Overview
- Iran fired multiple missile waves at Israel early Tuesday, with a direct hit in Tel Aviv that injured several people, according to Israeli officials and media.
- Israel struck targets in Lebanon overnight, including an apartment near Beirut that killed at least two people, as raids continued across the south.
- Saudi Arabia said it shot down 19 drones, Kuwait reported interceptions that caused power-line damage, and Bahrain sounded repeated alarms as Gulf defenses engaged new threats.
- President Trump extended by five days his demand that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz and said the U.S. is in talks with Tehran, a claim senior Iranian officials publicly denied as fake.
- Despite the pause on power stations, strikes continued inside Iran, with blasts reported in Tehran and hits on gas facilities and a pipeline in Isfahan and near Khorramshahr, while the war’s toll has climbed past 1,500 dead in Iran, over 1,000 in Lebanon, and oil hovers near $100 as shipping through Hormuz stays restricted.