Top updates: Ceasefire hangs in balance as Israel bombs Lebanon
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Iran on Wednesday closed the Strait of Hormuz again after Israel attacked Lebanon hours after the ceasefire, state-owned Press TV reported.
At least 254 persons were killed and 1,165 injured in the Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Wednesday, Al Jazeera quoted the country’s health ministry as saying.
Hours after the ceasefire was announced, the Israeli military on Wednesday said that it had in a 10-minute operation conducted “the largest coordinated strike” in Lebanon since the conflict in West Asia began.
The strikes had targeted more than 100 structures allegedly associated with the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Beirut, Beqaa and southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said.
Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:
- Washington says Hormuz closure unacceptable: Following Iranian state media reports that the Strait of Hormuz was shut despite the ceasefire, the US said that Iran must open the strategic waterway “immediately, quickly and safely”. Any closure of the strait “is completely unacceptable”, Euro News quoted White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as having told reporters.
- Iran says ceasefire violated: MB Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, said on Wednesday that while the US president had stated that Tehran’s 10-point plan is a “workable basis on which to negotiate”, clauses of the proposal had been violated. Ghalibaf said that the point about the ceasefire in Lebanon, as shared...