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US-Israel Wars, Day 90: Israel Expands Ground Assault Inside Lebanon

UPDATE 0627 GMT:

In the latest skirmishes in and near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran claimed that it destroyed a US drone over the Bushehr Province in the south of the country.

The US military denied the report.

Iranian media said forces also fired warning shots at four vessels near the Strait of Hormuz that were “attempting to pass through the strait without coordination”.

UPDATE 0618 GMT:

At least 17 people were killed by expanding Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon on Thursday.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said:

Lebanese officials denounced strikes near UNESCO-protected historic sites and landmarks. Culture Minister Ghassan Salame “made numerous contacts with his counterparts worldwide and relevant international organisations to draw their attention to the huge damage to archaeological sites and heritage districts”.

Salame highlighted the ancient city of Tyre and Beaufort Castle in the Nabatieh district.

UPDATE, MAY 29:

US Vice President J.D. Vance said the Trump camp and Iran are close to a framework deal, circulated by Washington to other countries, but there are points to be resolved on Tehran’s nuclear program and its stockpile of highly-enriched uranium.

“It’s hard to say exactly when or if the president is going to sign the [memorandum of understanding]. We’re going back and forth on a couple of language points,” Vance said.

Confirming that the deal is close to agreement, US officials said Trump wants a “couple of days” before his decision on whether to sign.

UPDATE 1537 GMT:

Donald Trump has sent other countries, including Israel, a draft framework agreement to end the US war on Iran.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar will meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Friday.

The draft maintains Iran’s priority on an arrangement for the Strait of Hormuz. The US blockade of Iranian ports will be lifted, and $12 billion of Iran’s assets abroad will be unfrozen. Commercial shipping in the Strait will return to pre-war levels within 30 days.

Discussion on Iran’s nuclear program will be in a second stage.

Trump has yet to give his final approval, said “two US officials and a regional source involved in the mediation efforts”.

“The President relayed to the mediators that he wants a couple of days to think about it,” a US official said.

UPDATE 1531 GMT:

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has followed up Donald Trump’s threat against Oman with one of his own.

UPDATE 1225 GMT:

Israel has carried out its first airstrike on Lebanon’s capital Beirut in more than three weeks.

The Israelis targeted an apartment building in the Choueifat area in the south of the city. Reports in Israeli media say the Israel Defense Forces were trying to assassinate Ali al-Husni, the head of the missile force of an Iranian militia that operates alongside Hezbollah.

UPDATE 1219 GMT:

The US Central Command has denounced the firing of an Iranian missile on an American airbase in Kuwait as an “egregious ceasefire violation”.

The missile was intercepted by Kuwaiti forces. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said they were retaliating for American attacks from the airbase on the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

Kuwait called out Iran for a “dangerous escalation” which “undermines diplomatic efforts aimed at preserving regional security and stability”. The UAE offered support with condemnation “in the strongest terms”.

UPDATE 0958 GMT:

At least 13 people have been killed by Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon on Thursday.

At least six people, including two children, were killed in an Israeli drone attack on the Adloun Highway in the Nabi Sari area. The victims, reportedly members of the same family, were killed as they were trying to flee from threatened villages to shelter at dawn.

An airstrike on a building in the city of Sidon killed five people, including two women, and wounded 21, five of them children.

A Lebanese soldier was slain by an airstrike as he traveled between the villages of Zefta and Deir ez-Zahrani in the Nabatieh area. He is the third member of Lebanon’s armed forces killed in the past three days.

During Israel’s invasion from March 2, 21 Lebanese soldiers have been killed and 15 wounded.

UPDATE 0950 GMT:

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has called out Donald Trump’s threats against Oman (see Original Entry):

Threats to “destroy” a United Nations member state that has always played a constructive, effective, and responsible role in regional peace and security and has used its noble efforts in the service of regional peace and stability as a mediator in diplomatic processes for many years — they are not only a violation of the fundamental principle of prohibiting the threat of the use of force, but also another dangerous sign of the normalisation of lawlessness and bullying in international relations.

UPDATE 0600 GMT:

One Israeli soldier has been killed and two reservists wounded by a Hezbollah explosive drone attack on northern Israel, close to the border with Lebanon.

Two drones exploded in a military zone. One killed Sgt. Rotem Yanai, 20, as she ran to a shelter. The second drone seriously wounded a reservist and moderately injured another.

Yanai is the 24th Israeli soldier killed since the launch of the assault on Lebanon on March 2. A contractor has also been slain.

Israel is carrying out a second day of airstrikes on Tyre in southern Lebanon.

Since midnight, there have been more than a dozen strikes on and near the city. At dawn, at least seven airstrikes occurred within an hour on densely populated neighborhoods.

Rescue operations are ongoing.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: Iran has retaliated, attacking an American airbase in Kuwait, after renewed US strikes threatened a seven-week ceasefire in the Trump Administration’s war.

US forces targeted a military facility and downed four Iranian attack drones early Thursday. American officials claimed the drones were a threat around the Iran-controlled Strait of Hormuz. They said a ground control station in the port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, about to launch a fifth drone, was also hit.

“These actions were measured, purely defensive, and intended to maintain the ceasefire,” an official asserted.

Iranian officials said three locations near Bandar Abbas were targeted. They said there were no casualties or damage.

Two hours later, Iranian State broadcaster IRIB said the Revolutionary Guards had targeted a US base in Kuwait “that served as the source of the attack”. Kuwait’s army announced air defenses were intercepting hostile missile and drone threats just before 6 a.m. in Kuwait City.

IRIB also said the Guards intercepted “four vessels [that] attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz and enter the Persian Gulf without coordination with the security forces”, around 12:35 a.m. local time.

Iranian officials said the ships, one of them an American tanker, turned off their radars. Guards forces asked them to identify themselves, but they did not respond or cooperate. The Guards than fired warning shots.

Trump Threatens Iran…and Oman

On Wednesday afternoon, at a photo-opportunity Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump — who had said over the weekend that a framework deal was imminent — again threatened to collapse the ceasefire.

They want very much to make a deal. So far they haven’t gotten there. We’re not satisfied with it, but we will be.

Either that or we’ll have to just finish the job.

Trump also threatened to attack the Gulf State of Oman, which has been in discussions with Iran about a system to oversee the Strait of Hormuz.

Proclaiming that the Strait would be “open to everybody”, Trump snapped, “Oman will behave just like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.”

The State Department promoted the threat on its social media account: