Here's what we covered
• Iran talks in China: US President Donald Trump is visiting China, where he is expected to encourage his counterpart Xi Jinping to push China-ally Iran toward compromise.
• CNN in Iran: A CNN team is on the road to Tehran, where we are hearing from Iranians who describe life under bombardment and blockade.
• Economic strain: Trump on Tuesday said “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” when negotiating with Iran. “I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, that’s all,” he told reporters. Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday defended Trump and said, “of course” the administration cares. “I don’t think the president said that,” Vance added.
• More Lebanon talks: Officials from Israel and Lebanon will meet Thursday in Washington, DC, for another round of US-mediated talks as violence between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah flares and the tenuous ceasefire risks total collapse.
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Here are the latest developments as US-Iran talks remain stalled
US President Donald Trump is set to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping shortly and discuss the war with Iran. In Washington, DC, Israeli and Lebanese officials will meet on Thursday morning to hold another round of US-mediated talks as violence between Israel and Hezbollah continues to threaten a fragile ceasefire in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he made a “covert visit” to the United Arab Emirates and met with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. However, the UAE denied that any such trip happened, emphasizing that their relations with Israel follow the framework established by the Abraham Accords.
Here’s the latest on the state of negotiations and the impact of the war:
- State of talks: US Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that lead US negotiators are still “making progress” in peace talks with Iran, despite a series of unsatisfying responses from Tehran in recent weeks. Vance added that the administration remains focused on ensuring Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon.
- Emergency oil reserves: The Trump administration is draining America’s emergency oil stockpile at the fastest pace on record, breaking the prior record set by President Joe Biden. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve plunged by 8.6 million barrels last week.
- War powers measure fails: For the seventh time this year, the Senate rejected a measure aimed at restricting President Donald Trump’s war powers by requiring congressional approval for any future military action in Iran. The measure failed to advance, 49-50.
- Iranians detained: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi demanded the release of four Iranians detained by Kuwait. On Tuesday, Kuwaiti state media reported that authorities arrested four individuals described as members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who were trying to infiltrate the country to “carry out hostile acts.”
- On the road to Tehran: On CNN’s journey across the country, ordinary Iranians described life under bombardment and blockade.
- Strait of Hormuz: Four weeks into its blockade of Iranian ports, the US military has redirected 67 commercial ships and disabled four others to “ensure compliance,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on X Wednesday, adding that 15 vessels “supporting humanitarian aid” have been allowed to pass.
Rising costs for consumers:
- American’s finances: Trump on Tuesday said “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” when negotiating with Iran. Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday defended Trump and said, “of course” the administration cares. “I don’t think the president said that,” Vance added.
- Shipping costs: Container shipping behemoth Hapag-Lloyd said it is incurring extra costs of between $50 million and $60 million per week because of the ongoing blockage in the Strait of Hormuz. CEO Rolf Habben Jansen said he expected the cost Hapag-Lloyd charges to customers to rise over the next few months so the company can recoup its additional costs.
CNN’s Jennifer Hansler, Catherine Nicholls, Alejandra Jaramillo, Elise Hammond, Morgan Rimmer, Hira Humayun, Matt Egan, Dalia Abdelwahab, Tal Shalev, Sophie Tanno, Anna Cooban and Brad Lendon contributed to this report.
US energy secretary says Iran is “frighteningly close” to constructing nuclear weapons
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told lawmakers Wednesday that Iran is “frighteningly close” to constructing nuclear weapons, insisting that the country is “weeks away” from enriching one ton of its uranium to weapons-grade levels.
“Frighteningly close. They are weeks, a small number of weeks away to enrich that to weapons-grade uranium,” Wright told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing. “There’s still a weaponization process that happens after that, but they’re quite close to constructing nuclear weapons.”
Enriching uranium above a certain threshold — around 90% — means it can be used to create nuclear weapons. Asked by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal about the status of Iran’s other reported 11 tons of uranium, Wright said the levels of enrichment ranged up to 60%, though Iran has “a lot of” 20% enriched uranium, which he called “very concerning.”
Blumenthal then pressed Wright on whether President Donald Trump would have to go after all of Iran’s uranium stockpiles in order to stop the enrichment.
“I think that’s the wise strategy,” Wright said. “Ultimately, the goal is to prevent future enrichment of uranium as well. Yes, to have a safe world, we need to end their nuclear program.”
Multiple Trump administration officials have cited Iran’s enriched uranium stores as part of the rationale for the war with Iran. Trump has also said he wants Iran to surrender its enriched uranium in order to reach a deal to end the conflict.
What CNN saw on the road to Tehran
On CNN’s journey across the country, ordinary Iranians described life under bombardment and blockade. Fears that the war could flare again are fueling a sense of disquiet in the country.
“Trump could decide to start the bombing again today,” one Iranian man said. “Maybe not when he is in China, but who knows. Trump likes to be at the center of attention.”
CNN's Matthew Chance reports from northwestern Iran, where he and his team are driving to Tehran. The journey is taking much longer than usual since infrastructure has been destroyed in US-Israeli strikes. CNN operates in Iran with the permission of the Iranian government, as required under local regulations, but maintains full editorial control over what it reports. CNN's photojournalist Alex Platt contributed to this report.
CNN saw crowds of day-trippers – young and old – hauling gallon-drums of cooking oil by hand across the border from Turkey. One breathless Iranian pensioner explained how the essential product is now six times more expensive in Iran than in Turkey, amid a spiraling cost-of-living crisis that shows no sign of easing.
UAE denies that Netanyahu secretly visited the Gulf nation
The United Arab Emirates denied Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a secret visit to the Persian Gulf nation, after the Israeli leader’s office released a statement about the trip.
“The UAE would like to emphasize that its relations with Israel are crystal clear and were established within the clear framework determined by the Abraham Accords — meaning they are not conducted through secretive back-channeling,” the ministry added.
The Abraham Accords were agreements signed during US President Donald Trump’s previous term, under which the UAE and and Bahrain normalized relations with Israel. Expanding the Abraham accords to include other Arab states has been a top foreign policy goal for the Trump administration.
The Emirati Foreign Ministry stressed that “allegations regarding unannounced visits or arrangements are not rooted in truth by any means” unless announced through official UAE channels.
Netanyahu’s office said earlier today that the prime minister made a “covert visit” to the UAE during the US-Israel war with Iran and met with Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Netanyahu’s office said the visit yielded a “historic breakthrough” in relations between the two countries. It did not say when the visit occurred or elaborate on the reported breakthrough.
In a Facebook post before the UAE’s denial, Netanyahu’s former chief of staff, Ziv Agmon, said he accompanied the prime minister on that trip and that Netanyahu was “received in Abu Dhabi with royal honors.”
Following the visit announcement, Iran threatened to hold those “colluding with Israel” to account.
“Enmity with the Great People of Iran is a foolish gamble,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X. “Collusion with Israel in doing so: unforgivable.”
Israel-Lebanon talks to kick off Thursday with additional officials in the delegations
Officials from Israel and Lebanon will meet Thursday in Washington, DC, to hold another round of US-mediated talks as violence between Israel and Hezbollah flares and the tenuous ceasefire risks total collapse.
The US delegation will again include State Department counselor Michael Needham, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, the official said. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend, as he is in Beijing with President Donald Trump.
An Israeli official said the talks are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. ET.
There have been continued cross-border strikes between Israel and Hezbollah in recent days. Israeli attacks killed at least 12 people, including a mother and two children, in Lebanon on Wednesday, according to health officials. Hezbollah also launched 10 strikes on Israeli military posts on Wednesday, according to multiple statements from the group.
Israeli forces crossed the key boundary of the Litani River in southern Lebanon this week, a military official told CNN.
Vance defends Trump, says administration cares about Americans' financial situation
Vice President JD Vance said the administration cares “about the American people’s financial situations” and defended President Donald Trump, who’s been criticized for suggesting that’s not top of mind as he pushes for a peace deal with Iran.
“Well, I don’t think the president said that. I think that’s a misrepresentation of what the president said,” Vance told reporters on Wednesday at a news conference on fraud.
Trump, while leaving the White House on Tuesday, was asked how much Americans’ financial situation was motivating him to make a deal with Iran. He responded: “Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters, when I’m talking about Iran: they cannot have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.”
Vance said Wednesday: “Look, I agree with the president that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. We’re obviously engaged in a very aggressive and very engaged diplomatic process to try to ensure that that doesn’t happen.”
He later added: “But of course, the president and I and the entire team, we care about the American people’s financial situations.”
Vance says US is "making progress" in Iran negotiations
Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that lead US negotiators are still “making progress” in peace talks with Iran, despite a series of unsatisfying responses from Tehran in recent weeks.
“I spent a good amount of time on the phone with both Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff this morning, and a number of our friends in the Arab world this morning,” Vance told reporters, referring to the administration’s two top envoys to Iran. “Look, I think that we are making progress. The fundamental question is do we make enough progress that we satisfy the president’s red line.”
Vance said the administration remains laser-focused on ensuring Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon and framed that as the central benchmark for any agreement.
“The red line is very simple,” he said, adding that the president “needs to feel confident that we’ve put a number of protections in place such that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.”
Arab-Iranian relations can't be "built on confrontations," senior UAE official says
A top adviser to the president of the United Arab Emirates decried “confrontations and conflict” in relations between Iran and its Arab neighbors and renewed a call for a negotiated “political solution” to the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Anwar Gargash made the comments in a post on X shortly after the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he made a secret trip to the UAE during the war.
He added that defending the UAE is “a sacred duty” and that the Persian Gulf country would “protect its sovereignty.” But, he said, the UAE’s priority remains achieving political solutions.
“As the world follows the crucial visit by the U.S. President to China and what it may signal in terms of regional impacts, the United Arab Emirates continues to affirm in this context the importance of a political solution through a path to negotiations, which it continues to abide by in all its communications,” Gargash posted.
Shortly before his post, Israel publicly acknowledged for the first time a trip by Netanyahu to the UAE. On that “covert visit” during the war with Iran, he met with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Netanyahu’s office said. The visit “resulted in a historic breakthrough” in relations between the two countries, the office added, without mentioning when the trip took place or describing the reported breakthrough.
The UAE did not immediately comment on the Israeli announcement. CNN has reached out to the UAE for comment.
Extra costs for shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd reaches as much as $60 million a week, CEO says
Container shipping behemoth Hapag-Lloyd is incurring extra costs of between $50 million and $60 million per week because of the ongoing blockage in the Strait of Hormuz, its chief executive told CNN on Wednesday.
CEO Rolf Habben Jansen said that, compared with before the war, his firm is spending that extra money on more expensive fuel as well as moving goods via trucks and railways.
Jansen said he expected freight rates — the cost Hapag-Lloyd charges to customers to transport their goods — to rise over the next few months so the company can recoup its additional costs.
That is “fair,” he said, “because, when you go to the petrol station, you also can’t tell the guy that you want to pay the price of February … you will have to pay the price of today.”
Jansen described Hapag-Lloyd’s results for the first three months of 2026 as “a bit unsatisfactory.”
The German company lost €219 million (or about $256 million) over the first quarter, citing adverse weather in Europe and North America in addition to the continued disruption caused by the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Hapag-Lloyd currently has four of its vessels stranded in the Persian Gulf, Jansen said, with two of its vessels managing to exit since the conflict started on February 28.
Iran's foreign minister demands release of citizens detained by Kuwait
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is demanding the release of four Iranians detained by Kuwait, which suspects them of trying to infiltrate the Persian Gulf nation.
“In clear attempt to sow discord, Kuwait has unlawfully attacked an Iranian boat and detained 4 of our citizens in the Persian Gulf,” Araghchi posted Wednesday on X. “This illegal act took place near island used by the U.S. to attack Iran.”
“We demand immediate release of our nationals and reserve right to respond,” the minister added, without addressing the allegations of an attempt to infiltrate.
On Tuesday, Kuwaiti state media reported that authorities arrested four individuals described as members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who were trying to infiltrate the country to “carry out hostile acts.”
The Iranians tried to enter Kuwait on May 1 aboard a fishing boat and clashed with Kuwaiti soliders, Kuwaiti state media said. Iran denied the reports in a statement published by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency, saying the four were “carrying out routine maritime patrol duties” for the Iranian coast guard and entered Kuwaiti waters only because of a “disruption in the navigation system.”
The incident, if confirmed, would be the first known attempted military infiltration by Iran into a neighboring Arab country during the war.
Netanyahu made secret trip to UAE during Iran war, his office says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a “covert visit” to the United Arab Emirates during the US-Israeli war with Iran and met with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday.
The visit resulted in a “historic breakthrough” in relations between Israel and the UAE, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said, without mentioning when the trip took place or elaborating on the breakthrough.
The announcement marked the first time that Israel has publicly acknowledged a trip by Netanyahu to the UAE.
The “historic breakthrough” may refer to the deployment of an Israeli Iron Dome battery in the UAE. Earlier this month, CNN reported that Netanyahu secretly ordered the Israeli military to send to the UAE a battery of the system designed to intercept short-range projectiles, as well as soldiers to operate it.
At the time, several Israeli officials told CNN that, as the UAE distances itself from its traditional allies because of their stance on the Iran war, Israel sees an unprecedented opportunity to further strengthen ties between the two countries.
Emergency oil reserves are shrinking faster than under Biden
The Trump administration is draining America’s emergency oil stockpile at the fastest pace on record.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve plunged by 8.6 million barrels last week, the most on records that go back to the early 1980s, according to federal data released Wednesday.
The prior record was set in September 2022 under President Joe Biden.
This leaves the SPR, the nation’s emergency reserve of crude, at its lowest level since October 2024.
President Donald Trump in the past slammed Biden for aggressively tapping the SPR.
“The strategic national reserves, which I filled up, have been virtually drained in order to keep gasoline prices lower, just prior to the election,” Trump said during his 2024 campaign launch in November 2022.
But with the Strait of Hormuz still closed, US officials today are grappling with a far bigger shock.
Commercial oil stockpiles are disappearing fast as exports remain historically high.
According to federal data, crude inventories tumbled by 4.3 million barrels last week.
Gasoline stockpiles dropped by nearly as much to the lowest level for this point on the calendar since 2014.
“We’re draining the tanks at a rapid rate. We’re in a bad place going into summer driving season,” Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho, told CNN in a phone interview.
Normally, storage builds heading into Memorial Day weekend ahead of the demand surge that accompanies the unofficial kickoff to summer.
“The war could end tomorrow, and we don’t have enough gasoline to super-size the market. We’re not going back to $2.50-a-gallon gas anywhere in the US anytime soon,” Yawger said.
Senate rejects war powers measure for 7th time, but new GOP senator breaks ranks
For the seventh time this year, the Senate rejected a measure aimed at restricting President Donald Trump’s war powers by requiring congressional approval for any future military action in Iran.
The measure failed to advance, 49-50. Democratic Sen. John Fetterman joined Republicans in rejecting it, while GOP Sens. Rand Paul, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted with Democrats.
Some Republicans, like Murkowski – who newly voted for the war powers effort today – and Sen. Thom Tillis, have argued Congress should have a role in authorizing the war, or at least more oversight, now that the conflict has stretched beyond 60 days.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced in April that Democrats would force a war powers vote each week the Senate is in session for the foreseeable future.
“I’ve told the president I support what he did going into Iran, but we’ve got to have, we got to worry about the reporting to Congress. … It’s not a popular war right now with the American people, right?” Tillis said Monday.
A post-Vietnam law puts a 60-day clock on the use of military force without congressional authorization. The war hit that threshold on May 1, according to the text of the law, the War Powers Resolution.
Lawmakers have expressed some confusion, however, over the exact date of the deadline, with some Republicans arguing that ceasefire days don’t count toward the 60-day total.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters last week that most of his members haven’t pushed to vote on war authorization.
Tillis has said he and others are still working to write an authorization, though he acknowledged that even if it could pass Congress, it would not withstand a presidential veto.
Officials say 12 killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, as UN says Hezbollah attacked bases
Israeli attacks on Lebanon today have killed at least 12 people, including a mother and two children, according to health officials, as violence flared between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah.
Here’s what else has been going on in the Middle East today:
- Israeli forces crossed the Litani River in southern Lebanon this week, a military official told CNN, breaching a key boundary as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon increasingly risks collapse.
- The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon said that multiple Hezbollah drones have hit its bases in recent days. The force urged both the Iranian proxy group and Israel to avoid operating near its positions.
- US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee yesterday called on Arab states in the Persian Gulf to “pick a side” between Israel and Iran, saying the war has shown the benefits of normalizing ties with the former.
- Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was temporarily released from custody today, according to her daughter, more than a month after security forces detained her.
- More than 100 Nobel Prize winners said yesterday that Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi faces “irreversible harm” if the country’s authorities continue to delay providing her specialized medical care.
- A Chinese-flagged supertanker has successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz and is now in the Gulf of Oman, tracking data appears to show.
CNN’s Charbel Mallo, Dana Karni, Sana Noor Haq, Oren Liebermann, Nadeen Ebrahim, Aida Karimi and Billy Stockwell contributed to this report.
Chinese oil tanker makes successful Hormuz crossing as Trump’s Beijing visit kicks off
A Chinese-flagged supertanker has successfully crossed the choked Strait of Hormuz and is now in the Gulf of Oman, ultimately heading toward the Chinese island city of Zhoushan, tracking data appears to show.
The crossing comes as US President Donald Trump visits China, the main importer of Iranian oil. He is expected to encourage Chinese leader Xi Jinping to push Iran to reopen the critical waterway.
The laden crude oil tanker, named Yuan Hua Hu, is one of several China-linked vessels to transit the strait in recent days ahead of Trump’s high-stakes visit, according to data from maritime intelligence provider MarineTraffic.
MarineTraffic data shows the Yuan Hua Hu crossed the strait earlier today using the northern route near Larak Island, which maritime analytics service Lloyd’s List Intelligence has previously said is a checkpoint used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to control access to the strait.
Traffic through the waterway, a key oil shipping route, has slowed to a trickle since the Iran war began, with ships reluctant to risk attack or seizure amid clashes between Tehran and Washington.
More than 110 Nobel laureates demand “unconditional release" of Narges Mohammadi
Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who was recently granted bail and transferred to a hospital in Tehran, faces “irreversible harm” if authorities continue to delay specialized medical care, more than 100 Nobel Prize winners have said in a letter.
Some 113 signatories called for the “urgent unconditional release” and the “drop of all unfair charges” against 54-year-old Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel in 2023 for her “fight against the oppression of women in Iran.”
Mohammadi has shown “severe weight loss,” “unstable blood pressure” and “serious cardiac symptoms” in recent days, according to a statement released by the Nobel laureates on Tuesday. “The denial of such care places her at risk of irreversible harm,” the statement added.
On Wednesday, the Narges Foundation, which is run by Mohammadi’s family, said that she underwent an angiography, a type of X-ray, to evaluate her heart health. It indicated “significant deterioration and progression of the vascular disease,” the foundation said in a statement.
Mohammadi is “required to remain in a stable position and under absolute bed rest,” the statement said.
A decorated political prisoner, Mohammadi has spent decades pushing for freedom of assembly in Iran. The Iranian regime has frequently arrested and detained her. She has been sentenced to more than 44 years imprisonment and 154 lashes in her lifetime, according to the Narges Foundation.
CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh, Max Saltman and Catherine Nicholls contributed reporting. This post has been updated with developments.
Famed Iranian human rights lawyer temporarily released on bail, daughter says
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was temporarily released from custody today, according to her daughter, more than a month after security forces detained her.
Sotoudeh was “temporarily released on bail,” Mehraveh Khandan posted on Instagram. Security forces previously raided Sotoudeh’s house while she was home alone on April 2, her daughter posted on social media, adding that they’d seized multiple electronic devices.
Sotoudeh has represented Iranian political prisoners throughout her career and been incarcerated multiple times for her work, according to the US-based NGO the Center for Human Rights in Iran. Her husband, Reza Khandan, was arrested in 2019 for producing and distributing badges that read, “I oppose compulsory hijab,” the center said.
Iran’s regime has only intensified its crackdown on dissidents, rights advocates say, using the cover of US-Israeli strikes on the country. Last month, the UN human rights chief urged authorities to halt capital punishment, warning the “use of torture and mistreatment” had been regularly reported. More than 4,000 people are estimated to have been arrested on national security-related charges in Iran since February 28, Volker Türk said on April 29.
UN force in Lebanon says multiple Hezbollah drones have hit bases
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon says multiple Hezbollah drones have hit its bases in recent days as it urged both the Iranian proxy and Israel to avoid operating near its positions.
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said three drones detonated “within meters” of the organization’s Naqoura headquarters in southern Lebanon on Monday. One day later, it said, a “presumed” Hezbollah drone detonated inside the headquarters, while another struck nearby. UNIFIL said no was injured in the drone attacks but that some buildings were damaged.
On Sunday, an unarmed drone likely of Iranian design landed inside the same facility, UNIFIL said in a statement.
Last Tuesday, an armed fiber-optic drone from Hezbollah crashed into the roof of a UN building near Hinniyah but did not explode, UNIFIL said. It was the first UN mention of fiber-optic drones, which Hezbollah has used with deadly effectiveness to bypass Israeli signal jamming and strike Israeli soldiers.
“UNIFIL continues to remind all actors to avoid operating in proximity of United Nations positions and personnel, and … avoid any actions that could put peacekeepers in danger,” the organization said.
UNIFIL has operated along the Israel-Lebanon border for nearly five decades, but its mandate is set to expire at the end of next year after the United States voted to end its operations.
Israeli strikes kill 12 in Lebanon, officials say, as total death toll climbs
Israeli attacks killed at least 12 people – including a mother and two children – in Lebanon on Wednesday, according to health officials, as violence flared between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah.
Three lethal strikes on the seaside towns of Barja, Jiyeh and Saadiyat “targeting the coastal Sidon-south highway” killed eight people, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, citing the country’s Ministry of Public Health. CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment.
Scenes emerged of grey smoke billowing over high blocks lined with green trees and cars doused in flames, after the Israeli military launched raids on a thick stretch of towns and villages in the south, NNA added. Strikes on vehicles in the Tyre district and in Sidon killed four people, the Lebanese health ministry said.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military started striking what it described as “Hezbollah terror infrastructure” in several parts of southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah also fired 10 attacks on Israeli military posts on Wednesday, according to multiple statements from the group. Israeli forces reported “several rockets” and “explosive drones” fired towards soldiers in the south, adding there were no injuries.
The Israeli campaign has killed 2,896 people and injured 8,824 others since early March, Lebanon’s health ministry said Wednesday. Human rights advocates have repeatedly called for a definitive ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon ahead of ambassador-level talks in Washington, DC later this week.
