Israeli strikes kill 5 in Gaza as countries condemn Israeli move on West Bank

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he thinks that Iran wants to make a deal with the United States on its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, and it would be "foolish" if they did not.

Trump made the comments in an interview on Fox Business network's "Kudlow" programme.

The Canadian foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the country "strongly condemns" the Israeli decision to expand control over the West Bank.

"These measures contravene international law, undermine the prospects for peace, and erode the viability of a Palestinian State," Global Affairs Canada said in a statement.

"We call on Israel to reverse this decision and immediately halt settlement expansion."

Officials in the United States have discussed seizing tankers carrying Iranian oil to pressure Tehran, but fear retaliation and impact on global oil markets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing U.S. officials.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

Mourners in southern Lebanon on Tuesday buried a father and his young son killed in an Israeli drone strike that Israeli claimed targeted a Hezbollah member.

Hassan Jaber, a police officer, and his child, Ali, were on foot when the strike on Monday hit a passing car in the centre of their town, Yanouh, relatives said. Lebanon's health ministry said the boy was 3 years old. Both were killed at the scene along with the car driver, Ahmad Salami, who the Israeli military claimed in a statement was an artillery official with the militant group.

When the boy and his father were struck, he said, they were going to a bakery making Lebanese breakfast flatbread known as manakish to see how it was made. They were standing only about 5 meters (5.5 yards) from the car when it was struck, the cousin said.

Attendees at the funeral carried photos of Ali. Some also carried flags of Hezbollah or Amal, two Shia parties.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he had ordered two Palestinian citizens of Israel convicted on "terror" charges to be stripped of their citizenship and deported to areas under Palestinian control.

It is the first time such measures are being taken under a 2023 law, which allows for the revocation of Israeli citizenship or residence permits from perpetrators of anti-Israeli attacks whose families subsequently received compensation from the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority.

"This morning I signed the revocation of citizenship and deportation of two Israeli terrorists who carried out stabbing and shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and were rewarded for their heinous acts by the Palestinian Authority," Netanyahu said in a statement released by his office.

"I thank Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz for leading the law that will expel them from the State of Israel, with many more like them to follow," it added.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club advocacy group confirmed their names to AFP and said they hailed from occupied East Jerusalem.

The United States will have to do "something very tough" if a deal is not reached with Iran, President Donald Trump told Israel's Channel 12 in an interview published online on Tuesday.

"Either we reach a deal or we'll have to do something very tough," it quoted Trump as saying.

Trump has said he is considering sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East, Axios and Channel 12 reported, amid simmering tensions between Washington and Tehran over Iran's nuclear programme and over its recent crackdown on protesters.

US forces in Qatar's al-Udeid, the biggest US base in the Middle East, put missiles into truck launchers as tensions with Iran ratcheted up since January, analysis of satellite images showed, meaning they could be moved more quickly.

The decision to keep the Patriot missiles in mobile trucks rather than semi-static launcher stations, meaning they could rapidly deploy to strike or be moved defensively in case of an Iranian attack, shows how risks heightened as frictions grew.

A comparison of satellite photographs in early February with those taken in January shows a recent build-up of aircraft and other military equipment across the region, said William Goodhind, a forensic imagery analyst with Contested Ground.

At al-Udeid, the Patriot missiles were visible, parked and mounted into M983 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTT) at the start of February, Goodhind said.

"The decision to do so gives the Patriots much greater mobility, meaning they can be moved to an alternative site or repositioned with greater speed," he said.

It was not clear on Tuesday whether the missiles were still in the HEMTTs.

Israeli forces detained two Palestinians at the King Hussein border crossing in occupied Jerusalem, Wafa reports. The pair were on their way to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah.

At the same time, a Palestinian man was beaten and detained after being detained enroute to his house in the al-Bustan neighbourhood, and two more were detained in Hebron.

Israeli forces sent a notice to the Umm al-Khair community that they would be demolishing their playground. 

This follows a campaign by a settler group, Regavim, to destroy the grounds as they were getting in the way of its settlement expansion.

President Donald Trump opposes West Bank annexation and wants stability, a US official said, after Israel moved to tighten its grip over the occupied Palestinian territory.

The United States, Israel's main ally, however, held off from directly criticising the Israeli government's moves, which sparked a chorus of international condemnation.

"As the president has clearly stated, he does not support Israel annexing the West Bank," a Trump administration official said late Monday.

"A stable West Bank keeps Israel secure and is in line with this administration's goal to achieve peace," the official said in response to a question on the Israeli actions.

Lebanon and Jordan are seeking a solution with Syria after the latter barred foreign trucks from entering its territory, officials from both countries told AFP on Tuesday.

Damascus had issued a decision on Saturday stipulating that "non-Syrian trucks will not be allowed to enter" the country, and that goods being imported by road must be unloaded at specific points at border crossings.

The decision exempts trucks that are only passing through Syria to other countries.

Dozens of trucks unable to enter the country were lined up on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa border crossing on Tuesday, an AFP photographer saw.

Ahmad Tamer, head of land and maritime transportation at the Lebanese transport ministry told AFP that discussions were underway with Damascus over the decision.

He said the issue was not specifically targeting Lebanon - which is trying to reset ties with Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad - adding that he hoped to hold a meeting with the Syrian side soon.

Lebanon sends around 500 trucks to Syria per day, according to Tamer.

In Jordan, also affected by the decision, transport ministry spokesperson Mohammed al-Dweiri told AFP that "discussions are currently underway, and we are awaiting a response from the Syrian side regarding allowing foreign trucks to enter and cross".

Dweiri said that Jordanian trucks were continuing to unload their cargo at the free zone at the Nassib border crossing with Syria despite some "confusion".

Around 250 Jordanian trucks travel to Syria daily, according to him.

The US-led international coalition to fight the Islamic State group has welcomed Syria in the fight against the extremists, saying that the priorities include the swift transfer of IS detainees to Iraq and third-country repatriation of families linked to IS held in two camps in Syria.

The State Department also welcomed a recent ceasefire that ended fighting between Syrian government forces and the US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces that were a main force in the fight against IS in Syria.

Representatives from Syria — which officially joined the global coalition against IS in November during a historic visit by Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s to Washington — attended a meeting on Monday of some officials from the 90-member coalition in Saudi Arabia.

"Regional solutions, shared responsibility. Syria’s participation in the D-ISIS Coalition meeting in Riyadh marks a new chapter in collective security," Tom Barrack, the US envoy to Syria, said in comments posted on X on Tuesday, using an acronym to refer to IS.

Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian homes in the town of Bartaa, southwest of Jenin, Wafa reports, as Israel steps up its demolitions in the occupied territory.

Israeli bulldozers destroyed the houses, claiming they were built without construction permits, and threatened neighbouring houses that they would suffer the same fate.

Two Palestinians on bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Tuesday, hospital officials said, marking the latest deaths since an October ceasefire that hasn't halted deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said the two men were hit near the ceasefire line that divides Gaza, with one half under Israeli military control. They were hit in eastern Deir al-Balah, the hospital said, adding that it also received the body of a woman who was killed by Israeli gunfire in central Maghazi refugee camp.

Israel's military did not immediately respond to questions about either strike.

A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli fire in Khan Younis, as its forces continue to attack Palestinians in the enclave, Wafa reports.

Youssef Nasser al-Rifi was killed by Israeli army fire on Street 5, north of Khan Younis.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon plans to withdraw most of its troops by mid 2027, its spokesperson told AFP on Tuesday, after the peacekeepers' mandate expires this year.

Under pressure from the United States and Israel, the UN Security Council voted last year to end the force's mandate on December 31, 2026, with an "orderly and safe drawdown and withdrawal" within one year.

Spokesperson Kandice Ardiel said that "UNIFIL is planning to draw down and withdraw all, or substantially all, uniformed personnel by mid-year 2027", completing the pullout by year's end.

After UNIFIL operations cease on December 31 this year, she said, "we begin the process of sending UNIFIL personnel and equipment home and transferring our UN positions to the Lebanese authorities".

During the withdrawal, the force will only be authorised to perform limited tasks such as protecting UN personnel and bases and overseeing a safe departure.

More than 4,500 suspected jihadists have been transferred from Syria to Iraq as part of a US operation to relocate Islamic State group detainees, an Iraqi official told AFP on Tuesday.

The detainees are among around 7,000 suspects the US military began transferring last month after Syrian government forces captured Kurdish-held territory where they had been held by Kurdish fighters.

They include Syrians, Iraqis and Europeans, among other nationalities.

Saad Maan, a spokesperson for the Iraqi government's security information unit, told AFP that 4,583 detainees had been brought to Iraq so far.

A top Israeli official said Tuesday that measures adopted by the government that deepen Israeli control in the occupied West Bank amounted to implementing “de facto sovereignty,” using language that mirrors critics' warnings about the intent behind the moves.

The steps "actually establish a fact on the ground that there will not be a Palestinian state," Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Israel’s Army Radio.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, granted pardons or reduced sentences on Tuesday to more than 2,000 people, the judiciary said, adding that none of those involved in recent protests were on the list.

The decision comes ahead of the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, which, along with other important occasions in Iran, has traditionally seen the supreme leader sign off on similar pardons.

"The leader of the Islamic revolution agreed to the request by the head of the judiciary to pardon or reduce or commute the sentences of 2,108 convicts," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said.

The list, however, does not include "the defendants and convicts from the recent riots", it said, quoting the judiciary's deputy chief Ali Mozaffari.

A proposed multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza could total about 20,000 troops, with Indonesia estimating it could contribute up to 8,000, President Prabowo Subianto's spokesman said on Tuesday.

The spokesman said, however, that no deployment terms or areas of operation had been agreed.

Prabowo has been invited to Washington later this month for the first meeting of US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace.

The Southeast Asian country last year committed to ready 20,000 troops for deployment for a Gaza peacekeeping force, but it has said it is awaiting more details about the force's mandate before confirming deployment.

"The total number is approximately 20,000 (across countries)...it is not only Indonesia," presidential spokesman Prasetyo Hadi told journalists on Tuesday, adding that the exact number of troops had not been discussed yet, but Indonesia estimated it could offer up to 8,000.

"We are just preparing ourselves in case an agreement is reached, and we have to send peacekeeping forces," he said.

Iran's top security official met Oman's ruler in Muscat on Tuesday, days after a new round of talks there between officials from Washington and Tehran.

Ali Larijani, who heads the Supreme National Security Council, and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq "discussed the latest developments in the Iranian-American negotiations", the official Oman News Agency said.

Larijani was also due to meet Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, who mediated Friday's indirect talks between US and Iranian officials.

Larijani and Sultan Haitham also explored "ways to reach a balanced and just agreement between the two sides, and emphasised the importance of returning to the table of dialogue and negotiation".

Larijani will head to Qatar after Oman, according to Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei.

The trip comes after Iran and the United States resumed dialogue in Oman on Friday for the first time since the 12-day Iran-Israel war last June, which was briefly joined by the US military.

India's Adani Enterprises said Tuesday it was cooperating with a US probe into potential sanctions violations, after a media report alleged that the company had imported Iranian oil products.

The Wall Street Journal reported in June that US prosecutors were examining whether Adani Group entities had imported Iranian-origin liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) through Mundra port and were looking into several tankers used to ship the fuel.

Adani said in a stock-exchange filing on Tuesday it had received a "request for information" last week from the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a Treasury body involved in sanctions enforcement.

The company, part of the Adani Group, a sprawling ports-to-power conglomerate run by billionaire founder Gautam Adani, said the request was made only after it had engaged with OFAC voluntarily following last year's report.

It added that "out of abundant caution and as part of its co-operation efforts, the company ceased all LPG imports" on 2 June, the day the Wall Street Journal report was published.

Iran warned Tuesday of "destructive" influence on diplomacy ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington for talks expected to focus on US negotiations with Tehran.

"Our negotiating party is America. It is up to America to decide to act independently of the pressures and destructive influences that are detrimental to the region," said Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei in a weekly press briefing.

"The Zionist regime has repeatedly, as a saboteur, shown that it opposes any diplomatic process in our region that leads to peace."

Nuclear talks with the United States allowed Tehran to gauge Washington's seriousness and showed enough consensus to continue on the diplomatic track, Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.

US and Iranian diplomats held talks through Omani mediators in Oman last week in an effort to revive diplomacy, after US President Donald Trump positioned a naval flotilla in the region, raising fears of new military action.

"The Muscat meeting was not a long meeting. In our view, it was to gauge the seriousness of the other side and how to continue this path," Baghaei said.

"After the talks, we felt there was understanding and consensus to continue the diplomatic process."

The spokesperson said that a trip to Oman on Tuesday by Ali Larijani, an advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader, was pre-planned to follow up on regional consultations, and that Larijani would next travel to Qatar.

Regarding the Israeli Prime Minister's expected trip to Washington on Wednesday, Baghaei said the US "must act independently of foreign pressures, especially Israeli pressures that ignore the interests of the region and even the US"

The secretary of Iran's top security body arrived in Oman on Tuesday, days after a new round of nuclear talks was held in Muscat between officials from Washington and Tehran.

Ali Larijani, who heads the Supreme National Security Council, will hold talks with Haitham bin Tariq, the Sultan of Oman, and Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported.

They will discuss the latest regional and international developments as well as economic cooperation between Iran and Oman, the news agency said.

The visit comes after Iran and the United States resumed dialogue in Oman on Friday for the first time since the 12-day Iran-Israel war last June, which was briefly joined by the US military.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Washington on Tuesday to encourage President Donald Trump to expand the scope of high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran. The negotiations resumed last week against the backdrop of an American military buildup.

Netanyahu, who will be in Washington through Wednesday, has spent his decades-long political career pushing for stronger US action toward Iran.

Netanyahu's visit comes just two weeks after Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, met with the prime minister in Jerusalem. The US envoys held indirect talks in Oman with Iran's foreign minister on Friday.

"The Prime Minister believes that any negotiations must include limiting ballistic missiles and ending support for the Iranian axis," Netanyahu's office said over the weekend, referring to Iran-backed groups like the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

Hamas has condemned Israel's move to fast-track a law allowing for the execution of Palestinian prisoners.

In a statement posted on Telegram on Tuesday, the group said the measure "lays bare the true nature of this entity, founded on bloodshed, organised crime and collective punishment," and accused Israel of openly violating international and humanitarian law.

Hamas urged the United Nations, international rights and humanitarian organisations, and governments worldwide to take concrete steps to protect Palestinian prisoners and to halt what it described as a "dangerous crime".

Australia's Prime Minister said Tuesday he was "devastated" by scenes of clashes at a Sydney rally against a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog but defended the police's actions against protesters.

Herzog's four-day trip aims to console Australia's Jewish community after the December shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach that killed 15 people at a Hanukkah festival.

Law enforcement hit protesters and members of the media, including AFP, with pepper spray in rarely seen violent scuffles in Sydney's central business district.

Asked about the scenes, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told local radio he was "devastated" to see the violence.

"These are really scenes that I think shouldn't be taking place," he said.

"People should be able to express their views peacefully, but the police were very clear about the routes that were required if people wanted to march," he added.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said the police had been placed in "incredibly difficult circumstances".