Good Morning Middle East Eye readers,
If you are just joining us, here are key developments from across the region and beyond:
* Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy has said a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude oil struck a sea mine while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz through a “prohibited” area.
* US President Donald Trump says the US Navy is carrying out an effective blockade of Iran and that no Iranian ship has been able to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
* Yemen’s government-aligned forces say 378 Houthi fighters have been killed or wounded in ground clashes and air attacks in Taiz governorate, while the Saudi-led coalition forces claimed two Houthi ballistic missile launchers were destroyed in Yemen’s northern Saada governorate.
*The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has said that a tanker has been struck by an unknown projectile 68 nautical miles northeast of Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia, on Friday.
* Israeli settlers opened fire at and attacked Palestinian farmers in the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.
*The United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has advised British citizens against all but essential travel to all of Saudi Arabia.
* Pakistan finance minister says attacks on infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were "worrying" for the country's longer-term economic outlook.
* Houthi shelling and sniper fire killed a woman and injured five civilians, including a woman and a young girl, in the Sabir al-Mawadim district southeast of Taiz, Al Jazeera reported, citing Yemeni media report.
* Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has called the destruction of ecosystems caused by the "wars of aggression" an act of "ecocide", urging the international community to establish effective and enforceable mechanisms to protect biodiversity during armed conflicts.
* Three US lawmakers have called on the Trump administration to hold Israeli settlers accountable after an attack on Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine and Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank.
* More than half of the minors held in Israeli prisons in 2025 were placed in solitary confinement at least once, including five boys aged 13 to 14, with the vast majority of the children being Palestinians
* The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has said it was struggling to establish the true number of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz because most vessels attacked were refusing to report incidents to the agency.
* Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said the war on Iran has already cost Europeans more than 100 billion euros ($112bn).
* The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) reports that the number of settler attacks in the West Bank affecting the olive harvest season has already exceeded last year’s number.
* Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz and senior military, police and prison officials have been placed under investigation in Italy over the treatment of Gaza flotilla activists, Italian prosecutors said on Friday.