Welcome to The New Arab’s live coverage of all the latest developments from across the region.
Here are some of the key updates:
• US President Donald Trump has told Israel and Hezbollah to end their attacks after an Israeli strike in Beirut threatened to derail peace negotiations with Iran.
• Tehran’s chief negotiator said there was ‘no point’ in continuing talks with the US following the attack, which killed at least three people in an apartment building in a southern suburb of the capital. A senior Iranian military official said the strike “will not go unanswered”.
• Trump has said a peace deal is “so close” to being finalized. Iranian media said earlier that Tehran has not made a final decision about the draft agreement.
• A Qatari delegation is in Tehran to discuss the negotiations.
• Israel has continued airstrikes in southern Lebanon and issued forced displacement orders for almost 30 villages.
