Tehran insists the American plan amounted to surrender and is demanding guarantees against future attacks, while tensions continue to spill across the region. Israeli strikes in Lebanon are intensifying, oil prices are climbing sharply again and concerns are growing over the security of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz

According to Reuters, rights group Iran Human Rights Society said Shakourzadeh, a 29-year-old aerospace engineering graduate, had been arrested in 2025 and alleged that his confession was coerced. Iran has carried out several executions in recent years involving people accused of links to Israeli intelligence amid long-running tensions and covert operations between Tehran and Israel

Interceptor missiles launched from Kiryat Shmona after drone alert Israeli Channel 12 reported that two interceptor missiles were launched from Kiryat Shmona towards southern Lebanon after a suspicious aerial target was detected near the border area

A WSJ report says the US-Israeli war on Iran is the cause of a global shortage of sulfuric acid supplies.

In photos: Mourners in Gaza bury their loved ones A boy mourns over the body of one of two Palestinian police officers reportedly killed earlier in the day in an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle

Filmmakers slam BBC after Gaza documentary wins award despite being dropped Submitted by Elis Gjevori on Sun, 05/10/2026 - 23:05 Award-winning film exposes Gaza war as BBC faces bias and censorship claims Palestinian men carry the bodies of children killed earlier in the day in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, during a funeral precession from Baptist Hospital to a cemetery, on July 2, 2025 (AFP) Off Filmmakers behind Gaza: Doctors Under Attack used their BAFTA TV Award win on Sunday to publicly rebuke the BBC, accusing it of silencing a documentary that lays bare Israels assault on Gazas medical sector throughoutthe genocide

Its inappropriate, declining to give further details. He also said he had a very nice call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but stressed that negotiations with Iran are my situation, not everybody elses.

Netanyahu says Iran war 'not over' amid fragile US ceasefire Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the war with Iran is not over, despite a fragile US-brokered ceasefire

A Gaza teenager orphaned by an Israeli attack finds refuge in football amid the decimation of Palestinian sports.

Morning update Good morning Middle East Eye readers, The fragile ceasefire between Iran and the US is still holding, but tensions remain dangerously high across the region. Irans Revolutionary Guard has warned Washington against interfering with Iranian commercial shipping, while Israeli attacks across Lebanon continue to kill civilians and fuel fears of wider escalation

The Turkish coast guard and local GSF fleet sailed out to greet us near where the flotilla will anchor off the coast, activist Alex Colston wrote on X. Organisers said the flotilla completed a 24-day voyage that included stops in Sicily and Crete, where Israeli forces intercepted 22 boats and detained two leading activists

Young Palestinian killed in stabbing attack near Jerusalem checkpoint A 22-year-old Palestinian man from East Jerusalem was fatally stabbed in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli and Palestinian emergency services

Amnesty praises expected release of Global Sumud Flotilla activists Amnesty International official Erika Guevara Rosas has welcomed reports that Israel intends to release two activists seized from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla. The activists, Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Avila, were detained after Israeli forces intercepted the flotilla on 29 April and taken to Israel, where they later alleged abuse while in custody

Ben Gvir branded 'hangman of the century' over push for Palestinian executions A human rights group, the Red Ribbons Campaign, has condemned in the strongest terms efforts by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to advance death penalty legislation targeting Palestinians

Israel and Hezbollah have continued to trade fire despite a ceasefire deal being announced last month.

A Palestinian family in Jenin says Israeli settlers forced them to exhume their father hours after his funeral.

Jewish settler attack wounds two Palestinian women in occupied West Bank Israeli settlers have wounded two Palestinian women in an attack on communities south of Nablus, Wafa reported

Global oil stocks drop almost 270 million barrels since start of Iran war Global oil inventories are falling sharply as the Israeli-US war on Iran constrains crude flows from the Gulf following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, according to a Bloomberg report

Shipping data from LSEG shows the Al Kharaitiyat departed Ras Laffan and is sailing towards the strait en route to Port Qasim in Pakistan. If it completes the journey, it would mark the first known transit by a Qatari LNG tanker through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran

Iranian politician calls Trump tactics psychological warfare against Tehran Hassan Rasouli, a member of Irans Reformists Supreme Council for Policymaking, described efforts by US President Donald Trump to create divisions among Iranian officials as psychological warfare, according to an interview with Irans state news agency Islamic Republic News Agency. Rasouli said US and Israeli efforts were aimed at instilling division and discord in the ranks of officials in an attempt to achieve victory without firing a single bullet

Palestinian agency details new settler attacks across West Bank Palestinian news agency Wafa reported further Israeli raids and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank overnight on Friday

Around 1,500 ships and their crews are trapped in the Gulf due to the Iranian blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, the UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) chief said in Panama Thursday. The Global Sumud Flotilla said that activists who were detained during the Gaza-bound aid mission by Israeli forces were subjected to sexual violence and physical abuse,including forceful penetration with a finger, forceful strikes to the genitals, and verbal sexual abuse.

Oil tanker reaches South Korea after passing Hormuz blockade An oil tanker that passed through the Strait of Hormuz arrived in South Korea on Friday, the first such vessel to reach the Asian nation by that route sinceIrandeclared the critical waterway closed. South Korea relies heavily on Middle Eastern fuel imports, most of which transited through Hormuz until US-Israeli attacks onIranin late February prompted Tehran to effectively shut the strait

ICE conducted a major surge of arrests of Iranians amid the June 2025 war, with 220 arrests in June and 80 in July 2025, the National Iranian American Council (Niac) said on Wednesday. The crackdown came as the US capped off an Israeli attack on Iran by bombing the Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan nuclear complexes

CIA says Iran has 70 percent of pre-war missiles, can ride out blockade for months: Report Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 20:52 CIA analysis directly contradicts public statements made by US President Donald Trump and his top officials on Iran's status A woman walks past mockups of Iranian missiles along Valiasr Square in Tehran, on 6 April 2026 (Atta Kenare/AFP) Off Iran can withstand the US naval blockade against it for three or four more months before facing severe economic hardship, the CIA told the Trump administration this week, according to a report by The Washington Post on Thursday. The report also said the CIA has found that Tehran retains significant ballistic missile capabilities after weeks of Israeli and US bombardment

The spokesperson said Khamenei is wisely managing matters of national interest, as questions persist over his absence from public view since the early stages of the war. Khamenei, the son of the late leader Ali Khamenei, has not appeared publicly since the US and Israeli attacks at the outset of the conflict

Netanyahus rivals unite ahead of elections, but is this alliance strong enough to actually unseat him?

June 2025 attack targeted supporters of Israeli captives in Gaza; Advocates say family of assailant unjustly targeted.