US President Joe Biden said on Thursday he will not negotiate in public when asked if he had urged Israel not to attack Iran's oil facilities.

Israel has been weighing options to respond to Iran's ballistic missile attack on Tuesday.

The US has said it will work with Israel to make sure Iran faced severe consequences, but ruled out support for any strikes on Iranian oil facilities.

"I don't negotiate in public," Mr Biden told reporters when asked if he was telling Israel not to attack Iran's oil facilities.

Asked if he worried an Israeli strike on Iran’s oil facilities would raise oil prices, he said; "If a hurricane hits, prices are going to go up. I don’t know; who knows."

Biden was also asked why he had not spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent days. He replied: "Because there’s no action going on right now."

Reporting by Reuters

Earlier, we reported that opposition leader Peter Dutton is calling for Iran's ambassador to Australia to be expelled.

Iranian ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi praised Hezbollah's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah as a martyr and "remarkable leader" in comments on social media. 

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More than 1 million people across Lebanon have been uprooted from their homes since hostilities intensified between Israel and Hezbollah on September 24, the UN estimates.

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati has called it the largest displacement the nation may have ever witnessed, with one fifth of the population impacted.

Families have been seeking shelter in makeshift tents on the streets of Beirut after their homes were destroyed by Israeli strikes. 

Once known as the Paris of the Middle East, the city, still in economic ruin, finds itself caught up in armed conflict — yet again. 

Read more on how the Lebanese people are being impacted by Israel's fight against Hezbollah:

Earlier, we brought you the news that a 12-year-old woman who was kidnapped by Islamic State group militants in Iraq when she was 11 had been freed from Gaza after a decade in captivity.

In a secret US-led operation this week, Fawzia Sido was rescued and reunited with her family after her captor died and she was able to escape and seek repatriation, officials said.  

Read the full story here, and catch the moment she meets her relatives at an unknown location:

 Here's Save the Children’s Racha Chedid talking more about what the conflict in the Middle East means for children and their education and well-being. 

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This is the fifth year of interrupted education that children are facing in Lebanon.

30 per cent of those displaced are children.

"Schools have been closed for the past two weeks, which has impacted 1.5 million children which are of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian nationalities," Save the Children's Racha Chedid told ABC News Breakfast. 

"Children are witnessing this conflict, and this is having a huge negative impact on their future and well being," she added. 

"They [children] are not only missing out on the right to learn, but are also are being stripped of a sense of security and normality." 

US President Joe Biden has told reporters at the White House "we can avoid" all-out war in the Middle East, as Israel bombarded Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon and weighed retaliation for an Iranian missile attack.

"I don't believe there is going to be an all-out war. I think we can avoid it," he said, when asked how confident he was full-blown war in the region could be averted.

"But there is a lot to do yet, a lot to do yet," Mr Biden added.

Dr Ramanan Krishnamoorti from the University of Houston explains:

"If the evacuation of crude oil out of the Middle East is affected, we could easily lose 5 to 10 millions per day of production, in a matter of days.

"If that happens, we will see a significant increase in the price of crude oil, and that would result in an increase in the price of gasoline and diesel." 

About 5 per cent of the world's total oil comes from Iran, he says, and 20 per cent from the Middle East collectively.

Here he talks more on the economic impacts that could be felt should Israel hit Iranian refineries:

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is calling for Iran's ambassador to Australia to be expelled, after he praised Hezbollah's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah as a martyr and "remarkable leader".

Iranian ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi made the remarks on social media after Nasrallah was assassinated in an Israeli air strike late last month.

Dutton says he should not remain in Australia.

"I think the comments from the Iranian ambassador are completely and utterly at odds with what is in our countries' best interests and the prime minister and the foreign minister should show the strength of character and expel him from our country," he says.

Iran's ambassador was called in by the foreign department in August over a separate social media post agitating for the violent removal of Israelis from "the holy lands of Palestine".

A joint police statement has warned there will be no tolerance for illegal behaviour across Australia in the lead-up to planned pro-Palestinian events this weekend. 

The statement, from all states and the federal police, reads: "Police respect the right to peacefully protest and assemble in Australia, however, there will be no tolerance for illegal behaviour or violence on any day of the year.

"In Australia, there are offences that prohibit behaviour that incites or advocates violence or hatred based on race and religion, including the display of prohibited symbols in public under these circumstances.

"It is also a serious offence to counsel, promote, encourage, urge, instruct or praise terrorism."

Law enforcement agencies are planning for upcoming protests in some states and territories, it added. 

Thousands are expected to rally through Sydney this weekend to mark the one-year anniversary of the Israel-Gaza conflict on October 7.