US-Israel-Iran War News Highlights: Tehran halts its offensive operation, says Iranian military's joint command

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The Lebanese Red Cross has reported that four of its paramedics were injured in an Israeli strike on Tyre.

The attack occurred in front of the Red Cross’s centre and the paramedics suffered “moderate and minor wounds from glass shrapnel”, the organisation said in a statement.

Iran and Israel agreed to ease strikes against each other after a flare-up in violence threatened to derail peace negotiations and led President Donald Trump to appeal for de-escalation.

The US military on Monday said that a US warplane fired on and disabled an unladen oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. The development came after the vessel violated Washington's blockade of Iran's ports.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he told US President Donald Trump that Israel reserved the right to defend itself against Iran at any time, despite Trump's public objections.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that Tehran has “disrupted the equation of a ceasefire on paper and its repeated violations in the field.”

Ghalibaf, who is also Iran’s top negotiator, said that as long as the US and Israel “lack the genuine will to build trust”, Tehran’s response will be the same.

The spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society has said the organisation’s members were deployed to 12 places that were hit by Israeli strikes amid the exchange of fire over the past day.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz vowed Monday to press Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, despite a warning from Iran that any such action would prompt the Islamic republic to take "severe" measures.

A US official denied Israel’s claim that the US intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired at Israel.

Speaking to CNN, the official noted the US military didn’t intercept any of the Iranian missiles fired overnight, a notable shift from previous rounds of conflict with Iran when the US expended significant quantities of its own missile interceptors to shoot down Iranian missiles aimed at Israel.

United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) on Monday (local time) said that a tanker experienced an onboard fire resulting in the evacuation of its crew after receiving a report of an incident 15 nautical miles northeast of Oman's Masirah Island.

Israel’s military on Monday (local time) said sirens have been sounded in the Zar’it area in the north of the country. It is currently investigating the situation.

A US official denied Israel’s claim that the US intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired at Israel.

Speaking to CNN, the official noted the US military didn’t intercept any of the Iranian missiles fired overnight, a notable shift from previous rounds of conflict with Iran when the US expended significant quantities of its own missile interceptors to shoot down Iranian missiles aimed at Israel.

In a post on X, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote, “The recent surge in violence in the Middle East is a stark reminder of the dangers associated with a tenuous ceasefire and the unbearable consequences it may lead to. As we work earnestly and painstakingly, together with our brothers and partners, to find a peaceful diplomatic solution to the conflict, and especially when the final objective is just about to be achieved, we sincerely urge all sides to exercise restraint and give peace a little more chance. Let us continue to remain on the path of peace and diplomacy, which have bright prospects of success, instead of violence and destruction!”

Iran has cancelled all domestic flights and shut the western airspace of the country, Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Israel's Education Minister Yoav Kisch on Monday (local time) said that schools will not open on Tuesday despite Iran saying it will halt attacks.

On Sunday, Israel’s military updated its guidelines for civilians, limiting large gatherings and canceling school activity across the country for the first time since the earlier round of fighting with Iran in April.

Citing Israeli sources, CNN on Monday reported that Tel Aviv will accept the Trump administration's request to halt strikes on Iran but will continue with attacks on southern Lebanon.

One of the sources characterized the situation as “very fragile” given the Iranian threat to strike Israel again if it continues attacking Lebanon.

Indian navy helicopters airlifted 24 sailors off a tanker on fire off the coast of Oman on Monday, New Delhi officials said, without saying what caused the blaze.

India's Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways said a fire was reported at around 1:30 pm on the MT Marivex, a Palau-flagged tanker.

The United States is demanding Iran provide "precise" information on its enriched uranium stockpile and give the UN nuclear agency access "without delay", according to a draft resolution seen by AFP on Monday.

“Our priority is national security and the peace of our people. We will defend the rights of the nation with authority and will not retreat in the face of any threat. Diplomacy and defense are the two wings of national power; we have neither abandoned the field nor the negotiating table. God willing, with unity and rationality, Iran will emerge triumphant from this trial as well,” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on X.

Israel has reportedly halted strikes on Iran at the request of US President Donald Trump, a senior Israeli official was cited as saying by Channel 12 on Monday.

The official added that if Hezbollah attacks on Israeli towns continue, Israel will attack the southern suburbs of Beirut.