Netanyahu (Israel)

Ambassadors Leiter and Hamadeh signed the Trilateral Framework at the State Department on June 26, launching two IDF withdrawal pilot zones and a Military Coordination Group; Hezbollah was not a party and threatened civil war over implementation

A 'go home' shout at a combat-officer graduation drew scattered applause, Netanyahu ignored it, and the defence minister used the same stage to announce the IDF stays in Lebanon forever

Washington ends three days of direct Israel-Lebanon talks with US optimism that Israeli and Lebanese officials contradict; a drone strike kills two near Nabatieh

The Israeli PM told combat officers that Israeli forces will remain in all three theatres "as long as required," a statement that undercut US-mediated Lebanon-ceasefire talks the same day

The prime minister leaves the stand calling the case a 'Stasi' operation as a verdict slips toward 2027 and an election toward autumn

Qassem calls the disarmament drive a 'roadmap to annihilate' as Israel vows an open-ended stay in south Lebanon and keeps striking past the ceasefire deadline

An October election looming, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich demand Hezbollah's destruction while opposition brands the US-Iran deal Netanyahu's failure

An Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs triggers ~30 Iranian ballistic missiles at Israel, the first direct exchange since April, before both pull back 'for now'

A judge fixes the date Netanyahu wanted, the latest possible; a dissolution bill that would have pulled it earlier is in play

The president pushes a mediated plea deal Netanyahu won't take, admitting wrongdoing and quitting politics, while Trump calls Herzog 'weak and pathetic'

The chief of staff raises '10 red flags' over reservist strain while Israel tallies $1.1bn+ in missile damage and 45,000 home-front claims

Q1 GDP shrank 3.3% from the Iran war, but the ceasefire sends the currency to a 1993 peak and ratings outlooks to stable, even as Smotrich fights a record defence budget