Headlines- Two humanitarian aid flotilla activists headed for Gaza who were abducted by Israeli officials last week have had their detention extended by an Israeli court.
- There have been reports of Israeli airstrikes in towns of Al-Mansouri and Qaaqaait al-Jisr in southern Lebanon.
- The current state of affairs in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, makes it "clear that there's no military solution to a political crisis."
- Twelve ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, and four drones launched from Iran on Monday were intercepted by the United Arab Emirates' air defense systems.
- Saudi Arabia condemned Iranian drone and missile assaults against commercial and civilian infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates, along with an Emirati company's ship.
- An armed man and U.S. Secret Service agents engaged in gunfire on Monday close to the White House property in Washington, D.C.
- After reports of Iranian strikes on commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz and on oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates, President Donald Trump refrained from declaring a breach of the U.S.-Iran truce.
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