US-Iran war live updates: Israel to strike Lebanon ‘in coming hours’ as Bahrain oil refinery up in flames

Israel’s Fire and Rescue authority says one man has died after an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Monday morning.

Two men are also believed to be in a “serious” condition after the attack.

It is believed the man’s death is the first in Israel in the past week, as the country’s death toll increases to 11.

French President Emmanuel Macron says G7 nations could start using its oil stockpiles as global energy prices spike in response to the war.

“The use of strategic reserves is an envisaged option,” President Macron said.

The President also says a meeting of the G7 is expected this week to consider a global response to increasing energy prices.

US President Donald Trump says the decision to end the two countries’ war with Iran will be “mutual” between him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I think it’s mutual… a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,” President Trump said in an interview with The Times of Israel.

The president refused to confirm whether Israel would continue its attack on Iran if the US ceased its airstrikes, but later said he didn’t “think it’s going to be necessary”.

China’s foreign ministry has says the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei after the death of his father Ali Khamenei is a “domestic matter” that was “based on its constitution”.

The IDF had previously threatened to attack the former supreme leader’s successor, which Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun condemned when speaking to reporters.

“China opposes interference in other countries’ internal affairs under any pretext, and Iran’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity should be respected,” he said.

The Israeli Defence Force says it has struck “infrastructure belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization” in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut.

Earlier, the IDF warned it would be “operating forcefully” in southern Lebanon against groups which it claims assist Hezbollah.

“The Israel Defense Forces will operate forcefully against the terrorist infrastructure of Al-Qard al-Hassan Association, which constitutes a central element in financing Hezbollah’s terrorist activities and harms the Lebanese economy in service of Iranian interests,” the IDF said.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says his country sent interceptor drones to protect US bases in Jordan after the US requested them, in an interview with the New York Times.

Zelensky says Ukraine “reacted immediately” to the request, although did not give any specifications about the drones in the New York Times’ article.

AP is reporting an Iranian missile attack has been lauched towards parts of northern and southern Israel.

The news outlet is also reporting missiles have struck the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi on Monday afternoon.

The Saudi Arabian ministry of defence is reporting it has intercepted and destroyed drones over the Empty Quarter desert, which it believes was heading towards the Shaybah Oil Field in the country’s east.

The ministry also reported a drone was intercepted over the Al-Jawf Region in the west of Saudi Arabia.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps say the newly elected Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, son of former leader Ali Khamenei, was “wounded in the Ramadan War”.

No further details were provided.

Mojtaba Khamenei has not been pictured in public since the war began.

The Israel Defense Force has issued an “urgent” warning to people in Lebanon’s south, saying it will “operate forcefully” against Hezbollah “in the coming hours”, according to IDF Arabic spokesperson Avichar Adraee.

“The Israel Defense Forces will operate forcefully against the terrorist infrastructure of Al-Qard al-Hassan Association, which constitutes a central element in financing Hezbollah’s terrorist activities and harms the Lebanese economy in service of Iranian interests,” an English translation of Adraee’s post said.

“Remaining in the area endangers your lives and constitutes a free prize for the terrorist Hezbollah, which hides behind you and sacrifices you for the survival of the terrorist regime in Tehran.”