Oil prices climbed on Wednesday as concerns over Red Sea shipping and threats to Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure fuelled fears of supply disruptions.

Brent crude futures rose $1.21 to $110 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate gained more than $1 to reach $99 a barrel.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has been working with Oman to map designated maritime routes through the Strait of Hormuz as groundwork for a potential future reopening.

Speaking to Iraqi Media Network, Araghchi said the routes and their geographical coordinates had been established. The arrangements would still need to be registered with the International Maritime Organisation and submitted for its consideration.

Three Palestinians have been injured in attacks by Israeli occupiers across the occupied West Bank, as Israeli forces raided several towns, detained residents and used a Palestinian as a human shield, Palestinian sources said.

Rights activist Osama Makhamra said two Palestinians suffered fractures and other injuries when Israeli occupiers attacked a family’s home in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

A third Palestinian, aged 60, was injured in a separate attack on olive harvesters east of Yatta, where occupiers also stole the family’s crop.

Voice of Palestine radio separately reported that occupiers stabbed a young Palestinian near Bethlehem

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned that any rocket or drone fire targeting Israel would prompt strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

In a post on the US social media platform X, Katz said Israel could expand its occupation toward the Nabatieh and Litani areas if Lebanon’s Hezbollah group joined an Iranian attack.

He warned that residents of any newly seized territory would be evacuated and the areas permanently “incorporated” into what Israel calls its “security zone” in Lebanon.

Counter-terrorism police hold two men on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service and say Iranian state involvement in the RAF Fairford incident is highly likely.

The European Union is exploring ways to increase its support for Yemen's government and is ready to back mediation efforts to resume meaningful political negotiations, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.

Addressing a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Kallas said the EU was examining options to increase its support for Yemen amid escalating Houthi militia attacks and worsening regional security.

Emphasising the need for a diplomatic solution, she said the EU was ready to support efforts to revive political negotiations.

"We also stand ready to support all mediation efforts to resume meaningful political negotiations. Escalation will leave everyone worse off," Kallas said.

Iran has not received a response from Saudi Arabia or Houthi militia to its offer to help broker talks to end the fighting between them, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in a television interview aired on Tuesday.

Araqchi offered to help facilitate dialogue as Houthi militia intensified strikes on Saudi Arabia earlier this month.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has confirmed a recent visit to Israel, where he met US troops and spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I was there visiting our troops [and] had a chance to talk to the prime minister,” Hegseth told reporters.

He declined to disclose what they discussed, saying: “Of course, the nature of our conversation is not something I would talk about, but they’ve been good partners, and I appreciate that.”

Iranian officials meet Pakistan's army chief Munir, who is in Tehran as part of a renewed push to mediate a peace deal between Iran and the United States.

British police have said they had re-arrested two men on suspicion of “assisting” Iranian intelligence as part of their investigation into activity at the RAF Fairford airbase last month.

Counter Terrorism Policing said in a statement that they had re-arrested a 24-year-old British national, who was initially arrested outside the military base in southwest England in the early hours of September 27.

Police said they had also arrested a 25-year-old British-Iranian dual national who had previously been arrested in London.