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Late today, President Trump said on social media that he's extending his ban on bombing Iran's power plants by 10 days until April 6th.

Earlier this week, he said tomorrow was the deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face a resumption of attacks on energy infrastructure, which is illegal under the Geneva Convention.

Today's extension came after an hours-long cabinet meeting that included an update on what

U.S. officials say are ongoing negotiations with Iran. Lisa Desjardin has a report.

Today, in the Middle East, still more civilians paying the price of war.

Emergency workers rushed to help an elderly woman in the Arab-Israeli town of Kaffir Qasem.

She had just been spared from an Iranian missile fragment, its impact imprinting a crater and flipping cars.

Whoa! That strike, part of the Tehran regime's ballistic attack on central Israel today, engulfed

cars in the town of Ghana Tikva in flames.

Rescue workers putting out the fire revealed charred husks of vehicles.

Iranian missiles also obliterated a home nearby in Tel Aviv, a fragment

landing in a family's living room. Israeli rescue services reported one death and 25 injuries

from Iranian and Hezbollah attacks today. As Israel last night killed the head of Iran's

Navy, Ali Reza, Tangassiri, along with other senior

naval commanders.

Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz.

Last night, in a precise and lethal operation, the IDF thwarted the commander of the Revolutionary

Guards Navy, Ali Reza Tang Siri, along with senior naval command

officials, the man who was directly responsible for the terrorist operation of mining and

blocking the Strait of Hormuz, and navigation was blown up and neutralized.

This as the Strait of Hormuz remains in Iran's grip, causing hundreds of billions in economic

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