The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they happen.

An Israeli drone carried out an airstrike on a car in the southern Lebanese town of Maaroub, near Tyre.

Images from the scene show the destroyed vehicle in flames.

US President Donald Trump claims Yemen’s Houthi rebels now “want peace” after more than a week of US airstrikes, which he says have “been very, very strong.”

“The Houthis are looking to do something. They want to know, ‘How do we stop? How do we stop? How can we have peace?’ The Houthis want peace because they’re getting the hell knocked out of them,” he says.

“The Houthis are dying for peace. They don’t want this… They were knocking ships out of the ocean…. In the Suez Canal, they only have about 20% of the ships going through. They have to go through a different way, which takes weeks of travel, and that really affects commerce.”

“But the Houthis have been hit hard, and they want to negotiate peace,” Trump continues. “The Houthis have been horrible to the world. They’ve killed a lot of people and knocked out a lot of ships and planes and anything else… They have been hit harder than they have ever been.”

He suggests the US strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen may continue for some time.

“They want us to stop so badly… They’ve got to say, ‘No mas.’ But I can only say that the attacks every day, every night… have been very successful beyond our wildest expectations… We’re going to do it for a long time. We can keep it going for a long time,” Trump says.

Trump also backs his embattled National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after a scandal erupted over top security officials’ use of a civilian messaging app to discuss an imminent air attack on the Houthis.

“It was Mike, I guess, I always thought it was Mike,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office. He says Hegseth “is doing a great job, he had nothing to do with this,” while branding criticism a “witch hunt.”

An Argentine publisher and bookseller will go on trial for printing and selling publications on Nazi ideology through a local e-commerce platform and across social media networks, including Facebook and Instagram, reports La Nacion newspaper.

A federal prosecutor in the affluent Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro, opened an investigation against the publisher, Adrian Giorgetti, 47, after the Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (DAIA) presented its findings to the Argentine anti-terror police unit.

The Jewish organization says the seller posted on the site, known as Mercado Libre, that “we make room for marginalized books from the most popular bookstores regardless of their tendency. Especially on all types of national and forgotten ancient history.”

It was reported that in recent months, Giorgetti sold nearly 700 copies of various publications.

Herut Nimrodi, mother of hostage Tamir Nimrodi, who was taken hostage on October 7, 2023, from his base next to Gaza, hasn’t received any signs of life from her son from any of the recently released hostages.

“If he’s surviving, it’s a lot of time,” she tells........

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