- US, Iran reject ceasefire -

US President Donald Trump and Iran rejected a ceasefire bid from mediating countries though Trump called it a "significant proposal".

"It's a significant step. It's not good enough, but it's a very significant step," Trump told reporters in Washington.

The White House said Trump had "not signed off" on the proposal, which calls for a 45-day ceasefire.

Iranian state media said the proposal contained 10 undisclosed points, but Tehran "has rejected a ceasefire and insists on the need for a definitive end to the conflict".

- ICRC warning -

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, warned that "deliberate threats... against essential civilian infrastructure and nuclear facilities must not become the new norm in warfare".

"Any war fought without limits is incompatible with the law," she said.

Though Spoljaric did not single out any country or leader, Trump has publicly told Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping by 0000 GMT Wednesday or face strikes on its bridges and power plants.

- Iran gas sites hit -

Israel said it struck Iran's largest petrochemical complex, which services the South Pars natural gas field, the biggest natural gas reserve in the world.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the facility was "destroyed" his country was "systematically eliminating the Revolutionary Guards' money machine".

Strikes also hit another petrochemical complex near the Iranian city of Shiraz, local authorities said.

- IAEA warning -

The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, said attacks near Iran's Bushehr atomic power plant "pose a very real danger to nuclear safety and must stop".

IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said one recent strike hit just 75 metres (245 feet) from the Bushehr perimeter.

- Iran intel chief killed -

A dawn Israeli strike killed the intelligence chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Major General Majid Khademi, Iran said.

The Revolutionary Guards said they were completing preparations to enforce new operating conditions in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's central military command warned of "much more devastating" retaliation if enemies hit civilian targets.

- Deadly strike in Israel -

Israeli officials said the bodies of four people killed in an Iranian strike the previous day on a residential building in the northern city of Haifa had been recovered.

- Houthis target Israel -

Yemen's Houthi rebels said they launched an attack targeting Israel alongside their backer Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

- Israel hits Beirut -

An Israeli strike hit Beirut's southern suburbs as Israel's army said it was targeting Hezbollah. Israeli strikes on Lebanon on Sunday killed at least 15 people and wounded 39, Lebanese officials said.

- Kuwait attack -

An Iranian attack on a residential area in northern Kuwait wounded six people, the health ministry said.

The United Arab Emirates defence ministry also said its air defences responded to a missile and drone attack, with falling debris injuring one person in Abu Dhabi.

- Hormuz passage -

A third Turkish-owned ship has passed through the war-torn Strait of Hormuz, Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said. In a new sign of activity in the strategic waterway, Japanese firm Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said an Indian-flagged LPG tanker owned by a subsidiary had also passed through the strait.

South Korea will meanwhile send five ships to the Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu to help establish alternative oil supply routes avoid the Strait of Hormuz, a ruling MP said. Taiwan said it will also redirect ships to bring crude oil from Saudi Red Sea ports.

- Oil around $110 -

Oil prices fluctuated on Monday, with North Sea Brent, the international benchmark, at $109 a barrel and US West Texas Intermediate at $112 around 1545 GMT.

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