An Israeli airstrike slammed into a densely populated residential area in Lebanon’s capital near key government and diplomatic buildings late Monday, killing at least five people as the U.S. pressed ahead with cease-fire efforts.

A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a commercial ship late Sunday night traveling through the southern reaches of the Red Sea, though it caused no damage nor injuries, authorities said.

A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut killed the chief spokesman for the Hezbollah militant group on Sunday, while an Israeli strike in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya killed at least 30 people.

A U.S. official said Iran’s U.N. ambassador sought the meeting with Musk and that it did not take place at the Iranian mission to the U.N. However, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman denied the meeting happened and expressed surprise at the extensive media coverage on the matter.

Israeli ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago before pulling back Saturday after battles with Hezbollah militants, Lebanese state media reported.

The last time Donald Trump was U.S. president it spelled disaster for Iran — he walked away from a landmark nuclear deal, derailed the country’s economy with sanctions and killed its most revered general. 

As a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei visited Lebanon for talks, Lebanese officials said an American proposal for a cease-fire deal had been passed on to Hezbollah. Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister appeared to urge Iran to convince the militant group to agree to a deal.

A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and expressed hope that the incoming and outgoing U.S. administrations would work together to bring the remaining hostages home.

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 12 Lebanese rescue workers on Thursday inside a civil defense center in the eastern city of Baalbek, according to health and rescue officials, hours after state media in Syria said Israeli strikes in and around the capital killed at least 15 people.

Rafael Mariano Grossi of the IAEA was visiting Tehran in an effort to restore his inspectors’ access to Iran’s program and answer still-outstanding questions over it, as he has on previous trips with limited success since Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the Islamic Republic’s nuclear deal with world powers.