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Bureau: Jerusalem
The WSO who survived 48 hours in Iran's mountains was rescued by SEAL Team 6 on Easter Sunday, and within hours Trump used the good news to threaten the destruction of Iran's civilian infrastructure.
The fourth strike near Bushehr killed another guard, Russia evacuated 198 more staff, and Qatar's prime minister said a breach would leave his country waterless in seventy-two hours.
Israel killed a family of six including a four-year-old in Kfarhata, struck 100 meters from Lebanon's largest public hospital, and announced plans to hold territory south of the Litani River.
A senior Houthi official warned that closing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is now an active option, which would shut both of the world's critical oil chokepoints simultaneously for the first time.
An Iranian ballistic missile scored a direct hit on a residential building in Haifa, injuring four including one seriously, with firefighters warning the structure could still come down.
Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces are fighting inside Iran in what Tehran calls a 'loyalty campaign,' while a U.S. airstrike on the Shalamcheh crossing killed one Iraqi.
The IRGC announced its 93rd wave of Operation True Promise 4, averaging more than two strike waves per day across 35 days of war.