- Over Shabbos Hezbollah launched several salvos of explosive-laden drones and rockets at Israeli forces. One drone struck Israeli territory, close to the border with Lebanon, seriously injuring a reservist soldier and moderately wounding a reservist officer and another reservist soldier.
- At least 12 terrorists were reported killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon as IDF carried out a series of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon after issuing evacuation warnings to nine villages. IDF struck over 100 targets in 24 hours.
- US intelligence assesses that the new Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, plays a "critical" role in shaping the war strategy alongside other senior Iranian officials. (CNN)
-Today, Axios reported that SoS Rubio and WH envoy Witkoff met in Miami with Qatari PM al-Thani as part of efforts to reach a deal to end the war in Iran. The report says the US and Iran are now negotiating over a one-page memo meant to stop the fighting and create a framework for broader, more detailed talks.
- According to a report published in the WSJ, Israel secretly built a covert military outpost in Iraq’s western desert before Operation Roaring Lion and used it to support the air campaign against Iran. Israel built the base deep in a remote area of the Iraqi desert, just before the war started with the knowledge of the US. The site housed special forces units and served as a logistical and CSAR hub for the Israeli Air force. The base helped support thousands of Israeli airstrikes during the five-week war.
- President Trump on stopping the Project Freedom operation to free the ships in the Strait of Hormuz: "We will take a different path if everything is not finalized and agreed upon. We might return to Project Freedom if things do not progress, but it will be Project Freedom Plus, meaning it will come with additional things."
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