July 18, 2026Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeJuly 18, 2026UpdatesU.S. sends more refueling aircraft to Israel, will park in IDF bases, army saysAmerican refueling planes at Ben Gurion International Airport, April. Credit: Tomer AppelbaumAmerican refueling planes at Ben Gurion International Airport, April. Credit: Tomer AppelbaumThe United States has sent additional refueling tanker aircraft to Israel, parking them in Israel Air Force bases after previously causing jams in Ben-Gurion Airport, Israeli military officials said.Israel and the U.S. military made the decision after Washington decided to change its deployment in the Middle East and increase the number of refueling aircraft already deployed in Israel, the military officials said.On Friday, Axios reported that Washington plans to send dozens more aerial refueling aircraft to Israel as Trump weighs a broader campaign against Iran.Before sending additional tankers, the Pentagon operated about 30 aerial refueling aircraft from Ben-Gurion Airport and a similar number from Ramon Airport, according to the report.Palestinian teen dies of wounds week after IDF shot him West Bank villageFadi Hamadallah al-Naasan, 17, killed near Ramallah Credit: Under Section 27A of the Israel Copyright LawFadi Hamadallah al-Naasan, 17, killed near RamallahCredit: Under Section 27A of the Israel Copyright LawA 17-year-old Palestinian boy died of his wounds, a week after being shot by the Israeli military in the village of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah in the West Bank.Fadi Hamadallah al-Naasan is the seventh resident of the village to have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers since October 2023 and the fourth killed minor. According to Palestinian reports, al-Nassan was shot in the thigh and suffered severe blood loss. The teenager was evacuated to a hospital in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, where his condition deteriorated until he died of his wounds Saturday morning. The IDF said last week that troops at the scene had opened fire at a suspect who was throwing rocks.According to footage from al-Mughayyir last week, the incident began when settlers, accompanied by soldiers, arrived to graze livestock near an isolated Palestinian family's home and vandalized agricultural fences. Similar incidents had occurred around the home on the previous two days following settlers' incursions onto nearby land.During the same incident in which the teenager was wounded, the army detained another Palestinian, who was later released to the Palestinian Red Crescent, according to eyewitness accounts and footage from the incident. Soldiers severely beat the detainee while he was held in IDF custody, reports said.Read the full articleU.S. attacks on Iran cut off water supply to 10,000 along coast, officials sayThe drinking water supply for at least 10,000 people on the Iranian coast has been cut off following U.S. attacks in the south of the country, government officials said on Saturday.The water shortage was caused by the bombing of a seawater desalination plant in the coastal region of Jask, the government's press service reported, citing Iran's Hormozgan province water utility. Some 20 villages on the coast are affected, it said.IDF striking southern Lebanon, Israeli officials sayThe area where Israeli authorities warned residents that strikes will be heard on Saturday morning.The area where Israeli authorities warned residents that strikes will be heard on Saturday morning.The Israeli military is striking southern Lebanon, officials in northern Israel said in an official statement."The IDF is carrying out a strike in the vicinity of the eastern Galilee," the Upper Galilee Regional Council Security Department's statement read."Explosions may be heard in the Hula Valley, the Ramim Ridge area, and the northern Golan Heights. There is no change to the Home Front Command's instructions for the public."Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it struck U.S. jets in Jordan baseA satellite image shows aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan in February. Credit: Planet Labs PBC/AP A satellite image shows aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan in February. Credit: Planet Labs PBC/AP Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it destroyed U.S. aircraft in a drone and missile attack on a military base in northern Jordan, the guard-affiliated Tasnim news agency reported.The Iranian paramilitary force said it struck "fortified hangars housing fighter aircraft and a large aircraft parking ramp" at the base, also known as Muwaffaq Salti, adding that it "destroyed at least two American fighter jets and three other U.S. aircraft, while inflicting major damage on several others."The statement posted on Tasnim, an Iranian news agency linked to the Revolutionary Guards, urged Jordanians to take up arms against U.S. soldiers on their soil, saying that Islamic religious rulings say "invading non-Muslim soldiers on Islamic lands are considered lawful targets."The Iranian paramilitary force added that Jordanians have a "religious and moral duty" to kill the soldiers "by whatever means possible and cleanse the sacred land of Jordan of those who have killed oppressed Muslims," saying the U.S. military "has killed hundreds of thousands" in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as in "Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, the Philippines and Palestine."Report: Israeli settlers raid, vandalize building in West Bank villageThe aftermath of an Israeli settler raid on a house in the Palestinian village of Burin in the northern West Bank, Saturday.The aftermath of an Israeli settler raid on a house in the Palestinian village of Burin in the northern West Bank, Saturday.Israeli settlers raided and vandalized a newly constructed building in the Palestinian village of Burin near Nablus in the northern West Bank, according to local reports.Settlers have previously raided the building twice on earlier occasions. Burin is located in Area B, which is under the administrative control of the Palestinian Authority and the IDF's military control.In a recent increase of West Bank attacks, Israeli settlers have been raiding newly-constructed houses and neighborhoods on the outskirts of Palestinian villages within the Palestinian Authority's areas B and A.Area A, established under the Oslo Accords, is under full civil and security control of the Palestinian Authority.Bahrain sounds siren after night of Iran strikesBahrain activated air raid sirens, its Interior Ministry said after a night of Iranian strikes on the Gulf country."Citizens and residents are urged to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place," the ministry said on X, urging locals to follow updates through official channels.Sirens were also activated three hours earlier in the morning after three other alarms were activated overnight during Iranian strikes on the country.Iron Dome fires missile after false identification, IDF saysAn Iron Dome interceptor explodes overhead after a false identification, as seen from Metula, northern Israel, Saturday.An Iron Dome interceptor explodes overhead after a false identification, as seen from Metula, northern Israel, Saturday.The Israeli military said it fired interceptors after Iron Dome systems identified a false target over the IDF-occupied buffer zone in southern Lebanon.No rockets were fired at the area or toward Israel. The IDF added that it did not activate sirens.The Israeli Spyware Firms Active in Morocco, the French Targets – and NSO Founder's 'Diplomatic' PassportKing Mohammed VI of Morocco in France, 2017. Macron reportedly told him: "Either you're lying or you don't know what's happening in your country." Credit: Ludovic Marin/AFPKing Mohammed VI of Morocco in France, 2017. Macron reportedly told him: "Either you're lying or you don't know what's happening in your country." Credit: Ludovic Marin/AFPIn late 2013, a young Israeli using the name Shalev Holy landed in Panama. According to the paperwork, he was there for tourism, and the address recorded was that of the Israeli Embassy in Panama City. The passport was a diplomatic passport.But the young man's real last name was Hulio, not Holy. According to an investigation by a consortium of journalists, a year before his visit, NSO Group, the spyware company Hulio co-founded, sold Panama a revolutionary product called Pegasus, which was little known at the time.Hulio denies that he had a diplomatic passport and calls the claim that he used the name Holy "false." Eight years after the Panama visit, the international Pegasus Project investigation revealed that the NSO spyware had been sold to regimes around the world and was used by many of them to surveil journalists, politicians and human rights activists. Among the victims were ministers in France and Spain.Read the full articleKuwait says it is intercepting Iranian missiles and drones after IRGC claims attacks on U.S. sitesKuwait said it was intercepting missiles and drones launched from Iran Saturday morning.Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they targeted a U.S. naval fuel-support pier at Al Ahmadi Port and a U.S. signals and communications center in Kuwait, according to Iranian state media.The IRGC also said it targeted a site housing U.S. combat aircraft at Sheikh Isa Air Base and an intelligence data center known as Batelco in Bahrain.In the NewsNYC's Mamdani Says He Still Eyes Arrest of Israel's PM During September VisitHélène Cixous: 'I Accept Israel's Existence, but I Don't Identify With It'A Lesson From Vienna: Antisemitism Must Be Fought, Not 'Contextualized'Tax Authority Suspends Bnei Brak Missile Damage Claims After Employees AttackedThe Mysterious, Ancient Israeli Site Attracting Modern PilgrimsRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIInside the Mossad Plot to Install Ahmadinejad as Iran's LeaderNetanyahu's Biggest Challenger: Who Is Gadi Eisenkot and What Does He Stand For?103 House Democrats Vote to Cut U.S. Aid to Israel in Landmark Symbolic VoteI Joined Rep. 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