Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war on Sunday:
Iran’s military threatened to completely shut the Strait of Hormuz if US President Donald Trump acts on his threats to target the country’s power plants.
“The Strait of Hormuz will be completely closed, and it will not be reopened until our destroyed power plants are rebuilt,” the military’s operational command Khatam Al-Anbiya said in a statement on state television.
Israel’s military struck a key bridge in south Lebanon, an AFP correspondent nearby said. It followed the Israeli defence minister saying he ordered bridges in the area to be hit after alleging they were used by Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Defence Minister Israel Katz also told the army to “accelerate the demolition of Lebanese houses in the contact villages in order to thwart threats to Israeli communities”.
The Israeli military said it has “begun a wide wave of strikes against Hezbollah terrorist organisation infrastructure in southern Lebanon”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to pursue senior commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “personally”, during a visit to an Israeli town struck by an Iranian missile the previous day.
“We’re going after the regime. We’re going after the IRGC, this criminal gang,” Netanyahu said as he inspected the damage in the southern town of Arad.
The World Health Organization warned that strikes around nuclear sites in Iran and Israel had pushed the Middle East war to a “perilous stage”.
“I urgently call on all parties to exercise maximum military restraint and avoid any actions that could trigger nuclear incidents,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.
Iran’s powerful parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf threatened to irreversibly destroy vital infrastructure across the region, which he said would cause oil prices to rise “for a long time”, if the United States and Israel attacked Tehran’s.
“Immediately after power plants and infrastructure in our country are targeted, vital infrastructure as well as energy and oil infrastructure across the entire region will be considered legitimate targets and will be irreversibly destroyed,” Ghalibaf said in a social media post.
Israel’s military said that Iran had fired more than 400 ballistic missiles at Israel since the start of the Middle East war, with around 92 percent of them intercepted.
Three Turkish nationals, including a serviceman, and three Qatari military personnel were killed when a helicopter crashed in Qatar’s territorial waters, the Gulf country’s defence ministry said.
While Qatar has been targeted by several Iranian strikes since the start of the Middle East war, no connection has been made between the chopper and the conflict triggered by US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
Iran’s critical water and energy infrastructure have suffered extensive damage due to US and Israeli strikes, the country’s energy minister Abbas Aliabadi said.
“The attacks targeted dozens of water transmission and treatment facilities and destroyed parts of critical water supply networks,” he said, adding that repairs were under way.
At least six overnight attacks targeted a US diplomatic and logistics centre at Baghdad’s International Airport, two Iraqi security officials told AFP.
“Eight separate attacks, carried out until dawn with rockets and drones targeted the US centre,” a senior security official told AFP, while a second security official said there had been six strikes.
Israel said rocket fire from Lebanon killed one person as Hezbollah said it attacked soldiers in northern Israel, the first fatality there in fire from Lebanon since the latest war erupted.
Local firefighters said flames engulfed two vehicles after a “direct hit” in the northern Israeli kibbutz community of Misgav Am.
Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said three ballistic missiles were detected around the capital Riyadh, while the UAE said it responded to Iranian missile and drone attacks.
The Israeli military said its forces launched a wave of strikes on Tehran, hours after Iranian missile fire hit two cities in southern Israel.
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