World Health Organization staff and their families were stripped and interrogated at gunpoint as they sheltered from an Israeli offensive in central Gaza.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense has signed a $150 million deal with American manufacturer AM General for the purchase of hundreds of HMMWV military vehicles.

A top general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warned that Israel will continue with its campaign against Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, just four weeks after a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended its 12-day war with Tehran.

Israel has threatened to increase its involvement in Syria and vowed to protect the Druze religious minority, which began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam, the Associated Press reported. Most of the world’s Druze population lives in Syria, with the rest predominantly in Israel and Lebanon.

The US, meanwhile, said that Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, will be travelling to a European country for talks on a truce, as well as on finalising an aid “corridor” for Gaza. He may then head to the Middle East for more talks, according to media reports.

In his first TV interview since the war, Iran’s president insists Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme will continue.

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday attacked the entrance to the Syrian regime’s military headquarters in the Damascus area in response to reports of atrocities against local Druze residents.

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the Damascus headquarters served as a command center for deploying regime forces to Suwayda, a southern Syrian region gripped by days of deadly clashes between government troops, Druze militias, and Bedouin groups.