Iran warned Tuesday of "destructive" influence on diplomacy ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington for talks expected to focus on U.S. negotiations with Tehran.

"Our negotiating party is America. It is up to America to decide to act independently of the pressures and destructive influences that are detrimental to the region," said Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei in a weekly press briefing.

Rubble is all that remains of the building once home to Adnan Mardash's grocery shop in north Lebanon's Tripoli after it collapsed, killing 14 people and shining a spotlight on the impoverished city's neglect.

Mardash, 54, said he shut the small ground-floor store where he worked for more than three decades and went to his nearby home shortly before the disaster on Sunday afternoon.

The secretary of Iran's top security body said he will visit Oman on Tuesday, as the Gulf sultanate mediates nuclear talks between the Islamic republic and the United States.

Saudi Arabia and seven other Muslim countries on Monday condemned new Israeli measures to tighten control of the West Bank and pave the way for more settlements on the occupied Palestinian territory.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon killed four people on Monday including a Lebanese security forces member and his child, hours after the Israeli army seized a member of Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya.

Israel frequently strikes Lebanon despite a November 2024 ceasefire aimed at ending more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah.

Lebanon's health ministry expressed surprise and said it would seek clarification after Kuwait inscribed several private hospitals in the Mediterranean country on its "terror" list on Sunday.

Kuwait's foreign ministry issued a circular indicating that it had listed the eight hospitals as part of regulations related to "combatting terrorism."

The death toll in a building collapse in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli rose to 14 after search and rescue operations ended, the civil defense chief said Monday.

The building consisted of two blocks, each containing six apartments in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood, one of the poorest areas in the city. Twenty-two people were inside at the time of the collapse.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Sunday continued his visit to south Lebanon and inspected the war-hit border town of Kfarkela.

"The town has witnessed a disaster and we will work on reorganizing it and rehabilitating infrastructure to secure residents' return, seeing as the process of repairing roads and installing a telecom network will begin in the coming weeks," Salam said in Kfarkela.

U.S. President Donald Trump's lead Iran negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have visited the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, the US military said, with Washington and Tehran due to hold further talks soon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday to "discuss with him the negotiations with Iran", the premier's office said.