Several videos circulating online purportedly show a facility belonging to the Tabriz Petrochemical Company on fire in northwestern Iran.

The international benchmark Brent crude has surged above $115 a barrel, starting the week more than 3% higher as Asian markets opened and roughly 50% above its level before the US and Israel launched their attack on Iran more than a month ago.

The main US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, has also crossed the psychological threshold and was trading at about $103.13 a barrel.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said a peacekeeper was killed and another critically injured after a projectile exploded at a UN position near Adchit Al Qusayr overnight, in one of the deadliest incidents involving the mission in recent months.

The UN force said it does not yet know the origin of the projectile and has opened an investigation into the circumstances of the blast. In a statement on Sunday, UNIFIL extended condolences to the family and colleagues of the peacekeeper who was killed and said the injured peacekeeper remains in hospital with serious injuries. It urged all parties to protect UN personnel – warning that attacks on peacekeepers may constitute war crimes.

The Israeli Air Force intercepted two drones launched from Yemen in the past hour, according to the IDF.

Yemen’s Houthi armed forces, which control the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north, announced their formal entry into the conflict in the Middle East over the weekend.

The group had stayed out of the fighting since the U.S. and Israel first attacked Tehran on February 28, but on Saturday it fired several missiles at Israel and vowed to continue its strikes “until the aggression against all resistance fronts ceases.”

A suspected US-Israeli attack targeted the Tabriz Petrochemical Company, with a photo shared by Press TV showing a massive fire and a column of smoke rising from the facility.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said after meetings with the foreign ministers of Türkiye, Egypt and Saudi Arabia that Islamabad is pushing for urgent collective efforts to end the widening hostilities in the region.

In a series of posts on X, Sharif said he had stressed the heavy human and economic toll of the conflict across Iran and other Muslim countries, and reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to helping bring Iran and the US to the negotiating table. He also said he had agreed with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan to remain in close coordination, while emphasizing unity among Islamic countries in pursuit of regional peace and stability.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Israel’s expanding military operations in southern Lebanon had killed another health worker, bringing the number of confirmed fatalities among medical personnel to at least 52.

“A paramedic was killed in a strike on an ambulance in Bint Jbeil. Additionally, a medical warehouse in the same city was destroyed in an attack,” Ghebreyesus wrote in a post on X, adding that attacks on health facilities “cannot become the norm” and “must cease immediately.”

Iran’s joint military command spokesperson, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, said Tehran would “start bombing” the private residences of US and Israeli officials in the Middle East, including Israel, calling them legitimate targets “in response to the enemy’s attacks on residential and civilian homes in Iran.”