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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led a high-level security meeting, as the US applies pressure to reach a deal in Gaza and secure the release of the captives. Meanwhile, an Israeli court has postponed Netanyahu's scheduled testimony in his long-running corruption trial. His hearings were put off for the next two weeks, after the head of Mossad and the Israeli intelligence chief, cited national security concerns. Just hours earlier, US President Donald Trump called for the case against Netanyahu to be dropped.

The Times of Israel reports the Jerusalem District Court has postponed Netanyahu’s planned testimony in his corruption trial this week after the Israeli prime minister argued “diplomatic and national security issues” need his attention. According to Reuters, the ruling said that new reasons provided by Netanyahu, the head of Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the military intelligence chief justified cancelling the hearings. The decision comes a day after Trump lambasted the trial itself, calling it a “POLITICAL WITCH HUNT” that the US is “not going to stand for”.

The huge crowds gathered for a state funeral in Tehran reflect a renewed sense of patriotism across Iran in the wake of the recent conflict, according to an Iranian researcher. Ali Akbar Dareini of Tehran’s Centre for Strategic Studies told Al Jazeera that the Israeli and American attacks had “reignited that sense of patriotism and nationalism in Iran”.

The Seven Villages is a short documentary that brings together two women of different generations in a video call: the film’s director Farah Abou Kharroub, who’s newly settled in Prague, and her grandmother in Lebanon. Blending animated sketches with intimate family conversation, the film follows the women as they reflect on their shared history as Palestinian refugees granted Lebanese citizenship in 1994. Their exchange weaves together themes of displacement, memory and hope, revealing the emotional landscape of a family bound by identity, yet shaped by different worlds.

The White House has said there is now a “new era” in the Middle East region - in which more Gulf and Arab states could sign on to the Abraham Accords. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt made the remarks in her weekly press briefing. She said Washington is now on a diplomatic path with Tehran - but that no meeting between the two has been set.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has spoken to Al Jazeera about the status of Iran’s nuclear programme in the aftermath of US and Israeli strikes on its facilities.

US President Donald Trump, speaking at the NATO summit in The Hague, hailed the Israel-Iran ceasefire as progressing ‘very well’, taking credit for Israel’s decision to abort a full-scale aerial strike. Alongside NATO’s Mark Rutte, he praised Netanyahu’s limited retaliation as ‘a great thing’, despite the Israeli PM’s claim of Iranian truce violations. Simultaneously, Trump pressured allies to boost defence spending, controversially leaking Rutte’s private notes—which addressed him as ‘Mr President, dear Donald’—pledging 5% NATO budget targets. The move underscored European anxieties over Russian aggression while exposing Trump’s transactional alliance tactics. Trump framed the de-escalation as a personal win, though Israel’s partial strike revealed lingering tensions. Rutte’s effusive messages, made public, blurred NATO’s diplomatic norms with overt flattery of Trump’s Iran policy. The dual focus on ceasefire diplomacy and spending demands highlighted Trump’s blend of crisis management and political spectacle.

Iran’s state TV says it is being attacked by Israel in latest wave of missile strikes on Tehran.

Elijah Magnier, a military and political analyst, says he believes the hostilities between Israel and Iran will only get worse, but that Israeli support for the war may wane if the destruction continues. “I think it’s going to continue escalating because we are just in the first days of the war that Israel declared on Iran,” he told Al Jazeera. “And also the Israeli officials, the prime minister and the army, have all warned Israeli society that this war is going to be heavy and … the price is going to be extremely high. But the society that stands behind Benjamin Netanyahu and supports the war on Iran did not expect this level of destruction because, since 1973, Israel has not waged a war on a country and never been attacked on this scale, right in the heart of Tel Aviv,” Magnier said from Paris.

An Iranian missile has just made impact in Israel's city of Haifa. Iran's armed forces have warned Israelis to leave the vicinity of “vital areas”, according to state television. There's been projectiles in the skies of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as well.