Here are the latest updates on day 630 of the war:
â– Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, claimed victory over Israel in his first public statement since a cease-fire was declared between the two countries on Tuesday. He added that if the United States wouldn’t have intervened, the “Zionist regime would be utterly destroyed.”
â– The debate on the extent of the damage inflicted on the Iranian nuclear program by the United States and Israel continues. A European intelligence assessment said that Iran’s highly enriched uranium remains “largely intact,” while U.S. President Trump keeps reiterating that the Iranian nuclear facilities were “obliterated.”
â– Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered to cut all aid entering the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday night after far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to leave the government.
â– Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 21 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said. Dozens were wounded while waiting for UN aid trucks entering the enclave.
â– U.S. President Donald Trump called for an immediate cancellation of the ongoing criminal trial, or “Witch Hunt” as he called it, of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The head of the Israeli Bar Association said that if Netanyahu was involved in any way in Trump’s statement, that would constitute a criminal offense.