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Yemeni government forces said at least three Houthis have been killed during drone strikes west of Taiz governorate, in the southwest of the country, according to the Yemen News Agency.
The air strikes wounded several others, including field commanders.
Five Palestinians, including two women, two men and a child, suffered bruises and contusions when Israeli settlers attacked residents of Umm al-Khair village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.
Anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamrehn told the agency that the settlers also hurled stones at a vehicle belonging to Imad Hawshiya, a resident of al-Markaz village, as he travelled along al-Zuweidin Road towards his home.
Settlers also attacked the home of a Palestinian family in Wadi al-Rakhim, south of the nearby town of Yatta, and vandalised their property, according to Wafa.
Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned Israel’s recent attacks on southern Lebanon which killed 11 people, including children, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran “regrets” the international community’s “continued silence and inaction of the United Nations Security Council in the face of blatant violations of international law and international human rights law”.
Saturday's air strikes mark the worst attacks since Israel and Lebanon signed a framework agreement to stop fighting in June.
Baghaei added that Iran stands in solidarity with Lebanon, “in its efforts to defend the country’s national sovereignty, independence, and dignity.”
Qatar denied on Saturday that it was holding Iranian pilots, saying they had violated Qatari airspace earlier this year and had failed to respond to attempts to contact them.
A Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson said on X that search and rescue teams later found the remains of one of the pilots and that it had contacted Iran to coordinate a handover.
The spokesperson said Tehran had yet to respond to an invitation to review details of its operations.
The Israeli military says three soldiers, including one officer, were wounded by an explosive drone in southern Lebanon overnight.
In a post on X, the army said the soldiers were taken out of Lebanon to receive medical treatment in hospital, and their families have been notified.
The Israeli military has said its Paratroopers Brigade killed two Palestinians in Gaza.
The military said the Palestinians crossed the so-called “yellow line."
Under the US-brokered agreement reached with Hamas last October, Israel was supposed to withdraw to the yellow line while temporarily retaining control over 53 percent of Gaza.
But Israel is pushing the so-called yellow line deeper into Gaza, displacing Palestinian families and tightening its siege by squeezing more than two million people into an increasingly small section of the devastated enclave.
Flights at the port city of Bandar Abbas resumed on Saturday after repeated interruptions during war with the United States, state media reported.
Kazem Tavassoli, director general of airports in Hormozgan province, said "scheduled flights at Bandar Abbas International Airport on high-traffic domestic routes resumed today, according to the IRNA state news agency.
The reopening comes "following limited flights in recent days", Tavassoli said, adding that passengers can now buy tickets for the Tehran-Bandar Abbas, Mashhad-Bandar Abbas and Bandar Abbas-Isfahan routes, in both directions.
The airport "handled 35 to 40 domestic and international flights per day" before the war, Tavassoli said. The airport has been repeatedly closed since the United States launched its war on Iran.
The Iran war may be fought primarily remotely via the air, but its strategic outcome is increasingly being decided at sea.
The latest strikes and counterstrikes have clarified rather than altered that central fact. Washington may escalate through a ground intervention, wider attacks on Iran’s critical infrastructure, or a strike against the deeply buried nuclear-linked complex at Pickaxe Mountain in Isfahan province.
Each option could inflict further damage and expand the war. None, however, is likely to eliminate Iran’s distributed maritime architecture or make the Strait of Hormuz strategically irrelevant.
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Iran has reached an agreement with Oman on a shipping route map for the Strait of Hormuz after weeks of technical negotiations, Defa Press reported, citing Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei.
“Despite US obstruction, the talks have made positive progress over the past three weeks and an agreement has been reached on the shipping route map.”
Baghaei added that both sides were still negotiating outstanding issues, including a statement to be issued by Tehran and Muscat.
The Iran-Oman arrangement is an independent agreement aimed at ensuring the safe passage of ships through the strait, while respecting the sovereignty of both countries, he said.
Yemen's Mocha port has suspended commercial and maritime operations after being hit by more than 25 missiles in Houthi attacks in recent days, the port's director said on Saturday.
The attacks killed seven people and caused an estimated $16m in losses, the director told a news conference.
At the entrance to Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, a village in southern Lebanon, a Lebanese Army checkpoint marks the edge of what is now officially known as a "pilot zone".
It is one of three villages - along with Froun and Srifa - designated as such under the framework agreement between Israel, the United States and Lebanon, signed in June 2026.
On paper, the pilot zones, whose implementation began on 20 July, are meant to work as a formula: a gradual Israeli withdrawal, paired with a handover of sovereignty to the Lebanese Army, and the end of Hezbollah's armed presence in these locations.
Read more: Israel’s ‘pilot zones’: Withdrawal on paper, continued occupation of south Lebanon
We earlier reported that Israeli attacks had killed nine people in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon's health ministry now says at least 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
Seven people were killed when Israeli warplanes struck a house in the southern town of Ansar, while four others were killed in a strike on the town of Deir al-Zahrani, Lebanon's official National News Agency said.
Nineteen people were wounded in the attacks.
The strikes were among the deadliest in the weeks since Lebanon agreed to a US-mediated peace framework with Israel.
The death toll from the Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon has risen to 11, with 19 wounded, the Lebanese health ministry has said.
The speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, called Israel's attacks a "massacre" and said Israel was waging a "war aimed at extermination".
Hezbollah accused Israel of an "act of aggressive escalation" and targeting civilians, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed to "escalate the war in order to bolster his domestic political standing, serve his electoral goals and appease the far right".
Iran's intelligence ministry alleged in a statement that the diplomats were discovered at a secret meeting place, and that documents found there pointed to efforts to establish contacts and build networks elsewhere.
It further said that contracts linked to the project carried the signature of a former French ambassador to Iran.
The ministry did not provide evidence for the claims, and the French government has not yet commented.
An Israeli drone strike on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza has injured three Palestinians, one of whom is in critical condition, according to the Wafa news agency.
All three were taken to al-Aqsa hospital.
