May 23: Contradicting Trump, Iranian media says Strait of Hormuz will stay under Iran’s management

Report: Iran has agreed to relinquish stockpile of highly enriched uranium as part of deal with US

Iran has agreed to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium as part of an agreement with the US to end the war, two US officials tell the New York Times.

According to the officials, Iran has committed in a general statement to giving up the uranium, rather than reaching an agreement with the US on exactly how it will relinquish it. Instead, the exact details will be worked out during the negotiations that will begin once a deal is reached.

The report comes days after Iranian sources claimed that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, had issued a directive that the near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad.

Iran has a stockpile of more than 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium in its possession, which Israeli officials have said is sufficient for 11 nuclear bombs if enriched further.

Earlier this month, a senior Israeli military official said if the uranium wasn’t removed, the war launched in February could be considered “one big failure.”

Suspect shot dead after approaching White House checkpoint with weapon, Secret Service says

A person who approached a White House security checkpoint and began firing at officers has died, according to federal officials.

The US Secret Service says in a statement that, according to a preliminary investigation, the person approached a checkpoint shortly after 6 p.m. ET (1 a.m. Israel time), and “removed a weapon from his bag and began firing at posted officers.”

Officers returned fire and hit the suspect, who was transported to an area hospital, where he later died, according to the Secret Service.

A bystander was struck, but a law enforcement official says it isn’t clear whether that person was struck by the suspect’s initial bullets or those fired subsequently by officers.

Secret Service says none of its officers were injured, and that US President Donald Trump — who was at the White House at the time — was not “impacted.”

NYT: Iranian officials say Tehran has agreed to deal for all fighting to stop, Hormuz to reopen

While Iran’s Fars news has derided President Donald Trump’s talk of a deal being nearly done, with the Strait of Hormuz to reopen, three senior Iranian officials tell the New York Times that Tehran has agreed to “a memorandum of understanding that would stop the fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.”

The deal would release $25 billion in Iranian assets frozen overseas, the officials are quoted as saying.

The Times says the officials say the agreement “would halt fighting on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”

They add that its terms focus “on opening the strait— including lifting the US naval blockade against Iran and allowing free commercial traffic without Iran charging any tolls.”

And, reports the Times, the officials say issues relating to Iran’s nuclear program will be put off, to be negotiated within 30 to 60 days.

The Times adds the caveat that it is “not clear if the proposal Iranian officials said they had agreed to was what President Trump was referring to in his post on social media.”

Citing Middle East officials, The Times also says the leaders of Arab and Muslim-majority countries with whom Trump spoke in a conference earlier today told him that they support the proposal and urged him to accept it.

Security forces swarming White House after reports of shots fired in the area

Police and security forces are swarming the area around the White House on Saturday evening after reports of shots fired.

US President Donald Trump is at the White House working to negotiate a deal with Iran.

There are no immediate reports of any injuries. On X, the Secret Service says it is “aware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW” — one block from the White House — and is “working to corroborate the information with personnel on the ground.”

In a social media post, FBI Director Kash Patel says officers were responding to shots fired and said he will “update the public as we’re able.”

Hormuz will stay under Iran’s management, Trump’s post ‘inconsistent with reality’ — Iran’s Fars news

Iran’s Fars news agency says the Strait of Hormuz will remain under Iran’s management under the provisions of the latest exchanged text for a deal between Iran and the US.

Fars, a semi-state outlet close to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, dismisses as “incomplete and inconsistent with reality” Trump’s announcement two hours ago that the deal was now being finalized and would include the reopening of the strait.

Trump posted on social media that an agreement with Iran “has been largely negotiated.” He specified that the deal would include the opening of the strait, the key pathway for the global oil supply that Tehran has largely blocked since the beginning of the war some three months ago.

Right-wing activists protest outside IDF chief’s house, said to call him ‘traitor’

A small group of protesters demonstrates outside IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir’s house, calling on him to “protect the fighters.”

The protest, according to Channel 12, opposes the IDF’s jailing of a soldier for wearing an unauthorized patch on his uniform reading “Messiah.” Zamir had spotted the soldier during a visit to an army post in the West Bank, and had called him out.

The protesters blast music outside Zamir’s home and wave Israeli flags, one of which also appears to feature the word “Messiah.” The group shouts, “Lions of the Right,” according to Channel 12.

The protest also reportedly includes shouts of “traitor” and “subverter of Israel.”

מול בית רמטכ"ל צה"ל. בזמן מלחמה pic.twitter.com/joEe4PjadC

— Ben Caspit בן כספית (@BenCaspit) May 23, 2026

Opposition leaders condemn the protest and link it to the policies of the right-wing government.

“The shocking calls outside of the chief of staff’s home cross a bright red line, and are a severe warning sign for the future of Israeli society,” posts Gadi Eisenkot, a former IDF chief who now heads the opposition Yashar party. “Calling the chief of staff, who commands the IDF and has tied his fate to the security of the country, a ‘traitor’ and ‘subverter of Israel’ is a deep disgrace and a moral void.

He castigates the government for not condemning the protest, a decision he calls “submission in the face of an injury to the Israel Defense Forces’ command.”

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who is also running to unseat Netanyahu, writes, “Every moment that the prime minister and defense minister continue to stay silent is an expression of support for their calls of ‘traitor’ against the chief of staff.”

Trump: Deal with Iran ‘largely negotiated,’ Hormuz to be opened, call with Netanyahu ‘went very well’

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during an event on May 18, 2026, on the White House campus in Washington, DC. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US President Donald Trump says an agreement with Iran “has been largely negotiated,” and adds that a call he had tonight with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the deal went well.

He likewise says a call with Middle Eastern leaders — not including Netanyahu — regarding the deal went well, and says the deal would include the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, the key pathway for the global oil supply that Tehran has largely blocked since the beginning of the war some three months ago.

He makes no mention of Iran’s nuclear program, having repeatedly stressed during the war that Iran will not be allowed to attain nuclear weapons, or of the regime’s stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium, which he has insisted Iran must relinquish.

“I am in the Oval Office at the White House where we just had a very good call” with the leaders of countries across the region, Trump posts on Truth Social, “and all things related to a Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE.”

He adds, “An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed.”

There is reportedly significant concern in Israel over the terms of the deal, and Netanyahu gathered coalition leaders and security chiefs tonight to discuss it.

BREAKING: President Trump says an agreement with Iran has been “largely negotiated” and will be announced shortly.

Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened under the agreement. pic.twitter.com/LL9xYsWMKg

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) May 23, 2026

Trump says his call with Netanyahu was positive.

“Separately, I had a call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, which, likewise, went very well,” he writes. “Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly. In addition to many other elements of the Agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened.”

‘Nightmare for Israel’: Senior GOP senators criticize reported terms of emerging Iran deal

US Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks to members of the media as the Trump cabinet briefs members of Congress on Iran, at the US Capitol on March 3, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

Senior Republican US senators are criticizing the reported terms of the deal US President Donald Trump, who is also a Republican, is negotiating with Tehran to end the Iran war.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a vocal supporter of the war who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, expresses fear over terms that allow the Iranian regime to survive, saying a deal that leaves Iran in a strong position in the region would lead to a “nightmare for Israel.”

“If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate [sic] force requiring a diplomatic solution,” he posts on X.

He adds, “This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the Strait in perpetuity and the ability [to] inflict massive damage to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel.”

The X account belonging to the Senate Republicans shares the post, as does Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, posts, “The rumored 60-day ceasefire — with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good faith — would be a disaster. Everything accomplished by Operation Epic Fury would be for naught!”

Operation Epic Fury is the US’s name for the war.

Neither post mentions Trump by name.

Diplomat tells CNN Trump’s call with regional leaders was ‘very positive’

A diplomat who was on US President Donald Trump’s call with Middle Eastern leaders about an emerging deal to end the Iran war describes the call to CNN as “very positive.”

“The call was very positive. Good progress is being made. Regional leaders were supportive of the progress and of the breakthrough President Trump achieved with the talks,” the diplomat tells CNN.

The deal reportedly under discussion is a framework that will kick off 60 days of talks between Iran and the US on a permanent end to the war. Iran submitted a proposal for a deal today, and a US response is expected by tomorrow.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not on the call with leaders of Gulf states and other Middle Eastern nations. He and Trump are due to speak soon amid Israeli concerns about the emerging deal.

Iran’s soccer federation says team’s World Cup base camp has been moved to Mexico from the US

Iran's national soccer team players stand onstage as they are greeted by a crowd during a pro-government gathering before their departure for training and friendly matches in Turkey ahead of the World Cup at Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran, Iran, May 13, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

The president of the governing body of Iranian soccer says the nation’s World Cup training base has been moved to Mexico from the United States after getting approval from FIFA.

Mehdi Taj, president of the Iran Football Federation, announces the decision in a statement issued by the federation’s media relations official. FIFA has not confirmed the move.

Iran had been scheduled to train in Tucson, Arizona, but a move has been a possibility because of uncertainty surrounding the US-Israeli war with Iran and security concerns. Officials at Tucson’s Kino Sports Complex had no comment.

The federation says the team will now be based in Tijuana, Mexico, just south of San Diego, California. This year’s World Cup runs from June 11 to July 19 and will be co-hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico.

“All team base camps for the countries participating in the World Cup must be approved [by] FIFA,” Taj says in his statement. “Fortunately, following the requests we submitted and the meetings we held with FIFA and World Cup officials in Istanbul, as well as the webinar meeting we had yesterday in Tehran with the respected FIFA secretary general, our request to change the team’s base from the United States to Mexico was approved.”

Iran plays Group G games in Inglewood, California, against New Zealand on June 15 and Belgium six days later, then faces Egypt on June 26 in Seattle.

Iran’s federation says moving the base camp will resolve potential visa issues since the team will enter the US through Mexico. The president says that the team “may even be able to travel to and from Mexico using Iran Air flights.”

Teams use base camps for training ahead of and after matches.

German man charged with assault of Jewish men outside London synagogue — report

Illustration: Members of the local Jewish community look on as Metropolitan Police officers patrol the streets in Stamford Hill, north London on October 2, 2025. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

A German man was charged with assault and other offenses for allegedly assaulting two congregants outside of a synagogue in north London on the first night of the Shavuot holiday on Thursday, the Daily Mail reports.

The suspect, Daniel Nikzamir, 25, allegedly approached a crowd gathered around the Beis Gavriel synagogue, which is affiliated with the Chabad Hasidic movement, and began randomly attacking people, according to the report.

No one was said to be injured in the incident, but one witness told the paper that the attacker punched someone in the face and broke his glasses, cutting and bruising him.

Nikzamir was arrested by police after being held by members of the public, according to the report.

He is charged with “two counts of racially/religiously aggravated assault by beating, one count of assault by beating, racially/religiously aggravated criminal damage and criminal damage,” according to the report. He has pleaded not guilty and is out on bail. His next court appearance is set for June.

The incident is the latest in a string of violent attacks on British Jews and Jewish institutions in recent weeks and months. Last month, two Jewish men were wounded in a stabbing in the Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green.

“Scarcely a day now passes without reports of another attack on Jews simply going about their lives,” a spokesperson for the UK’s Campaign Against Antisemitism tells the Daily Mail. “Jews cannot live like this. The situation is untenable.”

Ex-general, now in Bennett’s party, says election will be about Oct. 7, draft exemption law

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Noam Tibon speaks during a rally for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Speaking to some 500 anti-government protesters at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square, Maj. Gen. (res.) Noam Tibon, a candidate for the Knesset, says the coming elections will be “about the October 7 debacle, and not anything else.”

In November, Tibon joined Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, which is now a faction in right-wing former premier Naftali Bennett’s Together party. He adds, somewhat paradoxically, “The elections will be about the despicable draft evasion law,” a reference to the coalition’s bill to codify blanket exemptions from military service for yeshiva students.

The former general touts his opposition bona fides, recounting to the audience his participation in protests for a hostage deal and against the government’s judicial overhaul, which he says “paved the way to the October 7 debacle.”

While efforts are underway to unite opposition parties so that votes don’t go to waste, “the most important thing is to raise the voting rate” of the bloc’s supporters, Tibon says.

He urges supporters that, when the date of Election Day is announced, they cancel trips abroad that clash with the date and make sure their children are all in the country to vote.

Referring to far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Tibon adds that parents of first-time voters must “look them in the eye and tell them a single sentence: Ben Gvir will not enter this house.”

Maayan Sherman, whose son Ron, an IDF soldier, was killed in captivity in Gaza after being abducted in the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, takes Netanyahu to task for refusing to establish a state commission of inquiry into the failure to prevent the onslaught.

“Whoever has nothing to hide has no reason to fear an investigation,” she says, adding that the refusal to form such a commission “spits in my face and on Ron’s grave.”

The government is “not just abandoning the dead” by failing to probe the onslaught that led to their death, says Sherman: “It’s abandoning the living, and the future of our beloved State of Israel.”

Iran, Pakistan said to send revised war-ending proposal to US; Pakistani source: it’s ‘fairly comprehensive’

Iran and Pakistan submit a revised proposal to the United States to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, two Pakistani sources familiar with the negotiations tell Reuters.

A US response to the proposal is expected by tomorrow, the sources say.

The deal is “fairly comprehensive,” a Pakistani official involved in the negotiations tells Reuters.

“It is never over till it is done,” the official says.

Liberman slams emerging Iran deal, accuses Netanyahu of turning Israel into ‘banana republic,’ says he ‘can’t win’

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting in the Knesset on January 5, 2026. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Avigdor Liberman, leader of the hawkish opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of turning Israel into a “banana republic,” and says any deal signed with Iran cannot be trusted due to the extremist leadership in Tehran.

“Any agreement from our point of view is a catastrophe, because any agreement leaves the ayatallohs in power,” Liberman tells Channel 12’s Meet the Press program, in reference to efforts by the US to reach a deal with the Iranian regime to bring about a permanent end to the war.

“There is a fanatical leadership there which says its supreme goal is to destroy Israel,” he says. Therefore, he adds, the terms of the deal cannot be trusted.

Liberman also criticizes what he implies is an emerging part of the deal — the unfreezing of Iranian assets worth $110 billion, along with Iran being enabled to freely sell oil and gas.

Asked about US President Donald Trump’s recent attitude toward Netanyahu and his sidelining of Jerusalem in the negotiations, Liberman says Trump had humiliated Israel “with Netanyahu’s blessing.”

He says, “Netanyahu has turned Israel into a banana republic, of course you can say no to the US president,” although he expresses appreciation for Trump, in particular for bringing about the release of the hostages from Gaza in a deal signed last year.

Liberman also condemns Netanyahu for failing to deal with the threat of explosive drones from Lebanon which have caused numerous casualties to IDF troops fighting in the country in recent weeks, as well as more broadly for failing to bring about a decisive victory on any of the fronts Israel has been fighting since the October 7, 2023 attacks.

“Someone who can’t win on any front in two and a half years, will never win,” says Liberman.

“If we do not win in Lebanon explosive drones will end up in Tel Aviv, Caesarea, and Haifa, it wont be long.”

IDF says strike that allegedly wounded Lebanese soldier targeted suspicious vehicle

Following reports by the Lebanese army that an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon wounded one of the country’s soldier earlier today, the IDF says it targeted a suspicious vehicle that had exited a Hezbollah site in the Nabatieh area.

According to the military, troops identified the vehicle “driving suspiciously” after it left the site, prompting a strike “to remove the threat.”

The IDF says it is aware of claims that a Lebanese soldier was wounded in the attack, and says that the incident is under investigation.

“The IDF emphasizes that it operates against the Hezbollah terror organization only, and not against the Lebanese army,” the military adds.

Earlier, Lebanon’s army said an Israeli strike targeted an army barracks in Nabatieh, moderately wounding a soldier.

Trump and Netanyahu to speak tonight on emerging deal to end Iran war — report

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak tonight with US President Donald Trump about the emerging US-Iran deal to end the war, Channel 12 reports.

Iran has said the sides are negotiating a memorandum of understanding that will trigger 60 days of negotiations to end the US-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic. Israel has not been included in the negotiations. Netanyahu is convening coalition party leaders and Israeli security chiefs tonight to discuss the deal, Channel 12 reported earlier, amid concerns that its terms are bad for Israel.

WATCH: IDF posts first-person footage by soldier injured in Hezbollah drone attack

The IDF releases footage filmed by the staff sergeant and combat military photographer who was seriously wounded on Wednesday in a Hezbollah drone attack in southern Lebanon, showing troops operating moments before the strike, as well as her subsequent evacuation from the scene.

According to the military, the officer, whom the military identifies by the Hebrew letter Shin, had joined troops of the 601st Battalion in the 401st Brigade during an operation in the area of the Lebanese town of Haddatha, aimed at locating and dismantling Hezbollah terror infrastructure and weapons caches.

During the operation, troops discovered a weapons depot apparently belonging to the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, which contained more than 20 weapons, the IDF says. Shin documented the scene.

About an hour later, while forces were still operating near the site, two explosive drones were launched at the troops and detonated nearby, wounding seven soldiers.

Among the wounded were Shin, who was seriously hurt, and the company commander, a captain who sustained moderate injuries. Three additional soldiers were moderately wounded and two others suffered light injuries, according to the military.

מהמצלמה של לוחמת התיעוד המבצעי בפעילות של 24 שעות בדרום לבנון: מפקד הפלוגה שנפצע, סרן מ׳ במחסן אמצעי לחימה של ׳כוח רדואן׳

לכל הפרטים????https://t.co/B4hlOWVCYS pic.twitter.com/e6GVCtuUkp

— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) May 23, 2026

Reports: 4 Palestinians injured in settler attack in southern West Bank

Palestinian media outlets report that earlier today, four Palestinians were injured in a settler attack in Wadi Rahim, in the South Hebron Hills area of the southern West Bank.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that settlers armed with weapons attacked residents in Wadi Rahim using clubs, stones, and pepper spray. Four people, described as moderately injured, were evacuated to a Palestinian hospital.

Footage published online appears to show a Palestinian man with an eye injury.

‘Suspicious’ aerial target identified in north but contact with it lost, IDF says; no injuries

Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in northern Israel, warning of a drone infiltration, the IDF says a “suspicious aerial target” was identified but that contact with it was later lost.

The incident has since concluded, the military says. No injuries were reported.

Soldier killed in northern Israel by drone attack from Lebanon, IDF says

Staff Sgt. Noam Hamburger (Israel Defense Forces)

A soldier was killed yesterday in a drone attack in northern Israel near the Lebanese border, the IDF announces.

The slain soldier is named as Staff Sgt. Noam Hamburger, 23, a technology and maintenance soldier in the 401st Brigade, from Atlit in northern Israel.

One soldier was seriously wounded and a non-commissioned officer was lightly wounded in the same incident. Both were evacuated to a hospital for treatment.

A second explosive drone fell in the area roughly 25 minutes later, causing no injuries.

Hamburger is the 22nd soldier to be killed since hostilities between Israel and the terror group escalated amid the Iran war. A civilian contractor was also killed in southern Lebanon.

Netanyahu convening urgent meeting on ‘very bad’ interim Iran deal being weighed by Trump

US President Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tonight convening coalition party leaders and Israeli security chiefs for a discussion on the deal taking shape between the US and Iran to end the war, Channel 12 news says, characterizing the reported terms as very bad for Israel.

The report quotes an unnamed Israeli official asserting that envoy Steve Witkoff is pushing hardest for Trump to accept the deal. Israel sees Witkoff as the main player “who wants a deal at almost any price, and is placing immense pressure on Trump not to resume the war,” the official is quoted as saying.

However, if the reported terms of the deal are accurate, they are regarded in Israel as “so bad” that it is hard to see Trump agreeing to them, the report says. The deal would be “a very big problem for Israel” and would “greatly contradict things that Netanyahu has said publicly, and, more than this, things that Trump said publicly just a few hours ago.”

Specifically, Channel 12 elaborates, the terms provide for Iran’s reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in return for financial benefits, while Iran’s rogue nuclear program and the extraction of its stockpile of enriched uranium would only be discussed later on. Iran’s ballistic missile program is not even on the table, it adds.

“The US is paying cash, while Iran will be paying by credit, if at all,” the report summarizes.

Nonetheless, the report continues, there is “close coordination between Netanyahu and Trump, with “no daylight” between them — a claim that is at odds with a New York Times report earlier today that said Netanyahu has been “cut almost entirely out of the [negotiating] loop.”

Trump earlier today told Axios that “some people would much rather have a deal and others would rather resume the war,” and that Netanyahu was “torn,” but rejected the idea that Netanyahu was “worried” that he might agree to a bad deal.

The Axios report cited Israeli officials saying that Netanyahu is, in fact, highly concerned about the potential deal and has urged Trump to launch a fresh round of strikes.

Axios and Channel 12 reporter Barak Ravid tells the Israeli TV station that Trump assured him he wouldn’t do a deal if it wasn’t “good for Israel.”

No official text of the deal has been published, although Saudi site Al-Arabiya yesterday published what it said was the “final draft.”

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said earlier today that the Memorandum of Understanding under discussion would deal with the gradual reopening of Hormuz, lifting the US blockade on Iranian ports and releasing frozen Iranian funds.

He said the deal’s terms provide for a subsequent 30-60 day period of negotiations on a detailed agreement.

Memorandum of understanding being fine-tuned to end US-Iran war — Pakistani security official

“An MoU is being fine-tuned” to end the US-Iran war, a Pakistani security official who was briefed on the Pakistani army chief’s visit to Tehran and his meetings with Iranian leaders says, referring to a memorandum of understanding.

The visit has made “significant progress” toward ending the war, he says.

Ramle man found dead with gunshot wounds in suspected homicide; police searching for suspects

Paramedics arrive at the scene of a suspected homicide, in which a man's body was found inside a burning truck in Ramle on May 23, 2026. (Magen David Adom)

A man’s lifeless body was found with gunshot wounds inside a torched truck in Ramle this evening, in what police are probing as a homicide.

Police say they received a report of a shooting in Jawarish, an Arab-majority neighborhood in the mixed city. They suspect shooting is part of an “ongoing blood feud.”

The victim’s body was found by firefighters in a truck that went up in flames in the neighborhood, Hebrew outlets report. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Police are currently searching for suspects in the shooting. No arrests have been made.

Drone sirens sound in Rosh Hanikra

Sirens sound in the Rosh Hanikra area of northern Israel, warning of a drone infiltration.

The IDF says the details are under review.

Trump is speaking with leaders of all mediating countries, regional leaders, on potential interim Iran deal

US President Donald Trump is holding a “summit” phone conversation now with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, as well Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, on the updated text of a potential interim agreement to end the war and set conditions for substantive negotiations, Channel 12’s Barak Ravid reports.

Reuters reported earlier that Pakistan would also be on the call.

There is no suggestion that Israel, which jointly launched the war against Iran with the US on February 28, is present on the call.

Ravid, who spoke to Trump a short while ago, said the president would also be meeting with his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and Vice President JD Vance, on the potential deal.

The text has reportedly been undergoing numerous revisions. Saudi site Al-Arabiya published what it said was a text yesterday.

The reported draft agreement does not explicitly mention key US demands, including the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program and export of its stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium, limiting its ballistic missiles and ending its support for terrorist proxies.

It provides for negotiations on the unspecified “outstanding issues” to begin within seven days of the agreement taking effect. Although it conditions US sanctions relief on Iran’s commitment to the terms of the agreement, it does not appear to specify the consequences if the outstanding issues are not resolved.

Spanish police clash with, beat, detain flotilla activists, supporters at Bilbao airport; Israel ‘demands explanation’ for treatment

Police have detained four people at Bilbao airport following clashes that broke out after activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla returned home, according to Spanish officials.

Video of the incident shows supporters gathered in the arrivals hall to welcome six campaigners as they arrived on a flight from Turkey after having been detained and deported by Israeli forces. When a relative of one of the activists tried to approach them, a police officer forcefully prevented him from doing so, leading to scuffles between both sides, public broadcaster TVE reports.

Images broadcast by the station show police striking people with batons at the airport and pinning others to the ground while being jeered by onlookers.

Four people were arrested for serious disobedience, resisting arrest and assaulting law enforcement officers, the Basque regional police force, the Ertzaintza, says in a statement.

“Following what happened at the airport, the Ertzaintza internal affairs division has launched an investigation to determine whether the officers’ conduct complied with procedures,” it adds.

We demand an explanation from the Spanish government regarding its treatment of the flotilla anarchists. pic.twitter.com/RHMPVAWbwz

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) May 23, 2026

Sharing a video of the incident on social media, Israel’s Foreign Ministry says: “We demand an explanation from the Spanish government regarding its treatment of the flotilla anarchists.”

The incident comes after Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir sparked a diplomatic incident after he released a video in which he could be seen taunting the activists as they were forced to kneel on the floor with their hands bound. The video immediately sparked an international outcry, with dozens of countries condemning Israel’s treatment of the detained activists.

‘Are you a baby killer?’: Israeli couple harassed by employee at California hotel

Two Israeli tourists were recently harassed by an employee at a California hotel with questions like “Are you a baby killer?” and “Did you serve in the IDF?” a video posted to social media shows.

The interaction, which apparently took place last night, was filmed and uploaded by the man working at the front desk of the hotel in Cambria, California.

ISRAELI ZIONISTS IN Cambria, CA… DM for further details and full confrontation.
I've NEVER stared into the soul of the devil like I did tonight IDF soldier child killer stays at a hotel in Cambria.

The woman (dual citizen of Israel) proceeds to confront me after I see FREE pic.twitter.com/XragfLdVsp

— Johann Spischak (@SDGMasterglass) May 23, 2026

In the video, which starts in the middle of the interaction, the man says, “All I said was free Palestine.”

The Israeli woman then replies that he should be “objective” toward clients, and that he “should be ashamed.”

“Are you a Zionist?” the employee then asks.

“Are you a baby killer?” he continues. “Did you serve in the IDF?”

As the couple discusses the situation between themselves in Hebrew, the hotel manager again asks: “Did you serve in the IDF?”

In the caption of the post, the hotel employee says he “stared into the soul of the devil,” of an “IDF soldier child killer.”

No further details have been reported about the incident.

Report: Trump ’50/50′ on Iran deal or resumed strikes, will likely decide by tomorrow

US President Donald Trump is “50/50” on whether to agree a deal with Iran or resume strikes, Axios reports, adding that he says he will likely decide by tomorrow.

Axios reporter Barak Ravid says he spoke with Trump on the phone, who told him that there is a “solid 50/50” split on whether he will be able to make a “good” deal or else “blow them to kingdom come.”

Trump says he would only accept a deal that covers issues like uranium enrichment and the fate of Iran’s existing stockpile, Axios reports, but it notes that those issues are unlikely to be resolved in any detail in what it says is the Memorandum of Understanding being discussed, which would end the war and trigger more detailed negotiations.

The US president adds that he will meet with his top aides, envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, as well as Vice President JD Vance later today to discuss the talks.

“I think one of two things will happen: either I hit them harder than they have ever been hit, or we are going to sign a deal that is good,” Trump says.

“Some people would much rather have a deal and others would rather resume the war,” he says. He rejects assertions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “worried” about a potential deal, but says the prime minister is “torn.”

IDF says ‘lost contact’ with two drones in northern Israel, incident concluded; no injuries reported

Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in northern Israel, warning of a drone infiltration, the IDF says two suspicious aerial targets were identified but that contact with them was later lost.

The incident has since concluded, the military says. No injuries were reported.

Six Israelis civilians extracted from Jericho; 2nd such incident in Area A today

Six Israeli civilians were extracted from the Palestinian-controlled West Bank city of Jericho by security forces.

According to the Civil Administration, a branch of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which manages civilian affairs in the West Bank, security forces received a report that the Israelis were staying in a villa in the city and could be in danger after nearby residents heard shouting in Hebrew and alerted authorities.

Officers from COGAT’s Coordination and Liaison Administration provided the civilians with initial protection and coordinated their transfer to security forces, the Civil Administration says.

Police have opened an investigation into the incident.

Security forces reiterate that entering Area A is illegal for Israeli citizens and poses a danger to their lives.

Earlier today, a group of 23 deaf and mute Israelis had been extracted from the West Bank city of Nablus by security forces on after they were reportedly invited there by a deaf and non-verbal Palestinian man in the city.

Mediators believe Iran and US nearing 60 day extension on ceasefire, FT reports

Mediators believe they are nearing agreement to extend a US ceasefire with Iran by 60 days and set a framework for talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, the Financial Times reports, citing people briefed on the talks.

The deal would include a gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, discussions on diluting or transferring Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, and steps by Washington to ease its blockade of Iranian ports and sanctions relief, the report adds.

Iran: Nuclear issue not part of initial framework for deal with US, is ‘subject to separate discussions’

Iran says that the nuclear issue is not part of an initial framework it is drafting to end the war with the United States.

“At this stage, we will not discuss the details of the nuclear issue… we have decided to prioritize an urgent issue for all of us: ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon,” foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei tells state television.

He adds that the nuclear file will be “subject to separate discussions” at a later stage.

IDF says drone impacted near Shlomi, details under review; fresh drone sirens sound in Hanita

The IDF says that a “suspicious aerial target” impacted in the area of the northern border community of Shlomi. The incident is under review.

Sirens sounded in the community a short while ago, warning of a drone infiltration.

Meanwhile, sirens sound in the nearby border community of Hanita, warning of a drone infiltration.

The IDF says the details are under review.

Tehran says in final stages of drafting framework for deal with US, ‘final agreement’ to be reached in ’30 to 60 days’

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei says that Tehran is in the final stages of drafting a framework for a deal to end the war with the United States.

“Within a reasonable period of 30 to 60 days, the details of these points will be discussed and a final agreement will ultimately be concluded. We are currently in the process of finalizing these memoranda of understanding,” he tells state broadcaster IRIB.

“Our intention was first to draft a memorandum of understanding, a kind of framework agreement composed of 14 clauses,” he says.

He notes what he calls “a trend toward rapprochement” with Washington but says “it does not necessarily mean that we and the United States will reach an agreement on the important issues.”

Meanwhile, the Pakistani army says negotiations over the previous 24 hours have resulted in “encouraging” progress toward a final understanding.

Lebanese military says soldier wounded in Israeli strike on army barracks; no immediate comment from IDF

Lebanon’s military says an Israeli strike earlier today targeted an army barracks in the south, wounding a soldier.

The Lebanese army says in a statement that “a soldier was moderately wounded due to the hostile Israeli targeting of an army barracks in the city of Nabatieh.”

The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strike.

Hezbollah: Iran says it will continue support, reaffirms demand that Lebanon be included in any US deal

Hezbollah says it recently received a message from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying Iran would not drop its support for the Lebanese terror group.

In a statement, the group adds that Tehran’s latest proposal, submitted through Pakistani mediation to end the war with the US, reaffirmed its demand that Lebanon be included in any ceasefire agreement.

Suspected drone sirens sound in northern community of Shtula

Sirens sound in the northern border community of Shtula, warning of a drone infiltration.

The IDF says the details are under review.

Drone sirens sound in Lebanon border town Shlomi

Sirens sound in the northern border community of Shlomi, warning of a drone infiltration.

The IDF says the details are under review.

Rubio: ‘Chance’ Iran accepts deal as soon as today; Tehran says finalizing ‘memorandum of understanding’ with US

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there is a chance Iran will accept a deal to end the Middle East war as soon as today.

“There is a chance that, whether it’s later today, tomorrow, in a couple of days, we may have something to say,” Rubio tells reporters in New Delhi, adding he hoped for “good news.”

“There’s been some progress done, some progress made. Even as I speak to you now, there’s some work being done,” he says.

Rubio reiterates that the US is demanding Iran fully open the Strait of Hormuz, on which it has exerted control in response to the US-Israeli attack, and that Iran hand over highly enriched uranium.

US President Donald Trump’s “preference is always to solve problems such as these through a negotiated diplomatic solution. That’s what we’re working on right now,” Rubio says. “But this problem will be solved, as the president’s made… clear, one way or the other.”

Meanwhile, Iran says it is focused on finalizing a “memorandum of understanding” through Pakistani-mediated talks between Tehran and Washington, according to Iran’s state media.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei also says that any mechanism concerning the Strait of Hormuz should be agreed between it, Oman and the countries bordering the waterway, and that the United States “has nothing to do” with it.

Report: IRGC-linked man suspected of plot on Ivanka Trump, attacks on Jewish targets, recently arrested in Turkey, extradited to US

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of US President Donald Trump and the wife of key US negotiator Jared Kushner, was the target of an Iranian assassination attempt, the New York Post reports, citing sources. The suspect, who is also believed to be behind several recent attacks on Jewish targets in Europe and North America, was recently arrested.

According to the Post, 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), made a “pledge” to kill Trump’s daughter, in retaliation for the US killing of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in 2020, during Trump’s first term.

Al-Saadi, who had been personally mentored by the top Iranian general, had blueprints for Ivanka’s Florida home, the report says. It cites a former Iraqi military source as saying that he told several people after Soleimani’s assassination that “we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house.”

According to the report, Al-Saadi was arrested on May 15 in Turkey.

He was extradited to the US and is facing charges relating to 18 attacks and attempted attacks throughout Europe and the United States, the report says, citing the US Department of Justice.

Al-Saadi is also suspected of being behind several recent terror plots against Jewish targets, including last month’s stabbing of two Jewish men in London’s Golder’s Green neighborhood.

The report says he is an operative of both the IRGC and Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah, a powerful Shiite militia group.

IDF says latest drone sirens in Metula were false alarm

Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in the northern border community of Metula, the IDF says the alert was triggered by a false identification.

Drone sirens sound in northern town of Metula

Sirens sound in the northern border community of Metula, warning of a drone infiltration.

The IDF says the details are under review.

Tens of thousands call for Spanish PM Sanchez to resign in mass rally in Madrid

Protesters are holding a mass rally in Madrid calling for Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to resign after a series of corruption scandals.

A small group of masked protesters tried to break through barriers around Sanchez’s residence, a number of whom were detained by police, Spanish television says.

Spanish patriots gathered en masse in Madrid to oust Pedro Sanchez. pic.twitter.com/NaYRnJb5r6

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) May 23, 2026

Tens of thousands of demonstrators carry banners marked with “Resignation of the socialist mafia” and other slogans, alongside scores of Spanish gold and red flags in the March for Dignity, organized by the Spanish Civil Society association.

Leaders from the opposition People’s Party and the far-right Vox party are also taking part in the largely peaceful march.

The rally comes after a Spanish court announced on Tuesday that former Spanish Socialist prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was being investigated for allegedly leading an influence-peddling and money-laundering network, in another blow to the leftist government beset by corruption scandals.

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Zapatero, a key ally of the current prime minister, denies any wrongdoing.

Organizers say 80,000 people had taken part in the protest, though the Spanish government representative in Madrid put the number at about 40,000.

IDF says ‘suspicious aerial target’ impacted near northern town Adamit; no injuries reported

A short while ago, the IDF says it identified an impact of a “suspicious aerial target” in the area of the northern community of Adamit. No injuries were reported.

The IDF says the incident is under review.

IDF strike kills 5 Hamas police officers in northern Gaza, hospital says

An Israeli airstrike targeting a Hamas police post in northern Gaza killed at least five officers and wounded others, according to a local hospital.

“Five martyrs, all police officers, and a number of wounded — one of whom is in critical condition — arrived following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a police site in the al-Tawam area,” says al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in a statement.

According to Hamas, two missiles were fired at the police post.

An Israeli military spokesperson tells The Times of Israel that the strike targeted Hamas operatives.

France bans Ben Gvir over ‘reprehensible actions’ toward Gaza flotilla activists, calls on EU to sanction him

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir taunts detained flotilla activists at Ashdod Port on May 20, 2026. (Screen grab/Ben Gvir's X account)

France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announces that National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is immediately banned from all French territory in response to his “reprehensible actions” toward detained activists from the Gaza flotilla.

“We disapprove of this flotilla’s approach, which produces no useful effect and burdens diplomatic and consular services, whose professionalism and dedication I salute,” says Barrot.

“But we cannot tolerate French nationals being threatened, intimidated, or brutalized in this way, especially by a public official,” he says.

Barrot notes that Ben Gvir’s actions have been condemned by a large number of Israeli political figures.

“It follows a long list of shocking statements and actions, incitements to hatred and violence against Palestinians,” Barrot says. “Like my Italian colleague, I call on the European Union to also impose sanctions on Itamar Ben Gvir.”

Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50 ships in international waters on Tuesday to halt a flotilla of activists trying to break the blockade on Gaza.

On Wednesday, Ben Gvir released a video in which he can be seen taunting the activists as they kneel on the floor, hands bound.

Flotilla activists were subjected to abuse in Israeli custody, organizers alleged yesterday, with several hospitalized with injuries and at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape. The Israel Prison Service denied the allegations, saying all detained activists were held “in accordance with the law, with full regard for their basic rights,” and received necessary and professional medical care.

Agencies contributed to this report.

Five Israeli civilians briefly cross into Lebanon, are returned by IDF

Five Israeli civilians briefly crossed into Lebanese territory a short while ago before being returned to Israel by troops operating in the area, the IDF says.

According to the military, the civilians crossed several meters over the border and were detained by soldiers at the scene until Israel Police officers arrived.

The civilians were then transferred to the police for further handling.

The IDF condemns the incident, calling it “a serious incident constituting a criminal offense that endangers both IDF troops and civilians.”

23 Israelis extracted from Nablus; group of deaf, mute Israelis had been invited for meal at home of deaf, mute Palestinian

Security forces extract Israelis from the Palestinian-controlled West Bank city of Nablus, May 23, 2026. (Civil Administration)

A group of 23 deaf and mute Israelis are extracted from Nablus by security forces after they were reportedly invited by a deaf and non-verbal Palestinian man in the Area A city.

According to the Kan public broadcaster, the group of deaf and mute Israelis explained that they had been invited by the Palestinian for a meal at his home.

The report says that a local man had been surprised to see the group of Israelis walking in the Palestinian-controlled city and had alerted security forces.

The Israelis were detained by Palestinian security officers and then handed over to Israel, Kan says.

According to the Civil Administration, a branch of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which manages civilian affairs in the West Bank, the group entered the city in six vehicles bearing Israeli license plates.

Officers from COGAT’s Coordination and Liaison Administration provided the civilians with immediate protection and coordinated their transfer to security forces, the Civil Administration says.

The incident will be investigated by West Bank District Police.

Security officials reiterate that entry into Area A of the West Bank is prohibited by law for Israeli citizens and poses a danger to their lives.

Iran’s chief negotiator says Tehran rebuilt its armed forces during the ceasefire

A group of girls stand beside a 'Khaybar-buster' missile during a mass wedding ceremony for couples participating in the 'Janfada' ('Sacrifice for Iran') pro-government campaign in Tehran, Iran, May 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says Tehran had rebuilt its armed forces during the ceasefire.

“Our armed forces have rebuilt themselves during the ceasefire period,” he posts on social media.

Ghalibaf makes the warning after meeting in Tehran with Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, a leading figure in international efforts to negotiate a diplomatic settlement.

Iran’s top negotiator warns of ‘crushing, bitter’ consequences if US ‘foolishly’ restarts war

In this handout picture provided by the Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA), Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (R) meets with Pakistan's Army Chief Syed Asim Munir in Tehran on May 23, 2026 (ICANA NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Iran’s top negotiator and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf told Pakistani army chief during a meeting in Tehran that Iran would not compromise on the rights of its nation and country, state TV reports.

He said that Iran’s armed forces had rebuilt their capabilities during the ceasefire and that if the US “foolishly restarts the war,” the consequences would be “more crushing and bitter.”

Uganda confirms 3 new cases of Ebola, bringing total number of infections to 5

A man wearing a protective mask walks along a busy street in Kampala, Uganda, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Uganda has confirmed three new cases of Ebola, bringing the total number of infections in the current outbreak there to five, the health ministry says, as authorities step up contact tracing to contain the spread.

The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain a public health emergency of international concern, and said the risk of a national epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is “very high.”

Nearly 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths have been recorded in Uganda’s neighbor, the center of the outbreak.

The WHO has said late detection, the absence of a vaccine or virus-specific therapeutics, widespread armed violence and high mobility among the population make Congo especially vulnerable.

Iran’s internet blackout enters 13th week, surpassing 2000 hours

Digital monitor Netblocks says Iran’s internet blackout is entering its 13th week.

“Network data show Iran’s internet blackout is entering its 13th week after surpassing 2016 hours of digital isolation from the outside world,” the watchdog writes on X.

“Daily life for most Iranians is now shaped by the loss of opportunities and access to information others can reach in seconds.”

While Iran’s domestic intranet is largely operational, access to the global internet is severely restricted.

Pakistan army chief meets Iran’s chief negotiator, president and foreign minister in Tehran

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, meets with Pakistan's Army Chief Syed Asim Munir in Tehran, Iran, on May 23, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Ministry / AFP)

Iran’s top negotiator and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf met Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir in Tehran as part of ongoing diplomatic efforts over regional tensions, Iranian state media reports.

Munir also held meetings with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in the presence of Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi during his visit to Iran.

Over 1.5 million pilgrims join Hajj despite flight disruptions from Iran war, Tehran’s attacks on Saudi Arabia

In this photograph taken through a glass fence, Muslim pilgrims are seen praying around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, on May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Over 1.5 million pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia from outside the kingdom for the upcoming hajj, according to a Saudi official, exceeding the number of international visitors last year despite the war in the Middle East.

The conflict triggered by the US and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February saw Tehran order waves of strikes on targets in Saudi Arabia and across the Gulf, prompting widespread air traffic disruptions and causing travel costs to surge.

Major Gulf airlines in the UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain have worked to quickly restore much of their operational capacity after weeks of airspace closures and flight cancellations.

Despite the complications, pilgrims have continued to flock to Saudi Arabia to participate in this year’s hajj.

“The total number of pilgrims arriving from abroad has reached 1,518,153,” Saleh Al-Murabba, the commander of Saudi Arabia’s Hajj Passport Forces, tells a press conference.

Turkey detained 10 Islamic State terrorists in Syria, sources say

Members of a Police forensic team gather evidence at the site of twin explosions at the main train station in Turkey's capital Ankara, on October 10, 2015. (AFP/ADEM ALTAN)

The Turkish intelligence agency MIT captured 10 suspected Islamic State militants in Syria and brought them back to Turkey, the Anadolu news agency cites security sources as saying.

The sources says the suspects caught in the operation, carried out in coordination with Syrian intelligence, were linked to past attacks in Turkey.

One of the suspects — all of whom are of Turkish origin — had connections to the perpetrators of a 2015 bomb attack at Ankara train station in which more than 100 people were killed, state-owned Anadolu reports.

The sources say another of those detained had served as the group’s intelligence chief responsible for Turkey. The suspects are accused of taking part in armed training, propaganda work and planning or supporting attacks, the sources add.

Maritime agency says it received multiple reports of suspicious activity in Gulf of Aden

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency says it received reports from various sources of suspicious activity within the Gulf of Aden.

It says there had been multiple reports of vessels being approached by skiffs. UKMTO also says a large skiff with two outboard engines had been observed carrying both ladders and weapons.

Sirens in north warn of suspected drone attack from Lebanon; IDF later says false alert

Sirens sound in northern Israel warning of a suspected drone attack from Lebanon.

Alerts are heard in Kfar Giladi, and the Israel Defense Forces initially says it is checking the incident before later announcing it was a false alarm.

Shin Bet involved in probe into deaths of couple found shot in car yesterday – reports

Police at the scene where a man and woman were found shot and killed in their car near Mishmar Ayalon, May 22, 2026. (Israel Police)

The Shin Bet is involved in the investigation into the deaths of a man and woman in their 40s who were found shot in their car in a field outside central Israel’s Mishmar Ayalon community yesterday.

According to Hebrew-language media reports, police were no longer said to be confident in the initial assessment that it was a murder-suicide.

A gag order has been issued on the case, meaning that the victims — parents of a 17-year-old child — cannot be publicly named.

Relatives were said to have told the police that the suggestion of murder-suicide did not fit the family’s history.

US has almost completely excluded Israel from Iran negotiations, Israeli defense officials tell NYT

FILE - President Donald Trump answers a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

The United States has almost completely excluded Israel from the negotiations with Iran, two Israeli defense officials tell The New York Times.

Israel was not involved at all in the discussions ahead of the ceasefire and learned of developments in the talks between the US and Tehran from regional diplomatic contacts, as well as through the use of surveillance, the report says.

The Israeli officials spoke to the newspaper on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the issue.

The report notes that in the run-up to the start of the war against Iran earlier this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in close coordination with Trump and was leading a discussion in the Situation Room in Washington predicting the fall of the regime in Tehran.

“The banishment from the cockpit to economy class has potentially significant consequences for Israel,” the newspaper says.

Green party candidate drops out of key election after posts saying Golders Green ambulance attack was ‘false flag’

The wreckage of burnt ambulances is seen in a car park at Golders Green in London, March 23, 2026, after an arson attack targeting the vehicles, which were run by a Jewish charity. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

The UK Green Party candidate for a key special election has withdrawn for “personal reasons,” British media reports, shortly after it was reported that he had shared social media posts claiming an attack on Jewish community ambulances was a “false flag” operation.

Chris Kennedy had been announced as the candidate by the party which has been engulfed in antisemitism scandals relating to elected officials, candidates and members.

Britain’s Times newspaper said it had approached Kennedy about a number of posts, including one that described the arrests of two men over the arson attack as “total bullshit to keep the false flag flying.”

A Green party spokesperson tells The Guardian: “These posts don’t reflect the views of the Green party. We have spoken to Chris about these posts, and he has now deleted them. He apologizes for the offense caused.”

Kennedy had been set to stand in the Makerfield byelection, in which voters could be picking the successor to Prime Minister Keir Starmer if Labour party contender Andy Burnham is elected.

Burnham is a popular mayor backed by many Labour members to replace Starmer as prime minister. But to do so, he has to become a House of Commons lawmaker.

That became a real possibility last week when Josh Simons, the Labour lawmaker for the seat of Makerfield near Manchester, stepped down, triggering a special election.

Burnham said he would run, and was later confirmed as Labour’s candidate.

IDF identifies impact in Rosh Hanikra area, incident under investigation

The Israel Defense Forces says that there was an aerial impact in the Rosh Hanikra area.

No sirens sounded.

The military says it is investigating the incident.

There are no reports of injuries.

Hezbollah underground weapons production site targeted in Lebanon’s Beqaa, IDF says

A man looks for his belongings amid debris of a destroyed building at the site of an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on May 23, 2026 (KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)

The Israel Defense Forces says overnight strikes in Lebanon’s Beqaa targeted a Hezbollah underground weapons production site.

The military says that other Hezbollah infrastructure in the Tyre area was also hit.

The IDF says that evacuation warnings were issued in advance of the strikes in an attempt to mitigate harm to civilians. In addition, precise munitions and surveillance were used in the strikes.

Araghchi tells UN chief that US is making ‘repeated excessive demands’

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives for a meeting during the two-day BRICS summit in New Delhi, India, on May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Tehran has accused the United States of making “excessive demands,” Iranian media says, as US media reports raised the prospect that Washington is mulling new strikes and leaders of the Islamic Republic consider the latest proposal.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a call with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Tehran was engaged in the diplomatic process despite “repeated betrayals of diplomacy and military aggression against Iran, along with contradictory positions and repeated excessive demands” by the United States, according to the reports.

Pakistan’s powerful army chief arrived in Tehran yesterday to bolster mediation and US President Donald Trump abruptly changed his plans, saying he would skip his son’s wedding to stay in Washington due to “circumstances pertaining to government,” fueling speculation that the situation had entered a sensitive stage.

Trump has described the stop-start negotiations this week as teetering on the “borderline” between renewed attacks and a deal to end the war, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 and led to competing blockades around the strategic Strait of Hormuz that have roiled the global economy.

Weeks of negotiations since an April 8 ceasefire — including historic face-to-face talks hosted by Islamabad — have still not produced a permanent resolution or restored full access to the strait, choking vast quantities of global oil supply.

US media outlets Axios and CBS News, citing unnamed sources, reported the White House was considering strikes on Iran, although both added a final decision had not been made yet.

IDF says ‘aerial target’ fell in northern Israel, close to border with Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces says in a statement that a suspected “aerial target” fell in Israel, close to the border with Lebanon.

The IDF says the details are under review.

There are no immediate reports of injuries.

The statement comes a short time after sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona.

Death toll reaches at least 82 in China coal mine blast

A general view of rescue team members and emergency vehicles arriving at the Liushenyu coal mine after a gas explosion in Changzhi, in northern China's Shanxi province, on May 23, 2026. (CNS / AFP)

The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China’s Shanxi province has jumped to at least 82, state media Xinhua reports, with nine still missing.

The gas explosion occurred late yesterday at the Liushenyu coal mine in Qinyuan county, with 247 workers on duty underground, Xinhua reported earlier in the day.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for authorities to “spare no effort” in treating the injured and conducting search and rescue operations, while ordering a thorough investigation into the cause of the accident and strict accountability in accordance with the law, according to Xinhua.

Premier Li Qiang echoed the instructions, calling for timely and accurate release of information and rigorous accountability.

Sirens in Kiryat Shmona warn of suspected drone attack from Lebanon

Sirens in Kiryat Shmona warn of a suspected drone attack from Lebanon.

The alerts come after a lull of some 14 hours.

Talks between Pakistan army chief and Iran’s Araghchi lasted late into night, says Iranian state media

This handout photograph taken and released on May 22, 2026 by Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) shows visiting Pakistan's Army Chief Syed Asim Munir (2nd L) being greeted by Iran's Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni upon his arrival in Tehran as part of ongoing mediation efforts between Iran and the United States. (Inter-Services Public Relations / AFP)

Pakistan army chief, Asim Munir, held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran yesterday as Islamabad steps up diplomatic efforts to help mediate between Iran and the United States, Iran’s state media reports.

Both sides exchanged views on the latest diplomatic initiatives aimed at preventing further escalation and ending the Iran war in talks that lasted late into the night, the report says.

Boat approached tanker near Yemen, turned away when armed team deployed, says maritime agency

A products tanker sailing within 200 nautical miles west of Yemen’s Socotra island was approached by a small craft carrying five people, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency says.

The vessel’s armed security team was deployed and the small craft altered course away from the tanker, the UKMTO says.

Behavior of teen in San Diego mosque shooting led police to seize family’s 26 guns last year

Candles with victims names are placed outside the Islamic Center of San Diego in the aftermath of a shooting on May 20, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Ty Oneil)

One of the teenagers who killed three people at a San Diego mosque was flagged to law enforcement last year for exhibiting alarming behavior and idolizing Nazis, prompting police to confiscate his father’s guns, according to court records.

The officers who conducted a welfare check at the home of Caleb Vazquez wrote that he was “involved in suspicious behavior idolizing nazis and mass shooters,” and obtained a court order on Jan. 29, 2025, to remove 26 guns under a 2014 California law allowing the confiscation of firearms from people considered dangerous.

Vazquez’s father initially denied police entry into his home when they requested to see how he was storing his weapons.

Vazquez’s parents had voluntarily removed the guns from the house and placed them in a secure storage facility days earlier, according to an affidavit signed by Marco Vazquez, the father.

Authorities have said Vazquez, 18, met Cain Clark, 17, online, where they both were radicalized. Police haven’t shared more details about how they knew each other, or specified whose weapons were used in the shooting.

Cain Clark’s mother told law enforcement that weapons were missing from her home on Monday, kicking off an hourslong search for the teens before they committed the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego and then killed themselves, police say.

In writings by Vazquez and Clark that expressed white supremacist views, Vazquez wrote of having “some mental health issues” and being rejected by women. They suggest both teenagers idolized previous shooters who have died while carrying out mass shootings. The writings expressed hatred toward Jewish people, Muslims, Black people and a range of other groups.

Trump reportedly moving toward ordering strikes on Iran but no final decision made

US President Donald Trump arrives at the White House, May 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Trump administration is readying to launch a wave of fresh US strikes against Iran, CBS News reports, amid ongoing diplomatic mediations for a deal between the United States and Islamic Republic.

The report stresses no decision has been made, but notes US President Donald Trump is skipping his son’s wedding to stay at the White House and quotes sources with direct knowledge of the planning as saying that some American military personnel and members of the intelligence community have cancelled their plans for Memorial Day weekend.

A separate report by the Axios news site says Trump met Friday with top members of his national security team to discuss Iran, with sources saying he is seriously weighing new strikes unless there is an eleventh hour breakthrough in the talks.

Citing unnamed sources, the report says Trump has “grown increasingly frustrated about the negotiations with Iran over the past several days,” with his position through the week shifting from favoring diplomacy toward ordering a strike.

Like CBS, Axios reports Trump has yet to make a decision on whether to resume the conflict.

A White House spokesperson, Anna Kelly, tells CBS in response that “the president has been clear about the consequences if Iran fails to make a deal.”

Man killed, 6 other people wounded in multi-car collision near northern kibbutz

A 35-year-old man has been killed and six other people wounded in a multi-car collision near Kibbutz Ginegar in northern Israel.

The injured include a 10-year-old boy and 40-year-old man who were both seriously hurt.

Two buildings reportedly struck in Tyre area of south Lebanon

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two buildings in and around the southern Lebanese city of Tyre have been struck tonight, after the military issued an evacuation warning.

An AFP correspondent reports hearing two explosions as one building on the outskirts of the city was struck, then seeing smoke rising from the scene and smoke rising before civil defense teams arrived.

Shortly afterwards, a second blast is heard inside the city, with smoke also rising from the location.

Five Israeli strikes reportedly hit eastern Lebanon, near Syrian border

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel carried out five airstrikes late Friday in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border after calling for the evacuation of two areas in the south of the country, the state news agency says.

The National News Agency says Israeli warplanes struck shortly before midnight, targeting the Nabi Sreij area on the outskirts of the eastern town of Brital, which had been spared from attacks since an April 17 ceasefire.