Here are Tuesday’s latest updates:
■ An IDF strike in Gaza targeted Mohammed Odeh, head of Hamas’ armed wing and one of the “architects” of the October 7 massacre, a joint statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday.
■ The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that three people were killed and six others wounded in an Israeli strike in a residential building in the al-Rimal neighborhood in the western part of Gaza City.
■ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had instructed the IDF to expand its operations in Lebanon, with “large forces on the ground,” and take control of new areas north of the Israeli-held buffer zone, citing a wide-scale effort against Hezbollah explosive drones.
■ The IDF said it killed Hezbollah militants who had been involved in attacks against troops in southern Lebanon. The army added that it also struck the infrastructure used to launch rockets.
■ U.S. President Donald Trump will convene his cabinet at the Camp David presidential estate on Wednesday, Fox News reported, as talks on a potential U.S.-Iran deal enter what the outlet said was a “critical phase.”
■ Saudi Arabia and Qatar are skeptical about U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to bring the countries into the Abraham Accords without the establishment of a Palestinian state, a Gulf source told Haaretz.
■ The U.S. Navy is again guiding vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, after a similar initiative was backtracked earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. military officials.
■ Iran has partially lifted the internet blackout that has been in place for more than two months, live data from internet watchdogs showed on Tuesday.
■ The U.S. Justice Department has sued the University of California for it said was a “deliberate indifference to race and national origin discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students at its University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus” in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
■ Israeli forces apprehended a man involved in a 2007 terrorist attack that killed an Israeli civilian in the West Bank, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency said.
■ Syria’s transitional leadership has located remnants of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s clandestine chemical weapons program, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly gas attacks during the country’s long-running civil war, a Syrian official told Reuters.