Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister:

‘The IDF is currently striking the commander of the Rafah Brigade in the Hamas terrorist organization, following the elimination earlier this week of the commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade and other senior figures in the organization.
Our message is clear: no terrorist is immune, and Hamas will not be in Gaza.
We support the IDF and the Shin Bet, which are working diligently to eliminate threats and protect Israeli citizens.

U.K. representative to the UN Security Council:

The escalation in Yemen is happening with the backing of the Islamic Republic. There must be one clear message, putting an end to the Houthis.

Vice President JD Vance, in an interview with the New York Post:

The Iran war will end after the midterms.

The conflict is entering a "much different phase."

The U.S. is not engaged in aggressive operations inside Iran.

Iran is occasionally shooting at commercial shipping.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken:

The Gulf states are all looking to talk to Tehran, maybe cut a deal with Tehran.

They’re looking to cut deals because they know that, unfortunately, what they’ve seen is we can’t necessarily defend them.

Friedrich Merz canceled his UN General Assembly trip to New York next week.

Berlin is in intense talks over the German chancellor's political future and whether he gets replaced, per Politico.

Earlier tonight, an explosion was heard in Erbil, Iraq, with the cause still to be clarified.

Interestingly, local sources reported several UAV flights above western Iraq during the day.

Contributed by: @BeamTracker_

JUST IN: Newly released images by CBS show the aftermath of Iranian missile strikes at Prince Sultan Air Base and Camp Buehring.

Interestingly, one of the images appears to show extensive damaged to a USAF E-3 AWACS, with its AN/APY-1 radar completely destroyed.

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NOW: Several explosions were heard coming from the Strait of Hormuz on Qeshm Island, southern Iran.

Contributed by @MoloWarMonitor

At least two people were killed and several others injured after an SUV crashed into a Metro bus in the Chatsworth area of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

BREAKING: NBC Los Angeles helicopter crashes while covering Metro bus crash in Chatsworth, California.

Saudi air defenses downed a drone over Mecca overnight.

Only the second attack ever on the holy city. The last was in 2017.

Saudi-led coalition spokesman.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:

There is a commitment from the U.S. and the accompanying countries to disarm Hamas and destroy all the tunnels.

We all understand that this will not happen.

The IDF is prepared, if given the order, to eliminate Hamas and complete the mission

JD Vance on Iran:

If the U.S. effectively says to the Middle East, "you're on your own," it would necessarily mean a worldwide energy crisis so long as Iran continues shooting at shipping.

NBC Los Angeles has announced the deaths of reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw, who were among three people killed in a KNBC helicopter crash Tuesday evening.

Contributed by @AZ_Intel_.

Multiple explosions reported overnight in Kyiv following Russian attacks.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Iran:

"I wasn't in favor of us joining the action at the start of the conflict with Iran.

I think Keir Starmer made the right call. I think it was a hard call to make because it's not what British prime ministers tend to do."

Overnight in the southern West Bank, naval commandos from the Israeli Navy's Shayetet 13 unit were filmed rappelling from a helicopter into the town of Yatta, near Hebron. The footage was published by Palestinian media.

The IDF has not commented on the video or on what the unit was doing there.

@manniefabian

Israel's ambassador to the UAE: another country is expected to join the Abraham Accords within months.

He pointed to Kuwait as moving closer to Israel after the Iranian strikes against it.

@kaisos1987

India has summoned Pakistan's top diplomat in New Delhi to protest after a Pakistan Navy ship collided with an Indian Navy warship in international waters in the North Arabian Sea. India's Ministry of External Affairs said the collision caused no major damage.

Overnight, 12 out of 15 sorties of PLA aircraft, 8 PLAN vessels, and 2 official ships crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s northern, southwestern and eastern part ADIZ.

Source: Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense

Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have raised their alert status and evacuated several headquarters over concerns that the United States and Saudi Arabia may strike inside Iraq, the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reports. A senior militia official told the paper that brigades were instructed to vacate some command sites for two to three days, following information that Riyadh, with American support, could launch strikes in response to attacks on Saudi oil facilities fired from Iraqi territory.