Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to hold a press conference for foreign media on the Iran war at 8:30 p.m. local time, six hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast, as the U.S. counterterrorism director has resigned in protest that Israel triggered the war and Iran strikes oil and gas sites in the Gulf states in retaliation for an Israeli strike on Iranian oil infrastructure.

“Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a press conference.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said joint US-Israel strikes had destroyed Iran’s ability to enrich uranium and to produce ballistic missiles, and that he saw “this war ending a lot faster than people think”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become the subject of a widely debunked but ongoing claim that he is dead, a particularly high-profile example of the clouded and exceedingly fraught info

Netanyahu's announcement came as strikes continued across the Middle East and oil prices rose.

During the second week of the Iran war, social media platforms were rife with claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu died. The narrative had been surging when Irans

Social media platforms this week have been flooded with a wild rumour: that Benjamin Netanyahu was dead (which he is not). Fake photos and videos of his body, coated with dust and debris, seemed to show that the Israeli prime minister had been killed in an Iranian air strike.

Netanyahu's office responded to Newsweek, which has reviewed live footage, about the claim.