Israel's ruling coalition announced on Sunday that the general elections for the Knesset, the country's parliament, will be held as originally scheduled on Oct 27 and will not be brought forward, Israel's state-owned Kan TV News reported.
According to Israeli law, general elections for parliament are supposed to be held every four years.
The election period will officially begin on Friday, or July 17, when the Knesset will go into recess. From that point, the government will assume caretaker status and will be barred from advancing major policy initiatives, except for broadly agreed legislation, routine regulatory matters, or measures required to address security needs.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference in June that after the general elections expected in October, he wants to form a broad national government.
Netanyahu currently heads a narrow coalition that includes far-right and ultra-Orthodox factions. Most recent polls in the Israeli media have predicted that the current coalition factions will gain at most 53 seats in the 120-seat parliament, not enough for him to form a coalition again in the current structure.
Israel to hold general elections on Oct 27: media
Several regions in southern Iran's Hormozgan province were attacked on Sunday evening, with one person killed and two others wounded on Farur Island, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Citing an informed source, Tasnim reported all victims were with the province's telecommunications company.
Earlier, the semi-official Fars news agency reported that explosions were heard Sunday evening in the port city of Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island, both in Hormozgan.
The explosion sounds came from east of Bandar Abbas and Mesen village south of Qeshm Island, it added.
Meanwhile, Iran's official news agency IRNA cited Qeshm Governor Hossein Amir-Teymouri as saying that 10 to 11 "enemy" projectiles had hit the island.
Amir-Teymouri added that only military targets had been struck, with no casualties caused, IRNA reported.
U.S. media reported Sunday that American forces had carried out several strikes on Iranian missile and air defense systems and had also targeted small speedboats belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) at several locations around the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. Central Command said on X that its forces began launching more strikes against Iran "to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz."
Earlier the day, in response to fresh attacks by the United States, the IRGC launched counterattacks against American assets in the region, targeting a U.S. air base in Jordan, Patriot air defense systems in Kuwait, U.S. military communications and radar stations in Bahrain, and the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
1 killed, 2 wounded in latest attacks on southern Iran: media
