US military hits three Iran oil tankers, including one off Kharg Island

Ten people were killed when a fuel tanker exploded on a highway in western Iran as a result of a traffic accident, state media reported on Saturday.

The tanker, which was travelling on the Hamedan-Sanandaj Highway, was involved in an accident due to a technical fault in the braking system, the governor of Sanandaj said, according to state media.

A fire has since been contained, the governor said.

Six people were also injured in the incident, the governor said.

Israel's ongoing genocidal war has killed over 73,651 Palestinians since October 2023, Gaza's Health Ministry announced on Saturday.

A further 174,575 have been wounded, with hospitals reporting 27 over the past 48 hours.

Gaza's hospitals received 17 bodies over the past 48 hours, including five who were killed recently and one who died from their injuries. Authorities recovered 11 more bodies from the rubble.

Gaza's rescue teams on Saturday recovered the remains of 55 Palestinians from under the rubble of a home that was destroyed by an Israeli attack, almost three years later.

The attack, which happened on 19 November 2023, destroyed the Malka family home, where over 60 people sought shelter.

Fighting between Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces and the country's Houthi rebels killed more than 60 people on Saturday, including civilians, medical and military sources told AFP.

According to three Yemeni military sources, 26 government troops were killed during several hours of fighting in the country's southwest, while medical and military sources from the Iran-backed Houthis said 31 rebel fighters were killed.

One medical source in the government-held city of Taiz said a missile strike also killed six civilians travelling by bus and wounded seven others.

A government official blamed the strike on the bus, travelling between Taiz and the seat of Yemen's internationally recognised government in Aden, on the Houthis.

The US military said Saturday it had struck and destroyed three oil tankers linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the Iranian military organisation fired on American warships.

"Following Iran's failed attacks, CENTCOM permanently disabled the IRGC crude oil carriers M/T Downy off the coast of Kharg Island and M/T Stark 1 near Jask. American forces also completely destroyed the unladen crude oil carrier M/T Kylo... in the Gulf of Oman, striking the vessel in multiple critical locations to render it inoperable after the crew was directed to abandon ship," US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on X.

https://t.co/Xo0Vj0t2AJ

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) September 5, 2026

Lebanon on Saturday raised the toll in Israeli strikes on the country's south and east overnight to five killed.

Lebanon's health ministry reported five people killed, including an 18-year-old woman, and 32 others wounded, including several women and children, in Israeli strikes on several locations on Friday, particularly in the Nabatieh region.

Iran on Saturday accused the US of attacking an Iranian tanker near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. The US did not immediately comment, but a new strike would raise the risk of sparking a new round of Iranian attacks on US allies and interests in the region.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting said Saturday that four US missiles struck a tanker about six miles (10 kilometres) from Kharg Island. It said the crew was being evacuated and there were no casualties.

The report did not provide evidence or include comment from Iranian officials. US Central Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

At least four civilians have been killed after a Houthi missile targeted the Heijah al-Abd road south of Taiz, according to Yemen’s government-affiliated Saba TV.

A further nine others were injured.

Huckabee said that the Israeli government has a responsibility to ensure the safety of Palestinians in the West Bank after a sharp rise in settler attacks.

"One of the messages that we have been sending and we will continue to send is that people in these communities have a right to live with a level of security and safety, and that the government has a responsibility to make sure that that happens," Ambassador Mike Huckabee told reporters as he met Palestinian-Americans in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The US ambassador to Israel on Saturday said that there was no plan underway to force Palestinians out of Gaza, after Israeli ministers laid out ideas on how to expel the war-battered territory's two million people.

"I can tell you categorially there is no plan of the Israelis to displace people out of Gaza against their will," Ambassador Mike Huckabee told reporters as he visited Palestinian-Americans in the West Bank.

Israeli forces detained several Palestinians on Saturday in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports.

Israeli forces detained farmers in the northern Yarza community, east of Tubas and prevented them from working, the Yarza Village Council Chairman Mukhlis Masaeed said.

The United States, Britain, France and Germany have drafted a resolution for possible consideration by the Board of Governors of the UN nuclear watchdog that seeks to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for failure to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, diplomats say.

Under those obligations, part of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran is legally bound to declare all nuclear material and activities and allow inspectors from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to verify that none of it is being diverted from peaceful uses.

The diplomatic move has been under consideration since June 2025, when the IAEA board found Iran officially in noncompliance with its nonproliferation obligations for the first time in 20 years — one day before the US and Israel launched attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites.

A possible referral of Iran to the UN Security Council shifts responsibility to a higher authority that can enact further legally binding measures, including sanctions or asset freezes.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visits an occupied West Bank village that is home to thousands of Palestinian Americans, amid a rise in Israeli settler attacks.

Iranian media on Saturday reported several explosions near the country's major oil hub of Kharg Island in the Gulf, days after renewed fighting broke out with the United States.

Fars news agency said blasts were heard by its correspondent but that there was no smoke visible, while the SNN news agency claimed "an Iranian tanker was targeted by the US" near the island.

There was no immediate comment from US or Iranian officials.