Top updates: 203 killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon after US-Iran ceasefire

Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 203 persons on Wednesday and injured more than 1,000, the Lebanese health ministry was quoted as saying by BBC.

With the attacks starting hours after a ceasefire was announced between the United States and Iran, Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz again, state-owned Press TV reported.

The Israeli military said that it had, in a 10-minute operation, conducted “the largest coordinated strike” in Lebanon since the conflict in West Asia began.

The strikes had targeted more than 100 structures allegedly associated with the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Beirut, Beqaa and southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• Washington on Hormuz closure: Following Iranian state media reports that the Strait of Hormuz was shut despite the ceasefire, the US said that Iran must open the strategic waterway “immediately, quickly and safely”. Any closure of the strait “is completely unacceptable”, Euro News quoted White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as having told reporters.
• Iran says ceasefire violated: MB Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, said on Wednesday that while the US president had stated that Tehran’s 10-point plan is a “workable basis on which to negotiate”, clauses of the proposal had been violated. Ghalibaf said that the point about the ceasefire in Lebanon, as shared publicly by Pakistani...

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