Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders met in Cairo, pledging closer cooperation and unified stances to defend Palestinians and restore their legitimate rights.

The health ministry’s information center said that 152 Palestinians were martyred in Zionist regime’s attacks on the Gaza Strip during last July, marking the highest monthly toll since the beginning of the year.

Iran's acting defence minister on Sunday dismissed the notion that Tehran might be caught off guard by enemy threats, saying all threats are taken seriously and serve as a basis for increasing preparedness.

The Foreign Ministry has vowed that Iran will use all means at its disposal to exercise its inherent right of self-defense in the face of the United States’ ongoing violations against the country.

Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters Major General Ali Abdollahi has warned regional countries against aligning with the United States, saying any state that acts as a “defensive shield” for Washington will “burn in the fire of war.”

At least eight Palestinians have been martyred and several others wounded in Zionist regime's attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources said, as Zionist regime continues to violate the ceasefire agreement.

The Hamas Movement said that Israel’s commitment to ending the killings and halting its attacks is the fundamental prerequisite and the first step toward implementing the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, stressing that progress to the next stage depends on Israel fully carrying out all provisions of the first phase.

The director general of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip says more than half of medicines in the war-ravaged coastal region are out of stock because of the Israeli regime’s genocidal war and siege, and 28% of diseases in the area are linked to contaminated water.

The Zionist regime’s military has conducted new attacks near Shaqif Fortress (Beaufort Castle) in southern Lebanon, causing huge explosions in adjacent areas.

Yemen’s armed forces have prevented the passage of eight Saudi oil tankers through the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait in line with implementation of Sana’a’s “siege for siege” equation that seeks to retaliate against Riyadh’s blockade on the impoverished Arab Peninsula nation.