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A rare Israeli strike in Aïn Saadé, in the Christian Metn district long considered safely removed from the conflict, has shattered the illusion of security in Lebanon's Christian heartland.

An Israeli strike on an apartment east of Beirut late on Sunday killed a local official from a Christian political party, sharpening internal divides over Hezbollah as Israel's strikes expand to new parts of the country.

The United States and Iran received the framework of a plan to end hostilities, but Iran rejected immediately reopening the Strait of Hormuz, after President Donald Trump threatened to rain "hell" on Tehran if it did not make a deal the end of Tuesday. 

The head of the intelligence organisation of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed on Monday in a "terrorist attack by the American-Zionist (Israeli) enemy", Iranian media said, citing a statement by the Guards.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has sounded the alarm. Both Hezbollah fighters and Israeli soldiers are "firing projectiles and bullets towards or in the vicinity of our positions," UNIFIL spokeswoman Kandice Ardiel warned, actions that have "already tragically caused deaths and injuries" among blue helmets deployed in southern Lebanon.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called an emergency defence council meeting on Sunday after powerful explosives were found near a pipeline in Serbia that carries Russian gas to the country.

The rescue had unfolded with near‑perfect precision. Under cover of darkness, U.S. commandos slipped deep into Iran, undetected, scaled a 7,000‑foot ridge and pulled a stranded American weapons specialist to safety, moving him toward a secret rendezvous point before dawn on Sunday.

Hamas' armed wing said on Sunday discussing the group's disarmament before Israel fully implements the first phase of the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire was an attempt to continue what it called a genocide against the Palestinian people.

Donald Trump has issued his most explosive threat yet against Iran,  crude, capitalised and unmistakable in its intent. 

An Israeli airstrike on Kfarhata, a village in south Lebanon, killed seven people on Sunday, Lebanon's health ministry said in a statement.

Ukraine and Syria pledged greater security cooperation in talks on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as Kyiv seeks to promote its military expertise across the region following the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

China is willing to continue to cooperate with Russia at the U.N. Security Council and make efforts to cool down the Middle East situation, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a phone call on Sunday.