some ways\u2026 went well,” but noted that Tehran is still unwilling to accept some of President Donald Trump’s nuclear red lines.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Wednesday’s key updates on Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Middle East: \u25a0 Turkish Foreign…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":599004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[17835,372,109666,69,58674,4527,86232,4783,83,99,119115,50],"class_list":["post-599003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-2025-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-cease-fire-hostage-release-talks","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza-aid","tag-hamas","tag-hamas-hostages","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-u-s","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599003","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=599003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}