Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-05-07 at 12:02

HEADLINES
Iranian strikes widen damage to US assets
Israel braces for ceasefire collapse with Iran
Hate attack near Hasmonean High School

The time is now 12:02 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In Iranian Retaliation, satellite imagery shows Iranian strikes damaged more US military assets across the Middle East than previously disclosed, according to a Washington Post analysis. The report says at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment have been damaged or destroyed at US sites across the region since the war began on February 28, identifying 217 damaged or destroyed structures and 11 damaged pieces of equipment, including hangars, barracks, warehouses, fuel depots, aircraft, radar systems, communications sites and air defense assets. Some of the heaviest damage was centered at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, home to the Navy’s 5th Fleet, and at three Kuwait-based facilities: Ali al-Salem Air Base, Camp Arifjan and Camp Buehring. Iranian strikes also damaged Patriot missile defense equipment in Bahrain and Kuwait, satellite communications sites at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, radomes at multiple facilities and THAAD-related radar and equipment, among other assets. The report concludes the scale of damage was wider than what the US government had publicly acknowledged.

In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Israelis are preparing for a possible collapse of the ceasefire with Iran and for renewed tensions in the north.

In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, the Metropolitan Police are investigating after a vehicle drove toward Jewish students on April 20, endangering three 14-year-old boys who were standing near Hasmonean High School for Boys; the youths moved aside and no injuries were reported. The inquiry is being treated as a possible religiously motivated aggravated assault, and no arrests had been made. Police said they were in contact with the Hasmonean school, which declined to comment. Jewish News reported a letter sent to students and parents about the incident, though its authenticity could not be verified by The Jerusalem Post. The Community Security Trust said it was aware of the incident and urged witnesses to contact it or the police, while the Campaign Against Antisemitism condemned the attack.

In Uplifting News, Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents Observation/The Field Observers of the Gaza Sector, a video installation giving voice to the women who watched the Gaza border on October 7 and were not heard, featuring ten testimonies with no archival footage, maps, or recreations. The project, conceived by Talya Lavie and curated by Mira Lapidot, centers on faces and personal accounts, listing the IDF’s female field observers who were killed at the Nahal Oz outpost. The effect in the space is described as a reckoning. Also in uplifting news, a bronze cup from the second century CE found near Berlanga de Duero, Spain, dubbed the Berlanga Cup, names Hadrian’s Wall’s eastern forts and is one of five Hadrian’s Wall Cups. It bears inscriptions referring to Cilurnum, Onno, Vindobala, and Condercum, and is decorated with red, green, turquoise, and blue enamel in geometric patterns including fish scales and tower motifs. Chemical analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence and lead isotope testing at Durham University suggests its significance and links to the eastern camps. Finally in uplifting news, a notice from White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt conveyed that she welcomed a daughter named Viviana and expressed gratitude to those who cared and prayed.

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I'm Noa Levi. Stay safe and informed.
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https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-895491
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-895502
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-895387
https://t.me/abualiexpress/121889