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At least 35 people were killed in Israeli strikes on a camp for displaced people in Rafah, the Gaza health ministry said Sunday. Israel claimed it struck a Hamas compound in the area.

Iran military warns will target region's oil sites if Israel hits energy infrastructure Iran's military warned on Sunday that it would target oil sites in the region if Israel continued to strike energy infrastructure in the Islamic Republic. "The governments of Islamic countries are expected to warn the criminal America and the savage Zionist regime of such cowardly, inhumane actions as soon as possible," Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for Iran's central military command, told state TV. "Otherwise, similar measures will be taken in the region, and if you can tolerate oil at more than $200 per barrel, continue this game."

By Orhan Qereman QAMISHLI, Syria March 8 (Reuters) - Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warned Iran's Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent months as evidence their Iranian counterparts would be "abandoned." Iranian Kurdish militias based in northern Iraq have consulted with the United States in recent days about whether and how to attack security forces in western Iran, as the United States and Israel pound Iran with air strikes, Reuters has reported.

March 8 (Reuters) - The Iranian army said on Sunday that at least 104 people were killed and 32 were wounded in an attack by the U.S. on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka's coast last week. A U.S. submarine sank the frigate Dena in the Indian Ocean about 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka's southern port city of Galle on Wednesday, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy. (Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din and Elwely Elwely; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)

Lebanon registers more than half a million displaced by Israeli attacks Lebanon's social affairs minister said on Sunday that more than half a million people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the new war between Israel and Hezbollah. In a press briefing, Haneen Sayed said that the total number of people who registered their names on a website affiliated with the ministry reached 517,000, including 117,228 people in government shelters. A displaced person sits outside a car loaded with belongings, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, 8 March, 2026. (Reuters)

Israeli strikes kill six people in southern Lebanon Six people were killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. The report said the strikes “completely” destroyed the buildings in the town of Doueir and killed five members of the same family and one of their acquaintances. The civil defence agency and Red Cross teams are working to recover the bodies and transport them to local morgues, it said.

The Israeli intelligence agency counts on unconditional US cover and adversary lapses for its assassination policy.

‘The Air is Unbreathable’: Tehran Shrouded in Cloud of Toxic Smoke After Israel Strikes Fuel Depots  Time Magazine

Israel Strikes Energy Infrastructure Crucial to Iran’s Well-Being  The New York Times

Iran war's targets widen into civilian infrastructure as Saudi Arabia reports 2 deaths  thecanadianpressnews.ca

Iraqi oil production collapses as Hormuz still blocked by US-Iran war, sources say Iraqi oil production from its main southern oilfields has fallen by 70% to just 1.3 million barrels per day as the country is unable to export oil via the Strait of Hormuz due to the Iran war, 3 industry sources said on Sunday. Production from the fields stood at around 4.3 million bpd before the war.

By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, March 8 (Reuters) - Iran's next leader faces a massive external assault and growing internal anger, and while previous leaders relied on a hardcore of diehard ideologues in the population, it is far from clear how far his successor can do the same. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes a week ago and his hardline son Mojtaba Khamenei is seen as a frontrunner to succeed him.

We, the American people, have had enough of endless wars  Al Jazeera

Analysts say Israel's actions in Lebanon, including mass displacement, are an effort to reshape the country.

Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that the Iranian people, not Donald Trump, will elect their new leader and demanded that the US president apologize for starting the war with Iran. "We allow nobody to interfere in our domestic affairs. This is up to the Iranian people to elect their new leader," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC's "Meet the Press." Trump on Sunday reiterated his demand to have a say in picking Iran's next supreme leader after Ali Khamenei died in the opening salvos of the US-Israeli attack that began nine days ago.

A retired Lebanese security officer has gone missing, and his family says Israeli operatives kidnapped him to get information about a long-missing Israeli airman

Three Palestinians have died in a clash with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, as violence has spiked during new war in the Middle East

Oil prices have soared in the week since the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran

CAIRO, March 8 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed at least two Palestinians in Gaza City on Sunday, local health officials said, the deadliest incident in Gaza since Israel and the United States launched their war against Iran a week ago. Medics said the two people were travelling in a car near Al-Azhar University in western Gaza City. Their identities were not immediately clear. Several other people in the area were wounded in the strike, the health officials added.