⚠️ U.S. OPENS BROAD ECONOMIC CAMPAIGN AGAINST IRAN: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast,” a campaign intended to sever Iran’s international financial connections and revenue streams supporting the regime and IRGC. He said countries and entities facilitating Iranian trade, oil transactions or money laundering could face U.S. sanctions and exclusion from the dollar system, including actors connected to China.
Bessent said President Trump is personally pressing world leaders to reduce dealings with Tehran and framed the campaign as a choice between maintaining ties with Iran and retaining access to the United States. Trump separately wrote that “Iran is completely collapsing!!!” Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir has meanwhile arrived in Tehran for talks with Iranian officials, while the new U.S. pressure campaign is being received very positively in Israel.
❗ NETANYAHU DISCLOSES IRANIAN ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST HIS FAMILY: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that “Iran tried to assassinate one of my sons.” The affair had remained under censorship for months, and further details remain undisclosed.
🎯 IDF AND SHIN BET STRIKE HAMAS WEAPONS DEPOTS INSIDE GAZA MOSQUES: The IDF and Israel Security Agency said strikes in the Shati and Deir al-Balah areas destroyed two Hamas weapons-storage facilities established inside mosques. According to the military, the sites contained dozens of Kalashnikov rifles, magazines and other military equipment concealed there by Hamas.
Earlier reporting placed the Gaza City strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. Palestinian media reported that an evacuation warning preceded the strike, while Hamas media said a mosque and water desalination plant were targeted. Gazan media also published footage of the separate Deir al-Balah strike. The IDF said civilians were warned in advance and that precise munitions and aerial surveillance were used, describing the sites as another example of Hamas exploiting civilian infrastructure for military purposes.
🪖 PARATROOPERS CONCLUDE THREE-MONTH GAZA MISSION: Paratroopers Brigade troops operating under the 143rd Gaza Division and 99th Division are transitioning to Judea and Samaria after completing defensive operations along the Yellow Line area.
Together with Yahalom, the troops dismantled and sealed 13 kilometers of underground tunnels, including part of the tunnel where LT Hadar Goldin was held. They also dismantled terrorist infrastructure, located RPGs, mortar shells, grenades, missile launchers, ammunition and other Hamas weapons, and established new routes and military posts. Southern Command forces remain deployed under the ceasefire framework and continue operating against immediate threats.
🪁 ANOTHER KITE REPORTED INSIDE NAHAL OZ: A further kite was reported in Nahal Oz, this time inside the kibbutz.
⚓ HOUTHI ATTACK SETS TANKER ABLAZE NEAR SAUDI OIL TERMINAL: The Houthis struck a tanker near Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu oil terminal in the northern Red Sea, approximately 1,000 kilometers from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. The vessel caught fire following the attack.
🌐 U.S. REMOVES SYRIA FROM STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM DESIGNATION: The U.S. Treasury Department’s OFAC removed Syria from the specific State Sponsor of Terrorism designation. The change removes consequences tied to that designation but does not by itself terminate every separate U.S. restriction affecting Syria.
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