Israel warns Iranians off railways before Trump deadline

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people and wounded several others outside a school sheltering displaced Palestinians on Monday, health officials said, in the latest violence since a fragile U.S.-backed ceasefire began in Gaza in October.

The strike followed clashes near the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, where medics and residents said Palestinians confronted members of an Israeli-backed militia after the group tried to abduct people at the school. They said Israeli drones then fired two missiles into the area.

It was not immediately clear how many of those killed were civilians.

Ahmed al-Maghazi, an eyewitness, told Reuters that militia members operating near territory controlled by Israeli forces attacked the area before opening fire. “The residents tried to defend their homes, but the occupation forces targeted them directly,” he said.

Later Monday, a leader of one of the Israeli-backed militias said in a video that Reuters could not immediately authenticate that the group had killed about five Hamas members. Hamas did not immediately comment. It has described groups operating in Israeli-controlled areas as “Israeli collaborators.”

Earlier Monday, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed one Palestinian and wounded a child traveling on a motorbike in Gaza City. They said Israeli forces later killed another Palestinian by firing on a vehicle in central Gaza, bringing the day’s death toll to at least 12.

The Israeli military said it fired at an “unmarked vehicle” that kept accelerating toward troops despite “warning shots.”

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a contractor in Gaza was killed during a security incident, prompting the agency to suspend medical evacuations from Gaza through Rafah to Egypt until further notice.

The Israeli military said two local World Health Organization employees were injured and that the incident was under review. The World Health Organization said two staff members were present but were not injured.

Hamas, which has governed Gaza since 2007, and Israel have traded blame for ceasefire violations. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli fire had killed at least 700 people since the ceasefire began. Israel said four soldiers had been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.

Hamas has refused to give up its weapons, a key obstacle in talks on the next steps in President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Gaza. On Sunday, Hamas’ armed wing said discussing disarmament before Israel fully implemented the plan’s first phase was an attempt to continue what it called a genocide against Palestinians.

Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to Gaza health authorities, and has left much of the territory in ruins and most residents displaced.

Israel’s military warned Iranians on Tuesday not to use trains or go near railway lines, hours before President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

“For the sake of your security, we kindly request that ‌‌‌‌from this moment until 21:00 Iran time [17:30 GMT], you refrain from using and travelling by train throughout Iran,” the military said on X. “Your presence on trains and ⁠⁠⁠⁠near railway lines endangers your ⁠⁠⁠⁠life,” it added on its Persian-language account.

Trump had threatened to bomb Iran’s bridges and power plants unless Iran reopened the strait by Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST, or 0100 GMT Wednesday. Iran warned of retaliation if civilian infrastructure was hit.

Earlier, Israel’s military said it had completed a new wave of airstrikes on infrastructure across Iran, including Tehran. Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency reported that one strike hit a residential building in central Tehran and also destroyed an adjacent synagogue.

On Monday, Israeli forces attacked a petrochemical facility on Iran’s side of the South Pars gas field, which it shares with Qatar. Iran’s Health Ministry said at least 2,076 people had been killed in U.S.-Israeli attacks since the war began more than five weeks ago.

Amid the threats, traffic on the King Fahd Causeway linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain was briefly suspended, according to a post on X from the authority overseeing the bridge, which cited Iranian attacks targeting Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The bridge later reopened.

The 25-kilometer, or 16-mile, causeway is Bahrain’s only road link to the Arabian Peninsula. Bahrain hosts the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.

Israel struck a petrochemical facility at Iran’s South Pars natural gas field and killed senior Iranian security officials, as regional mediators sought a new ceasefire proposal between Iran and the United States.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel carried out “a powerful strike on the largest petrochemical facility in Iran.” South Pars, which Iran shares with Qatar, is the world’s largest natural gas field.

In Tehran, explosions were reported for hours on Monday. Iranian state media and Katz said one strike killed Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, the intelligence chief of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Israel’s military said it also killed Asghar Bakeri, whom it identified as the head of an undercover unit in the Guard’s Quds Force.

One strike hit the grounds of Sharif University of Technology, where Iranian media reported damage to buildings and to a nearby natural gas distribution site. It was not immediately clear what on the campus was targeted.

Iranian media reported other deaths in and around Tehran, Qom, and Eslamshahr. State television said three people were killed when an airstrike hit a home in Tehran. IRAN daily reported at least 15 people were killed near Eslamshahr, five in Qom, and six in other cities.

In Israel, Iranian missiles struck Haifa, where four people were found dead in the rubble of a residential building.

Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia activated air defenses to intercept Iranian missiles and drones, according to the report. Brent crude rose to $109 in early Monday trading, about 50% above its level at the start of the war.

President Donald Trump said Iran faced a Monday night Washington deadline to reopen the strait or the U.S. would target power plants and other infrastructure. In a social media post, he wrote, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” and later posted, “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!” It was unclear whether that meant the deadline had changed.

More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran since the war began, according to the report. It said 23 people have been reported killed in Israel, and 13 U.S. service members have been killed.