Israel continues attacking Tyre, south Lebanon despite Trump and Iran warnings

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced an update to the total of 3,666 people killed by Israel since 2 March alone.

Moreover, 11,321 people have been wounded by Israeli attacks, according to the ministry.

Israel's foreign ministry on Tuesday denounced a series of sanctions from six Western countries against fanatical illegal settler entities in the occupied West Bank for their role in increased illegal colonial building and violence against Palestinians.

"Israel firmly rejects the disgraceful measures adopted by foreign governments against Israeli citizens, entities, and a government minister," ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said in a statement.

"The real essence of these steps is the attempt to impose a political stance regarding the right of Jews to settle in the Land of Israel and concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- camouflaged as measures against violence," he added.

Earlier, Britain and the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, France and Norway said on Tuesday they had taken coordinated action to hold extremist Israeli settlers accountable in response to what they described as a "deteriorating situation" in the occupied West Bank.

After issuing new sanctions earlier on Tuesday, the group of countries warned that they stood ready to take further measures if the Israeli government failed to take urgent steps to address the situation on the ground. 

Similarly, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has been banned from entering the country for his abuses. 

Iran's national football team arrived at its World Cup base camp in Mexico wearing gold lapel pins inscribed with "#168", a tribute to the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that has become a defining symbol of the country's war with the United States and Israel.

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According to the Israeli media, an armed Lebanese man was killed after opening fire on an Israeli military force near the border fence in the Ramim Ridge area on the Lebanese border

There are search operations underway for a second armed suspect near the Lebanese border, the reports noted.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced that fanatical Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has been banned from entering the country. 

He also announced that 'four settlement leaders and 21 additional settlers' would be banned from entry.

The death toll from an Israeli attack that targeted a residential area in south Lebanon's Tyre is now marked at nine and 28 wounded, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.

Civil defence and ambulance teams are continuing their search-and-rescue operations, clearing rubble to find those still missing, it added.

Israel had struck the area before announcing a forced evacuation order. 

According to Israeli media, satellite imagery may indicate that damage was caused at the Israeli Air Force’s Ramat David Airbase in northern Israel during Iran’s ballistic missile attacks.

Low-resolution images dated 8 June from the European Commission's Sentinel-2 satellite, processed by the Copernicus Browser site, show a discoloured patch where a hangar is located at the airbase.

Stock markets mostly rallied on Tuesday as investors returned to the AI trade, while easing tensions regarding the US-Israeli war on Iran weighed on oil prices and the dollar.

Bargain-hunting saw Seoul's Kospi stock index rebound strongly after Monday's big losses, sparked by prospects of a US interest rate hike and fears over tech firms' soaring valuations.

European indices largely climbed in afternoon deals, though London dropped slightly, partly owing to a decline in the share price of British drugs giant GSK, which announced a $10.6-billion takeover of US cancer specialist Nuvalent.

Frankfurt and Paris stock markets gained as official data showed that industrial production in Europe's biggest economy, Germany, rose slightly in April, alongside exports.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said negotiations over a peace deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran were in their final stages, after Iran and Israel halted attacks that threatened to reignite the months-long conflict.

China, the world's second biggest economy behind the United States, said its exports surged by almost one-fifth last month, as shipments of tech components and machinery helped it weather pressure from the Mideast conflict.

"While US markets staged a partial recovery overnight, investors remain cautious after the sharp selloff at the start of the week," noted Anna Macdonald, investment strategy director at Hargreaves Lansdown.

New testimonies published by Adalah, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, have revealed fresh allegations of rape and sexual violence against activists detained by Israeli authorities after attempting to break the blockade on Gaza, as lawyers seek to expand the International Criminal Court's Palestine investigation to include alleged abuses against participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The new testimony follows previous reporting by The New Arab documenting allegations of sexual violence, abuse and torture against activists detained after Israeli forces intercepted the Sumud Flotilla in May, adding to a broader pattern of mistreatment.

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In a statement to the press, Hezbollah considered that the Iranian missile response to Israel constitutes "a message of moral, political and field commitment from Iran towards Lebanon,” calling on the Lebanese authorities to "seize the available opportunity and correct its official relationship with the Islamic Republic in a way that serves the interests of both countries."

The party said that benefiting from Iranian support would help achieve Lebanese national goals, especially in light of what it described as "the formation of the new regional umbrella emerging from the Islamabad negotiations."
 

With the latest truce under immediate strain, the fate of any lasting settlement will ultimately be decided in US–Iran talks, not Beirut or Tel Aviv, writes Alaa Sarhal.

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Palestinian civilians are caught between "mass atrocities" of Israeli forces, Israeli settlers, and Hamas's rule, a UN-mandated inquiry said Tuesday.

Civilians across war-ravaged Gaza and the occupied West Bank are being "systematically and deliberately" subjected to severe rights violations, the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry said.

The investigative team, which last year concluded that Israel had committed "genocide" in the war in Gaza, highlighted in a new report that civilians in the territory were also being "violently repressed and controlled by the very faction that claims to govern them".

In the Gaza Strip, "ordinary Palestinians find themselves trapped between the structural violence and mass atrocities of Israeli forces and the predatory, fear-based rule of Hamas", the report said.

In the occupied West Bank, which has seen soaring violence by Israeli forces and settlers since October 2023, the report described how Palestinian civilians were increasingly targeted by Israeli settler attacks.

"Violence by settlers is the direct outcome of Israeli policies that support, enable and protect their actions," commission chair Srinivasan Muralidhar said in a statement.

"What is alarmingly similar is the deliberate infliction of suffering on Palestinian civilians. While their origins and motivations differ, both operate within environments engineered by Israel," said Muralidhar, an Indian judge.

The three-person commission was established by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2021 to investigate alleged rights violations in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Tuesday's report focused heavily on the situation in the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.

In the occupied territory, Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed at least 1,080 Palestinians since October 2023, according to Palestinian health ministry data.

The inquiry found that at least 26 Palestinians were killed and at least 1,570 were injured by settlers between January 2023 and December 2025.

"This trend continues in 2026 with attacks carried out on a daily basis," the investigators said.

At the 2026 World Cup, Iran's national team arrives in Mexico amid visa processing issues, a US travel ban, and the shadow of war that has left fans at home isolated, writes Ariya Farahmand.

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Iran's state media says two military personnel were killed in Israeli strikes on Monday. 

The Lebanese Civil Defence announced that its teams worked to pull out a wounded man and treat him following an Israeli drone strike on a car in the town of Sharqiya, Nabatieh district.

In a statement, the civil defence said that while carrying out the rescue mission, the teams were subjected to a second attack by the Israeli drone, which resulted in two members of the Lebanese Civil Defence being slightly injured.

They were transferred with the wounded civilian to a hospital to receive treatment.

The areas under the Israeli forced evacuation order in the city of Tyre are witnessing massive population displacement, while shelter centres in the region are now full of displaced people.

Civil defence teams are working to evacuate older adults and families to temporary safe places as evacuations continue in areas targeted by the warning, the Lebanese National News Agency noted.

At least eight people have been killed after an Israeli airstrike on a popular area in the city of Tyre, the civil defence in southern Lebanon told the media.

The attack comes shortly after the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for the city of Tyre, including all communities, for the first time.

Iran's football federation (FFIRI) said on Tuesday that its ticket allocation for the 2026 World Cup has been pulled just days before football's global showpiece kicks off, leaving supporters who had already made travel plans unable to attend their team's matches.

"This is despite the fact that many Iranian football fans, relying on the officially announced process, had already made the necessary plans to attend the matches," the FFIRI added in a statement.

Israeli military drones are loudly buzzing over Beirut, in what has become a daily experience. 

The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reports that Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least four people.

The victims include: Imad Ahmad Yassin, owner of Yassin Poultry Farms, who was killed in an airstrike that targeted his farm in the town of Adshit; Osama Hassan Al-Khaled, a 16-year-old, killed in front of his house in the Al-Sharifa neighbourhood of the town of Haboush. 

Two people were killed after a drone strike at dawn in the town of Kfar Rumman.

At the same time, Israeli airstrikes were carried out this morning on the city of Nabatieh, Kfar Sir, and the area between the towns of Kfar Sir and Sir Al-Gharbiya.

Additionally, Israeli artillery shelling hit the outskirts of the towns of Mansouri and Majdal Zoun.

The Israeli military on Tuesday issued a forced evacuation order for the Lebanese city of Tyre, including its Christian quarter, ahead of attacks.

Previous evacuation orders had excluded the Christian quarter, but the Israeli military claimed Hezbollah militants were operating there, without, as usual, providing evidence.

Israel began the morning by unleashing a barrage of airstrikes across southern Lebanon, including the city of Tyre. 

Lebanese media also reported that Israeli helicopters were used during various attacks in the south of the country.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that two pilots were uninjured after reports that a US military helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz.

It was not immediately clear whether the Apache helicopter was shot down, experienced mechanical failure or encountered some other problem, the New York Times reported, citing two people briefed on the incident.

"The pilots are fine, yeah. Nobody injured," said Trump, speaking to reporters before departing New York after attending an NBA finals game.

"We are going to issue a report on that tomorrow," he added, without commenting on what may have caused the incident.

Trump also said Tuesday that negotiators were in the "final throes" of talks for a peace deal in the Middle East, after Iran and Israel halted fresh hostilities that threatened to reignite the months-long war.

Iran launched its first direct ballistic missile strike against Israel on Sunday night since the fragile 8 April ceasefire went into effect.

Tehran made clear its strike was in retaliation for Israeli strikes against the Dahiyeh district in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, which it had previously signalled would violate a red line compelling it to respond, which it did.

Rather than aiming to restart the war, however, Tehran seems intent on restoring a degree of deterrence with its Israeli enemy without escalating beyond a limited series of tit-for-tat strikes, much like what it attempted in its first direct attacks on Israel in 2024.

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The United Nations expressed concern about growing tensions in Lebanon following the strikes launched by Israel on the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Sunday evening.

This came in a press statement by the spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Farhan Haq, on Monday, in which he said that the Israeli army had issued orders to displace 17 towns in southern Lebanon.

Despite Iran's warning against targeting the southern suburb, Israel ignited the region again by launching, on Sunday evening, an attack on the capital's suburb that killed two and wounded 11.

At the same time, Tehran responded with missile launches at Israel, which then announced that its fighters had bombed military targets in western and central Iran.

The UN official called on the parties to exercise maximum restraint and avoid any actions that exacerbate the already tense situation.

He stressed the need not to target civilians and civilian infrastructure, adding: “We are concerned about the devastating impact of the ongoing conflict on civilians.” He stated that the new evacuation order issued by the Israeli army for 17 areas in southern Lebanon includes forced displacement, and casts doubt on the possibility of its implementation under international humanitarian law.

He pointed out that the United Nations peacekeeping forces (UNIFIL) in Lebanon monitored 201 Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace, including helicopters and fighters, recording a total of about 288 flight hours over the weekend.

He explained that UNIFIL is still affected by conflicts in the region, and that the Israeli army continues to obstruct the movements of its personnel from time to time.