The Day of the Witkoff Wiretap and the Mossad Purge

The day was dominated by two internal-security stories. In the afternoon, multiple outlets reported that Israel had spied on senior Trump administration officials, including envoy Steve Witkoff, during Iran nuclear negotiations. This came as the Pentagon raised Israel's espionage threat level to 'critical.' Almost simultaneously, new Mossad chief Roman Gofman dismissed his deputy, A., just four days into his term, a move covered across the media as a leadership shake-up. Earlier, US-Iran hostilities continued: overnight US strikes on Iranian radar sites prompted Iranian missile and drone attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain, with Trump claiming Iran retained only 21% missile capacity. In the West Bank, settler rampages in Huwara, including an IDF soldier filmed beating Palestinians, drew condemnation. By evening, two IDF soldiers were reported killed in separate incidents in southern Lebanon.