Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-05-02 at 09:01

HEADLINES
AI Accelerates Israeli War Planning Against Iran
Blockade Drives Iran Fuel Smuggling to Pakistan
Iran US Talks Fail War Likely Returns

The time is now 9:01 AM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In Direct Israel-Iran Clashes, Colonel Rotem Beshi, commander of Matzpen, described how the unit integrates artificial intelligence and big data across the military and helped boost the air force’s effectiveness in the Iran war. A LOCHEM system run by Matzpen handled planning for attacks on Iran, starting with the air force’s Iran-focused unit. Beshi said the digital tools helped set priorities and coordinate waves of attacks, and that data gathering for operational decisions that used to take days can now be done in hours or minutes. He said Matzpen is pushing to bring nearly all processes tied to emergent situations down to minutes. Part of this speed-up was the December formation of a brigade-sized IDF unit to address the spread of AI use across the military, including Matzpen.

In Regional Impacts, thousands of Iranians on motorcycles with fuel canisters are trying to earn a living by smuggling fuel from Iran to Pakistan, in the face of a blockade, rising fuel prices, and widespread unemployment in Iran.

In US Policy Concerning Israel, a senior Iranian official said that fighting with the United States is likely to resume after President Trump said he was not satisfied with Iran’s latest proposal. The White House declined to comment on the state of negotiations. Mohammad Jafar Asadi, a senior figure in Iran's military central command, told Fars News Agency that a renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely. Reuters had reported that an Iranian proposal rejected by Trump would open shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and end the US blockade of Iran while leaving talks on Iran's nuclear program for later. Four weeks since the United States and Israel suspended their bombing campaign against Iran, no deal has been reached to end the war that disrupted global energy supplies. Iran has been blocking nearly all shipping from the Gulf except its own for more than two months, and the US has imposed its own blockade of ships from Iranian ports.

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SOURCES
https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-894775
https://t.me/abualiexpress/121526
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-894875