Middle East crisis live: Israel and Iran exchange fresh round of strikes as attacks intensify

The EU’s top diplomat has urged calm after Iran and Israel traded strikes , testing the fragile truce and threatening to drag the Middle East region back into war. “Overnight, we have seen escalation again,” Kaja Kallas said on Monday. double quotation mark I think the region does not need an escalation, but actually that parties sit down to a negotiation table and agree.”