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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-05-27 at 19:01
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- May 27, 2026
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HEADLINES Israeli detective under arrest over Iran contact IDF kills two Hamas leaders in Gaza Knesset holds first reading on dissolution bill The time is now 7:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Direct Israel-Iran Clashes, a Lahav 433 major crimes unit detective is under house arrest after questioning by the Department of Internal Police Investigations on suspicion of contact with an Iranian agent. The officer, in his 40s, was detained Tuesday night and placed under house arrest as the probe continues. Investigators say he interacted with a foreign agent seeking to recruit him as a spy for Iran. The officer says he began communicating unknowingly after receiving a Telegram message about a job offer; when asked to record videos in different locations, he began suspecting the user was an Iranian agent and immediately informed his superiors, who ordered him to stop corresponding. The case opened after Lahav 433 flagged the contact, and the probe remains ongoing. In Regional Impacts, initial reports describe several explosions and air-defense activity near Bandar Abbas, according to Iran’s state media outlet Fars News Agency. Separately, the IDF said it killed two central Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip; officials say the targets were the Northern Gaza Brigade commander and the Gaza City Brigade deputy commander, while Hamas health authorities reported casualties in Gaza City. The two killed were described as part of Hamas’s leadership. In a separate exchange, a transcript shows a reporter asking about a short-term deal allowing Iran and Oman to control the strait; President Trump replied that the strait would be open to everybody, and that Oman would have to behave or “we'll blow them up.” In US Policy…