Iran war updates: Tehran says Oman deal on Hormuz does not mean strait open

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• Iran’s deputy foreign minister said the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and that an agreement on a temporary route with Oman does not mean it has reopened.
• He also said that Iran informed mediators that the US must return to its commitments under the now-defunct memorandum of understanding for the strait to be reopened.
• Trump claimed earlier that the US Navy had removed or detonated all mines from the strait’s international waters.
• A US State Department official told Al Jazeera that the US would take “concrete action very shortly” to sanction Tehran, and the White House said no negotiations with Iran are scheduled.
• Israeli forces raided and seized UNRWA’s Qalandiya training centre in occupied East Jerusalem, expelling staff, detaining about 40 people and injuring several others. UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned the “unlawful” entry.
• At least six Palestinians were killed across Gaza over 24 hours, and an Israeli strike destroyed a Deir el-Balah warehouse holding nutritional supplies for malnourished children and pregnant women.
• Israeli air strikes and shelling hit towns across southern Lebanon, igniting fires along the Litani River. Israel also conducted further demolition operations in the region.

Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim has questioned the Gaza Board of Peace for echoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demands that Palestinians stop flying kites in the enclave.

The US-led Board of Peace said all kite-flying originating from Gaza must end and that Israel should start implementing the second phase of the ceasefire framework.

“What is this insolence?” Naim asked.

He said, “Is it conceivable that attempts to appease the war criminal Netanyahu have led them [Gaza Board of Peace] to describe the innocent activities of children as armed activities, at a time when Netanyahu is practicing killing and destruction daily despite the agreement?”

Netanyahu and his defence minister, Israel Katz, issued a joint statement on Sunday threatening severe retaliation and the forced displacement of Palestinians from areas “used as launch sites for kites, drones and balloons”.

AP and Reuters have issued a joint statement demanding justice and accountability for the killing of five Gaza journalists, including contributors to the two news agencies, one year after the Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital that killed them.

The attacks on the hospital killed 21 people in total, including the five journalists. Al Jazeera photojournalist Mohammad Salama was also killed.

“We remember their lives and once again call on the Israeli government to provide a full explanation of what happened,” the statement said.

“The strikes on Aug. 25, 2025, killed five journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri; visual journalist Mariam Dagga, who worked for AP and other news organizations; and Moaz Abu Taha, a freelance journalist whose work had been published by Reuters. They were at the hospital in their professional capacity, doing critical work to keep the world informed,” AP executive editor Julie Pace and Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni said in the statement.

“A year later, we remain devastated by their deaths and are still searching for answers from the Israeli authorities about what happened that day.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an apology for the “tragic mishap” after the attack. But one year later, “the information we have received… has fallen short of the clear answers and accountability that an incident of this gravity requires”, Pace and Galloni wrote.

“We will continue to seek answers, demand accountability and call for access to Gaza to provide support to our colleagues who have been covering the war for almost three years now.”

British ⁠Finance ⁠Minister John Healey says the United Kingdom supports US efforts to secure a diplomatic ‌solution on Iran and welcomed steps to increase pressure, including ⁠the expanded sanctions ⁠on Iran announced Monday.

Healey also called ⁠on Iran ⁠to ⁠cease its “de-stabilising activity” across the region, including ‌in the Strait of ‌Hormuz.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has commented on developments in the Middle East, saying Turkiye will continue with its efforts to promote peace.

Speaking after a cabinet meeting at the Ahlat Presidential Complex in Bitlis, he said Turkiye will not allow what he called “bloody scenarios” being devised for the Middle East to be carried out.

“We will not refrain from working to establish peace in our region because some do not want it, are concerned about it or see their plans disrupted,” Erdogan added.

He said Turkiye would continue supporting its neighbours’ recovery despite opposition from what he described as “criminal networks with the blood of innocent people on their hands”.

Turkiye recently signed a joint defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in Mecca as the US-Israeli war on Iran is close to entering its seventh month.

Israeli settlers have attacked three AFP news agency journalists in the occupied West Bank in violence that injured at least five people, according to the agency.

The reporters had travelled to the town of Jannatah near Bethlehem on Tuesday to report on Israeli activists conducting solidarity visits to support Palestinians facing harassment by Israeli settlers.

The Israeli military ordered journalists to leave what it called a “closed military zone” before Israeli settlers arrived in two cars.

Children were among the settlers who threw stones at the journalists and activists.

The Israeli military says a police investigation into the incident has been opened.

Iraq can play a decisive role in shaping a new regional order, especially in the Gulf, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has reportedly told Iraq’s chief justice.

“A new regional order is being created. The situation is sensitive and historic for Iran and Iraq. The fact that the American coalition forces are going to withdraw from Iraq is a historic honour for the Iraqi government and people,” Ghalibaf told Faiq Zaidan, president of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency.

Ghalibaf said the US started its war against Iran with “the intention of overthrowing the Islamic Republic and expanding American hegemony in West Asia and the Islamic world”. He said Iran’s resistance “clearly defeated” US war goals.

“America lost the military and political war against Iran, and it will also fail in economic measures,” Ghalibaf told Zaidan.

Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister and overseer of the Settlement Administration agency, has hailed an unprecedented settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.

His agency established 70 jurisdictional areas for West Bank settlements in less than a year, setting a new record, he said on X.

Israeli settlements and outposts on occupied Palestinian land are illegal under international law.

Smotrich said the Israeli Central Command, which oversees security in the West Bank, had just authorised 18 new jurisdictional areas for settlements. This expansion pushes further municipal control by settlement councils over surrounding Palestinian lands.

Smotrich hailed the expansion as a “revolution”, adding: “We are strengthening and fortifying the settlements.”

Here’s a recap of recent developments:

• Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has slammed Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz for entering southern Syria to visit forces in Israeli-occupied Jabal al-Sheikh, calling it a flagrant violation of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
• Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has pressed for further consultations and joint efforts to establish peace and security in the region in a call with Pakistan army chief Asim Munir.
• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the “unlawful” entry by Israeli authorities into UNRWA’s Qalandiya Training Centre in occupied East Jerusalem.
• Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister and head of the Settlement Administration agency, has hailed the establishment of a record 70 jurisdictional areas for West Bank settlements in less than a year.