Overview

• Israel's war in Gaza continues with Iran vowing retaliation after five Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members were killed in an airstrike in Syria, which both Iran and Syria attribute to Israel.
• US personnel were injured in a ballistic missile attack on Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, with the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq claiming responsibility.
• US forces destroyed a Houthi anti-ship missile in the Gulf of Aden, as part of ongoing efforts to degrade the Iran-backed group’s capabilities.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated his stance on retaining full Israeli security control over all territory west of Jordan, which he says is contrary to the existence of a Palestinian state.
• Despite the ongoing conflict, some commercial shipping crews are resorting to unorthodox methods to evade Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, including altering their destination information to signal a lack of association with Israel.