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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-06-30 at 13:02
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Israel Holds Lebanon Security Zone Against Hezbollah
House to vote on blocking Israel funding
US citizen arrested for Iran intel contacts
The time is now 1:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.
In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israel Defense Forces will stay in the Security Zone in southern Lebanon as long as Hezbollah poses a threat, insisting they will remain until the group is neutralized. He spoke during a visit to soldiers, accompanied by Defense Minister Israel Katz and other senior officials, and said authorities have begun to crush the Iranian axis and attacked Iran itself, removing an existential threat. Separately, an American citizen in his twenties was arrested on suspicion of maintaining contact with Iranian intelligence operatives and carrying out paid assignments that included photographing sensitive sites in Israel. A prosecutor filed a statement ahead of possible indictment, and investigators said the suspect received payments ranging from tens to hundreds of dollars for each mission.
In the US Policy Concerning Israel, the House will vote on an amendment to block taxpayer funding to Israel’s military. Representative Thomas Massie filed Amendment Number 5 to an appropriations bill for national security, the Department of State, and related programs for 2027, which would prohibit any funds in the bill from being used for Israel and would cut three point three billion dollars from the Foreign Military Financing account. The three point three billion is part of a ten‑year memorandum of understanding signed in 2016 and set to expire in 2028. The amendment would not affect the roughly five hundred million dollars Israel receives annually for missile defense systems. On June 23, the House Rules Committee marked the amendment as Made in Order for floor consideration, with debate time set at ten minutes. Representative Greg Casar said he would vote yes, citing criticisms of the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza.
In the Israeli Domestic Politics, families of October 7 victims and the October Council announced plans to march along the Gaza border to mark one thousand days since the Hamas invasion and to demand a full investigation into the failures that led to the attack. The convoy will gather in Kibbutz Re’im’s parking lot on Thursday and march around the Gaza perimeter, passing sites attacked on October 7, including Kerem Shalom, Nir Oz, Nirim, Ein Hashlosha, Kissufim, Be’eri, Alumim, Nahal Oz Outpost, Givat Hatzfitniyot, and Kfar Gaza, ending with a ceremony in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, which is to be renamed. The event is open to the public, with Liad Baram, father of Sergeant Neta Baram, and Yoram Yehudai, whose son Ron was killed at the Nova music festival, among those participating. Separately, Israel Police will hold a special meeting after five people were murdered in four incidents in Taiba, Kalansuwa, Jaffa, and Holon within less than twelve hours, as investigators pursue leads linking the cases to disputes between criminal organizations and families. The violence began shortly after midnight in Taiba with the killing of Bakr Nuseirat, 19, and continues to unfold with related fatalities and video showing relatives washing a victim’s body, while authorities review the evidence.
In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, the Hind Rajab Foundation has petitioned Lithuania’s Constitutional Court to open an investigation into an Israeli dental student identified as S.G., whom the foundation says is a former Israeli soldier involved in war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The petition asserts that he served in the Vampire Empire company of the 52nd Battalion in the 401st Armored Brigade and participated in the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters and Shifa Hospital
Israel Holds Lebanon Security Zone Against Hezbollah
House to vote on blocking Israel funding
US citizen arrested for Iran intel contacts
The time is now 1:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.
In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israel Defense Forces will stay in the Security Zone in southern Lebanon as long as Hezbollah poses a threat, insisting they will remain until the group is neutralized. He spoke during a visit to soldiers, accompanied by Defense Minister Israel Katz and other senior officials, and said authorities have begun to crush the Iranian axis and attacked Iran itself, removing an existential threat. Separately, an American citizen in his twenties was arrested on suspicion of maintaining contact with Iranian intelligence operatives and carrying out paid assignments that included photographing sensitive sites in Israel. A prosecutor filed a statement ahead of possible indictment, and investigators said the suspect received payments ranging from tens to hundreds of dollars for each mission.
In the US Policy Concerning Israel, the House will vote on an amendment to block taxpayer funding to Israel’s military. Representative Thomas Massie filed Amendment Number 5 to an appropriations bill for national security, the Department of State, and related programs for 2027, which would prohibit any funds in the bill from being used for Israel and would cut three point three billion dollars from the Foreign Military Financing account. The three point three billion is part of a ten‑year memorandum of understanding signed in 2016 and set to expire in 2028. The amendment would not affect the roughly five hundred million dollars Israel receives annually for missile defense systems. On June 23, the House Rules Committee marked the amendment as Made in Order for floor consideration, with debate time set at ten minutes. Representative Greg Casar said he would vote yes, citing criticisms of the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza.
In the Israeli Domestic Politics, families of October 7 victims and the October Council announced plans to march along the Gaza border to mark one thousand days since the Hamas invasion and to demand a full investigation into the failures that led to the attack. The convoy will gather in Kibbutz Re’im’s parking lot on Thursday and march around the Gaza perimeter, passing sites attacked on October 7, including Kerem Shalom, Nir Oz, Nirim, Ein Hashlosha, Kissufim, Be’eri, Alumim, Nahal Oz Outpost, Givat Hatzfitniyot, and Kfar Gaza, ending with a ceremony in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, which is to be renamed. The event is open to the public, with Liad Baram, father of Sergeant Neta Baram, and Yoram Yehudai, whose son Ron was killed at the Nova music festival, among those participating. Separately, Israel Police will hold a special meeting after five people were murdered in four incidents in Taiba, Kalansuwa, Jaffa, and Holon within less than twelve hours, as investigators pursue leads linking the cases to disputes between criminal organizations and families. The violence began shortly after midnight in Taiba with the killing of Bakr Nuseirat, 19, and continues to unfold with related fatalities and video showing relatives washing a victim’s body, while authorities review the evidence.
In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, the Hind Rajab Foundation has petitioned Lithuania’s Constitutional Court to open an investigation into an Israeli dental student identified as S.G., whom the foundation says is a former Israeli soldier involved in war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The petition asserts that he served in the Vampire Empire company of the 52nd Battalion in the 401st Armored Brigade and participated in the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters and Shifa Hospital