Brett McGurk, Biden's coordinator for the Middle East speaking about the ceasefire/hostage negotiations:

I'll be frank about where this stands. There is a deal on the table that would lead to a ceasefire and release of hostages.

Hamas just has to release the women, elderly, sick and wounded and we'd have a ceasefire and other things that would bring relief to Gazans...and then get the rest of the hostages out.

That deal is there and it has been flatly rejected by the leadership of Hamas in Gaza. Sometimes that fact gets written out of the story and we are determined not to let that happen.

The U.S. is denying any connection with the attack.
Israel is not saying anything.
A reminder - Israel officially did not claim responsibility on the attack in Iran as well.

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdulhaiyan, in an interview with the NBC network, refuses to blame Israel for the attack yesterday early morning in Isfahan and announces that Iran has no intention of responding to it: "What happened last night was not an attack, these were like toys that our children play with and not as UFOs. As long as there is no new adventurism on the part of Israel against our interests - we have no intention of new reactions. If Israel attacks our country - our response will be immediate.'

I guess we can cautiously estimate that the current round of blows between Israel and Iran has ended for the time being.

First satellite photos reveal: the attack in Isfahan hit the radar of the S-300 batteries in the northeast of the province.

The damage appears in the photograph under the label 92N6E.

We will recall that the US reported this morning that Israel hit the radar of the air defense system associated with the nuclear facility in Natanz, in the northern part of the Isfahan district.

(Intellinews)

A report this morning in the Wall Street Journal: The foreign leadership of Hamas is considering leaving Qatar

Arab sources said that in recent days the Hamas leadership contacted two countries in the region, trying to see if they would allow it to move to live with them. One of the countries is Oman.
In recent weeks, the Egyptian and Qatari mediators pressured Hamas representatives to soften the terms of the negotiations, to the point of threatening deportation from Qatar if they did not agree to the deal.

Last night at around 23:30 the Shia militias in Iraq accepted responsibility for attacking the Ovda base, using an unmanned aerial vehicle on 4/15 (5 days ago).
Shortly after this acceptance of responsibility the blasts near Baghdad in their headquarters were heard. 😉

The Air Force is currently attacking Hezbollah targets in Kfarkela, southern Lebanon.

And it was with a few powerful air-to-ground advanced missiles fired from Iraqi airspace by Israeli F-35 fighters jets.

The Lord has put on my heart in a very powerful way the need to communicate the gospel, and with it the biblical teaching on the plan of God for Israel, not only to Jews but also to Arabs all across the Middle East. Only in Christ can Arabs see Israel the way that God does. Pray with me that I will find a strong Arab-speaking believer with a gift of talented translation for my books and teaching videos.

In this time when there is a dark wave of satanic antisemitism against Jews across the world, it would be a powerful testimony when Arab followers of the messiah are comforting those whom the world says they should hate! In this we would see both a fulfillment of Isaiah 40:1 as they comfort an unbelieving Israel and an expression of 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 which makes clear that it is only the comfort they experience from the messiah that would allow them to express that precious comfort.

“We don’t want a two state. We want 48.”

“We don’t want a two state. We want all of it.”

This was reportedly at Columbia university yesterday.

What the Ayatollahs don’t want you to know!

The New York Times reports: The Israeli missile managed to hit Iran's air defense systems without being detected by Iranian radars. According to two Western sources, "the attack was intended to convey a message to Iran - according to which Israel can bypass its defense systems without being detected - and paralyze them."
The newspaper also reports that two Iranian sources confirmed that Israel managed to hit the radar of the S-300 air defense system stationed at the "Shikari" military base in Isfahan.

Before and after of the radar that was attacked in Ispan in satellite images.

A great summary of the events in the Israeli strike on Iranian soil in this article of the Financial Times:

https://www.ft.com/content/56064051-e880-43db-b7e9-a56717c8c38b

An amusing way to avoid a response:

The Iraqi security information team in a statement regarding the explosion at the Hasd-al-Sha’abi base early this morning in the Babil district of Iraq:

"A committee of civil defense experts was established which stated that according to the initial data and based on the air defense reports in Babil district and the official announcements of the Pentagon and the headquarters of the coalition forces - no aircraft were present in the skies of Babil district before the explosion or during the explosion...
May Allah have mercy on the martyrs of Iraq and send a speedy recovery to the wounded.
We will update when there are more details"


If Israeli fighter jets could destroy the Iranian radar on Iranian soil from the skies of Iraq, we can surely be away from the Babil district to be able to attack the base.