Middle East crisis live: China warns world cannot return to ‘law of the jungle’; Trump says Iran being ‘decimated’

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US-Israel war on Iran ‘should never have happened’ as strikes continue to hit Tehran and Beirut

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Israel is renewing its assault on southern Lebanon, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in Beirut.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it would “not allow Iranian terrorist elements to establish themselves in Lebanese territory”.