Here are Tuesday’s key updates on Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Middle East:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi<\/strong> said “A deal<\/strong> is within reach, but only if diplomacy is given priority,” as Tehran returns to Geneva talks<\/a> with the U.S., emphasizing its peaceful nuclear rights.<\/p>\n \u25a0 Iran<\/strong> says it’s ready to negotiate a nuclear deal in Geneva with “good faith,” warning a U.S. strike<\/strong> would be “a real gamble,” deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht\u2011Ravanchi told state media.<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 The White House says President Trump<\/strong> prioritizes diplomacy with Iran<\/strong> but is prepared to use lethal force if necessary, according to press secretary Karoline Leavitt.<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 U.S. President Donald Trump is holding off<\/strong> on ordering an Iran strike until after talks with the country in Geneva on Thursday, The Guardian reported<\/a>. According to the report, Trump’s decision will be guided<\/a> by U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff<\/strong> and Jared Kushner’s assessment on the probability of a deal.<\/p>\n \u25a0 House Democrats introduced the Ceasefire Compliance Act<\/strong> to block U.S. weapons to Israel<\/strong> if it violates the Gaza cease-fire, the 2025 plan, or fails to curb settler violence, signaling a leftward shift in party policy ahead of 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 The Lebanese army<\/strong> announced it has ordered reinforcements and will respond after Israeli fire<\/strong> struck a southern border post, the military wrote on X. <\/a><\/p>\n \u25a0 Israel<\/strong> has \u200csent an indirect message \u2060to Lebanon that \u2060it would strike Lebanon<\/strong> hard, targeting civilian infrastructure including the \u200cairport, in \u200cthe event that Hezbollah gets involved <\/a>in any U.S.-Iran war, two senior Lebanese officials said.<\/p>\n \u25a0 The IDF<\/strong> reported an attempted ramming<\/strong> near the Jerusalem<\/strong> tunnel checkpoint, in which a driver hit a patrol car and fled toward Bethlehem; no injuries were reported, and the army and police are pursuing the suspect while the city has been sealed off.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Tuesday’s key updates on Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Middle East: \u25a0 Iran’s Foreign…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":613576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12648,372,69,17836,99,4852,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-613575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-iran-u-s","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-israel-palestine","14":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613575","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=613575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}