• U.S.-listed shares of copper miners fall premarket, tracking lower prices of the red metal [MET/L]

• Benchmark three-month copper on London Metal Exchange down 1.2% at $13,210 a metric ton

• Copper prices dip after fresh hostilities in the Middle East threatened an interim ceasefire deal, reviving worries about economic growth and the supply of metals

• Shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Group fall 3.5% and 3%, respectively

• Copper miners Southern Copper and Freeport-McMoRan down 3.9% and 2.6%, respectively

• Canada's Hudbay Minerals slide 3%, Ero Copper down marginally and Teck Resources

falls 4.5%

(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)