Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

President Trump says the U.S. has begun a blockade of Iranian ports.

He's trying to get Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz and accept a deal to end the war.

We can't let a country blackmail or extort the world because that's what they're doing.

They're really blackmailing the world. We're not

going to let that happen. Iran responded with threats on U.S. allied ports in the region that poses

serious risks for the global economy and the nearly week-long ceasefire. The Lebanese Red Cross is

accusing Israel of directly targeting one of its ambulance teams in an attack yesterday that

killed one

paramedic and wounded another. Lebanon's government says at least 87 health workers have been

killed in Israeli attacks during this current invasion. Israel has accused Hezbollah of transporting

weapons in ambulances. NPR's Lauren Freer reports. The Lebanese Red Cross says its paramedic

Hassan Badawi suffered a direct strike by an Israeli drone

while carrying out his humanitarian duty during an emergency response mission in Binjibal near the Israeli border.

The area has been under invasion by Israel, which calls it a Hezbollah stronghold.

The Red Cross notifies the Israeli military via United Nations peacekeepers

whenever it sends out an ambulance team.

Lebanon's health ministry called Badawi's killing a violation of international humanitarian law.

Human rights groups call Israel's repeated killing of medics here a war crime.

Israel says it abides by the law, but sometimes revokes legal protections

for health workers if they misuse their role. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut. A federal judge has

dismissed President Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. Trump sued over an

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