Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar made the announcement on Sunday.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes, with his son Mojtaba Khamenei later chosen to succeed him. Iran has responded with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Iran is also attempting to block some shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and expanding its ground operations in the south of the country.
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The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan Ishaq Dar said on Saturday that Iran has agreed to allow 20 more Pakistan-flagged ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, two ships daily.
"This is a welcome and constructive gesture by Iran and deserves appreciation. It is a harbinger of peace and will help usher stability in the region," Dar said.
-ABC News’ Victoria Beaule
In a press conference Saturday, the Lebanese health minister said that Israeli strikes have targeted several paramedics in the last 12 hours alone, killing nine paramedics today.
He said that paramedics who were trying to reach the journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike were also directly targeted in a second attack in that location, killing a paramedic and a civilian.
Fifty-one healthcare workers have been killed in Lebanon since the war began, including 46 paramedics. Eighteen ambulances have been attacked, and nine hospitals. Five hospitals have had to close.
There were five attacks on emergency medical services today, the minister said, four of them deadly.
-ABC News’ Ghazi Balkiz
Israeli forces have killed at least 1,189 people and wounded another 3,427 in Lebanon since March 2, according to the latest tally from the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
Among those killed were 124 children and 51 health sector personnel. Among those wounded were 409 children and 126 health sector personnel, according to the health ministry.
On Friday alone, 26 people were killed and 86 others were wounded, the health ministry said.
-ABC News’ Morgan Winsor
An Israeli strike has reportedly killed two journalists in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
Beirut-based television channel Al Mayadeen said its correspondent Fatima Ftouni was killed by an Israeli strike while on a road in a press-marked vehicle, alongside her brother and another journalist, Ali Shoeib, a correspondent for Hezbollah-owned Al Manar television station.
In a post on X, Al Mayadeen's English account said of Ftouni: "Known for her bravery, steadfastness, and forever love for her profession and her constant desire to deliver the message of her people's resistance to the world, she will continue to live within our hearts for the joy she brought us all as a colleague with her warmth, and her dedication to her field."
Al Manar confirmed Shoeib's death in the same strike. In an online article, the TV station said he "was distinguished by his professional and credible reporting, making him one of the most prominent figures in resistance media in Lebanon and the region."
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it conducted a targeted strike that eliminated Shoeib, whom it claimed "operated within the Hezbollah terrorist organization under the guise of a journalist for the 'Al-Manar' network, while operating systematically to expose the locations of IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon and along the border."
The IDF statement did not mention Ftouni or her brother. ABC News has asked for comment on their reported deaths.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the targeting of journalists, saying the "Israeli aggression violates the most basic principles of international law, international humanitarian law, and the laws of war by targeting journalists, who are ultimately civilians carrying out their professional duty."
"This is a blatant crime that violates all norms and treaties under which journalists enjoy international protection in wars, in accordance with the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their protocols, specifically Article 79 of Additional Protocol I (1977) and Security Council Resolution 1738 (2006), which prohibits targeting journalists and media professionals as long as they are not directly participating in hostilities," the statement added.
-ABC News' Ghazi Balkiz, Dana Savir, Morgan Winsor
