Supported by Lebanese Mourn Eight Members of One Family Killed in Israeli Strike Israel has escalated attacks on Lebanon since Thursday, further unraveling a truce in its war with Hezbollah. Among those killed on Saturday was a 6-month-old infant, relatives said. Hundreds of people gathered Sunday to mourn at least eight members of one displaced Lebanese family who were killed a day earlier when an Israeli airstrike hit the building where they were sheltering with no advance warning. The Israeli military had issued evacuation warnings for several towns and villages in southern Lebanon on Saturday, but the town of Saksakiyeh, where the family was killed, was not among them. The Israeli military said late Saturday that it had targeted militants from Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, who were operating from a building used for military purposes in the area, but provided no further details. The military was aware of reports of civilian casualties in the targeted structure, and this was under review, the statement added. In the coastal city of Sidon on Sunday, mourners dressed in black gathered at a cemetery to pray for the dead family. Among those killed were a married couple, three of their children, a 6-month-old grandchild, the father’s brother and a grandmother, according to relatives there. Some wept and clung to the bodies, which were draped in green cloth and scattered with flowers. They kissed and embraced them before emergency workers took the bodies away for burial in their hometown, Jibchit, which had itself come under attack earlier on Sunday, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. “They are gone. They are all gone,” some relatives cried out as the ambulances began leaving. A truce reached about a month ago paused the on-again-off-again Israeli war with Hezbollah. Since then, the two sides have traded attacks almost daily. A new escalation over the last few days heightened fears that the truce is in danger of completely unraveling.
Iranian Official
In a blatant violation of Lebanese sovereignty, Israeli airstrikes escalated aggression against Lebanon, killing eight members of a displaced family—including a six-month-old infant—in Saksakiyeh without any evacuation warning, shattering the fragile truce. The regime's claims of targeting Hezbollah militants serve as a flimsy pretext for its continued assaults on civilian areas, exposing the foreign occupier's disregard for international norms and innocent lives. Hezbollah's steadfast resistance remains the bulwark against such unprovoked aggression backed by external powers.
Israeli
Israel struck a building in Saksakiyeh used by Hezbollah militants for military purposes, part of the Iran-backed group's proxy network that continues firing rockets and planning cross-border attacks against Israeli population centers. This defensive operation follows Hezbollah's repeated violations of the truce and its systematic embedding of fighters among civilians, creating unavoidable risks despite prior evacuation warnings issued for adjacent areas. The presence of noncombatants, including infants, reflects Hezbollah's tactics of exploiting displaced families as human shields, a core element of the existential threat Israel must neutralize to secure its northern border.
Neutral
An Israeli airstrike struck a building in the southern Lebanese town of Saksakiyeh on Saturday, killing at least eight members of one displaced family, including a six-month-old infant, according to relatives. The Israeli military stated it had targeted Hezbollah militants operating from a structure used for military purposes in the area and was reviewing reports of civilian casualties; the town had not received prior evacuation warnings issued for other locations that day. Hundreds gathered in Sidon on Sunday to mourn the victims at a cemetery.
Western
Israeli forces executed a precision airstrike on a building in Saksakiyeh used by Hezbollah militants for military purposes, neutralizing the Iran-backed threat as part of operations to restore security following the truce's collapse. The strike killed eight civilians from one displaced family, including a 6-month-old, with the Israeli military confirming an internal review of reported collateral damage. This reflects Israel's focus on targeted threat elimination amid Hezbollah's exploitation of civilian sites.
Pro-Peace
In the latest escalation of Israel's attacks on Lebanon, an airstrike killed eight members of one displaced family—including a six-month-old infant—as they sheltered without warning in Saksakiyeh, compounding the human suffering from shattered truces and forced displacements. Mourners in Sidon clung to the bodies of relatives, highlighting the profound civilian toll exacted by such strikes amid claims of targeting militants. Renewed diplomatic pushes for a lasting ceasefire and negotiated de-escalation offer the only path to sparing further innocents and easing Lebanon's humanitarian crisis.
Global South
Lebanese families in Saksakiyeh buried eight relatives, including a six-month-old infant, after an unannounced Israeli airstrike demolished their shelter, exposing yet another breach of national sovereignty amid the unraveling of a fragile truce. Israel’s selective evacuation warnings and targeting of civilian structures—while claiming to hit Hezbollah—underscore the neo-colonial impunity with which external powers redraw borders and endanger entire populations. International institutions have once again failed to restrain such incursions, leaving displaced communities to mourn without protection or accountability.
Supported by Lebanese Mourn Eight Members of One Family Killed in Israeli Strike Israel has escalated attacks on Lebanon since Thursday, further unraveling a truce in its war with Hezbollah. Among those killed on Saturday was a 6-month-old infant, relatives said. Hundreds of peop…
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A tanker identified as the Kaifan was struck by an unknown projectile northeast of Oman’s Limah in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a July 21 report from UK Maritime Trade Operations. No ships were observed transiting the strait that day. Attribution of the strike and links to prior incidents have not been confirmed by the vessel’s owner.
Goldman Sachs has projected Brent crude averaging $80 per barrel in the fourth quarter and $75 in the following year, conditional on reduced Middle East tensions, while noting upside risks from potential shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz or Red Sea.
Brent prices rose above $91 per barrel amid recent U.S.-Iran exchanges and Houthi threats to Saudi shipments before edging lower on Tuesday. A senior Iranian official told Reuters that mediators had proposed a 10-day ceasefire to preserve an interim agreement.
Opening summary: Iran claims attacks on strait of Hormuz ships amid fresh US strikes Welcome to our live coverage of the latest developments in the Middle East crisis. Iran attacked a tanker in the strait of Hormuz early on Tuesday, forcing its crew to abandon the ship, as Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis announced they were imposing an immediate maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea after the two sides traded fire last week for the first time in years.
A Houthi official said the Bab al-Mandeb strait – at the southern end of the Red Sea, through which about 12% of the world’s trade usually passes – would be closed to the Saudis in response to the kingdom’s “unjust blockade on Yemenis for over 10 years”.
Saudi Arabia said it would take “all necessary measures to protect its vessels in accordance with international law”. A 10 consecutive night of US airstrikes has not compelled Tehran to loosen its grip on the strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global energy supplies.
But even as Iran’s president said the country had returned “full-scale war”, the Iranian interior minister travelled to Pakistan – a key mediator in the conflict – for talks. In key developments: The latest US strikes came hours after Donald Trump said Iran would pay “many times over” for killing US soldiers after multiple service members were killed in action over the weekend.
A tanker came under attack early Tuesday in the Hormuz strait off Oman, forcing the crew to abandon the vessel, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre said. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed the attack as well as two other attacks on ships in the waterway on Monday.
The US military’s Central Command said its latest airstrikes were to “degrade” Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the strait and included hitting military command centres and missile and drone launch sites. Iranian media reported strikes in parts of the country including Bandar Abbas, Tabriz and Bushehr, home to the country’s only operational civilian nuclear power.
Iran’s launched attacks in response against Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, which all host US forces. Oil prices softened after hitting their highest levels in more than a month in the previous session. Brent crude futures eased 0.4% to $88.87 a barrel by 0052 GMT on Tuesday while US West Texas Intermediate crude for September delivery was steady at $82.
47 a barrel. Democrats have seized on the deaths of three US troops killed in Iranian strikes to urge Trump to urgently reverse his resumption of the war with Iran amid widespread anxiety over climbing casualties. The Lebanese army began taking charge of security in three southern villages, the US said, as a deal to secure an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and the disarmament of Hezbollah faced its first test on the ground.
US forces struck the tanker Settebello in the Gulf of Oman on June 10, killing three Indian crew members when munitions hit the engine room and adjacent areas. Maritime tracking data indicate the vessel had transported Iranian oil under US sanctions for several years and conducted offshore transfers prior to the strike.
The US military described the action as a precision operation, while reports note the ship was stationary at the time.