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An Israeli strike killed a woman and two children on Thursday in a town on the edge of the southern suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced.

“The attack by the Israeli enemy against the town of Choueifat resulted in a final death toll of three martyrs – a woman and her granddaughter, as well as a child of Syrian nationality – and 15 wounded, including three children and five women,” he said in a statement.

Earlier, the Israeli army said it had carried out a “targeted strike” in the capital, without giving further details.

A Donald Trump minister announced Thursday that the United States wanted to block the operations of Iranian airlines to increase pressure on the authorities in Tehran.

“We will cut off the two Iranian airlines’ access to landing sites, refueling and ticket sales,” Finance Minister Scott Bessent said in a message on the social network X. The Treasury Secretary did not give names.

The United States previously placed Iran Air and Mahan Air on its list of sanctioned organizations to prohibit American companies and citizens from doing business with them. Later, during a press briefing at the White House, Scott Bessent clarified that travel for religious or humanitarian reasons would not be affected.

The United States and Iran have established a framework of agreement which provides for an extension of the ceasefire by 60 days but which has not yet been validated by Donald Trump, American sources told AFP on Thursday.

The information was first revealed by the Axios site, according to which this preliminary agreement does not resolve the question of the Iranian nuclear program but opens the way to more in-depth negotiations on this subject.

The American Minister of Finance threatened Thursday to sanction the Sultanate of Oman, an ally of the United States, in the event of cooperation with Tehran for the control of the Strait of Hormuz.

“The United States government will not tolerate any attempt to establish a toll system in the Strait of Hormuz,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote on X.

“Oman, in particular, must know that the US Treasury will relentlessly attack any actor involved – directly or indirectly – in the establishment of a toll in the strait, and that any complicit partner will be sanctioned,” he added.

The Israeli ambassador to the UN announced Thursday the suspension of relations with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, thus denouncing the not yet public decision to include Israel on the “black list” linked to sexual violence during conflicts.

“We are done with this secretary general,” Danny Danon declared in a video message posted on December 31, 2026.

“The decision to blacklist Israel and accuse us of using sexual violence as a weapon of war is scandalous,” insisted the ambassador, accusing the secretary general of putting Hamas and Israel on the same level.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he had ordered the Israeli army to ignore the terms of the ceasefire that came into force in October and take control of 70% of the Gaza Strip, according to a video broadcast by a Israeli television.

“Right now we have the (Palestinian Islamist movement) Hamas by the throat. We now control 60% of the territory of the (Gaza) Strip. You know, we were at 50 (after the ceasefire came into force), we went to 60, my directive is to go to (…) 70”, declared Mr. Netanyahu during a conference in the occupied West Bank, of which Channel 12 broadcast an extract on its site.

The Revolutionary Guards warned the United States on Thursday against a “firm response” in the event of a new attack, after American strikes on the south of the country. “If this action is repeated, the American army will be exposed to a firm response,” wrote Tehran’s ideological army in a statement published on its Sepah News site.

“Iran launched a ballistic missile against Kuwait, which was successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces. This flagrant violation of the ceasefire by the Iranian regime comes hours after the launch by Iranian forces of five drones which posed a clear threat to the Strait of Hormuz and its surroundings,” wrote the US military command for the Middle East (Centcom) on X, stressing that the drones were intercepted.

The Israeli army announced Thursday that it had carried out a “targeted strike” in Beirut, with a Lebanese military source reporting to AFP a strike on an apartment south of the capital. The army “recently carried out a targeted strike in Beirut”, said a military press release, without giving further details. Furthermore, at least 14 people died Thursday in other Israeli bombings in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese authorities.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its “strongest condemnation of the Iranian criminal attacks which targeted the territory of the State of Kuwait with missiles and drones, in a dangerous escalation”. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards had earlier announced that they had targeted an American base, without specifying which one, in retaliation for American strikes in recent days on southern Iran.

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Thursday that the United States and Israel were seeking to “bring the nation to its knees” after recent clashes between these countries and Iran, the most serious since a truce came into force on April 8. “The blind plan of the enemy (…) is to create division and destruction in order to compensate for its military defeats, and to bring the nation to its knees,” said Mojtaba Khamenei in a written statement broadcast by state television, calling once again for national unity and to the “cohesion” of the Iranians.

The Israeli army intensifies its strikes in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah. An initial report shows 11 dead, including two children. Here is the latest information from Thomas Misrachi, special correspondent for TF1-LCI in Beirut.

The United States shot down four Iranian drones overnight from Wednesday to Thursday and carried out strikes on a ground base in the south of the country. Tehran denounces “violations” of the ceasefire and claims to have targeted an American base in retaliation. TF1info takes stock.

Israeli strikes left at least eleven dead and 21 injured on Thursday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, in the south of the country, where Israel designated a new “combat zone”. A strike targeted a building in the town of Saida at dawn, killing five people, the ministry said. Another, on a car driving in the same region, left six people dead, including two children and their parents.

Shooting on boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian drones shot down, US strike in southern Iran, American base targeted in Kuwait in retaliation… Here is the latest information from Marianne Kottenhoff, special correspondent for TF1-LCI at Doha, on the renewed tensions in the Middle East.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday strongly condemned what it called “violations” of the ceasefire by the United States following American strikes on the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, in the south of the country. Iran will take “all necessary measures to defend its national sovereignty”, assured in a press release the spokesperson for the ministry, Esmaïl Baghaï, denouncing the “threatening rhetoric of American officials against Iran and several countries in the region”, following statements by Donald Trump on Oman.

European stock markets opened lower on Thursday, reacting without excess to the renewed tensions between Iran and the United States which is resulting in a new rise in oil prices. Around 9:40 a.m., London fell the most sharply (-1.06%), followed by Paris (-0.48%), Milan (-0.21%) and Frankfurt (-0.20%).

The Israeli army said Thursday that one of its soldiers had been killed the day before by a Hezbollah explosive drone near the border with Lebanon, bringing to 24 the number of deaths in its ranks since the beginning of March. Sergeant Rotem Yanaï, 20, “fell during a military operation in northern Israel,” the army said in a short press release.

She was killed by a Hezbollah explosive drone, an army spokeswoman told AFP. In total, 24 Israelis have been killed, including 23 soldiers and a civilian contractor, since the resumption of hostilities with Iran-backed Hezbollah in early March.

Discover images of the Iranian attack targeting an American base and the latest information from Sonia Dridi, TF1-LCI correspondent in the United States.

The head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, estimated Thursday that it was in “no one’s” interest for the war between Iran and the United States to continue at a time when Donald Trump is raising the specter of a resumption of hostilities in the event of failure of negotiations. “They are, at this very moment, in this very dangerous zone between war and peace, and it is in no one’s interest for this war to continue,” she told a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Limassol, on the island of Cyprus.

Iran says it has a US base in the region after a US attack on Iranian drones and their launch base in the south of the country. Watch the column “Le monde à la carte” on LCI.

The United States shot down four Iranian attack drones that posed a “threat around the Strait of Hormuz” and carried out strikes on a ground base in the south of the country overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, leading to retaliation from Tehran which targeted an American base in the region, without specifying which one. For its part, the Kuwaiti army announced Thursday that it was facing “attacks carried out by missiles and drones”, in what constitutes the most serious clashes since the start of the ceasefire.

The Israeli army announced that it had struck the city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon, a day after warning that it considered all Lebanese territory south of the Zahrani River, about forty kilometers from the border, to be a “combat zone”.

After ordering residents of several neighborhoods of Tire to evacuate in anticipation of a future “use of force”, the Israeli army confirmed that it had “begun to strike Hezbollah infrastructure in the Tire region”.

The Lebanese National News Agency (NIA) reported two series of strikes Thursday morning on the city and an area east of it, hitting a building and causing a fire in Tyre.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced Thursday that they had targeted an American base in retaliation for strikes carried out earlier by the United States in the south of the country, according to state television Irib. The Kuwaiti army had announced earlier that it was repelling “enemy missile and drone attacks”.

Iranian forces fired on four ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, state television (Irib) reported on Thursday.

“Four ships attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz and enter the Persian Gulf without coordination with security forces,” Irib wrote on Telegram, specifying that the incident occurred around 12:35 a.m. (11:05 p.m. Paris time), but without providing details on the type of ships or on their nationality.

“They were warned, but as they ignored this warning, warning shots were fired at them, forcing them to turn back,” she added.

The US Treasury announces sanctions against the Iranian Persian Gulf Strait Authority, Tehran’s new agency responsible for collecting navigation fees in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

“The latest attempt by the Iranian military to extort global maritime trade proves that (Operation) ‘Economic Fury’ has left the regime in desperate need of cash,” Iran’s foreign secretary said in a statement. Treasure, Scott Bessent, referring to the economic counterpart of the military offensive called “Operation Epic Fury”, which began on February 28.

The United States shot down four Iranian drones and carried out strikes on a ground base in the south of the country overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. Four attack drones that posed a “threat around the Strait of Hormuz” were shot down, a US official said, adding that the US military had also struck “a ground control station in Bandar Abbas which threatened to launch a fifth drone.”

“These actions were measured, only defensive and carried out with the intention of maintaining the ceasefire,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Iranian media previously reported that three loud explosions were heard near Bandar Abbas, a port city on the Strait of Hormuz, around 1:30 a.m. Thursday (12:00 a.m. Paris time).

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