Iran war LIVE: LPG tanker Shivalik arrives in Gujarat after crossing Strait of Hormuz

Emirati authorities have closed the main road and tunnel leading to Dubai International Airport.

Dubai Police urged drivers to use alternative roads.

Mohammed bin Salman and Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed the latest regional developments in a phone call, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement early Monday.

The United Arab Emirates' Defence Ministry said forces were intercepting Iranian missiles and drones Monday morning.

US President Donald Trump is suggesting he may delay his much-anticipated visit to China at the end of the month as he seeks to ramp up the pressure on Beijing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and calm oil prices that have soared during the Iran war.

In an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday, Trump said China's reliance on oil from the Middle East means it ought to help with a new coalition he is trying to put together to get oil tanker traffic moving through the strait after Iran's threats have throttled global flows of oil. Trump said “we'd like to know” before the trip whether Beijing will help. "We may delay,” Trump said in the interview.

The uncertainty underscores just how much the US-Israeli strikes on Iran have reshaped global politics in the past two weeks. Calling off the face-to-face visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping could have its own major economic consequences: Relations between Washington and Beijing have been fraught as both sides have threatened the other with steep tariffs over the past year.

An Emirates flight bound for Dubai from Thiruvananthapuram returned to the airport on Monday following a security incident reported at the destination airport.

The Emirates TRV-DXB flight returned midway after Dubai International Airport closed and landed at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, a spokesperson of the airport said.

The flight with 353 passengers and 19 crew members departed at 4.40 am and returned at 8.40 am. He said the passengers would be shifted to the terminal.

A large fire erupted near Dubai International Airport early Monday after a drone strike hit a nearby fuel tank, forcing authorities to temporarily halt flight operations as a precaution amid the ongoing US-Israel-Iran conflict in the Middle East.

Dubai officials confirmed that civil defence teams were swiftly dispatched to contain the blaze, and no injuries have been reported so far. The incident occurred at one of the world’s busiest airports, located close to Dubai’s city centre.

The attack followed Iran’s call a day earlier for the evacuation of three major ports in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—the first time Tehran has directly threatened non-US assets in a neighbouring country. Iran accused Washington of using UAE facilities to launch recent strikes on Kharg Island, the hub of its oil export operations.

“The drone incident near Dubai International Airport (DXB) affected one of the fuel tanks. Dubai Civil Defence teams are working to bring the fire under control. No injuries have been reported,” the Dubai Media Office stated.

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has “demanded” that about seven countries heavily reliant on Middle East oil join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz.

About one-fifth the world's traded oil flows through the waterway.

This came after Trump's appeal to China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz “open and safe” brought no commitments on Sunday as oil prices soar during the Iran war.

The president declined to name the countries he the administration is negotiating with for protection for the strait.

“I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their own territory,” Trump said about the strait, claiming the vital shipping channel is not something the United States needs because of its own access to oil.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told CBS that Tehran has been “approached by a number of countries” seeking safe passage for their vessels, “and this is up to our military to decide.” He said a group of vessels from “different countries” had been allowed to pass, without providing details.

The brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week, who was killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, was a Hezbollah commander, Israel's military claimed Sunday.

Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in Lebanon along with three other of the attacker's relatives on March 5 — a week before authorities allege Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his car into a major synagogue outside Detroit and killed himself after security fired at him.

The FBI's Detroit office, which is investigating the synagogue attack, declined to comment on the claims by Israel's military about Ibrahim Ghazali.

On Thursday, Ayman Ghazali waited in his car outside Temple Israel, near Detroit, for about two hours with a rifle, commercial grade fireworks and jugs of liquid believed to be gasoline, before crashing into the building full of dozens of children, according to authorities.

At least 12 Palestinians, including two boys, a pregnant woman and eight police officers, were killed Sunday by Israeli airstrikes in the war-torn Gaza Strip, hospital authorities said.

A strike Sunday morning hit a house in the urban refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza and killed four people, including a couple in their 30s and their 10-year son, according to the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. The woman had been pregnant with twins, the hospital said.

The fourth fatality, a 15-year-old neighbor, was taken to the Awda hospital in Nuseirat.

“We were sleeping and got up to the strike of a missile. The strike was strong,” said Mahmoud al-Muhtaseb, a neighbor. “There was no prior warning.” Another strike Sunday afternoon hit a police vehicle on the south-north Salah al-Din route at the entrance of the central town of Zawaida, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said.