The latest developments in the Middle East war: - Iran hangs man - JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Iran hanged a man convicted of involvement in the killing of a security forces volunteer during anti-government protests, the judiciary said. “Mehrab Abdollahzadeh’s death sentence was carried out this morning after completing the legal formalities,” said the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.

- Gaza flotilla in court - Two foreign activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were brought to Israel for interrogation appeared before an Israeli court, a rights group defending them told AFP. Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian Thiago Avilo were taken to court in the city of Ashkelon, according to Miriam Azem, international advocacy coordinator at the Israeli rights group Adalah.

Advertisement - Israel’s Lebanon warning - Israel’s military issued new evacuation warnings in southern Lebanon for villages beyond the area it occupies, despite a truce with Lebanon intended to halt fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah. The warning covers more than 10 villages and towns, including several in the district of Nabatieh, which lies north of the Litani River.

Israel has stationed troops south of the river. - Iran museum - Iranian authorities plan to turn a bombsite at a university in central Iran into a museum about the impact of US-Israeli strikes, an official said. “The current damaged site will be preserved as a war museum at the university to remain a document of the country’s scientific oppression in history,” said Zafarollah Kalantari, head of Isfahan University of Technology.

Other Topics of Interest US Lawmakers Oppose Troop Withdrawal From Germany, Urge Move East Key Republican chairmen have warned that President Trump’s plan to pull 5,000 troops from Germany sends the “wrong signal” to Russia, suggesting the forces be relocated to NATO’s eastern flank instead - Trump says US numbers in Germany to come ‘way down’ - US President Donald Trump said the United States would withdraw more troops from Germany than was previously announced by the Pentagon.

“We’re going to cut way down, and we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000,” he told reporters Saturday, without providing details. Earlier, a NATO spokeswoman said the alliance was seeking more information on the US decision, which came after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Iran was “humiliating” the Trump administration in negotiations.

Advertisement - Trump casts doubt - Trump said he would review a new Iranian peace deal but cast doubt over its prospects, as Iranian media reported Tehran had submitted a 14-point proposal to mediator Pakistan. “I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can’t imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

Iran’s Tasnim and Fars news agencies said Iran had submitted a 14-point proposal. It reportedly includes ending the conflict on all fronts and enacting a new framework for the crucial Strait of Hormuz, according to Tasnim. - Three killed in Lebanon - Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon on Saturday killed three people in Sammaiyeh in the Tyre district.

The Israeli military said it carried out strikes dismantling “approximately 70 military structures and approximately 50 Hezbollah infrastructure sites” across southern Lebanon. Advertisement - Israel damages convent - A Catholic charity condemned what it called the “deliberate act of destruction against a place of worship” after a convent was damaged by Israeli forces in Lebanon.

The Israeli military confirmed a “religious building” was damaged by troops operating in the village of Yaroun and “houses located in a religious compound” were “damaged” during an operation to “destroy terrorist infrastructure”. French Catholic charity L’Oeuvre d’Orient said troops “destroyed” a convent belonging to the Salvatorian Sisters, a Greek-Catholic religious order the charity is affiliated with.