Trump criticizes Iran not allowing more oil through Strait of Hormuz: 'Not the agreement we have'

The Israel Defense Forces said it “struck and eliminated” two terrorists who were planning “imminent” attacks against troops operating in the Gaza Strip.

The strikes were carried out Thursday.

“In the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF eliminated Mahmoud Barim, a terrorist in the Kata’ib al-Mujahideen organization, who monitored IDF troop activity and possessed a large quantity of weapons,” the IDF said.

“In the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF eliminated Ahmed Mohammed Saleh, a Hamas Nukhba terrorist, who had carried out and advanced numerous terror attacks against IDF troops. During the strike, additional Hamas terrorists were struck,” the IDF added.

The IDF said the terrorists "posed an immediate threat to IDF troops and were eliminated in precise strikes."

"Prior to the strikes, steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance," the IDF said.

The IDF said Israeli troops in the Southern Command "remain deployed in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat."

An Israeli intelligence official told Fox News on Friday that Iran is demanding fees from ships to travel through the Strait of Hormuz. 

“The Strait is effectively under full Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps control,” the official told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst. “They decide who gets to go through, but more importantly, who doesn’t.”

The official also said new information is being shared in the intelligence community indicating that the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is using the ceasefire window to carry out operations that tighten its grip on the strait. 

The development runs in defiance of a warning that President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday night. 

“There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!” Trump said. 

The Israel Defense Forces released a video Friday showing the destruction of Hezbollah missile launching infrastructure as part of its campaign to weaken the Iran-backed terrorist group in Lebanon.

“As part of efforts to degrade and undermine the firing capabilities of Hezbollah, the IDF has struck and dismantled more than 200 rocket launchers, including approximately 1,300 launch tubes,” the IDF said. 

“In addition, more than 250 Hezbollah artillery operatives have been struck and eliminated, including 15 commanders responsible for artillery systems in various sectors,” it also said.  

Israel’s military vowed it will “continue operating with determination against the Hezbollah terrorist organization and will not allow harm to the citizens of the State of Israel, particularly residents of the north.” 

Oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively halted despite a U.S.-backed ceasefire that hinged on reopening the critical waterway, raising fresh questions about whether Iran is following through on a central condition of the truce.

A backlog of roughly 3,200 vessels — among them 800 tankers and cargo ships — has built up west of the strait, with ships idling as operators wait for clarity on whether it is safe to pass.

No oil tankers have risked the journey in recent days, according to Matt Smith, an analyst at Kpler, a data and intelligence company. 

"We're not seeing any, any, any oil products passing through there," Smith said. "So, for all intents and purposes, the strait remains closed. And this is the leverage that Iran has."

Three vessels passed through the Strait on Thursday, according to Smith, two of them Iranian-flagged and one a dry bulk carrier.

A hacker group that has taken credit for Iranian cyberattacks against the U.S. said it will pause attacks due to the ceasefire with the Trump administration.

The group, Handala, which the FBI believes is a front for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, has taken credit for a cyberattack on the Michigan medical tech company Stryker and leaked old emails from FBI Director Kash Patel's hacked Gmail account.

Handala suggested that top leaders in the Iranian government directed them to stop boasting about hacks targeting the U.S., an instruction that appeared to be in response to the ceasefire.

"According to the orders from the highest leadership of the Resistance Axis, we have currently postponed overt confrontation with the United States, but the world already knows our capability to penetrate and strike at the very core of American infrastructure," the group said on Telegram.

But Handala said it would keep targeting other enemies, including Israel.

"The cyber war did not begin with the military conflict, and it will not end with any military ceasefire," the post reads. "Handala, at full force, continues its cyber operations against the infrastructure of the Zionist regime."

The FBI has dubbed the group's work as "psychological operations."

Earlier this week, the FBI and other U.S. agencies said they were "urgently warning" U.S. organizations about "ongoing cyber exploitation of internet-connected operational technology devices."