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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-06-02 at 14:02
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HEADLINES - Iran Supreme Leader Wields Power Sanctions Tied - IDF Seizes Beaufort Ridge from Hezbollah - Knesset Sets September 2026 Elections The time is now 2:01 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 that Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is increasingly engaged in the government at some level, and that Tehran still keeps a sizable drone arsenal even as its conventional shield has been eroded by US-Israeli strikes. He said the Trump administration has not offered sanctions relief in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and that any relief would be conditional on Tehran giving up its nuclear program. Rubio stressed that sanctions relief, if any, would be tied to Tehran’s compliance with its nuclear commitments, and that if Iran agrees to give up those aspects, relief would be linked to their adherence to agreed terms. He added 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, the IDF said it killed more than 20 terrorists and carried out about 100 strikes during ground operations north of the Litani River. Soldiers from the Givati Brigade established positions in Zawtar al-Sharqiya and Zawtar al-Gharbiyah to shield northern Israeli communities and to strengthen defensive activity in southern Lebanon, with the military noting it found hundreds of weapons inside civilian homes. It also said a strike on Hezbollah infrastructure in Tyre damaged a civilian hospital incidentally, stressing the hospital was not targeted and that Hezbollah has long embedded itself within civilian infrastructure and near medical facilities. Six hours to Beauf…