Israeli strikes and gunfire killed five people in Gaza on Tuesday while overnight strikes in Yemen killed at least one person and wounded nine.
Top officials in Iran and the U.S., meanwhile, continued to trade barbs over which nation was suffering the most amid the ongoing war, and Iran denied it played a role in a supermarket cyberattack in France.
Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tuesday. Read our full coverage here.
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 5
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed five people in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, hospital authorities said.
Four people were killed in three separate Israeli strikes in Gaza City, according to Shifa Hospital. In the southern city of Khan Younis, one person was shot dead after crossing the Yellow Line, according to Nasser Hospital.
The Israeli military said it had struck militants in Gaza City but did not immediately comment on the shooting in Khan Younis.
The deaths came amid continued Israeli attacks in Gaza despite a ceasefire agreement that took effect in October 2025. Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 1,600 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire began.
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians during olive harvest
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and activists accompanying them as they harvested olives in the occupied West Bank, an activist and local officials said Tuesday.
Mattan Berner Kaeish, an activist with Protect the Harvest, said the settlers struck multiple people with sticks and rocks in the village of Qusra. Rabbis for Human Rights also shared a video on Instagram showing a masked settler striking a woman in the head with a flagpole.
Associated Press footage showed Israeli forces arriving and trying to disperse Israeli settlers and Palestinians. After the confrontation at the olive groves, another group of settlers attempted to enter Qusra village and threw stones at Israeli security forces, who responded with tear gas.
The Israeli military confirmed stones were hurled at soldiers without specifying who threw them. It said an investigation has been opened into the incident.
Overnight strikes kill 1, wound 9 in Yemen
Houthi-run health ministry spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi said in a statement on X on Tuesday that a strike hit a gas station in a district of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, killing one person and wounding three others.
He said another airstrike targeted an oil company, wounding at least six people, causing “extensive damage” to nearby homes and shops and panicking residents.
Al-Asbahi blamed Saudi Arabia for both strikes. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify his claims.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said on X on Tuesday that a drone was intercepted and destroyed in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia. The AP also couldn’t independently verify that claim.
The strikes come amid renewed fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces that escalated this summer.
Iranian state TV shows underground missile facility
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday displayed what it said was an underground “missile city” and new, unidentified surface-to-surface missiles.
State TV broadcast a heavily edited and partially blurred video showing the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Gen. Ali Abdollahi, visiting the underground facility.
The video did not indicate when the visit took place, or give any details on the location, but Abdollahi warned that Iran will have another “surprise” in any possible future war.
Iran and US trade barbs over ongoing war
Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei claims that the war has already “wrecked” the United States while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran is “bleeding economically.”
Rezaei said in a post on X late Monday that it was time for the U.S. to “surrender” to the country's terms, which include lifting sanctions and the blockade on its ports as well as unfreezing its assets and compensating it for war damage.
“Washington flails like a desperate gambler. FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks. Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER,” he wrote.
Rubio, speaking in Paris, dismissed Iran's terms as “absurd” and said no major military action is needed for now because Iran is struggling under U.S. sanctions and blockades of its oil exports.
“It’s sad, you know. The Iranian people deserve better than to be a third world country, which is where their leadership is taking them,” he said. "Eventually you have to eat. Eventually you have to be able to pay your own fighters and your own security forces and so forth.”
Iran denies role in France cyberattack
Iran on Tuesday denied it played a role in the cyberattack that raised the temperatures of refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets across France last month.
The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the French government’s accusations “baseless and self-serving” and “completely unfounded," suggesting the French government was instead trying to divert public opinion from its administrative shortcomings.
French prosecutors on Monday determined Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was behind the Oct. 12 cyberattack, which affected about 700 of the country’s 10,000 supermarkets.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Tuesday said the European Union “welcomed” the country’s request for sanctions against Iran in response.
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This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.
