A consulate in Dubai, CIA station in Saudi Arabia and US base in Qatar all sustained hits
The Israeli military advised residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate on Wednesday, as it expands its operations against Hezbollah.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said residents should move to the area north of Litani River, which runs 20 to 30 kilometers (12 to 20 miles) north of the Israeli border. “Anyone located near Hezbollah operatives, facilities, or weapon is putting their life at risk,” the IDF said on X.
There was a further Israeli air strike on southern Beirut early Wednesday. And an Israeli strike on a four-story building killed at least four people and wounded six others in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, according to state news agency NNA.
Israel launched airstrikes and a limited ground incursion on Monday after Hezbollah fired rockets and missiles across the border in support of Iran.
Lebanese Foreign minister Youssef Raggi repeated Wednesday the government’s “determination to proceed with the decision to restrict weapons” in the country, essentially demanding that Hezbollah disarms.
Israel is bombarding Iran and Lebanon, as Tehran continues retaliation. Catch up here
It is now the fifth day of conflict in the Middle East, and Israel is continuing to bombard both Iran and Lebanon, with more than a thousand civilians reported to have been killed in the Islamic Republic since Saturday.
Tehran is also continuing its strikes on its neighbors, having launched drones and missiles towards several Gulf countries in retaliation for the US and Israel’s attacks.
Catch up on the very latest here:
- Four of the six US service members who were killed in an Iranian strike on a Kuwaiti port on Sunday have been identified.
- At least five people have been killed by an Israeli strike on a four-story residential building in the Lebanese city of Baalbek this morning, according to Lebanese state media.
- Israel has said that it hit command centers of Iran’s domestic security apparatus in strikes on Tehran overnight.
- Smoke has been seen near Beirut’s international airport this morning, as well as near the Iranian city of Esfahan.
- The US State Department has ordered non-emergency US staff in the cities of Lahore and Karachi to leave Pakistan “due to safety risks.”
- Israel has warned that any new leader appointed by Iran’s ruling clerics would be “an unequivocal target for elimination.”
- Iran’s foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of bombing his country “out of spite.”
- France has deployed Rafale fighter jets over the skies of the United Arab Emirates to protect its military bases there, its foreign minister has said.
- China’s foreign minister has told his Israeli counterpart that he is calling for an end to Israel’s military action on Iran, according to a statement from China’s foreign ministry.
CNN’s Helen Regan, Haley Britzky, Taylor Romine, Hanna Park, Eugenia Yosef, Teele Rebane, Rhea Mogul, Jessie Yeung, Jerome Taylor, Tim Lister and Sophie Tanno contributed to this reporting.
Iranian ship sinks off Sri Lanka's coastline
An Iranian ship has sunk off Sri Lanka’s coastline, a Sri Lanka navy spokesperson said Wednesday, according to Reuters.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing, the spokesperson said.
According to Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, at least 30 people have so far been rescued from the ship.
The cause of the sinking is not yet known. The US military has, meanwhile, been targeting Iranian ships in the Middle East, with the commander of US forces in the region saying yesterday that 17 Iranian vessels have so far been destroyed.
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