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• Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel of pursuing a “scorched-earth policy” in the country’s south and pressed for “a swift and real ceasefire”.
• US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the US is in a “good place” to make a deal with Iran to end the war, but added President Trump is not in a rush.
• Iran’s military reasserted Tehran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, warning commercial and military vessels to comply with regulations governing passage through the strategic waterway.
• At least six people, including a paramedic, were killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon and dozens more injured, as the army pushes further north.
• Hezbollah said it targeted Israeli army Merkava tanks with guided missiles on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese town of Zoutar. More than two dozen rockets and drones were launched into northern Israel, where there’s “utter chaos”.
• Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks on the country have killed at least 3,371 people since March 2.

Geopolitical analyst Joe Macaron says the Lebanese army is “overly stretched” as Israeli troops expand their occupation of Lebanese territory.

The Israeli army has pushed north of Lebanon’s Litani River and appears poised to encircle the major city of Nabatieh.

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The US has warned it’s “more than capable” of resuming its war on Iran after President Trump said any peace deal must adhere to his “red lines”.

Unnamed US sources told the AFP news agency a peace deal is waiting on Trump’s sign-off, but he made no decision after a White House Situation Room meeting on Friday.

Trump said his priorities for any deal include Iran agreeing to never develop nuclear weapons and the reopening of the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.

“President Trump will only make a deal that is good for America and satisfies his red lines,” an unidentified White House official said. “Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon.”

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, while attending a defence summit in Singapore, said on Saturday Washington is “more than capable” of restarting the war if necessary, adding “our stockpiles are more than suited for that”.

US Central Command posted on X that American forces “remain present and vigilant across the region”.

Channel 13 reports Prime Minister Netanyahu scheduled an urgent security assessment with Defence Minister Israel Katz, military Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, and commanders in the north.

“The Israeli army was surprised by the scale of the rocket fire and Hezbollah’s decision to change its fire policy in response to the expansion of the Israeli army’s ground operations in southern Lebanon,” it said.

“Dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon toward the north on Saturday, and for the first time since the ceasefire began [April 17] these rockets reached the cities of Safad and Nahariya” in northern Israel.

There is “utter chaos and an uncontrollable situation”, it said, adding, “the government is not concerned about this”.

In a related development, Israeli Army Radio reported warning sirens sounded 1,099 times in northern Israel since the start of the “fragile ceasefire”.

Hezbollah, meanwhile, said it launched drone attacks targeting Israeli soldiers near the settlement of Natua and at the Galilee Forest military camp in northern Israel.

In recent weeks, Hezbollah drones have raised growing concern in Israel, with Netanyahu describing the weapons as a “major threat” because of the difficulty in detecting them.

Hezbollah says it launched 24 attacks on Saturday targeting invading troops, military vehicles, and infrastructure as well as firing multiple rocket barrages at the Kiryat Shmona settlement in northern Israel.

In a statement, the group outlined its extensive use of rocket salvoes, artillery fire and attack drones to strike Israeli forces.

Key targets included five Merkava tanks, a military bulldozer, and military infrastructure in Safad, Nahariya and Karmiel, the Meron air surveillance base, and Israel army barracks at Liman, Shomera, and Ya’ara.

Strikes focused heavily on repelling advancing soldiers around the areas of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Yohmor al-Shaqif, Debel and al-Ghandouriyah, where the Lebanese group claimed to have carried out multiple ambushes and multi-weapon attacks.

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video calling on Israel’s prime minister to “level the southern suburbs in Beirut to the ground” as Hezbollah heavily bombards northern Israel.

Posting on his Instagram account, Ben-Gvir said he opposed the previous ceasefire with Lebanon, calling for targeting the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, where Hezbollah has a significant presence.

He addressed Israel’s leader directly in the video, saying: “Dear Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I love and appreciate you, but now is the time to level the suburbs to the ground. We have appreciation for Trump and we must say thank you for the partnership. But the red line is the harm to soldiers or civilians, and the suburbs must be levelled to the ground.”

Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has told the Shangri-La Dialogue his country opposes a permanent toll for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

He added, however, Doha would find a temporary fee negotiable if it’s used to help reopen the crucial waterway.

About 20 percent of the world’s energy supplies traversed the strait prior to the US-Israel attack on Iran, which later effectively closed Hormuz in response.

Lebanon’s prime minister has accused Israel of pursuing a “scorched-earth policy” in his country’s south, urging a halt to incessant air and artillery strikes.

A day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces had advanced deeper into Lebanon, his counterpart Nawaf Salam warned the country is facing a “dangerous” escalation and called for “a swift and real ceasefire”.

In a televised address, Salam accused Israel of “collective punishment” by “destroying towns and villages, and forcing their inhabitants into exile”.

This will bring “neither security nor stability” to Israel, he said. Israel issued forced displacement warnings for more than a dozen locations in southern Israel on Saturday.

Senior Iranian military and diplomatic officials have underscored the coordination between Tehran’s armed forces and its foreign policy establishment during ongoing negotiations with the United States.

Brigadier-General Mohammad Akraminia, spokesperson for the Iranian army, met Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei, with both men emphasising the role of military and diplomatic cooperation in advancing Iran’s interests.

Key points from the meeting:

• Akraminia said “diplomacy and the field are closer and more coordinated than ever” in pursuing Iran’s “national interests and dignity”.
• He said cooperation between the military and diplomatic spheres has contributed to what he described as Iran’s successes and the “defeat of the enemies in the wars and conspiracies of the past year”.
• Baghaei praised the armed forces and said their “strength and authority” provide important backing for Iran’s diplomatic efforts.
• The Foreign Ministry spokesperson also paid tribute to members of the army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps killed during the past year in US-Israeli attacks.

Israel’s former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Hezbollah repeatedly fired rocket and drone salvoes into northern Israel.

“The government is returning us to the contemptible policy of containment and normalising an intolerable and unacceptable situation,” Bennett was quoted by The Times of Israel as saying.

“Over the weekend, sirens were heard every 20 minutes across the north, and people were forced to seek shelter. This is not victory.”

Bennett called for military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon and strikes on the capital.

“Dahiyeh must tremble until security returns to the north,” he said, referring to the Shia-majority suburb of Beirut known to be a Hezbollah stronghold.

At least one person has been killed in an Israeli air strike near Nabih Berri Governmental University Hospital in Nabatieh, Lebanon.

Israel’s military continues to attack health facilities and medics in southern Lebanon, as it did during its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Attacking hospitals is a war crime under international law.

Israel’s military has advanced beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon for the first time since 2006 and appears poised to encircle the major city of Nabatieh.

Israeli forces have crossed the Litani River in Lebanon for the first time since the 2006 war with Hezbollah.

Al Jazeera’s Lina Abu Akleh explains the latest advances and Hezbollah’s response:

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says yesterday’s Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese municipality of Adloun in the district of Sidon killed nine members of the same Syrian family, including six children.

The statement with the final toll was carried by Lebanon’s official National News Agency.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a security consultation with senior officials at 10:30pm local time (19:30 GMT), as the military continues to attack Lebanon while moving north against Hezbollah.

The meeting comes during US-Iran peace negotiations, with a key Iranian demand being an immediate Israeli halt to its attacks on Lebanon.

Netanyahu and his top officials have vowed to disarm and destroy Hezbollah, which continues to attack northern Israel with invading forces.

An Israeli drone attack on the southern Lebanese village of Jebchit has killed a paramedic and injured four other people, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA).

The attack also damaged the Lebanese Relief Hospital but all medical, nursing and ambulance staff are safe, NNA added.

Here are the latest developments:

• Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters has reasserted Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, and warned commercial and military vessels to comply with regulations governing passage through the strategic waterway.
• The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said forces have “disabled” The Gambia-flagged ship attempting to sail towards an Iranian port.
• The economic fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran has added hundreds of dollars to household expenses across the United States, according to a new analysis from Moody’s Analytics. It found the average US household spent an additional $447.19 on fuel-related costs since the conflict began on February 28.
• Lebanon’s Health Ministry has said Israeli attacks on the country have killed at least 3,371 people and wounded 10,129 others since March 2.
• Hezbollah has said its fighters carried out a series of attacks against Israeli military positions and infrastructure in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
• A Palestinian has been killed and several others wounded in an Israeli drone strike in central Gaza City.