Iran war updates: Tehran’s negotiators in Qatar; Israel pounds Lebanon

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• Trump reiterated that Iran must hand over its stockpile of enriched uranium to the US or it must be destroyed at an acceptable location.
• Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to deliver “strong blows” to Hezbollah, and said that Israel “will increase the scale of our strikes”.
• Israeli air strikes have killed seven people in southern Lebanon and wounded several others. The Israeli military said it had struck 20 Hezbollah targets in a few hours.
• Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a decree ordering the restoration of internet access, following more than 87 days of a near-total internet blackout across the country.
• The Israeli military said it killed Mohammad Abu Mallouh in central Gaza on Sunday, claiming without providing any evidence that he was a Hamas fighter involved in weapons production.
• Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that Israeli strikes killed 3,185 people and injured 9,633 since early March.

Trump has honoured troops killed in the US and Israel’s war on Iran in a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day.

“In operation Epic Fury, we lost 13 wonderful souls, wonderful special people,” the US President said. “These incredible men and women gave their lives to ensure that the world’s number one state sponsor of terror will never have a nuclear weapon. Oh, and they won’t.”

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Hezbollah says it has struck an Israeli army vehicle that was on the road to the Jal Al-Allam military site in northern Israel.

The Israeli army has not commented on this incident.

The international football federation has confirmed that Iran’s team will train for the upcoming World Cup in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, rather than in Arizona in the US.

Iran’s team base camp location was listed as Centro Xoloitzcuintle in Tijuana in a final list published by FIFA on Monday.

As we reported earlier, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said ⁠her government had agreed to ⁠allow Iran’s football team to stay in ‌Mexico during the World Cup after the US refused.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, has shared details of a “devastating American missile strike on a sports hall” that occurred on February 28, the day the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran.

In a detailed post in English on X, Baghaei said that “US Precision Strike Missiles” were used in the attack, which struck a residential area in Lamerd, in the Fars province, including a sports hall, citing a briefing from a member of parliament representing Lamerd.

“The attack slaughtered 24 persons, including a 2-year-old girl, several teenage volleyball players, and other women and men,” Baghaei said.

“Those who ordered and executed this attack must be held accountable before any competent court of law,” he added.

Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have intensified, with Netanyahu declaring that Israel is “at war” with Hezbollah, despite a US-brokered “ceasefire”.

“We’re not taking our foot off the gas; on the contrary, I’ve said to step on the gas even harder,” the Israeli prime minister said in a video message, amid reports of multiple deadly Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon.

Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto reports from Tyre, southern Lebanon:

Several explosions have been heard in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas for reasons that remain unclear, according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA.

The semi-official Mehr news agency reported that the situation was under control and there was no reason to worry.

About three explosions were heard, according to Tasnim, another semi-official news agency, while ⁠the Fars news ⁠agency said similar sounds were heard near Sirik and Jask, near the ‌Strait of Hormuz.

The Israeli army’s Home Front Command says in a post on X that areas “including the settlements of Meron, Bar Yochai, Or HaGanuz, and Safsufa will remain at partial activity level”.

Gatherings and services will be limited to 50 people in open areas and 200 people in buildings. Prior to the update, 200 people were allowed to meet in open areas, and 600 people in buildings.

The statement follows orders from Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has instructed the army to expand strikes across Lebanon.

Local authorities in northern Israel have announced that schools will be closed tomorrow until further notice, The Times of Israel has reported, as Netanyahu signalled that the Israeli army will intensify attacks in Lebanon.

The decision was made independently and without instruction from the military, according to the report.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reports that Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon have killed seven people and left several others wounded.

According to the agency, an air attack on Machgharah killed five people, injured multiple others, and forced rescue teams to evacuate survivors from beneath the rubble of targeted homes.

A separate air strike on Kouthariyeh el-Siyad killed two people and wounded two others.

Additionally, warplanes carried out two consecutive raids on the city of Nabatieh, alongside two further strikes targeting Chmait and Rachaf in the Bint Jbeil district.

If Israel decides to significantly increase the number and intensity of its attacks, it will place civilians in an extremely difficult situation. Following the ceasefire and its subsequent extension, thousands of people returned to southern Lebanon because they did not want to remain displaced long term.

Most of those who fled to Beirut stayed with relatives or lived in temporary shelters and camps set up in public areas near the waterfront. But this went on for weeks, and many people no longer wanted to live in such difficult conditions.

As for the government, it does not have the resources to cope with such a massive displacement crisis: More than one million people have been displaced, and only around 130,000 of them are living in government shelters.

That means roughly 90 percent of displaced people have nowhere to go for government support, including medical supplies and other daily necessities, forcing many to fend for themselves.

Now that Israel is significantly expanding the scope of its strikes, places that people once considered safe no longer are. This is something we have already seen over the past two weeks, as Israel expanded its strikes in the eastern Bekaa Valley, and began attacking areas much closer to Tyre, where tens of thousands of people are still living.

A potential US-Iran deal is taking shape, but Israeli officials are reportedly worried.

What are their concerns? Could it derail negotiations to end the war in Iran, which has caused an unprecedented global energy crisis?

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A lot has been happening in Lebanon in the past few hours, as Netanyahu ordered the army to increase attacks against Hezbollah. He said the group was attacking Israel with drones.

The Israeli army has given a round-up of what it says has been targeted in the past 24 hours:

• More than 70 Hezbollah infrastructure sites across the country.
• About 10 headquarters and weapons depots in the Tyre area.
• An unspecified number of Hezbollah fighters on motorcycles in the south.

Earlier, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said at least 3,185 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2.

Israeli air raids have killed a man and his wife in their home in the town of Arab Salim, southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) has reported.

It said rescue services were attempting to retrieve the bodies. A young man died of his wounds after being injured yesterday in an Israeli strike on the same town.

NNA also reported attacks on Yater, Hadatha, Haris and Kfar in Bint Jbeil district; Jabal al-Batoum, Zibqin and Rashkananiyeh in Tyre district; and Toul in Nabatieh district.

In the Western Bekaa, eight air strikes hit the town of Mashghara, NNA reported.