Middle East Crisis

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that negotiations with Tehran will begin Monday after he decided to hold off on planned military strikes in pursuit of a diplomatic deal, according to Al Jazeera, AFP and Reuters.

"Now what we're doing is talking to them in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. He said Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar had urged him to delay the strikes, and that deals were possible on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's nuclear program.

Trump pulled back from attack threats on Saturday after saying the "perimeter" of a deal was in place. He gave no details about the venue or participants in the talks. Earlier Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a second phone call with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, joined by Pakistani Army Commander Asim Munir, to discuss diplomatic efforts, according to Araghchi's post on Telegram.

A Palestinian was shot and wounded by IDF troops Friday as Israeli settlers entered the outskirts of Nablus in the northern West Bank, clashing with Palestinians near the site of a gunfight that killed two Israelis and four Palestinians a week earlier, the Times of Israel reports.

The IDF said troops opened fire after Palestinians hurled stones at soldiers in the area, striking what it described as a "main instigator." The Palestinian Red Crescent said a young man was shot in the abdomen during what it called "an Israeli army and settler raid" on the al-Juneid area near Tell village. Settlers also reportedly vandalized a cemetery in the Nablus area during the march, which was not approved by the military but proceeded as troops were deployed to monitor and disperse the gathering.

US President Donald Trump has ordered another wave of strikes against Iran aimed at forcing the Islamic Republic's surrender, the Wall Street Journal reports citing US officials. The bombing is expected to last several days and could begin as soon as this weekend.

CBS reports the plan was discussed during a cabinet meeting at Camp David. US and Israeli officials are said to be planning joint strikes targeting Iranian energy sites, with bombing potentially continuing throughout the weekend, Times of Israel reports.

Iran held a funeral in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Friday for three Revolutionary Guard members it says were killed in a US strike, Al Jazeera reports.

The identities of the dead and circumstances of the reported strike were not detailed in the available report.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it carried out a retaliatory attack on a US military base in Kuwait on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera. The claim comes after US strikes on Iran, including one on a building on Qeshm Island that killed two adults and a two-year-old child, Al Jazeera reports.

US President Donald Trump will be "very disappointed" if Israel obstructs his 20-point Gaza reconstruction plan, a senior US official said on Thursday, according to the Times of Israel. The warning followed Netanyahu's office rejecting Hamas's approval of a disarmament proposal, saying it did not meet Israel's demands for full demilitarization.

"We're not asking Israel to do anything that isn't in the 20-point plan that they agreed to initially," the official told reporters. "If they don't, President Trump would be very, very disappointed." The official said the US intends to "hold Israel to its commitments" and "be a fair broker" after Hamas approved the disarmament plan put forward by Trump's Board of Peace.

The Gaza Board of Peace says Hamas has agreed to a disarmament roadmap matched by Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, according to Al Jazeera. A Hamas delegation member told Al Jazeera implementation would be conditioned on Israel fulfilling its obligations.

Israeli forces struck southern Lebanese towns near Beaufort Castle, the military saying it used 700 tonnes of explosives to destroy parts of a Hezbollah tunnel network, Al Jazeera reports.

Israel agreed in June to a phased withdrawal from Lebanon, with the Lebanese military to take over disarming Hezbollah.

The Israeli military has blown up a Hezbollah tunnel network beneath the Beaufort Ridge in southern Lebanon using 700 tons of explosives, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Thursday night. The demolition was carried out in response to what they called a "blatant" violation of a ceasefire agreement on Wednesday, when Hezbollah targeted an unmanned bulldozer with a drone.

The tunnel system, which served as a "central part of the Hezbollah terror organization's invasion plan against the Galilee communities," had been scheduled for destruction earlier but was postponed following a framework deal reached in June. The IDF said it had demolished "several key underground routes" in the area over recent weeks, Times of Israel reports.

A senior US official has warned that President Donald Trump will be "very disappointed" if Israel blocks progress on his Gaza reconstruction plan, according to a Times of Israel liveblog on Friday.

The official told reporters the Palestinian Authority must demonstrate it can govern the West Bank before being considered to administer Gaza. The US has also been consulting ousted Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan on postwar management of the Strip, the official confirmed.

US President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that an agreement has been reached for Hamas to fully disarm, paving the way for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and deployment of an international stabilisation force, Al Jazeera reports.

Neither Israel nor Hamas has publicly confirmed the claim.

US President Donald Trump announced that the Board of Peace has reached an agreement for the "complete disarmament" of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. A senior Hamas official told the BBC the group has agreed to the plan, with an official statement to follow soon; Israel has not yet commented.

The agreement concludes months of negotiations and is part of the second phase of a US-brokered ceasefire plan that also includes Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and reconstruction efforts. Trump said Israel would withdraw "as disarmament is completed" and called it "a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government." The plan provides for inventorying and storage of Hamas's remaining heavy weapons under Palestinian supervision, with smaller groups to be disarmed first before Hamas dismantles its military infrastructure, BBC News reports.