Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-05-14 at 20:01

HEADLINES
West Bank clash Israeli unit kills attacker
House deadlocks on Iran war powers
Israel-Lebanon peace talks productive at State Department

The time is now 8:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In Regional Impacts, troops from the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit engaged three terrorists hurling rocks toward Israeli vehicles during a counterterrorism operation near the West Bank village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya. The soldiers fired on the attackers on Route 60, killing one masked suspect and wounding another, with a search under way for the two remaining assailants in the Madama area where the incident occurred. The military noted that last month a 5-year-old child was wounded by glass shards after a rock-throwing attack on Highway 60 shattered the windshield of a car, and said it has begun a search of Madama to locate the responsible terrorist.

In US Policy Concerning Israel, the House of Representatives narrowly defeated a Democratic-led bid to stop President Trump’s Iran war powers until hostilities are authorized by Congress, voting 212-212, meaning the measure failed for lacking a majority. Three Republicans—Tom Barrett of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky—backed the resolution, while one Democrat, Jared Golden of Maine, opposed it. It was the third House vote this year on an Iran war powers measure and the first since a 60-day deadline for Trump to come to Congress about the war. Trump has said a ceasefire had “terminated” hostilities with Iran, and seven similar votes have failed in the Senate. In a separate note, officials described the first day of the third round of Israel-Lebanon peace talks at the US State Department as productive and positive, with delegations from both countries set to meet again on Friday to continue discussion aimed at mapping a framework for a deeper agreement. The talks, led by US mediators including the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Michael Needham, an adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, along with the US Ambassador to Lebanon Michael Issa, were the first attended by military representatives, and came as a three-week ceasefire extension discussed by the parties neared its end. Israel’s delegation was led by the Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, accompanied by Brigadier-General Amichai Levin, the IDF Head of Strategy.

In Israeli Domestic Politics, ultra-Orthodox protesters gathered outside the Ashkelon home of Brigadier-General Yuval Yamin, the head of the military police, in a demonstration against arrests of haredi draft dodgers by the military police. Police arrived to disperse the group as tensions rise over a haredi draft bill in the Knesset. The IDF condemned the protests, saying it would not tolerate threats to security forces or their families. Earlier in the week, protesters blocked areas in Jerusalem and, last week, broke into Yamin’s yard while his family was at home. IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir has urged larger numbers of haredim to be drafted, stressing that the army must grow quickly to address manpower shortages.

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