Here are Sunday’s updates:
■ U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged heavy missile and drone assaults, with Tehran targeting U.S. facilities in states across the Gulf on Sunday and saying it had again closed the vital Strait of Hormuz.
■ Israel’s governing coalition announced that the upcoming election will be held on October 27, 2026 – the last possible date for holding an election, meaning the government will have served out a full term.
■ Teenage activists from the group “Mesarvot,” an advocacy group that supports conscientious objectors, unfurled a giant banner reading “We hereby refuse to enlist” in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, while a high school in central Israel summoned a student and her parents to a disciplinary meeting after she gave out leaflets calling to refuse military service.
■ Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California recalled on NBC’s Meet the Press the incident on Wednesday of being blocked by armed settlers in the West Bank and detained by the IDF, and said the “IDF is lying.”
■ Israeli attacks killed at least six people in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including a 9-year-old girl, Palestinian health officials said.
■ U.S. Central Command announced that the Strait of Hormuz is “open to all vessels seeking to lawfully transit the international waterway” following U.S. strikes on coastal Iranian bases.
■ President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu eulogized the late Senator Lindsey Graham on NBC’s Meet the Press, calling him “one of Israel’s greatest friends.”
■ French anti-terrorism prosecutors have launched an investigation after weapons were discovered in a vehicle near a synagogue in a Paris suburb, a statement from the prosecutor’s office said on Sunday.
