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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-06-02 at 13:03
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HEADLINES - Sanctions relief tied to Iran nuclear compliance - Tyre hospital damaged not Hezbollah target - Knesset dissolution bill clears first reading The time is now 1:02 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Iranian Retaliation, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers on Tuesday that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is increasingly engaged at some level and that Iran retains a large number of drones despite its "conventional shield" being substantially eroded by US-Israeli strikes. He added that the Trump administration has not offered Iran sanctions relief in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and any relief is conditional on nuclear agreements. "Right now, everything that's been discussed with them is that any sanctions relief is condition-based, which means it has to be in return for the reason why those sanctions were put in place in the first place, which is their nuclear program," Rubio told a Senate hearing. "Iran is being sanctioned because they've highly enriched uranium. Iran is being sanctioned because of their nuclear activities," he continued. "If they agree to give up those things, there will be sanctions relief associated with their commitment and compliance with those agreements." In addition, Rubio said that Iran had agreed to negotiate aspects of its nuclear program that it previously refused to discuss. In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, an attack against Hezbollah terror infrastructure in Tyre on Monday caused damage to a civilian hospital in the area, the IDF said after reviewing footage from the strike. "It should be emphasized that the hospital was not targeted and was apparently damaged incidentally as a result of the strikes," the military clarifi…