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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-06-28 at 12:02
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- Jun 28, 2026
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HEADLINES Iran Strikes Gulf US Bases, Muharraq Hit Hezbollah Burns Lebanon First Billboard Israel Seeks Stop to Ultra-Orthodox Draft Arrests The time is now 12:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Iranian Retaliation, Iran renewed its attacks on Gulf states early Sunday morning, firing missiles and drones at US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain shortly after President Donald Trump renewed threats that Iran would not honor the agreement. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Command warned that American bases in the region would experience hell in the coming days. An Iranian attack damaged a residential building in Muharraq. The article notes that the United States had previously launched attacks on Iran after a Panama-flagged tanker incident. In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Hezbollah in Beirut burned a billboard reading “Lebanon First.” They prefer Iran first. In Israeli Domestic Politics, Defense Minister Israel Katz urged the government to advance a proposal that would temporarily freeze arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders, with the plan defining who is a yeshiva student and other conditions. He called on Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chair Boaz Bismuth to convene an urgent meeting to discuss the matter, following a Government Secretary Yossi Fuchs letter arguing that arresting draft evaders undermined broader enlistment. Bismuth said he would convene the committee this week to push the proposal forward. Separately, Major Shahar Varon will join Together’s list for the upcoming elections as the leader of a new plan to treat IDF veterans with physical and psychological injuries, a move announced by former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Together, formed from Bennett a…