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Iran’s supreme leader called on Muslim countries to stand together against Israel and the United States, imploring them to “know your real enemy.”
A tanker vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.
Israel’s Shin Bet said it had evacuated the prime minister’s oldest son from the U.S. following a threat.
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed at least two Palestinians, including a 3-year-old, authorities said.
Here’s a look at more developments on Sunday in the Iran war and the wider Middle East.
Iran’s Khamenei urges Muslim nations to ‘confront’ enemies
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, urged rulers of Muslim nations to “know your real enemy, understand its plans and confront it,” and called the U.S. and Israel enemies of all Islamic nations, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Six months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, killing Khamenei’s father and other senior leaders, Khamenei still has not been seen publicly. His comments came in a letter to religious leaders attending a conference in Tehran.
The war has exposed divisions in the Muslim world after Iran struck targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries , namely , the UAE , Oman, Qatar , Kuwait , Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and restricted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Netanyahu son evacuated from US over ‘significant’ threat
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency says it urgently evacuated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s oldest son from the United States due to a threat against him.
In a brief statement obtained Sunday, the Shin Bet confirmed there had been a “significant threat” to Yair Netanyahu. It did not elaborate.
But the prime minister told an Israeli TV station last week that Iran had tried to kill one of his sons. His office declined to comment Sunday.
Yair Netanyahu moved to Miami in 2023 and remained out of the country for most of the time while Israel was at war in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. He has often served as an unofficial adviser to his father while sometimes sparking controversy over his attacks on critics on social media.
A tanker ship is struck in the Strait of Hormuz
A monitoring agency run by the British military says an unknown projectile struck a tanker ship on Saturday north of Khasab, Oman, in the Strait of Hormuz.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization said the ship had been moving inbound and no casualties or environmental impact had been reported. It cited unspecified military authorities.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
NBC says settlers attack journalists in West Bank
Settlers attacked an NBC crew in the central West Bank on Saturday as they were interviewing a Palestinian woman who said she’d been driven out of her house, the network said.
Correspondent Matt Bradley, two other crew members and the woman were treated for injuries, NBC said, giving no details about them. NBC shared footage showing masked settlers approaching the crew with sticks and beating their vehicles.
Israel’s military said it was “aware of reports of Palestinian injuries, including a Palestinian woman who sustained non-life-threatening injuries.” It did not comment on the attack on the NBC crew.
Israel’s prime minister issued a rare condemnation Saturday after a wave of violence by settlers in the West Bank. Netanyahu has come under U.S. criticism for the attacks.
Israeli settlers seized a British activist, lawyer says
Israeli settlers seized a British activist from a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Saturday and locked him in a shed before turning him over to police, his lawyer said Sunday.
It was not clear what led to his capture. Settlers alleged Finn Joughin assaulted a child, which lawyer Inbar Shaked Vardi denied. Settlers pointed to a video where the activist uses his body in an apparent attempt to block a settler boy from passing through a fence. Vardi said the video shows he was trying to protect the village.
“Without any hearing, the police has decided to move him to deportation, which just shows that this entire case has been political in the first place,” Vardi said later, adding that Joughin would likely be deported Sunday night.
A spokesperson for the U.K. government said embassy officials have raised the case with Israeli authorities.
Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani ministers will meet
Turkey says it will host senior officials from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on Monday for the first meeting since the Muslim-majority countries signed a defense agreementearlier this month that says an attack on any one of them would be treated as an attack on all three.
Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, arrived in Turkey on Sunday, the military said, giving no details. Pakistan earlier said Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had also traveled to Istanbul.
AP
