Al Jazeera

By Lyndal Rowlands and Zaid Sabah

    Israel’s deadly strikes continue across Lebanon despite the announcement of a new US-brokered ceasefire agreed between Lebanese and Israeli officials in Washington, DC.

    At least 3,526 people have now been killed and 10,733 injured in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since March 2, the country’s Health Ministry said.

    Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has rejected the ceasefire deal as a “farce”, warning that northern Israel will remain a target for fighters as long as Israel continues to bomb Lebanon.

    US President Donald Trump has branded as “unpatriotic” lawmakers who voted in favour of a resolution to limit his ability to wage war on Iran, adding: “We’re going to win one way or the other … it’s going to be militarily or on paper.”

    Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said there will be “no peace in the region” until Israel withdraws from Lebanese territory, adding that a deal between Tehran and Washington also involves an end to the conflict in Lebanon, according to Iranian media.

Diplomats visit Palestinians facing ‘Israel’s ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank

    Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has called on the international community “to use every means it can to stop Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank”.

    In a statement on social media following a visit by foreign diplomats to the threatened Palestinian community of Khan al-Ahmar, located to the east of occupied East Jerusalem and home to hundreds, the rights group said that international pressure is needed “before even more communities are driven out of their homes”.

    The 17 “delegations of diplomats” had a chance to “personally meet the people Israel is threatening to forcibly displace”, B’Tselem said.

Iran security chief, senior White House staffer take conflict to social media

    Iran’s Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, and Dan Scavino, the White House’s deputy chief of staff, have engaged in a war of words on social media.

    The pair have traded insults on the social media platform X over several days about US and Iranian military capability.

    Their dispute appears to have heated up on Thursday when Azizi shared an image of a missile test launch and strike on a target with the caption: “We’ll see what happen! (Footage of the Kheibar Shekan missiles test).

    Scavino responds, saying: “LOL, artificial intelligence is bull____, just like your underground bunkers in _______!”

Azizi responds to Scavino’s taunt, saying: Is the evacuation of nearly 9,000 Americans and the destruction of your military bases in the region also AI

The Iranian politician finished his sentence with a smiley face symbol

Lloyd’s says Iranian crude oil exports plummet under US naval blockade

    Shipping industry journal Lloyd’s List reports that Iran’s crude oil exports dropped by 84 percent in May compared with the previous month.

    Iran’s crude exports in May were also 87 percent lower than the 12-month average up to the end of April, Lloyd’s List added.

    It also reported that Iran has been using smaller oil tankers to ship crude, since Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) are at a higher risk of being intercepted by US forces.

    US forces began enforcing a blockade of Iran’s ports on April 13, weeks after Iran’s IRGC announced it had put in place a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, on March 2.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman blasts US, Israel for killing children

    Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has blasted the US and Israel for killing children in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Iran’s Minab, and other places around the world.

    “For what crime are innocent children being killed ” Baghaei asked in a social media post.

    “From Gaza and the West Bank to Beirut, Minab, Lamerd, Tehran, and many other places across Iran and the world, wherever children have perished under the bombs and missiles of the United States and the Israeli regime, the truth is the same: no military objective, no political interest, and no security pretext can ever justify the slaughter of children,” he wrote.

    “Children are neither parties to war nor tools of it. They are the living conscience of humanity. Every child killed or maimed is a burial of a part of our shared humanity.”

Oman suspends crude oil loading at key terminal following blast: Report

    Reuters reports that Oman suspended crude oil loading operations at its key Mina Al Fahal terminal following an explosion near its single-buoy mooring berths.

    Reuters said the explosion occurred between the SBM 1 and 2 berths and was due to an alleged drone attack, according to sources it did not name.

    We will bring you more on this report as information becomes available.

Israeli attack on tent shelters in Gaza’s Khan Younis kills 1, wounds 16

    Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli strike on tents sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis has killed one person and wounded 16 others.

    We will bring you more details on this attack as they become available.

This Lebanese student had just finished her exams; then Israel killed her

    Theodosia Karam was killed by Israel just after finishing her final university exams in Beirut.

    A friend described her as a “gift from God”.

    “The first thing anyone noticed in Theodosia was her smile. We’d always see her laughing,” her friend, Reen Tuma, said.

    Karam is among more than 3,500 people that Israel has killed in Lebanon since renewing its attacks on the country in March.

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Ultra-Orthodox Israelis block highway to protest military service

    Hundreds of protesters have blocked Israel’s Highway 1 as demonstrations continue against the government’s enforcement of military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jewish students, Israel’s Channel 10 reports.

    Protests broke out at about midnight local time after Israeli traffic police stopped two ultra-Orthodox students, with one then handed over to military police, according to the report.

    Large forces of police and border guards were sent to the scene to clear the protests.

Serbia pays ‘highest tribute’ to peacekeeper killed in southern Lebanon

    Serbia’s Foreign Ministry has paid its “highest tribute” to Senior Sergeant Milovan Jovanovic, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeeper who was killed in a mortar attack on Thursday.

    “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs extends its sincere condolences to the family, colleagues and friends,” the ministry said in a statement shared on X.

    “At the same time, we most strongly condemn the attack on UNIFIL, which resulted in the death of a Serbian member of UNIFIL and the wounding of two more members… from Spain and El Salvador, following the shelling of the UN base,” it said.