Here are Wednesday's latest updates:■ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he directed the Israeli military to destroy "everything above ground and below ground" while touring the IDF-occupied buffer zone in southern Lebanon.■ Police said they arrested a 20-year-old U.S. citizen on suspicion of spying for Iranian intelligence.■ Israeli military attacks killed eight people and wounded 26 in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.■ The Israeli military said it killed the commander of an Islamic Jihad platoon in a Monday strike in the Gaza Strip. Former hostage Rom Braslavski said the militant had tortured him in captivity.■ Residents of two villages in southern Syria set up barricades on roads leading from an IDF base in an attempt to block IDF troops from reaching deeper into Syria after an Israeli raid last week, local sources and Lebanon's Al Mayadeen channel reported.■ Israeli forces set fire to houses in the Lebanese villages of Ayta al-Jabal and Beit Yahoun in southern Lebanon, the country's National News Agency reported.
Live updates • Indirect U.S.-Iran technical talks underway in Doha, source says
Iran-U.S. indirect talks in Qatar focus on release of funds, Strait of Hormuz, senior Iranian official to Reuters. Former hostage coordinator: Gaza war 'could have ended at least a year earlier,' hostages could have 'returned alive'. Indirect U.S.-Iran technical talks underway in Doha, source says






