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Trump US could obtain enriched Iran uranium
Israeli captain killed by Hezbollah missile
Bronx woman charged in subway antisemitic assault

The time is now 6:00 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In Iranian Retaliation, US President Donald Trump said Washington did not need a deal with Iran to obtain enriched uranium from the country. "We could get it right now. I don't think they could stop us if we wanted, but there's no reason to. It's entombed," he told reporters in the Oval Office. He also said he did not want to meet Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, but added that if Washington and Tehran reached a deal, a meeting could occur and, if it happened, he would be respectful.

In Regional Impacts, US President Donald Trump said he believed progress was being made between Israel and Lebanon and that Lebanon deserved peace. He told reporters in the Oval Office that he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and "I actually spoke to Hezbollah about it." He continued: "And I think progress is made. It's been going on for a long time, you know."

In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Captain Eitan Shmuel Lemberg, 21, from Mishmar HaShiv’a, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon when a Hezbollah terrorist fired an anti-tank missile at an IDF tank north of the Litani River. Immediately after the incident, the Israeli Air Force and ground forces struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the area. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered condolences to Lemberg’s family, calling him a hero and expressing grief. Captain Eitan Shmuel Lamberg, 21, also from Mishmar HaShiv’a, was killed during operations in southern Lebanon when a terrorist fired an anti-tank missile at his tank north of the Litani River. Israeli forces then conducted air and artillery strikes against Hezbollah targets, with Netanyahu praising Lamberg as a courageous commander. Separately, the UN said a Serbian peacekeeper in Lebanon died from wounds after mortar shells hit his position near Marjayoun, the seventh UN peacekeeper killed there since March, and two other UNIFIL peacekeepers were wounded, one from El Salvador and the other from Spain. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack on peacekeepers, said such acts are grave violations of international humanitarian law, and urged that those responsible be held to account. The incident is being investigated, with an initial assessment guiding the inquiry.

In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, a Jewish woman was beaten, choked, and had her hair torn out in an alleged antisemitic attack on a New York City subway. Bronx resident Diana Smith was charged with hate crime assault, hate crime criminal obstruction of breathing, and aggravated harassment after a confrontation that escalated when she questioned whether other passengers were Jewish. The victim said Smith expressed antisemitic statements, including remarks about “Jews” and claims they were “eating kids,” before choking the victim and continuing the assault as others intervened. In the United Kingdom, a government advisor on antisemitism, Lord John Mann, urged the NHS to ban pro-Palestinian badges and to require mandatory antisemitism training for staff, following findings of persistent antisemitism within the health service and concerns that some Jewish patients delay or avoid care. The review recommends 36 actions aimed at tackling antisemitism and other racism in the NHS.

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