June 28, 2026
Ultra-Orthodox Shas MK Yoav Ben-Tzur visited an Israeli military prison to "strengthen and uplift the spirits" of detainees held amid legal disputes over military draft exemptions and said efforts were underway to secure their release and advance legislation regulating the status of Torah students.
The Kuwaiti military said it intercepted two ballistic missiles and reported no damage or casualties. The state news agency KUNA said Kuwait "strongly condemns repeated Iranian attacks," calling them a "flagrant violation of its sovereignty."
#Kuwait strongly condemned repeated Iranian attacks targeting its territory, including latest assault early Sunday, describing them as flagrant violation of its sovereignty, direct threat to national security & breach of international law.
Israeli forces killed two Hamas operatives in separate strikes in Gaza last week, the military said.
According to the IDF, on Wednesday it struck the Al-Shati refugee camp and killed Abd al-Rahman Maher Abd al-Karim Ziyada, who it identified as a commander of a Nukhba unit within Hamas' military wing. The military said Ziyada had infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7 attack and seized an IDF vehicle, which he took into the Gaza Strip.
In a separate strike the same day in Khan Yunis, the IDF said it killed Kamal Mohammad Hamdan Najjar, who it identified as head of Hamas' tunnel unit in the area.
Here are Sunday's latest updates:
■ The Israeli military said it killed several Hezbollah operatives armed with an RPG in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon, near the IDF-controlled buffer zone.
■ Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a warning that U.S. bases in the Gulf region will experience "hell" in the coming days. Iran launched multiple missiles and drones toward neighboring countries, including Bahrain and Kuwait, a U.S. official told Reuters late on Saturday.
■ Sirens sounded across Bahrain and the country's Interior Ministry later condemned the renewed Iranian attack.
■ The Hind Rajab Foundation announced that it filed a request to prosecute National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir with the U.S. Department of Justice over his "involvement in war crimes," "acts of genocide, and direct incitement to genocide," ahead of his visit to New York City on July 7-8.
■ U.S. Central Command forces announced that they conducted additional strikes on "multiple targets" in Iran, including military surveillance infrastructure sites. This marks the second set of U.S. strikes since the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was signed in Switzerland earlier this month.
■ Parents and community leaders in Umm al-Fahm, Israel's third-largest Arab city, announced Saturday a general strike in all schools after far-right lawmaker Zvi Succot said he would visit the city Sunday in his role as chair of the Knesset Education Committee.
■ The Israeli military said it killed several armed militants in a military-controlled "security zone" in southern Syria on Saturday.
■ Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that the United States attacked five Iranian coastal posts under the pretext of the IRGC confronting a ship that it said violated a condition to pass the Strait of Hormuz, adding that any cease-fire violation contradicts the memorandum of understanding and will bring all ongoing processes to a "complete halt."
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