US-Israel war on Iran live updates: conflict spreads to Lebanon as IDF strikes Hezbollah after attack on Israel | US-Israel war on Iran
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Israel launched heavy air strikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut after the Iran-backed group launched missiles and drones at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader.
More than a dozen explosions shook Beirut on Monday, witnesses said, in the most intense attacks on the southern suburbs since the 2024 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanese security sources said the air strikes hit several areas of the southern suburbs known as Dahiyeh, Reuters reported.
The Israeli military said it began hitting Hezbollah targets across Lebanon and held Hezbollah responsible.
“Hezbollah launched a campaign against Israel overnight and is fully responsible for any escalation of tensions,” Israeli chief of staff Eyal Zamir said in a statement.
The bullets fired by Hezbollah were the first since the beginning of the US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Lebanese security sources said Israel also carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.
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Hello, welcome to our ongoing live coverage of events in the Middle East shaken by the US-Israeli war against Iran and the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Israeli military said the attack early Monday was dramatic Hezbollah against LebanonAfter the militant group launched missiles and drones Israel In retaliation for the killing of Khamenei.
The projectiles were fired by the Lebanese militant group for the first time since the beginning of the war. WE And Israel is shooting Iranian.
Shia Muslim The group, one of Tehran’s main allies in the Middle East, said it launched the attack on Israel in response to Israel’s killing of Khamenei and Israel’s continued violations of Lebanon.
Explosions heard in Lebanon’s capital BeirutAccording to eyewitnesses. Lebanese security sources told Reuters that Israel struck the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold.
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Iran’s religious leader Ali Khamenei was killed on Saturday after the United States and Israel launched a war on the country to trigger regime change. The US president had previously announced the death of the Ayatollah, who has ruled Iran since 1989, in a post on Truth Social. former president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad He was also killed during strikes.
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Donald Trump warned on Sunday that combat operations in Iran are continuing and will continue “until all of our objectives are achieved.” Continuing to justify the operation, he said: “An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be a grave threat to every American… I once again call on the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military police, to lay down their weapons and obtain full immunity or face certain death.”
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Trump told Fox News that 48 leaders were killed in US and Israeli attacks on Iran. “It’s progressing. It’s progressing rapidly. It’s been this way for 47 years,” he said. “Nobody can believe the success we’ve had, 48 leaders gone in one shot.”
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The Ministry of Defense confirms a suspected drone strike hit RAF Akrotiri, a UK base in Cyprus. There was no loss of life in the incident at the base. The suspected attack came just hours after Keir Starmer said the UK had allowed the US to strike Iranian missile sites from British bases as authorities planned an unprecedented rescue operation for British nationals in the Gulf.
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Oil prices rose and stock markets remained under pressure following intense US-Israeli attacks on Monday Iranian has led to fears of significant global economic disruption. Brent crude oil reached its highest level in 14 months, reaching $ 82 per barrel, with an increase of up to 13 percent in early trading, as the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important arteries of global trade, increased concerns about oil supply.
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Three US soldiers were killed as part of US military operations against IranU.S. Central Command said in a statement Sunday. These are the first confirmed deaths since the United States launched an offensive against Iran on Saturday. Trump warned in his Truth Social video that there would likely be more casualties.
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The death toll in a missile attack on a girls’ school in southern Iran has risen to almost 150.According to Iranian state media. Mizan news agency, the official news agency of the Iranian judiciary, reported that the number of people killed in the attack on a girls’ primary school in Minab in southern Iran on Saturday increased to 148 and 95 people were injured. The school shooting on Saturday morning appears to be the largest mass casualty incident so far in the US-Israeli-led bombing campaign against Iran.
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Trump had previously said that Iran’s new leadership wanted to talk to him and he agreed.According to an interview with The Atlantic. “They want to talk and I agreed to talk, so I will talk to them. They should have done this before,” he said.
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Only 27 percent of Americans approve of US attack that killed Iranian leader As of Saturday, nearly half of Republicans — including one in four Republicans — believe Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday.
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War caused major disruption to the airline industry and the plans of hundreds of thousands of passengers As countries in the region closed their airspace and three of the major airports connecting Europe, Africa and the west to Asia ceased operations.
