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Middle East crisis live: Iran threatens Israel and US with ‘crushing response’

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Key events Show key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature military said on Saturday it had intercepted three drones launched from the east over the Red Sea, without specifying where they came from, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"A short while ago, three UAVs that were launched from the east were intercepted over the Red Sea .... the UAVs were intercepted prior to crossing into Israeli territory," the military said in a statement.

Share Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon and Gaza kill dozens as rockets are fired into Israel airstrikes on Friday killed at least 52 people and injured scores more, the Lebanese health ministry said, while rockets fired from fell on Israel on Saturday.

Israeli police said 19 people were injured before dawn on Saturday in the central town of . Three projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon, Israel's military said, and some were intercepted.

Magen David Adom ambulance service said two of those injured were in moderate condition from the attack, and the others had lesser injuries. A photo the service released showed damage to what appeared to be an apartment building.

In Lebanon's north-eastern Bekaa valley, rescuers searched for survivors after airstrikes killed nine people and brought down a building that had housed 20 people in the town of .

Further Israeli strikes killed 12 people in the town of and 31 others across at least a dozen villages, bringing the total death toll to 52, the health ministry said. The bombardment left 72 people injured, the ministry added. There was no immediate comment from Israel on the strikes.

The latest violence comes against the backdrop of a renewed diplomatic push by Joe Biden's administration, days before the presidential election, to reach temporary ceasefire deals .

In central recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in a barrage of Israeli aerial attacks that began on Thursday, hospital officials said.

Share Updated at 10.30 CET Iran's supreme leader threatens Israel and US with 'a crushing response' over Israeli attack's supreme leader on Saturday threatened and the with "a crushing response" over attacks on Iran and its allies, reports the Associated Press (AP). Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its 26 October attack that targeted military bases and other locations and killed at least five people. Any further attacks from either side could engulf the wider Middle East, already teetering over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and Israel's ground invasion of , into a wider regional conflict just head of the US presidential election this Tuesday. "The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front," Khamenei said in video released by Iranian state media. The AP reports that Khamenei did not elaborate on the timing of the threatened attack, nor the scope. Khamenei had struck a more cautious approach in earlier remarks, saying officials would weigh Iran's response and that Israel's attack "should not be exaggerated nor downplayed."

In other developments:

Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 52 people and injured scores more, the Lebanese health ministry said, while rockets fired from Lebanon fell on Israel on Saturday. Israeli police said 19 people were injured before dawn on Saturday in the central town of Tira. Three projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon, Israel's military said, and some were intercepted.

The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is "apocalyptic" as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations officials have warned. "The entire Palestinian population in north Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence," they said in a statement on Friday signed by the heads of UN agencies, including the UN children's agency Unicef and the World Food Programme, and other aid groups.

The US asked Lebanon to declare a unilateral ceasefire to revive stalled talks to end hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah , according to a report later denied by the Lebanese prime minister. Two unnamed sources, a Lebanese political source and a senior diplomat, made the claim to Reuters, saying the US envoy, Amos Hochstein, had communicated the proposal to Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, this week.

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