The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.
Lebanese media reports that a car driving in the southern Lebanon town of Kfar Tebnit was hit by an Israeli drone strike this morning.
“Injuries were reported,” Lebanon’s National News Agency says.
NNA also reports that Israeli artillery shelling hit Kfar Tebnit and the nearby town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
Israeli officials have not yet commented on the ceasefire between the US and Iran, which supposedly also includes ending the fighting in Lebanon.
London’s High Court will rule today on a legal standoff between the government and activist group Palestine Action that has seen thousands of people arrested and carried away from protests by police.
The ban, which came into force on July 5, 2025, made membership of or support for the direct action group a criminal offense punishable by up to 14 years in prison under terrorism legislation.
Today’s ruling will determine whether the government overstepped its powers in banning Palestine Action.
The ban, which has led to some 3,000 arrests, put the group on a government blacklist that also includes terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
The government has been criticized for taking too broad a view of the definition of what constitutes “terrorism.”
But Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has defended the proscription, arguing supporters of the group are unaware of the “full nature” of the organization. “It’s really important that no-one is in any doubt that this is not a non-violent organization,” she said last year.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says in a statement: “Trump’s agreement does not bind us. Israel is not subordinate to the United States. We are an independent and sovereign country.”
He adds: “We are not partners to this agreement, which does not safeguard our security. We must not withdraw from any territory [in Lebanon] that our fighters have captured.”
The Civil Administration last night demolished a home belonging to a resident of Shaqara, a Bedouin community near the village of Duma, south of Nablus.
The community, which numbers several dozen people, fled their homes in March following repeated settler attacks and now resides inside Duma.
In response to a query from The Times of Israel, the Civil Administration says it carried out “an enforcement operation against an illegal Palestinian structure built on survey land.”
Survey land in the West Bank refers to areas whose legal status has not yet been fully determined. They are not registered as private land, but have also not been declared state land.
This marks the second time in two days that the Civil Administration has demolished homes belonging to Bedouins who fled their communities because of settler violence. On Sunday, the Civil Administration demolished four homes belonging to residents of Khilet al-Sidra, a Bedouin community in the Jerusalem area that was largely abandoned in January following settler violence. The Civil Administration likewise said the demolition was an enforcement action because the structures had been built illegally.
The Democrats party chief Yair Golan says the US deal with Iran is terrible for Israel.
“Tremendous military achievements won through the courage of our pilots and the blood of our fighters were erased, while Netanyahu stood aside — weak, ill, isolated, and lacking influence,” he says.
He calls it “the culmination of many years of failure,” with the prime minister, “the man who promised ‘total victory,'” ending his tenure “with Israel’s enemies stronger, Israel weaker, and the deterrence built with the blood of our fighters eroding before our eyes.”
The US dollar has touched a 10-day low against its major peers as a preliminary agreement to end the war between the US and Iran sends oil prices tumbling and boosts demand for riskier assets.
The memorandum of understanding is scheduled to be officially signed on Friday in Switzerland, but caution still lingers as markets await more details and as the fate of Iran’s nuclear program is left for further negotiations.
Oil prices slump, with Brent crude futures down more than 4% to $83.82, while the safe-haven dollar eases on receding geopolitical tensions and inflation concerns.
Anti-Zionist student protesters at Stanford University walk out of a commencement speech by Google CEO and Stanford alum Sundar Pichai.
The elite university’s branch of Students for Justice in Palestine and other protest groups announced the protest last month, saying the walkout was in response to Google’s connections to Israel.
“We don’t need another tech billionaire to tell us how to get rich off of the killing and surveillance of Palestinians,” Stanford SJP said. “Take a stance against war profiteering. Tell the Google CEO that he is not welcome.”
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly pic.twitter.com/qvS2rJ91Ip
— Matt Brown (@maattttbrown) June 14, 2026
Videos show dozens of students walking out of the commencement ceremony, holding Palestinian flags and chanting, “Free Palestine.”
US students have repeatedly turned commencement ceremonies into anti-Israel protests in the years since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel and the start of the war in Gaza, as well as before the war.
The United States will release $12 billion in frozen assets to Iran before the start of negotiations under the just-announced US-Iran agreement, the Mehr news agency reports, quoting a 14-point memorandum of understanding between the two nations.
The document published by Mehr stipulates “the release of 24 billion dollars in frozen Iranian assets during the 60‑day negotiation period” that begins after the memorandum of understanding is concluded. A signing ceremony is scheduled for Friday in Switzerland.
“Half of this amount must be made available to Iran before the start of the negotiations,” the text, which has not been officially confirmed, specifies.
US President Donald Trump tells The New York Times that if Iran fails to reach a final nuclear accord with the United States, he will restart military attacks on Tehran or make the United States “the guardian of the Middle East” in return for 20% of the region’s revenues.
Trump tells the Times in an interview that the agreement he reached with Iran would ultimately assure that the Strait of Hormuz is “permanently toll free.”
He also calls Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “very difficult guy” and claims the premier should be grateful. Israel was not involved in the negotiations over the just-announced US-Iran deal, and its terms have sparked profound concern among Israeli officials.
“He’s a very difficult guy,” Trump says regarding Netanyahu, “and to be honest with you, he should be very thankful to us for doing this. Because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel wouldn’t be around for two hours.”
Iran’s military says it “humiliated” the United States and Israel, in a statement issued after an agreement to immediately end the US-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic was announced.
Iranian forces “have, through the imposition of their divine and iron will upon the humiliated American and Zionist enemies, demonstrated with strength that the enemy has no path other than accepting defeat and surrender”, the general staff says in the statement broadcast by state television.
