The Times of Israel liveblogged Sunday’s events as they unfolded.
British forces are responding to a suspected drone strike at its military base in Cyprus, the UK’s defense ministry says, with no casualties reported.
The strike hit the RAF Akrotiri base at midnight, says the ministry, adding that its forces were handling a “live situation.”
Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group claims responsibility for firing rockets at northern Israel tonight for the first time since the November 2024 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.
The rocket attack is “revenge for the blood of the Supreme Leader of the Muslims, Ali Khamenei,” the Iranian proxy group says, referring to Iran’s supreme leader, who was killed in the opening salvo of the US-Israeli bombing campaign on the Islamic Republic on Saturday.
Hezbollah claims it targeted a missile defense site south of Haifa in the attack. The IDF said it intercepted one rocket fired at northern Israel from Lebanon and let several other fall in open spaces. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Hezbollah suggests that the rocket attack constitutes a “warning” to Israel to “withdraw from occupied Lebanese territory,” referring to the five border posts Israel has held on to in Lebanon, citing security concerns, despite being required to withdraw under the 2024 ceasefire.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in January that the group would not be “neutral” if the US struck Iran, and vowed to confront US threats to Khamenei, but stopped short of committing to intervene in a regional war.
After the US and Israel struck Iran on Saturday, the government in Beirut, which seeks to disarm Hezbollah, said it would not let anyone drag Lebanon into war.
The IDF confirms that it has begun striking Hezbollah targets across Lebanon after the Iran-backed terror group fired several rockets at northern Israel earlier tonight.
The terror group said that it had launched the strikes in retaliation for the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Confirming that Hezbollah was indeed behind the attack, the IDF said it “will not allow the organization to pose a threat to the State of Israel and harm the residents of the north.”
“The terrorist organization Hezbollah is destroying the state of Lebanon, responsibility for the escalation lies with it,” the military says, vowing to “respond forcefully” to the attack.
Lebanese and Arabic news outlets report Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, after several rockets were fired at northern Israel earlier tonight.
Lebanese security sources tell Reuters that at least one target in Beirut’s southern suburbs was hit in the strikes.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
The IDF has confirmed that Hezbollah was behind the rocket fire from Lebanon a short while ago, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
If so, it would mark the first time that Hezbollah has joined Iran in its attacks on Israel, as it did not get involved during the previous Israel-Iran war in June.
It would also mark the first time that the terror group has fired at Israel since the US-brokered Israel-Lebanon ceasefire came into effect in November 2024.
The Israeli Air Force is conducting a new wave of airstrikes against Iranian regime targets “in the heart of Tehran,” the IDF announces.
At the same time, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reports explosions in some areas of the Iranian capital.
The IDF says it intercepted one rocket that was launched from Lebanon at northern Israel a short while ago.
Several additional rockets fell in open areas, the IDF says, as they were not intercepted in accordance with the military’s policies.
It says there were no reports of casualties or damage.
Meanwhile, sirens are continuing to sound in areas close to the Lebanon border, warning of both suspected drone infiltrations and incoming rocket fire.
Sirens were activated in northern Israel a short while ago due to projectiles fired from Lebanon, the IDF says.
The sirens went off in the northern city of Haifa and surrounding areas, as well as in several other locations in the Upper Galilee.
The IDF says the details of the incident are under investigation, and Magen David Adom says it has not received any reports of injuries.
It is not immediately clear who is responsible for the launches, but Hebrew media reports that Hezbollah is behind the rocket fire, although the terror group has not confirmed this.
It would be the first time that Hezbollah has joined Iran in its attacks on Israel, as it did not get involved during the previous Israel-Iran war in June.
It would also mark the first time that the terror group has fired at Israel since the US-brokered Israel-Lebanon ceasefire came into effect in November 2024.
Top US officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make the case Tuesday to Congress for the attack on Iran, the White House says, as Democrats and some Republicans question its rationale.
Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and military chief General Dan Caine “will brief the full membership of both chambers of Congress on Tuesday,” White House spokesman Dylan Johnson says.
Sirens sound in northern Israel, close to the Lebanon border, amid a suspected drone infiltration incident.
The sirens are activated across several communities in the area.
The origin of the suspected drone, or drones, is not immediately clear.
Jerusalem District police commander Avshalom Peled has arrived at the scene of a ballistic missile impact in Jerusalem.
He tours the scene of the strike before departing without taking questions from the press.
The strike injured three people, including one in moderate condition, according to the Magen David Adom emergency service.
The missile left a large crater in a highway on Jerusalem’s outskirts.
Police bomb disposal experts are conducting searches for additional munitions in and around the crater.
A police officer says sappers have not yet ruled out the possibility of additional hazards at the site.
The impact also hollowed out a traffic sign and caused heavy damage to several cars.
The highway, strewn with debris from the impact, is blocked to traffic in both directions.
Bulldozers collect rubble from the surrounding area as bystanders, mostly young Haredi men, gather on a ledge overlooking the highway.
IDF troops detained five Palestinians who were attacked by settlers around noon today in Duma, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, Palestinian media and Israeli activists say.
At least one Palestinian suffered bruises and was detained along with four other young men following a clash with settlers in the village, according to WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency. It’s unclear from the report whether the Palestinians are still in Israeli custody.
The outlet cites Duma Mayor Suleiman Dawabsheh as saying troops, following the attack, shuttered the main entrance to the village, preventing medics from reaching the scene.
Israeli activists who perform “protective presence” duty in the area, aiming to help Palestinians, say two activists in Duma were also assaulted by settlers who carried guns, clubs and pepper spray.
Footage published by the activists shows two assailants swinging clubs, kicking and pepper-spraying activists. The assailants both wear the Jewish ritual undergarment tzitzit, whose threads hang from under their hoodies.
מתנחלים תוקפים שני פעילי סולידריות, כולל צעירה בת 18, מוקדם יותר היום בדומא.
המתנחלים חמושים באלות ובגז פלפל pic.twitter.com/KsfL8m6AI3
— עמית אורפלי Amit Orfali 🍉🌈 (@AmitOrfali) March 1, 2026
Separately, Israeli activists who perform protective presence in the northern West Bank’s Jordan Valley say troops arrested seven men from the tent compound of Hadidiya as settlers raided homes in the small Palestinian shepherding community. The detained Palestinians were released hours after they were arrested at about 4 p.m., the Jordan Valley Activists say.
Footage shared with The Times of Israel by the activists shows a settler apparently searching a bedroom as an Israeli activist and a Palestinian woman holding a small child demand he leave, which he refuses to do. Separate footage shows another tent apparently ransacked, with an electrical appliance, food and other items splayed on the ground.
The Israeli activists also share footage of Palestinian men crouching on the ground as soldiers stand over them. One of the Palestinians, with his hands tied behind his back, is seen being led away from the compound by soldiers, as settlers in civilian clothes, at least two of whom carry assault rifles, look on.
The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment on either incident.
The fourth victim of the Iranian ballistic missile strike in Beit Shemesh is identified as 16-year-old Gavriel Baruch.
Nine people were killed when the missile slammed into a residential neighborhood in Beit Shemesh on Sunday afternoon.
More than 40 people were injured in the impact, which destroyed a synagogue and caused extensive damage to a public bomb shelter beneath it, as well as surrounding homes.
🎬 גבריאל ברוך הי"ד ▪︎ הלוויתו בעוד כשעה בבית העלמין 'דרך החיים' בעיר
_
_רוצה לדעת לפני כולם מה קורה בבית שמש? הצטרף עכשיו ל'חדשות העיר' 👇_https://t.co/dO1yCSX72S pic.twitter.com/AD2gpYmVit— חדשות העיר בית שמש (@city_news_bs) March 1, 2026
After sirens sounded across the Upper Galilee warning of a suspected drone infiltration, the Home Front Command says the incident has concluded, without providing further details.
US President Donald Trump reiterates his call for Iran’s security forces to lay down their arms in exchange for full immunity, “or face certain death.”
Trump calls on “Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this moment, to be brave, be bold, be heroic and take back your country.”
On Saturday, he told Iranians to remain in their homes until the bombs stop falling, at which point they should try and take over their government.
It is unclear whether Trump is suggesting that moment has arrived. He also stated that the US strikes in Iran would continue.
“America is with you. I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you, but we’ll be there to help,” Trump says.
Sirens warning of a suspected drone infiltration sound across northern Israel.
The alerts are activated in numerous towns in the Upper Galilee.
The origin of the suspected drone, or drones, is not immediately clear.
Earlier, the IDF said it shot down over 50 drones launched at Israel from Iran.
US President Donald Trump argues that Americans are able to enjoy the freedoms that they have because the country has taken actions like Operation Epic Fury, the US bombing campaign against Iran, carried out in conjunction with Israel.
He again warns in a video statement about the threat Iran would pose if it obtained long-range missiles and nuclear weapons.
“We cannot allow a nation that raises terrorist armies to possess such weapons, [which] would allow them to extort the world to their evil will,” Trump says, adding that Operation Epic Fury is aimed at providing Americans security for generations to come.
“This is the duty and the burden of a free people. These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and lots of threats,” Trump says.
“For almost 50 years, these wicked extremists have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan, ‘Death to America,’ or ‘Death to Israel,’ or both.”
“They are the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. We are the world’s greatest and most powerful nation, so we can do something about what they do,” Trump says. “These intolerable threats will not continue any longer.”
US President Donald Trump claims Iran’s “entire military command is gone” and that “thousands” are seeking to surrender in exchange for immunity.
“The entire military command is gone… and many of them want to surrender [in order to] save their lives. They want immunity. They’re calling by the thousands,” Trump says in a pre-recorded video statement uploaded to Truth Social, his second since the launch of joint US-Israeli strikes in Iran on Saturday morning.
“Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives,” Trump says.
He laments the first three deaths of American service members since the start of the operation, which were announced today, and says “there will likely be more.”
Still, he asserts, “our resolve, and likewise, that of Israel, has never been stronger.”
This is the first time he has mentioned Israel, which is conducting the campaign in partnership with the US, in his two video statements.
Oman’s foreign minister says the door to diplomacy between the US and Iran remains open, despite a war between the two countries that began yesterday.
“I still believe in the power of diplomacy to resolve this conflict. The sooner talks are resumed the better it is for everyone,” Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi writes in a post on X.
Oman acted as a mediator in nuclear talks between the US and Iran prior to the conflict.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he agreed to let the United States use UK bases to fire “defensive” strikes aimed at destroying Iranian missiles and their launchers.
But in a video address posted to social media, he adds, “We were not involved in the initial strikes on Iran and we will not join offensive action now.”
In a separate statement, France, Germany, and the UK say they are ready to defend their interests and those of its allies in the Gulf if necessary by taking “defensive action” against Iran.
Magen David Adom in a revised toll says three people were wounded by the Iranian ballistic missile impact on a road in the Jerusalem area.
They include a man, aged 46, who was moderately hurt by shrapnel, as well as two others, who were lightly injured.
In addition, MDA says it treated two people suffering from acute anxiety.
The emergency service had previously said six were injured in the strike.
Shrapnel from Iranian missile strikes today damaged a home in the northern West Bank Palestinian city of Nablus, with no injuries reported, Palestinian Authority police say.
Footage published by Palestinian media shows a plume of smoke rising from amid several buildings on a hill in Nablus, with part of one building’s exterior scorched.
🛑شاهد | نابلس | شظايا صاروخ اصابت منزل في منطقة الجبل الشمالي – حي النمساوي pic.twitter.com/1x0X73jzZS
— شبكة يافا الإخبارية (@yaffa_ps) March 1, 2026
Separate footage from the Nablus-area village of Huwara also shows a piece of shrapnel in flames on the road.
متداول | سقوط شظايا صاروخية في بلدة حوارة جنوب نابلس pic.twitter.com/vzs34ibK7o
— موقع عرب 48 (@arab48website) March 1, 2026
Shrapnel also fell in at least one other location near Nablus; one location each in the areas of Jenin and Jericho in the northern West Bank; and three locations in the area of Ramallah in the central West Bank, without any injuries or damage reported, PA police say.
Footage from west of Ramallah shows several pieces of flaming shrapnel in an open area beside a road.
شظايا صاروخ إيراني سقط في قرية صفا غرب رام الله#لمتابعةابوعبدالعزيز pic.twitter.com/bzZb9Lwrc5
— ابو عبد العزيز (@NOR37054321) March 1, 2026
Hezbollah vows to confront the United States and Israel over their strikes on the terror group’s backer, Iran.
“We will undertake our duty of confronting the aggression,” Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem says in a statement, adding that his movement would not leave “the field of honor and resistance.”
The terror group has so far not taken action since the US and Israel began striking Iran yesterday. It also did not intervene during the June war between Israel and Iran.
Hezbollah organizes a gathering of thousands of people in its stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs in a show of support for Iran, amid fears from Lebanese authorities that it might intervene in the conflict.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, following an emergency meeting of the country’s Higher Defense Council, says that “the decision of war and peace rests solely with the Lebanese state.”
Hezbollah also calls on mosques to recite the Koran and organize mourning ceremonies to mark the death of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, both in the Beirut suburb and other areas of Lebanon where the group wields influence.
Khamenei was killed yesterday as the United States and Israel jointly launched a barrage of ongoing strikes on the Islamic Republic.
Qassem, who succeeded Hassan Nasrallah as the group’s chief following the latter’s death in an Israeli strike in September 2024, says the assassination of Khamenei and other Iranian officials was “the height of crime.”
In a statement later in the day, Hezbollah pledges to “continue its jihad and resistance, and to stand firmly and steadfastly alongside the Islamic Republic… to defeat the arrogant and tyrannical aggressors until the final and complete victory is achieved.”
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports Iranian missiles heading for Israel over southern Lebanon, and says explosions were heard as the Israeli military tried to intercept them.
Without giving a reason, the US embassy in Beirut announces that it will be closed tomorrow.
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam yesterday rejected the prospect of being dragged into war following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Six people are injured in the Iranian ballistic missile impact in the Jerusalem area, medics say.
Magen David Adom says it is treating a man in his 50s in moderate condition and five others who were lightly hurt.
Footage shows that the missile impact left a large crater on a road and caused damage to a car.
Footage shows the site of the Iranian ballistic missile impact on a road in the Jerusalem area. https://t.co/XzfE0jdJMc pic.twitter.com/ZbNweBVfih
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 1, 2026
Medics are responding to reports of a ballistic missile impact on a road in the Jerusalem area.
Magen David Adom says it has dispatched medics to the scene and that it is treating several injuries.
While approving battle plans with the military’s top brass this evening, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says Israel has reached “significant achievements” in Iran, but “many more days of fighting lie ahead.”
“We are less than 48 hours into the campaign we are engaged in; many more days of fighting lie ahead. We will do everything and operate to the best of our abilities to accelerate the achievements, and we are sparing no effort,” Zamir says in a video published by the IDF.
“We opened with a powerful surprise and with very significant achievements that have affected the development of the campaign and its results. Already now we can say that the achievements we reached at the outset will influence our end-state,” he says.
Zamir says the IDF has been operating “since the start of the campaign with great force, with one of our main objectives being the reduction of threats to the home front. Patience is now required.”
“We are operating in close cooperation with our ally, and coordination with the US military is tighter than ever,” he continues, adding that “we are monitoring developments in additional arenas as well, and we will act forcefully against anyone who tries to challenge us.”
Sirens sound in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas as Iran launches ballistic missiles.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the projectiles.
The IDF says it has detected a new launch of ballistic missiles from Iran.
Sirens are expected to sound in central Israel in the coming minutes.
US President Donald Trump says the US military campaign, undertaken in partnership with Israel, could extend for four weeks.
“It’s always been a four week process… It’s a big country. It’ll take four weeks — or less,” Trump tells the Daily Mail in his latest of a string of media interviews today day.
Commenting on the war’s first three deaths of American servicemembers, announced today, Trump says, “We expect that to happen, unfortunately… It could happen again.”
He says Operation Epic Fury, the US name for the operation, is proceeding as planned, declaring that the US has likely killed 48 of Iran’s top leaders.
Trump reiterates his willingness to speak with whoever is left of Iran’s leaders but says he is not sure when that will take place.
He says he is getting ready to give another address to the nation on the ongoing Iran strikes.
Trump says he is hopeful that democracy will spread in Iran, “But a lot of things could happen and a lot of very positive things could happen.”
Mother and daughter Sarah and Ronit Elimelech, and Oren Katz, are identified as three of the nine people killed when an Iranian ballistic missile struck the city of Beit Shemesh earlier today.
The municipality names the three victims, all residents of the city, in a statement made hours after the strike, which also destroyed a synagogue and wounded some 50 people.
Searches had continued into the evening for Ronit, a United Hatzalah volunteer, and her mother after first responders found her medical kit and vest amid the rubble. Two of Ronit’s children were rescued from the rubble.
US President Donald Trump says that American soldiers dying during strikes on Iran was to be expected in a war that is nevertheless a “great deal.”
“We have three, but we expect casualties, but in the end it’s going to be a great deal for the world,” Trump tells NBC after the Pentagon announced that three US servicemembers had been killed during military strikes on Iran.
Seven Iranian military commanders have been killed in strikes on the country including the head of the office of the armed forces commander-in-chief, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reports.
Hundreds of demonstrators led by Iranian expats cheer for the US and Israel in Times Square, amid the US and Israeli air campaign against the Iranian regime.
The crowd waves pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flags, bearing the lion-and-sun emblem, and chants for the late deposed shah’s son, Reza Pahlavi. Some demonstrators carry Israeli and US flags.
“Alternative for Iran, King Reza Pahlavi,” and, “Khamenei is gone,” they chant, referring to the former supreme leader killed in the US and Israeli strikes.
Cheers for US and Israel as Iranians celebrate strikes on Iran, in Times Square pic.twitter.com/3IXYI3XFn3
— Luke Tress (@luketress) March 1, 2026
A speaker says “God bless the US and Israel,” drawing cheers from the crowd.
An Iranian Jewish singer performs a song in Persian for the crowd.
“We hope it’s the beginning of the end for this horrible regime,” a speaker says.
A 45-year-old man was lightly injured by the impact of a missile fragment in the Tel Aviv area, medics and police say.
Magen David Adom says it has taken the man to a hospital in good condition, after he sustained an injury to his face.
Police say the fragment impact also caused damage in the area.
Footage posted to social media shows what could be sub-munitions from an Iranian cluster bomb warhead crashing down in Israel this evening, amid a ballistic missile attack.
Videos show some two dozen fragments streaking through the sky.
مشهد جديد يوثق الضربات الصاروخية الإيرانية على مواقع الاحتلال في فلسطين. pic.twitter.com/Dw5m9PiSj3
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) March 1, 2026
It is not confirmed whether these are cluster bomb sub-munitions or other fragments from an intercepted missile.
The IDF has previously confirmed that Iran has launched ballistic missiles carrying cluster bomb warheads at Israel.
The warhead of such missiles, which Iran also fired at Israel in the June 2025 war, opens up while descending and spreads some 20 smaller munitions with around 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds) of explosives, in a radius of around eight kilometers (five miles).
The US military has carried out strikes against over 1,000 Iranian targets so far since starting its campaign yesterday, US Central Command says.
In a fact sheet, Central Command lists “types of targets” including command and control centers, the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the headquarters of the IRGC’s Aerospace Forces.
Earlier, the IDF said Israeli planes targeted dozens of headquarters belonging to the IRGC.
Sirens warning of a suspected drone infiltration sound in several Israeli communities near the border with Lebanon.
Earlier, the IDF said it had shot down over 50 drones launched at Israel from Iran since the start of the latest conflict.
There are no reports of injuries following Iran’s latest ballistic missile salvos on Israel, medics say.
Missile fragments impacted several locations, causing some damage, according to rescue services.
The IDF Home Front Command says civilians in areas where sirens sounded can now leave bomb shelters, but should still remain close to them.
United Hatzalah says one of its volunteers and her mother remain unaccounted for hours after an Iranian ballistic missile struck Beit Shemesh earlier today, leaving nine dead and over 40 injured in the city.
According to the emergency medical service, paramedics called to the scene found Ronit Elimelech’s medical kit and vest amid the rubble, raising fears about her and her mother’s wellbeing.
⚠️ The following video was filmed 2 years ago, when Ronit joined United Hatzalah as a volunteer.
I am asking everyone to please pray for our dear volunteer, Ronit Elimelech, and her mother, who are currently missing following a missile strike in Beit Shemesh.
Ronit was visiting… pic.twitter.com/jwuQCO2hNy
— Eli Beer (@EliBeerUH) March 1, 2026
The pair are among 11 people still unaccounted for following the devastating impact, as first responders continue their search efforts at the site.
Elimelech and her three children had been at her parents’ home in Beit Shemesh and entered a public shelter once they heard sirens go off, signaling the oncoming attack, the group says in a statement.
First responders rescued two of Elimelech’s children from the rubble and took them to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center after they sustained light to moderate injuries in the strike.
Elimelech’s father was found safe, and is staying with relatives, the statement continues.
“Ronit joined United Hatzalah after her young son asked her to volunteer as his birthday gift. I met them personally, and they hold a very special place in our hearts,” Eli Beer, United Hatzalah’s president, writes in a post on X. “We will continue to hope and pray for her safety and for good news.”
Fresh sirens sound across southern Israel amid an Iranian ballistic missile attack.
In central Israel, medics say they are scanning after receiving reports of sites where missile fragments impacted. As of now, there are no reports of injuries.
Two fighters from the powerful Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah were killed today in an airstrike near the Iraqi-Syrian border, two sources from the pro-Iran faction tell AFP.
“Two fighters from Kataeb Hezbollah were martyred in an American-Israeli bombing” near the al-Qaim border crossing in western Iraq, they say.
Another group official confirmed the toll.
The European Union’s 27 nations call for “maximum restraint” and full respect for international law in the Iran conflict and across the Middle East, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says.
“We call for maximum restraint, protection of civilians and full respect of international law, including the principles of the United Nations Charter, and international humanitarian law,” says a statement issued by Kallas on behalf of all the EU’s member countries.
The Health Ministry reports that since the beginning of the conflict with Iran, 677 people have been evacuated to hospitals, of whom 166 are currently hospitalized and in intensive care.
Of these, six are in serious condition, however three of those cases are not directly the result of missile strikes. Twenty-nine are in moderate condition, and 127 are in good condition. One is being treated for anxiety and three are under medical evaluation.
The ministry also says that the hours of its hotline, *5400, has been extended from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. On Friday, the hotline operates from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
US President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Trump also speaks with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan and Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, says Leavitt. Both Gulf countries were hit by Iranian strikes this week.
She does not provide additional information.
Netanyahu’s office does not respond to requests for comment.
The United Arab Emirates says it is closing its embassy in Tehran and recalling its ambassador and all other diplomats in response to “the blatant Iranian missile attacks” that targeted the UAE’s territory.
Three people have been killed and 58 others injured in the UAE since Iran began its retaliatory campaign in the Gulf in response to US and Israeli attacks, according to Emirati authorities.
Sirens sound in wide areas of Israel amid Iran’s latest ballistic missile attack.
The alerts are activated across central and southern Israel, as well as in some areas in the north.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the missiles.
Iranian news agency ISNA reports that Gandhi hospital in northern Tehran is targeted by strikes, on the second day of a US-Israeli air campaign against the Iranian regime.
“Tehran’s Gandhi hospital was attacked by Zionist-American air strikes,” ISNA reports, while the Fars and Mizan agencies publish a video, presented as being from inside the facility, showing debris on the floor among wheelchairs.
A new launch of ballistic missiles from Iran has been detected by the IDF.
Sirens are expected to sound in southern Israel in the coming minutes.
The IDF publishes additional footage of airstrikes on Iranian ballistic missile launchers in Iran.
The military says it has conducted over 30 separate strike operations against Iran’s ballistic missile and air defense arrays since the start of the ongoing conflict, in order to “reduce as much as possible the fire directed at the State of Israel.”
חיל האוויר השלים עשרות תקיפות נגד מערך הטילים הבליסטיים של המשטר האיראני
חיל האוויר השלים עד כה במבצע ״שאגת הארי״, יותר מ-30 תקיפות נגד מערך הטילים הבליסטיים ומערכות ההגנה של המשטר האיראני, זאת על מנת לפגוע במערכי הטילים של המשטר האיראני ולצמצם ככל שניתן את הירי לעבר מדינת… pic.twitter.com/SrMWIdc5t0
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) March 1, 2026
Israel believes that the joint campaign with the US against Iran is progressing more quickly than anticipated, and that the regime will struggle to withstand the full implementation of the campaign plan, Channel 12 reports, citing a senior Israeli official.
It will be “game over” for the regime, according to the report, meaning that it will not be able to stand up to protesters if they take to the streets once again.
Israel is now focused on massive strikes to take out the government’s means of repressing citizens in Tehran, including the Revolutionary Guards, according to the report.
“In order to create the conditions for toppling the regime, you must wipe out whoever harms the ability to topple the regime, and we are focused on that,” says a senior Israeli official. “Very soon the Iranian people will receive the signal to head out from their homes, the Iranians will understand that and see it with their own eyes.”
The US and Israel could call on Iranians to take to the streets within a few days, says Channel 12.
There are no reports of injuries following the latest Iranian ballistic missile attack on northern Israel, medics say.
The IDF Home Front Command, meanwhile, says civilians in areas where sirens sounded can now leave bomb shelters, but should still remain close to them.
The Israeli Air Force completed a wave of strikes targeting Iranian headquarters in Tehran, where Iranian soldiers were gathered, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin says in a press conference.
Defrin says more than 100 IAF fighter jets were involved in the strikes, which targeted dozens of headquarters belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its intelligence, air force, and internal security units.
“These are significant and powerful strikes. These headquarters operated against Israel and the entire world. Today, they were destroyed along with everyone operating in them,” Defrin says.
The IDF also publishes a new video showing strikes on Iranian air defense systems and ballistic missile launchers in western Iran.
سخنگوی ارتش اسرائیل: ما در حال حمله به مرکزیترین سامانههای رژیم هستیم؛
سامانه موشکهای بالستیک و توانمندیهای نظامی، سامانههای پدافند هوایی ایران و موشکهای زمینبههوا، و همچنین اهداف فرماندهی و کنترل رژیم ایران.
در هماهنگی و همکاری با ارتش ایالات متحده، با قدرت آغاز کردیم و… pic.twitter.com/sVeSyVJFse— ارتش دفاعی اسرائیل | IDF Farsi (@IDFFarsi) March 1, 2026
Police are still looking for 11 people who are unaccounted for after an Iranian ballistic missile struck a residential area in Beit Shemesh earlier, killing nine and wounding some 50 others.
“At this time, there are still 11 missing persons with whom contact has not yet been made, and efforts to locate them are ongoing, alongside search operations at the scene to rule out the suspicion of trapped [individuals],” police say.
Police bomb disposal experts are working to clear the site of any additional munitions, they add.
Sirens sound in northern Israel amid a fresh Iranian ballistic missile attack.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the projectiles.
The UAE announces the closure of its embassy in Tehran and the withdrawal of its ambassador, the UAE foreign ministry says, in the wake of Iranian attacks on the Gulf country.
After a lull of several hours, a new launch of ballistic missiles from Iran has been detected by the IDF.
Sirens are expected to sound in northern Israel in the coming minutes.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is “saddened” by the death of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a wave of US and Israeli air strikes.
“I was saddened to learn of the passing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a result of the attacks that took place yesterday,” he says, according to a post on X, extending Turkey’s “sympathies” to the people of Iran.
Erdogan is a harsh critic of Israel and has previously praised Hamas, the Gaza terror group that is an Iranian proxy. Turkey is also a member of the NATO alliance alongside the United States.
Britan’s Defense Ministry says a Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jet operating from Qatar took out an Iranian drone heading towards Qatari territory.
A man from East Jerusalem was stabbed to death in Haifa this evening, police and paramedics say.
Officers arrested a 32-year-old woman from Haifa, apparently his romantic partner, on suspicion of involvement in the lethal incident.
Paramedics tried to resuscitate the victim, around 25 years old, but were forced to pronounce him dead on the spot, Magen David Adom says.
After US President Donald Trump told The Atlantic that he ‘will be talking’ to leaders of Iran who expressed interest in talking, a senior White House official clarifies that such conversations won’t be happening just yet.
“President Trump said new potential leadership in Iran has indicated they want to talk and eventually he will talk. For now, Operation Epic Fury continues unabated,” the White House official says in a statement sent to querying reporters, using the US name for the campaign of airstrikes in Iran in conjunction with Israel.
“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner,” Trump was quoted earlier today as saying by The Atlantic, a US magazine. “They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
He did not give a timeframe for the conversations. His remarks came a day after the US and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran intended to expedite regime change, with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed in a strike on his compound, and no successor appointed.
Three ships were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz today, maritime security agencies say, as Iran pressed a second day of strikes in response to ongoing US-Israeli air attacks.
One ship, off the coast of Oman, was “struck by an unknown projectile above the waterline. Although the engine room was originally reported as on fire it has now been reported that the fire is under control,” the British maritime security agency UKMTO says in a statement.
In a separate incident, another vessel was “struck by an unknown projectile causing a fire. The fire has been extinguished and the vessel intends to continue on its voyage,” UKMTO says.
The private maritime security company Vanguard Tech indicates that the second vessel, a tanker, was located approximately 17 nautical miles northwest of Mina Saqr in the United Arab Emirates.
UKMTO later reports another projectile “exploded in very close proximity to a vessel” 35 nautical miles west of the Emirati city of Sharjah.
It says all crew were “safe and well.”
Iranian state television says an oil tanker is “sinking” after being struck while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
“The fate of the offending oil tanker that was struck while attempting to illegally pass through the Strait of Hormuz is that it is now sinking,” state TV reports, without elaborating.
Images broadcast by the television station show thick black smoke billowing from the burning tanker.
The strait is a key transit point for the global oil trade, through which a quarter of the world’s oil and a fifth of its liquefied natural gas pass.
Yesterday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards closed the shipping lane, warning that it was dangerous due to US and Israeli attacks.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen calls for a “credible transition” in Iran, after the killing of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes.
Foreign ministers from the EU’s 27 nations — most of which are NATO members — hold extraordinary talks to discuss the situation via video link.
Writing on social media after calls with several Middle East leaders, von der Leyen says Khamenei’s death spurred “renewed hope for the people of Iran.”
“At the same time, this moment carries a real risk of instability that could push the region into a spiral of violence,” the European Commission president adds.
Von der Leyen says Brussels is engaging closely “with all key actors” to safeguard stability and security and to protect civilian lives.
“The risk of further escalation is real. This is why a credible transition in Iran is urgently needed,” she writes on X, calling for a “lasting solution,” after speaking with Qatar’s ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
“This must mean the halt of Iran’s military nuclear and ballistic missile programs and the end of destabilizing actions on air, land and at sea,” she writes.
Von der Leyen says she also spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
Likewise, the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, says she is in contact with regional partners “that bear the brunt of Iran’s military actions” to find practical steps for de-escalation.
“The death of Ali Khamenei is a defining moment in Iran’s history,” she writes on X. “What comes next is uncertain. But there is now an open path to a different Iran, one that its people may have greater freedom to shape.”
The IDF publishes footage it says shows airstrikes against Iranian air defense systems in Tehran moments ago.
The strikes in the Iranian capital are ongoing, the military says.
חיל האוויר ממשיך לתקוף בטהראן
מצורף תיעוד מהדקות האחרונות של תקיפת מערכות הגנה איראניות בלב טהראן pic.twitter.com/eV6crKX5Pd
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) March 1, 2026
The US State Department has given its non-emergency personnel and their families in Qatar permission to leave the country, the US embassy in Doha says, as Tehran launches a second day of strikes, in response to ongoing US-Israeli air attacks.
The department “authorized non-emergency US government employees and family members of government personnel to leave Qatar due to safety risks,” the US embassy says in an advisory on its website that also warns Americans to “reconsider travel to Qatar due to the threat of armed conflict.”
Parts of Iran’s national radio and television headquarters were hit in strikes on Tehran today, state media reports, adding that broadcasting is continuing as usual.
Sirens warning of a suspected drone infiltration sound in several Israeli communities near the Dead Sea.
Earlier, the IDF said it had shot down over 50 drones launched at Israel from Iran since the start of the latest conflict.
A short while later the Home Front Command says the incident has concluded, without providing further details.
US President Donald Trump declares that the US has sunk nine Iranian navy ships.
“We are going after the rest [of Iran’s navy ships] — They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea,” he declares on Truth Social.
“In a different attack, we largely destroyed their naval headquarters. Other than that, their navy is doing very well!” he declares.
Earlier Sunday, the US Army’s Central Command announced that three American soldiers had been killed and five were seriously wounded amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.
They marked the first American casualties reported in the ongoing conflict.
CENTCOM did not provide further details on the circumstances that led to the deaths and injuries of the US servicemembers.
Hospitals in Jerusalem are treating 50 people wounded in the Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh that killed 9.
Hadassah Ein Kerem reports that it is treating 18 people who were injured in the strike, including three children. One of the people is in serious condition, a child is in moderate condition, and the rest are in good condition.
Among the injured people evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem is a pregnant woman in her 30s, who is currently being treated in the obstetrics emergency room.
Hadassah Mount Scopus reports that it is treating 17 people who were injured in the strike, including four children, all in good condition and conscious.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center says that 15 people, including five children, who were injured in the attack were evacuated to the hospital. A 4-year-old boy, whose condition is described as moderate, was transferred to the operating room. His life is not in danger. All the other wounded people are described as being in good condition.
Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba also reports that, since the start of Roaring Lion yesterday, 42 people wounded from missiles have been treated at the hospital. There are currently three injured people who are hospitalized including one in serious condition and one in moderate condition.
Soroka’s Saban Midwifery Center also says that 43 babies have been born in the protected delivery rooms and operating rooms since the start of the operation.
NATO’s top commander in Europe is “closely” following developments in Iran and the Middle East and adjusting forces as needed to defend against “potential threats,” the alliance says.
The commander, US General Alexus Grynkewich, “has and will continue to adjust NATO’s very strong force posture to ensure the security of its 32 member nations and to defend the Alliance from potential threats,” says a NATO statement posted on X.
It cites in particular the threat of “ballistic missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles, emanating from this or other regions.”
Only one in four Americans approves of the US strikes, as part of a joint US-Israeli operation, that killed Iran’s leader yesterday, while about half — including one in four Republicans — believe President Donald Trump is too willing to use military force, finds a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded today.
Some 27 percent of respondents say they approve of the strikes, while 43% disapprove and 29% are not sure. About nine in 10 respondents say they have heard at least a little about the strikes, which began early yesterday.
Some 56% of Americans think Trump, who has also ordered strikes in Venezuela, Syria, and Nigeria in recent months, is too willing to use military force to advance US interests. The vast majority of Democrats — 87% — hold this view, as do 23% of Republicans and 60% of people who do not identify with either political party.
The poll, which began yesterday after the strikes got underway, gathered responses online from 1,282 US adults nationwide. It had a margin of error of three percentage points.
The US military officially confirms using B-2 stealth bombers to strike underground Iranian ballistic missile facilities.
“Last night, US B-2 stealth bombers, armed with 2,000 pound bombs, struck Iran’s hardened ballistic missile facilities,” the US Central Command says.
The statement comes after analysts monitoring open-source flight tracking data revealed that B-2 bombers had been used in recent strikes on Iran. The bombers were also used in US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June.
Last night, U.S. B-2 stealth bombers, armed with 2,000 lb. bombs, struck Iran’s hardened ballistic missile facilities. No nation should ever doubt America's resolve. pic.twitter.com/6JpG73lHYW
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 1, 2026
A wave of cyber-enabled operations took place early yesterday morning alongside the beginning of the joint US-Israeli attacks on targets across Iran, say cybersecurity experts and observers.
The operations included the hacking of multiple news websites to display various messages and the hack of BadeSaba, a religious calendar app with more than 5 million downloads, which displayed messages telling users “It’s time for reckoning” and urging armed forces to give up weapons and join the people.
Reuters could not establish contact with BadeSaba’s chief executive.
A spokesperson for US Cyber Command does not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Internet connectivity in Iran dropped precipitously in the morning, and then again a few hours later, with only minimal connectivity remaining, Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, says in a post on X.
“As Iran considers its options, the likelihood increases that proxy groups and hacktivists may take action, including cyberattacks, against Israeli and US-affiliated military, commercial, or civilian targets,” says Rafe Pilling, the director of threat intelligence with cybersecurity firm Sophos.
The attacks could include the amplification of old data breaches presented as new, unsophisticated attempts to compromise internet-exposed industrial systems, and potentially direct offensive cyber operations, Pilling said.
Cybersecurity firm Anomali says in an analysis shared with Reuters yesterday that state-backed Iranian hacking groups were already carrying out “wiper” attacks that erase data on Israeli targets ahead of the strikes.
Since the start of the conflict with Iran yesterday, Israeli Air Force fighter jets have dropped over 2,000 bombs in hundreds of strikes against Iranian regime targets and military sites, according to the IDF.
The number, over the first 30 hours of the war, is around half of what the IAF used over the entire course of the 12-day war in June 2025.
During that time, IAF fighter jets have carried out over 700 sorties, the military says.
The military says that it achieved aerial superiority within 24 hours of the start of the operation, after taking out numerous Iranian air defense systems in western Iran.
IAF fighter jets are now using “stand-in” weapons over the capital Tehran, meaning bombs dropped directly over their targets, rather than ranged missiles.
The military says it seeks to maintain air supremacy as it carries out strikes on regime targets in the Iranian capital.
“In recent hours, air force aircraft have been operating with air superiority over the skies of Tehran, striking and destroying numerous targets,” the IDF says in a statement.
The IDF says that the targets included ballistic missile launchers, air defense systems, and headquarters.
At the same time, IAF fighter jets, helicopters, and air defense systems have shot down more than 50 drones launched from Iran at Israel, the military adds.
The IDF has not disclosed how many ballistic missiles launched from Iran have been shot down, but says the interception rate is “high.”
The woman killed in an Iranian strike on Tel Aviv yesterday has been named as 32-year-old Philippine national Mary Anne Velasquez de Vera, a caregiver who lived with her patient.
“Mary Ann was injured while selflessly assisting her patient to safety during Operation Roaring Lion on March 1, 2026,” the Israeli embassy in the Philippines says in a statement. “A stark reminder that the Iranian regime continues to sow terror indiscriminately, targeting civilians without distinction.”
Mary Ann De Vera, 32, a Filipino national, was killed yesterday in an Iranian missile strike targeting Israeli civilians.
She worked as a caregiver and was tending to a woman who was also injured in an Iranian missile strike last night. pic.twitter.com/6gmjwckTts— raz sauber – רז זאובר (@raz_sauber_) March 1, 2026
“Mary Ann, like so many overseas Filipino workers in Israel, exemplified resilience, compassion, and quiet strength. She was identified by her husband, who is also an overseas Filipino worker in Israel, and their family,” the embassy says.
President Isaac Herzog calls the Philippine Ambassador to Israel Aileen Mendiola to express his condolences over de Vera’s death, the President’s Residence tells The Times of Israel.
Germany’s government agrees with the US in wanting to see an end to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic armament, Chancellor Friedrich Merz says, adding, however, that this entails risks.
“We share the US’ interest in seeing an end to this regime’s terror and a halt to dangerous nuclear and ballistic armament,” Merz tells reporters, adding that the strikes were intended to put an end to a destructive game being played by Iran.
“This is not without risk. We do not know how far the region will be drawn into escalation by Iran’s harsh counterstrikes,” he adds.
US President Donald Trump says he will “be talking” to Iranian leaders but is vague on the timing and notes that much of the country’s leadership is dead amid US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner,” Trump is quoted as saying by The Atlantic, a US magazine. “They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
Asked when talks might take place, Trump says, “I can’t tell you.”
His remarks come a day after the US and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran intended to expedite regime change, with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed in a strike on his compound, and no successor appointed.
The High Court of Justice says the government has made no progress in drawing up effective measures for enforcing military conscription for ultra-Orthodox men who have received draft orders but failed to present themselves for enlistment.
The court says in a decision that the state’s response to petitions asking for the government to be found in contempt of court for failing to enforce enlistment were “unsatisfactory,” and that elements of the current situation were “extremely worrying.”
The justices upbraid the government for failing to provide adequate details in its response to the contempt of court request; note that the government has already blown past previous deadlines; and ordered the government to provide a full and complete update by March 22.
A hearing on the petitions for a contempt of court ruling was supposed to be held today but was canceled because of the conflict with Iran.
The court notes that it had previously requested a full explanation of the steps the government was taking to take such enforcement measures, but said the government had failed to present “any factual details whatsoever” about a key aspect of enforcement — socioeconomic sanctions against ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers.
Details about criminal enforcement were also entirely absent from the government’s response, the court says.
The judges further write that the details provided by the government regarding the behavior of the police in enforcing conscription, and specifically the working relationship of the police and military enforcement officials, are “exceedingly troubling,” and “are incommensurate with court rulings on this issue,” a phrase which could already be seen as a determination by the court that the state has failed to implement its ruling on Haredi conscription enforcement.
In the attorney general’s response to the court on behalf of the military, she informed the court that IDF officials had said that the police are refusing to enable arrest operations for Haredi draft dodgers by military police in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods.
The court’s comments and decision are issued unanimously by all five justices on the panel.
A 102-year-old man who was injured by a fall while seeking cover from an Iranian missile attack has died of his wounds, according to Tel Aviv’s Ichilov-Sourasky Medical Center.
The man was injured in Ramat Gan after falling down the stairs while on his way to a protected area during an Iranian missile barrage.
Paramedics found the elderly man in unstable condition, having sustained serious head trauma, after they received a report of the incident in the Tel Aviv area at around 2 p.m.
The emergency teams administered first aid to the injured man then rushed him to Sourasky, Magen David Adom says.
Oman’s foreign minister, who had been mediating US-Iran talks prior to the outbreak of war yesterday, urges a ceasefire on a call with his Iranian counterpart, as Tehran launched a second day of strikes in response to ongoing US-Israeli air attacks.
Badr Albusaidi “affirmed the Sultanate of Oman’s continued call for a ceasefire and a return to dialogue… in a manner that achieves the legitimate demands of all parties,” Oman’s Foreign Ministry says in a readout of a call with Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.
Araghchi tells Albusaidi that Tehran is open to any serious efforts at de-escalation, according to the statement.
The death of Iran’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Israel and US strikes on the country offers it hope, his nephew, a France-based doctor opposed to the regime, tells AFP.
“Like most Iranians, I am happy,” Mahmoud Moradkhani, the son of one of Khamenei’s sisters, says by telephone from his home in northern France.
“I am very happy about the death of Ali Khamenei. I think it’s a step forward, a hope,” he says.
“War and military interventions slow down a bit political process, which is a bit regrettable, but maybe we had to go through this step,” says the 62-year-old.
He predicts that the regime is unlikely to survive Khamenei’s killing.
“The regime’s internal rivalries are such and it won’t be able to resist them, it’ll have to disappear and give the power to the people,” he says.
He adds: “I hope that the military interventions will cease and that the people will be able to express themselves in the streets. It is very difficult in this situation to ask the people to take to the streets, to demonstrate, and to overthrow the regime.”
The IDF says it has mobilized 100,000 reservists amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.
The number appears to be in addition to the 50,000 reservists currently on duty.
Ground troops have been reinforced on Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and in the West Bank, the military says.
The Home Front Command alone has mobilized 20,000 reservists, mainly for search and rescue efforts, according to the IDF.
Reinforcements were also made in the Israeli Air Force, Israeli Navy, and Intelligence Directorate.
The IDF says it “will prepare and provide the reserve servicemembers with all the logistical means necessary to operate under the best conditions.”
US President Donald Trump says 48 Iranian leaders have been killed in the ongoing US-Israeli strikes on the country.
“Nobody can believe the success we’re having, 48 leaders are gone in one shot. And it’s moving along rapidly,” Trump was quoted as saying in an interview with Fox News.
In a separate interview with CNBC, he says the US operation in Iran is “ahead of schedule.”
About 500 Russian nationals are readying for evacuation from Kremlin ally Iran via Azerbaijan, the Russian embassy in Baku says.
“We would like to express our gratitude to the Azerbaijani side for their assistance, including for the prompt consideration of issues related to the issuance of border crossing permits,” it says on its Telegram channel.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has recommended Russian nationals to move to safe regions in Israel and Iran or leave the countries after military strikes by Israel and the United States on the Islamic Republic, and Iranian missile and drone fire on Israel.
Iranian media reports that 43 members of the security forces were killed in an attack on the headquarters of a border regiment in the western city of Mehran near Iraq today.
“This attack, which was accompanied by bombing, unfortunately resulted in the martyrdom of 43 security personnel, most of them border guards, and parts of nearby buildings were also seriously damaged,” the Mehr news agency says.
“According to initial reports, this hostile act was carried out by agents of the United States and the Zionist regime,” it says, referring to Israel.
Israel’s attacks against Iran will continue to intensify, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says after a meeting with Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, and Mossad chief David Barnea.
“Our forces are now striking in the heart of Tehran with increasing intensity, and this will only intensify further in the coming days,” says Netanyahu from the roof of the IDF Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv.
“However, these are painful days,” he says, referring to the deadly Iranian strikes in Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh.
“My heart goes out to the families, and on behalf of all of you, the citizens of Israel, I send wishes for a speedy recovery to the wounded.”
Netanyahu does not say the joint US-Israel strikes will bring down the regime, saying only that the “combination of forces enables us to do what I have longed to do for 40 years — to strike the terror regime decisively. That is what I promised — and that is what we will do.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says that Iran could select a new leader within “a day or two,” following the killing this weekend of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei in the US-Israeli campaign against the Iranian regime.
“You may see the selection of a supreme leader in a day or two,” Araghchi tells Al Jazeera in an interview, condemning the military strikes on his country and warning Khamenei’s assassination “would make this conflict — this war of aggression by the Americans against us — even more dangerous and more complicated, and it would perhaps add new aspects to it.”
“This war cannot bring about any good result for the other side,” he says to the Qatari news network. “They have not been able to achieve their targets, and they will not be able to achieve their targets in the coming days. As long as they continue, they cannot achieve anything.”
He says the current conflict reminds him of the last US-Israeli campaign against Iran in June, where, he says, Israel and the US ultimately “had no option but to ask for an unconditional ceasefire” after 12 days of fighting. Israel and the US portrayed that operation as a success that achieved their goals.
“I do not see any difference between this time and the previous time,” he continues. “We will resist as long as it takes, and they will see the result.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump began discussing the details of another strike on Iran in late December during their meeting at the president’s Mar-a-Lago residence, Axios reports.
Netanyahu initiated a conversation about a follow-up to the June 2025 12-day war on Iran, according to the report. The attack originally had a tentative May date.
Regime crackdowns on protesters changed Trump’s thinking, according to the report. He almost ordered strikes on January 14, but instead initiated a major military build-up in the region. He also began planning a joint strike on Iran with Israel, reports Axios.
Trump also decided to hold negotiations with Iran as planning for a strike progressed. The talks were not a ruse to catch the Iranians off-guard, three US and Israeli officials tell Axios.
After the second round of talks, Israel and the US agreed that there was an opportunity to strike on February 28, when Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would be meeting with his top aides.
Trump aides Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff attended the Geneva talks with the Iranians last Thursday, days before that date, with little expectation that a deal would take place, but, according to the report, it was an important element of making sure Khamenei attended the meeting with his aides and didn’t hide out in his bunker.
The two US envoys “saw that the Iranian proposal was bullshit and only meant to buy time,” a senior US official tells Axios. “There wasn’t any ‘there’ there to work with.”
“We reported this to the president and obviously he weighed the different options,” the official says to Axios.
There were three major areas of disagreement, say the officials.
Iran refused an offer of free nuclear fuel for a civilian nuclear program with no end date. It also refused to discuss ballistic missiles or the regime’s support for proxy terror groups.
US intelligence indicated clearly that Iran was rebuilding nuclear facilities that were struck by American bombers in June, according to the report.
Kushner and Witkoff demanded that Iran provide a concrete proposal. The Iranian team came back with a seven-page document explaining how much enrichment they would need for a civilian program. The White House checked the figures with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which informed them that the Iranian proposal would allow them to enrich five times as much as was allowed in the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with former US president Barack Obama’s administration.
“If the Iranians had come to Geneva and given Trump what he wanted, he would have pulled the brakes on the military track. But they were arrogant and thought he wouldn’t take action,” an Israeli intelligence official tells Axios. “They were wrong.”
Israeli airlines El Al, Arkia, and Israir extend suspensions of their flight operations to and from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport through Tuesday, amid expectations that the country’s airspace will not reopen until at least Wednesday.
As it is uncertain when Ben Gurion Airport will reopen, Arkia today launched special flights between Athens in Greece and Taba International Airport in Egypt to help thousands of stranded Israelis return home via land border crossing.
Starting Monday, flights will also be operated to Taba from Rome in Italy and Larnaca in Cyprus, Arkia says.
Israir says it is readying to operate flights to and from both Taba and Jordan’s Aqaba airport near the southern coastal city of Eilat, but has not provided further details.
The US Central Command denies claims made by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was struck with ballistic missiles.
“The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close,” CENTCOM says in a statement.
“The Lincoln continues to launch aircraft in support of CENTCOM’s relentless campaign to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime,” it adds.
The IRGC claimed earlier that “the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was struck by four ballistic missiles.”
Amid reports of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s death, Iranian state media says reports cannot be confirmed.
Israeli and international media report that the hardline former Iranian president was killed in a Saturday strike on his home, citing “state media.”
Some outlets cite the Iran Labor News Agency. However, the news site says explicitly that the reports “cannot be confirmed.”
“One of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s close associates, in contact with ILNA, denied the news of the martyrdom of the president of the ninth and tenth governments without any additional information, saying: ‘The news of his martyrdom is false,” according to the outlet.
Neither Israel nor Iran have put out an official statement.
There are no reports of injuries following the latest salvo of Iranian ballistic missiles launched at northern Israel, medics say.
The IDF Home Front Command, meanwhile, says civilians in areas where sirens sounded can now leave bomb shelters, but should remain close to them.
The Israeli Air Force is carrying out a new wave of airstrikes in Tehran, the IDF announces.
No further details are immediately given.
Police and IDF soldiers arrested six West Bank Palestinians overnight on suspicion of having plotted to carry out an attack in the “immediate term,” police announce.
Law enforcement made the arrests based on intelligence provided by the Shin Bet security service, raiding several targets in the Jordan Valley.
Police do not give further details about the planned attack.
Footage shared by law enforcement shows at least a dozen heavily armed officers raiding a house by breaking the front door’s lock. In another clip, one of the suspects is seen handcuffed in his living room before officers lead him out of the house.
Three American soldiers have been killed and five were seriously wounded amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, the US Central Command announces.
They mark the first American casualties reported in the ongoing conflict.
CENTCOM does not provide further details on the circumstances that led to the deaths and injuries of the US servicemembers.
Iran has targeted American military facilities in the Middle East with ballistic missiles and drones in the past day.
“Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions and are in the process of being returned to duty,” CENTCOM says, adding that “major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing.”
A US defense official confirms to Fox News that the American military used B-2 stealth bombers in recent strikes on Iran.
According to the official, four B-2 bombers flew round-trip from the US and “dropped dozens of 2-000-lb bombs on underground ballistic missile sites in Iran.”
The Fox News report comes after analysts monitoring open-source flight tracking data revealed that B-2 bombers had been used in recent strikes on Iran.
The Israeli military says it destroyed the headquarters of Iran’s internal security forces amid a wave of airstrikes in Tehran earlier today.
Dozens of fighter jets struck dozens of Iranian regime headquarters, including the general staff of the Iranian internal security forces, the IDF says.
According to the IDF, the internal security forces headquarters “served as a command and control center responsible for linking the command echelon with the Iranian terror regime’s forces on the ground and led the brutal repression against the Iranian people.”
In addition, the IDF says it destroyed a complex serving the Thar-Allah Headquarters, an IRGC unit tasked with security for the Tehran area.
Sirens sound across northern Israel amid Iran’s latest ballistic missile attack.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the projectiles.
The sirens come after a new launch of ballistic missiles from Iran was detected by the IDF.
Civilians in areas where sirens are sounding are instructed to remain in bomb shelters until further notice.
Saudi Arabia intercepted Iranian missiles targeting Riyadh’s international airport and the Prince Sultan Airbase, which houses US military personnel, a Gulf source briefed on the matter tells AFP.
“Air defenses successfully intercepted Iranian missiles near Riyadh airport and Prince Sultan Airbase on Sunday afternoon,” the source says, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, adding that the interception did not disrupt navigation or cause any human or material losses.
An eyewitness near the airport said they “saw and heard the air defense intercept the missile in the sky.” Residents and AFP correspondents earlier reported hearing explosions in eastern Riyadh.
The American military says it sank an Iranian Navy Jamaran-class corvette during the opening strikes of the joint US-Israeli operation against Iran.
“The ship is currently sinking to the bottom of the Gulf of Oman at a Chah Bahar pier,” the US Central Command says.
Satellite images captured by Vantor yesterday showed the targeted warship.
High-resolution satellite images captured and released today by @vantortech show a thick column of black smoke rising from a vessel docked at the Iranian navy's Konarak base following US and Israeli strikes.
Location: 25.299445, 60.429248 pic.twitter.com/CYUzQ5hJzi
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) February 28, 2026
The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court refuses to extend some key restrictive release conditions on Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, ruling that Braverman’s position means it is necessary for him to be able to work during the ongoing war with Iran.
Judge Menahem Mizrahi therefore denies the police request to maintain a travel ban that has been imposed on Braverman, and denies the request to extend the ban on him being in contact with Netanyahu.
Mizrahi notes that due to the war with Iran it will be difficult for Braverman to take up his post as new Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, but says that the judicial order banning him from leaving the country is nevertheless annulled.
If Braverman leaves the country, he will be required to return should the police request he do so.
The judge does, however, prohibit Braverman from speaking with the prime minister about the investigation into the suspicions that Braverman interfered with an ongoing investigation. Mizrahi also extends a ban on Braverman contacting other suspects in the case until March 10.
The ruling will go into effect in 48 hours to allow the police the opportunity to appeal to the district court.
Braverman is being investigated on suspicion of interfering with an investigation and other crimes, in connection with allegations that he told Eli Feldstein, a spokesperson for Netanyahu, that he could quash a military investigation into Feldstein over the leak of a classified document to the German newspaper Bild.
Hadassah Ein Kerem says that 10 people, including three children, were evacuated from the scene of the Iranian missile that struck Beit Shemesh to its trauma unit. One patient is in serious condition, and the rest are in good condition.
At Hadassah Mount Scopus, nine injured, including four children, are in good condition and conscious.
A total of nine injured people have been admitted to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, one of whom, a 4-year-old boy, is in moderate to serious condition.
Hadassah Mount Scopus also says it has opened a public information hotline on the incident: 1255121.
A 102-year-old man has been seriously injured in Ramat Gan after falling down the stairs while on his way to a protected area during an Iranian missile barrage.
Paramedics found the elderly man in unstable condition, having sustained serious head trauma, after they received a report of the incident in the Tel Aviv area at around 2 p.m.
The emergency teams administered first aid to the injured man then rushed him to Tel Aviv’s Ichilov – Sourasky Medical Center, Magen David Adom says.
An Iranian drone attack on an Abu Dhabi naval base caused a fire but no casualties, the Defense Ministry says, as Iran attacked the Gulf for a second day after a wave of US and Israeli strikes.
“Specialized teams responded today to an incident resulting from an attack by two Iranian drones on a warehouse at Al Salam Naval Base in Abu Dhabi. The attack caused a fire in two containers of general materials, but there were no casualties,” the ministry says.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they attacked the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf after US and Israeli strikes killed the country’s supreme leader.
“The US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was struck by four ballistic missiles,” the Guards say in a statement carried by local media, warning that the “the land and sea will increasingly become the graveyard of the terrorist aggressors.”
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hits back at critics of the joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran by saying the Iranian regime’s goal of destroying Israel justifies the assault, in comments in a situational assessment at the Foreign Ministry shared by his office.
“We are receiving criticism regarding attacks on the regime,” Sa’ar says, without elaborating. The United Nations Secretary General and some Arab states have condemned the campaign, while many countries have responded cautiously and urged a return to diplomacy. Others have praised the attack.
Sa’ar says the attack will go on: “The intention is to continue, together with the United States, with very powerful blows against the Iranian regime,” he says.
“If this regime calls for the destruction of Israel and acts to destroy Israel, then we are authorized — and cannot wait — for it to achieve the goal it has set for itself, and which it is pursuing persistently and with determination that has not changed even after June,” he says, referring to Israel’s strikes on Iran last year, which the US eventually joined and which aimed to dismantle Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
“The first blow [of the current attack] was very effective and achieved its objectives beyond expectations,” Sa’ar says during the assessment.
The majority of those killed in today’s Iranian missile impact in Beit Shemesh had been taking cover in a public shelter, says the Jerusalem District police chief.
Deputy Commissioner Avshalom Peled is speaking at the scene of a lethal strike that left nine dead and over two dozen wounded.
“As far as I know… it was likely a direct impact on the shelter and most, if not all of those killed, were in there [the public shelter],” says Peled.
He adds that police were aware during the last round of fighting with Iran in June that public shelters and safe rooms are unable to withstand the force of a direct ballistic missile impact.
The senior cop nevertheless urges civilians to continue to take shelter amid missile fire from Iran to guard from lighter impacts.
“Those located in a protected area when the damage isn’t direct, which is the majority of cases, are indeed shielded from the missile or debris that flies through the air,” Peled continues.
Debris from an intercepted drone damaged an Abu Dhabi complex housing the Israeli embassy and several other international missions, causing minor injuries to a woman and her child, Abu Dhabi’s state media office says.
Debris from the drone fell against the facade of the Etihad Towers complex after an interception that caused loud sounds heard across the emirate, the media office says.
After the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on Saturday, Iran has hit a range of civilian and commercial areas across Gulf cities, widening the conflict’s impact on key regional aviation and trade hubs.
As retaliatory strikes widened today, they reverberated across Gulf Arab states, with loud blasts heard in Dubai and the Qatari capital Doha and with Oman being hit for the first time.
In Dubai, two people were injured after shrapnel from drones fell over two houses when they were intercepted, a Dubai state media office statement says.
Dubai’s international airport, its landmark Burj Al Arab hotel and man-made Palm Jumeirah Island all suffered damage overnight, as did Abu Dhabi’s international airport.
Thick black plumes of smoke continued to rise from the Jebel Ali port area, where one of the berths caught fire today because of debris from an intercepted missile.
In Oman, the Duqm commercial port was targeted by two drones, wounding one worker, the state news agency says.
Dubai is the biggest tourism and trade hub in the Middle East and its airport is one of the world’s busiest travel hubs.
Qatar’s interior ministry said on Sunday that it was responding to a limited fire in an industrial zone after debris fell from an intercepted missile.
The US used B-2 stealth bombers in recent strikes on Iran, according to analysts monitoring open-source flight tracking data.
The information is published by the founder of the Military Air Tracking Alliance, a team of about 30 open-source analysts that analyzes military and government flight activity.
There has not yet been a confirmation of the report by American officials.
The US used B-2s, the advanced aircraft known for being capable of delivering huge bunker-buster bombs, during strikes on Iranian nuclear sites at the end of June 2025’s war between Israel and Iran.
#OperationEpicFury #FreeIran
"OPERATION EPIC FURY" BOMBER MISSION
At last, I can confirm that overnight a flight of 4 B-2A "Spirit" bombers flew non-stop from the United States to Iran to attack targets belonging to the regime.I am releasing this information now as the bombers… pic.twitter.com/5mmiU4QXl4
— DefenceGeek 🇬🇧 (@DefenceGeek) March 1, 2026
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says an interim leadership council established after the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has begun its work.
“The interim leadership council started its work… we will continue with all our strength along the path set by Imam Khomeinei,” the founder of the Islamic Republic, Pezeshkian says in a recorded video statement broadcast on state TV.
He adds that the Islamic Republic’s military “will forcefully crush the enemy’s bases”.
A vessel has been struck by an unknown projectile 17 nautical miles northwest of the United Arab Emirates’ Mina Saqr in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency says.
The projectile caused a fire that has been extinguished and the vessel intends to continue on its voyage, UKMTO added.
The death toll of the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh rises to nine, after first responders say they extracted another body from under the rubble.
The missile struck a residential area in the city, destroying a synagogue and causing extensive damage to a public bomb shelter and surrounding homes.
Beit Shemesh Mayor Shmuel Greenberg says that there are 20 residents that have not been able to be reached. He stresses that “it does not necessarily mean anything happened to them.”
“It could very well be that we’re not finding them, but we are doing everything we can,” he tells reporters at the site of the missile strike.
Six injured people have been evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center as a result of the Iranian missile that struck Beit Shemesh, including a 4-year-old boy who was admitted to the trauma unit in moderate condition. The others are in moderate condition.
Four women were taken to the Terem Emergency Medical Center in Beit Shemesh suffering from minor injuries, including a 52-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter, suffering from cuts, another woman, about 60, injured by the projectile, and a 75-year-old woman, suffering from injuries as a result of a fall on the way to a shelter.
At Hadassah Ein Kerem, two children and a 76-year-old man were admitted, all three in good condition and conscious, and at Hadassah Mount Scopus, five family members were admitted in good condition and conscious.
Three people have been killed and 58 others injured in the UAE since Iran began its retaliatory campaign in the Gulf in response to US and Israeli attacks, authorities say.
The UAE has detected 165 ballistic missiles, destroying 152, and intercepted two cruise missiles, its defense ministry says. A total of “541 Iranian drones were detected, 506 of which were intercepted and destroyed,” the ministry adds in a statement.
The attacks resulted in the deaths of three people of Pakistani, Nepalese and Bangladeshi nationality, it says.
The death toll of the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh rises to eight, after first responders say they extracted additional bodies from under the rubble.
The missile struck a residential area in the city, destroying a synagogue and causing extensive damage to a public bomb shelter and surrounding homes.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service says it declared the deaths of eight victims at the scene and took 28 others to hospitals, including two in serious condition.
Footage shows the aftermath of the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh, which killed at least six and wounded over 20.
The video shows that the missile caused extensive damage to a bomb shelter.
The Home Front Command is set to investigate the circumstances of the impact, including the integrity of the shelter.
Footage shows the aftermath of the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh which killed at least six and wounded over 20.
The video shows that the missile caused extensive damage to a bomb shelter.
The Home Front Command is set to investigate the circumstances of the… pic.twitter.com/bVj7QIvodO
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 1, 2026
BERLIN — Retaliatory measures, including by Iranian sleeper cells in Europe, cannot be ruled out after US and Israeli strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the head of Germany’s parliamentary control panel for the secret services says.
“The Iranian regime has repeatedly demonstrated in the past that it carries out its terror beyond its own borders,” Marc Henrichmann tells the Sueddeutsche Zeitung paper.
“Retaliatory measures, including by Iranian sleeper cells in Europe, cannot be ruled out,” he adds, saying protection measures must be adapted if needed.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry says it summoned the Iranian ambassador, a day after the kingdom accused Tehran of targeting its territory with strikes.
“Foreign Ministry summons the Iranian ambassador to the Kingdom in response to Iran’s brazen attacks that targeted the Kingdom and a number of brotherly countries,” the ministry says in a statement on its X account.
Gulf countries will convene this evening to discuss a unified response to Iran’s attacks, two Gulf diplomats say, as Tehran presses on with a second day of strikes after US and Israeli attacks killed its supreme leader.
“It will be an online meeting of GCC foreign ministers due to the airport closures,” a Gulf diplomat tells AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. He says the discussions will revolve around “Iranian attacks on Gulf states and coordination on a unified response.” Another Gulf diplomat confirms the information.
The death toll of the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh rises to six, after medics extracted two bodies from under the rubble, first responders say.
The missile struck a residential area in the city.
Medics say they have taken 23 victims to hospitals, including two in serious condition, three hurt moderately, and 18 lightly.
The warhead of an Iranian missile hit a site just several dozen meters from the Old City of Jerusalem, and just several hundred meters from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, during the course of Saturday, the police state.
According to police, an explosion was heard in the area yesterday, shortly after the beginning of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and smoke was seen rising from the site, just west of the Old City of Jerusalem.
The impact site appears to have been the Sultan’s Pool outdoor events venue, which lies just a few dozen meters to the west of the Old City and just under a kilometer west of the Temple Mount, as the crow flies.
Police and sappers conducted searches of the area and found a warhead from an Iranian ballistic missile, and also discovered “incendiary and explosive materials” scattered nearby.
From footage sent by the police, it appears that the missile did not strike the site directly and may instead have been intercepted, with its fragments falling to earth.
The police did not immediately respond to questions regarding the nature of the impact.
The warhead was “neutralized” by sappers from the police’s Jerusalem District.
The Old City of Jerusalem includes some of the most important holy sites in the world, including the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, the holiest Jewish places in the world; as well as the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam; and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, believed by Christians to be the site of the crucifixion of Jesus.
“Yesterday we received further proof that from the enemy’s perspective, all targets are legitimate, and if that warhead had deviated by a few hundred meters, it is very possible that a very serious hit would have occurred, especially if one of the holy places had been hit while it was full of worshipers and visitors,” says police commander Dvir Tamir.
The IDF says the failure to intercept the Iranian ballistic missile that struck Beit Shemesh, killing four and injuring some 20, is under further investigation.
The military says that the Home Front Command’s early warning system functioned as intended and was activated in Bet Shemesh ahead of the actual sirens, which also sounded.
The chief of the Home Front Command, Maj. Gen. Shai Klepper, is also heading to the scene, the army adds.
Four people were killed by the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh, the Magen David Adom ambulance says.
MDA says some 20 others were injured by the impact, including two in serious condition.
The military says it has dispatched search and rescue forces and medics to the scene, along with a helicopter to assist with evacuating the injured.
Footage shows the moment of the impact.
Four people were killed by an Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh, Magen David Adom says.
Footage shows the moment of the impact. pic.twitter.com/tJHgxJoTae
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 1, 2026
Note: This is a developing story.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they have launched a new wave of attacks against the “enemy” after Israeli and US strikes killed the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.
“Moments ago, the seventh and eighth waves of Operation Honest Promise 4 against the enemy were launched on a large scale,” the Guards say in a statement carried by local media, without specifying the targets.
Some 20 people were injured, including four in serious or critical condition, by the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh, medics say.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service says it is taking 17 victims to hospitals, including two in serious condition, one person moderately hurt, and another 14 people in good condition. Among those seriously hurt is a 10-year-old girl, MDA says.
Two others are being treated at the scene in critical condition, MDA says.
A Marshall Islands-flagged crude oil tanker was hit by a projectile off the coast of Oman while sailing with cargo, two maritime security sources say.
The vessel was hit some 44.4 nautical miles northwest of Muscat, one of the sources says.
One of the vessel’s managers, listed in databases as leading commercial ship management group V Ships, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Iran poses a threat to both Israel and surrounding Arab countries, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein tells The Times of Israel while briefing reporters at the site of an Iranian missile attack in central Tel Aviv.
Asked for Israel’s reaction to Arab allies in the Gulf being attacked by Iran during the US-Israeli military campaign against the country, Marmorstein replies: “The fact that Arab countries and Arab allies were targeted just goes to show that the Iranian regime doesn’t only pose a threat to Israel.”
“It doesn’t only pose a threat to the region,” he continues. It “imposes a threat to the entire world.”
Asked if Israel is doing anything to assist Arab countries in the region that have been targeted by Iran to defend themselves, he responds, “We are doing everything possible to meet the objective of this operation, and this operation is working and happening hand in hand with our American friends,” and thanks US President Donald Trump “for his leadership, and working together to achieve these goals.”
Marmorstein emphasizes that the Iranian regime is deliberately targeting civilians in its retaliatory strikes, while stressing that Israel “has no quarrel with the Iranian people… our only quarrel is with the Iranian regime.”
ATHENS — More than a thousand demonstrators march to the US and Israeli embassies in Athens to protest against strikes in Iran.
Demonstrators mainly affiliated to the Greek Communist Party hold banners and placards reading “Hands off Iran” and “Close Souda base.”
Yesterday, Greece tightened security in Souda naval base on the island of Crete, a strategic facility for the United States in the eastern Mediterranean.
The US and Israeli embassies are cordoned off with rows of blue police buses.
Police sources estimate the number of protesters to be more than 1,300.
Συγκέντρωση στο πάρκο Ελευθερίας και πορεία προς την αμερικανική πρεσβεία πραγματοποίησαν εργατικά σωματεία και φορείς κατά των επιθέσεων των ΗΠΑ και Ισραήλ στο Ιράν.
🎥orange press#ingr #news #αθηνα #iran pic.twitter.com/q5IcH44kzk
— in.gr/news (@in_gr) March 1, 2026
The Magen David Adom ambulance service says its medics are treating over 20 people who were injured following an Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh.
Among the injured is a girl in serious condition, MDA says.
Magen David Adom says its medics are treating several injuries following an Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beit Shemesh.
Among the injuries is a girl in serious condition, MDA says. https://t.co/nCbhWohNYB pic.twitter.com/2NjiS5QR1k
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 1, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides “clearly and unequivocally” that Cyprus was not the target of an Iranian missile attack, according to Cyprus’s readout.
Earlier, UK Defense Secretary John Healey said that two Iranian missiles were fired toward Cyprus.
“We don’t believe they were targeted at Cyprus,” says Healey in a Sky News interview. The UK has two large sovereign base districts in Cyprus.
At least one person is injured as a result of an Iranian ballistic missile or fragment impact in central Israel, medics say.
Magen David Adom says the man is listed in moderate condition.
Medics are also responding to reports of an impact in the Beit Shemesh area, near Jerusalem.
The Israeli military assesses that Iran currently possesses some 2,500 ballistic missiles.
Ahead of June 2025’s war, the IDF said it identified efforts by Iran to significantly accelerate its production rate of ballistic missiles and increase its stockpile from around 3,000 to 8,000 within two years.
During the June war, Iran launched over 500 missiles at Israel, and the military reported destroying hundreds of missiles in strikes and preventing the production of 1,500 additional missiles by targeting manufacturing infrastructure. In addition, the military reported destroying some 200 of Iran’s estimated 400 ballistic missile launchers at the time.
In recent months, the military says Iran has been investing significant efforts to restore its missile production capabilities, manufacturing dozens of projectiles per month.
The IDF says Iran’s ballistic missile production rate had been on a “upward trend” in recent months, and it now possesses around 2,500 projectiles.
“The possession of missiles by a regime that intends to destroy the State of Israel constitutes an existential threat,” the IDF says, adding that it “will not allow the Iranian terror regime to restore its military capabilities, and will continue to act to eliminate any emerging threat against the citizens of the State of Israel, anywhere and at any time.”
Sirens warning of a suspected drone infiltration sound near the border with Jordan in southern Israel.
Meanwhile, alerts continue to sound across central and northern Israel amid a ballistic missile attack from Iran.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir vows law enforcement will crack down on those who incite against Israel, after arriving at the scene of yesterday’s Iranian missile impact in Tel Aviv.
Speaking to the press alongside police chief Danny Levy and Tel Aviv District commander Haim Sargaroff, Ben Gvir praises the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the ongoing joint Israeli-US operation.
“The end of an era, we’ve lopped off the head of the snake,” he says, hailing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz for the waves of strikes against the Islamic Republic. He then turns his focus inwards, warning that police will crack down on those within Israel who “incite” against the state.
“We have a very determined police, whoever raises his head to try to incite against the State of Israel, whoever raises his head to try and harm the State of Israel, we will thrash him, we will tear his head off,” he says.
He further calls on Israelis to carry firearms with them. “I call on citizens to bear arms, those who have a firearm, to bear it,” he says.
After being hassled by a group bystanders in the liberal city who tell him to “go home,” Ben Gvir hits back at them before the cameras: “You shouted this at us before Iran — ‘go home’ — you shouted it before the prisons,” he says, referring to his campaign to significantly degrade living conditions for Palestinian security detainees.
“We’ve seen that at the end of the day, you talk while we act, and we’ve made history,” he says, referring to Khamenei’s assassination. “At the end of the day, these Nazis want to destroy us all… they want to eliminate all of us, and we will eliminate them one-by-one.”
Speaking at the site of a deadly Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv, President Isaac Herzog thanks US President Donald Trump “for his courage” and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “for the correct decision.”
“We are united at this moment to defeat the enemy and bring about change,” he says.
Israel is at war, the president stresses, “and in war, you must first take care of the home front and protect it, and second, attack and act with full force to defeat the enemy.”
“If someone rises to kill you, rise to kill him first,” he says, quoting the Babylonian Talmud.
“This is not an easy time,” Herzog continues, “but it is a time in which we can see, generations ahead, how much this campaign is bringing change. Generations ahead — because the evil empire in Iran has as its sole objective the destruction of Israel. This is a top priority on its agenda. Therefore, it is our duty to be strong, resilient, and steadfast. We will get through this and move forward, and our children and grandchildren will one day be grateful for these moments.”
At the same site, former prime minister Naftali Bennett, considered Netanyahu’s main rival in elections this year, stresses his support “for the government and its leader.”
He also says that while much of the world routinely denounces what Israel does, even critics of Israel know deep down that “Israel is doing their job, in eliminating the world’s biggest terrorist dictators.”
“I’ve never been prouder to be an Israeli,” he says, “and we will never apologize for what we are doing. I give my full backing to the government and its leader. There is no left and no right.” He also hails Israel’s military, noting that “the entire people of Israel stand behind the pilots.”
Bennett says Israel is stronger and safer “because Israel did not wait any longer” to target Iran. He laments that Israel “for decades” followed a doctrine of “containment and waiting.” But now, he says, it is “acting on every front to harm our enemies.”
“We all proceed together” until the threats to Israel are dealt with, he says.
Noting that Israel has done its part by eliminating the Iranian leadership, he says: “Now it’s the Iranian people’s turn to rise up and free itself. The one who must remove the chains of oppression is the Iranian people itself.”
Sirens sound across central and northern Israel amid Iran’s latest ballistic missile salvo.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the projectiles.
Civilians in areas where sirens are sounding are instructed to remain in bomb shelters until further notice.
The IDF says it destroyed two Iranian F-4 and F-5 fighter jets that were ready for takeoff at Tabriz airport in western Iran.
The airstrikes were carried out to “cause a blow to activities of the Iranian Air Force and to deepen the damage to the regime’s defense systems,” the military says.
חיל האוויר תקף שני מטוסי קרב מוכנים להמראה מסוג F5 ומסוג F4 של משטר הטרור האיראני
כלי טיס של חיל האוויר תקפו לפני זמן קצר שני מטוסי קרב מוכנים להמראה מסוג F5 ומסוג F4 של משטר הטרור האיראני בשדה תעופה בטבריז שבמערב איראן.
התקיפה בוצעה על מנת לפגוע בפעילותו של חיל האוויר האיראני… pic.twitter.com/fmvtnFS7A3
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) March 1, 2026
A new launch of ballistic missiles from Iran has been detected by the IDF.
Sirens are expected to sound in central and northern Israel in the coming minutes.
Defense Minister Israel Katz says the strikes on Iran “will continue for as long as necessary” and will not stop “before the objectives are achieved.”
During an assessment with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the military’s top brass, and other defense officials, Katz says the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “is a turning point.”
“We all hope that the activity will also lead to the outcome we want, that the Iranian people will be able to remove this regime for themselves, for us, and for the entire world,” he says, according to remarks provided by his office.
There are no reports of injuries following the latest salvo of Iranian ballistic missiles launched at central Israel, medics say.
The IDF Home Front Command, meanwhile, says civilians in areas where sirens sounded can now leave bomb shelters, but should still remain close to them.
Additionally, the Home Front Command says that the suspected drone infiltration incident that set off sirens in Jerusalem and in the West Bank has concluded, without providing further details.
North Korea’s foreign ministry spokesperson says in a statement that Israel’s attacks on Iran and the US military operation there were “illegal aggression” and a violation of national sovereignty, state media Korean Central News Agency reports.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office shares footage from his meeting last night with top security officials and senior ministers on the first evening of war with Iran.
Netanyahu is flanked by his military secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman and acting National Security Adviser Gil Reich. Shin Bet Director David Zini sits opposite Netanyahu, alongside Defense Minister Israel Katz and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
The clip shows attendees applauding Netanyahu’s achievements in the war, one of his advisers tells The Times of Israel.
PM Netanyahu’s office shares footage from a meeting with senior ministers and top security officials last night pic.twitter.com/ER3y53xjxx
— Lazar Berman (@Lazar Berman) March 1, 2026
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is “a defining moment in Iran’s history.”
“What comes next is uncertain. But there is now an open path to a different Iran, one that its people may have greater freedom to shape,” Kallas says on X.
“I’m in contact with partners, including those in the region that bear the brunt of Iran’s military actions, to find practical steps for de-escalation.”
The US embassy in Manama urges citizens to steer clear of hotels in the Bahraini capital, warning they could become potential targets after the Crowne Plaza was hit during Iranian strikes.
“The US Embassy in Bahrain is tracking confirmed reports the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Manama was struck on March 1, 2026, resulting in injuries. We advise US citizens in Bahrain that hotels might be a target for future attacks, and encourage US citizens to avoid hotels in Manama,” the embassy says in a post on X.
Security Alert: Update 5 – U.S. Embassy Manama, Bahrain – U.S. government personnel moved from hotels (March 1, 2026)
The U.S. Embassy in Bahrain is tracking confirmed reports the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Manama was struck on March 1, 2026, resulting in injuries. We advise U.S.… pic.twitter.com/Ehok919Mg7
— U.S. Embassy Manama (@USEmbassyManama) March 1, 2026
Earlier, an AFP correspondent saw damage at the hotel after hearing explosions. Yesterday in Manama, the Iranian attacks saw drones and shrapnel slam into residential buildings, with video on social media showing smoke and fire from high-rises.
The IDF publishes new footage showing airstrikes against Iranian ballistic missile launchers, air defenses, and drones in Iran over the past day.
The military has reported striking hundreds of Iranian military targets in Iran since the start of the conflict yesterday. The IDF says it has taken out several armed missile launchers before they could be used in attacks on Israel and destroyed dozens of air defense systems.
UK Defense Secretary John Healey declines to explicitly back strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran, saying it was for the US to “set out the legal basis of the action it took.”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the airstrikes yesterday.
Healey tells the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that Britain played no part in the strikes, but it did share the aim of the United States and other allies in the region that Iran should never have a nuclear weapon.
Asked if he believes the strikes were within international law, Healey says: “It is for the US to set out the legal basis of the action that it took.”
Healey says Iran was retaliating in an increasingly indiscriminate way, targeting civilian airports and hotels as well as military bases.
“We have strengthened the UK defenses in the region, we are active in regional defense operations,” he tells Sky News.
He says UK aircraft are operating from bases in Qatar and Cyprus and are intercepting drone attacks on bases and allies.
Sirens warning of a suspected drone infiltration are also activated in Jerusalem and several nearby West Bank settlements.
At the same time, sirens sound across central Israel amid an Iranian ballistic missile attack.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the threat.
Sirens warning of a suspected drone infiltration sound near the Dead Sea.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the threat.
The military has reported shooting down more than a dozen drones launched from Iran at Israel in the past day.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family were “cynical” murders that violated all the norms of human morality and international law.
“Please accept my deep condolences in connection with the murder of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Syed Ali Khamenei, and members of his family, committed in cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law,” Putin says in a note to Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian.
The IDF says it has detected a new launch of ballistic missiles from Iran.
Sirens are expected to sound across central Israel shortly.
Iran names Ayatollah Alireza Arafi to its interim leadership council, which will be at the helm of the country following the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“The Expediency Discernment Council has elected Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as a member of the interim leadership council,” says expediency council spokesman Mohsen Dehnavi in a post on X.
The interim council, which will also include the president and the head of the judiciary, will lead the country until the Assembly of Experts “elects a permanent leader as soon as possible.”
Lebanese terror group Hezbollah vows to confront the United States and Israel over their strikes on the group’s key backer, Iran.
“We will undertake our duty of confronting the aggression” of the US and Israel, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem says in a statement, adding that they would not leave “the field of honor and resistance.”
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Defense Minister Israel Katz says the Israeli Air Force is striking Tehran with “stand-in” munitions, meaning those dropped directly over their targets.
“For the first time in Operation Roaring Lion, air force aircraft are operating in ‘stand-in’ over the skies of Tehran in a powerful strike against regime and repression targets,” Katz says.
Israeli strikes in Tehran in the past day had used stand-off weapons, which are launched from a distance and generally have smaller warheads.
The ability to launch stand-in bombs comes after the military says it established air superiority and “opened the way to Tehran.”
Katz says “continuous powerful strikes” will now take place in Tehran.
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the oldest near-complete biblical book ever found, has been relocated to a secure location as a result of the conflict with Iran, a spokesperson for the Israel Museum tells The Times of Israel.
The artifact, dating back over 2,100 years, was recently put on on display in its full length for the first time since 1968.
The museum also moved other significant artifacts to a secure location.
Following the emergency directives issued by Home Front Command, the museum is closed until further notice.
UK Defense Secretary John Healey says that two Iranian missiles were fired toward Cyprus.
“We don’t believe they were targeted at Cyprus,” says Healey in a Sky News interview. The UK has two large sovereign base districts in Cyprus.
At the same time, “it is an example of a very real, rising threat,” he says.
Healey also reveals that 300 British troops were near Iranian strikes in Bahrain. “Some of them within a few hundred yards of where they landed,” he says.
'We're taking down the drones that are menacing either our bases, our people, or our allies'
British forces are 'taking down' Iranian drones that have threatened British interests in the Middle East, @JohnHealey_MP tells @TrevorPTweetshttps://t.co/wCvpri8yw4
📺 Sky 501 pic.twitter.com/KFFVd4FGM6
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 1, 2026
The IDF says it killed 40 “key” Iranian military commanders in its opening strikes in Iran yesterday, including Iran’s chief of staff, Abdolrahim Mousavi.
The 40 commanders, along with other top Iranian officials — including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — were killed in strikes carried out in under a minute, according to the military.
The IDF says it can now confirm that Mousavi was killed in the opening strikes. Mousavi had replaced Mohammad Bagheri, who was killed in Israel’s opening strikes during June 2025’s war.
Mousavi was responsible for “managing Iran’s security apparatus and oversaw the firing of hundreds of ballistic missiles launched toward Israeli territory, which killed Israeli civilians during the operation,” the military says.
The IDF says that “the majority of the highest-ranking senior military officials of the Iranian security leadership have been eliminated by the IDF.”
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is actively monitoring events in the Middle East and the potential implications for global oil and gas markets and trade flows,” its director, Fatih Birol, says in a post on X.
“Markets have been well supplied to date,” he says, adding that he is in contact with ministries from major producers in the region and IEA governments about the situation.
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani vows to hit the US and Israel with a force never seen before following their strikes on the Islamic Republic, which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“YESTERDAY IRAN FIRED MISSILES AT THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL, AND THEY DID HURT. TODAY WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT THEY HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE,” says Larijani in a post on X.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu releases an AI video on X in which he tells the Iranian people in Persian to rise up against the regime, saying that “in the coming days, we will strike thousands of targets of the terrorist regime. ”
He delivered the same message last night in a Hebrew-language video statement.
“We will create the conditions for the brave people of Iran to free themselves from the chains of tyranny,” he tells them in Persian, urging, “Do not let this opportunity slip away.”
“This is an opportunity that comes only once in every generation,” he says. “Do not sit idle, because your moment will arrive soon.”
“The moment when you must take to the streets, come to the streets in your millions to finish the job, to overthrow the regime of terror that has embittered your lives,” he says, calling on Iran’s ethnic groups to unite to overthrow the Islamic Republic.
در روزهای آینده ما به هزاران هدف رژیم تروریستی ضربه خواهیم زد.
ما شرایطو برای مردم شجاع ایران فراهم خواهیم کرد تا خود را از زنجیرهای استبداد رها کنن.
و به همین دلیل من دوباره خطاب به شما میگم:
ای شهروندان ایران این فرصت رو از دست ندهید.
این فرصتیست که فقط یه بار در هر نسل پیش… pic.twitter.com/JILOEzFjEx— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) March 1, 2026
Two young men succumbed overnight to critical IDF gunshot wounds sustained in separate incidents in the southern West Bank on Tuesday and yesterday, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry.
The IDF has not commented on either incident.
Muhammad Masalma, 25, died in Hebron’s Ahli Hospital after troops shot him last night amid clashes in the Palestinian town of Dura, south of Hebron, according to the ministry and Palestinian media.
A brief clip published by Palestinian outlets showed a person, identified by the outlets as Masalma, lying in the middle of the road as an IDF soldier appears to kick him.
عاجل | وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية: إصابة شاب بجروح خطيرة برصاص الاحتلال في مدينة دورا، جنوب الخليل. pic.twitter.com/dBgKSajwJh
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) February 28, 2026
Another clip from the same location showed a military vehicle standing next to the wounded man as soldiers stand and kneel over him, tossing aside what appears to be one of his shoes.
🟨شاهد | قوات الاحتلال تقوم بالاعتداء على الشاب المصاب وسط مدينة دورا جنوب الخليل pic.twitter.com/z5vKO6XkkY
— شبكة يافا الإخبارية (@yaffa_ps) February 28, 2026
Separately, 19-year-old Tamer Kisiya died last night at Hebron’s Mezan Hospital from wounds sustained when troops opened fire on him and another teenager last Tuesday amid clashes in Dahariya, according to the PA ministry and Palestinian media.
Some 870 Israeli students and faculty members are currently stranded in Poland, unable to return to Israel due to the joint US-Israel military strike on Iran, the Education Ministry says.
An educational group of 16 is also stuck in the United States, and 9 are in Romania, the ministry notes.
The groups are being secured by the Shin Bet, as is generally the case with student trips, the ministry says. There is no indication of any particular risk.
Israel has closed its airspace until at least Monday, the Transportation Ministry said yesterday, making travel through Ben Gurion Airport and other flight hubs impossible. Tens of thousands of Israeli travelers around the world are also unable to return.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says that the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US and Israeli strikes was a “declaration of war against Muslims.”
“The assassination of the highest political authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a prominent leader of Shiism worldwide… is perceived as an open declaration of war against Muslims, and particularly against Shiites, everywhere in the world,” Pezeshkian says in a statement carried by state TV.
He adds that avenging the killing of Khamenei is a right and an obligation of the Islamic Republic.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its legitimate duty and right to avenge the perpetrators and masterminds of this historic crime,” Pezeshkian says.
A woman in her 60s who was taken to the ER at Ichilov Medical Center suffering from shortness of breath during the recent rocket attacks died this morning.
The Health Ministry says that 456 people have been evacuated to hospitals, of whom 86 are currently either hospitalized or in the ER since the start of Roaring Lion.
One person is in serious condition, but not as a direct result of a missile strike; 19 are moderate, 92 are in good condition, three are suffering from anxiety, and one is undergoing medical evaluation.
The ministry asks those who live near senior citizens to assist them and practice getting to the protected area as early as possible to prevent accidents that may result from falling on the way to the protected areas.
Also, ERAN Emotional First Aid reports a 40% increase in calls since the start of the war, with most of the callers dealing with feelings of anxiety and stress. The organization says that it also provides support in five languages for new immigrants to Israel: English, Russian, French, Spanish, and Amharic.
Iran’s police intelligence chief Gholamreza Rezaian was killed during US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic, local media reports.
“General Gholamreza Rezaian, head of the national police intelligence, was killed following yesterday’s enemy attacks,” Fars news agency reported, alongside other media outlets.
The IDF publishes footage of an airstrike against a “headquarters of the Iranian terror regime” in Tehran a short while ago.
The video shows two buildings in the Iranian capital being destroyed in strikes.
Earlier, the military said it was carrying out a wave of extensive strikes against “targets of the Iranian terror regime in the heart of Tehran.”
צפו בתיעוד ראשון מהמטס הרחב של חיל האוויר בלב טהראן
מצורף תיעוד מהדקות האחרונות של השמדת מפקדה של משטר הטרור האיראני בלב טהראן pic.twitter.com/jGSpx0oo2Y
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) March 1, 2026
Footage shows smoke rising above Iran’s capital, Tehran, amid extensive Israeli airstrikes.
The IDF said it was carrying out a wave of strikes against “targets of the Iranian terror regime in the heart of Tehran.”
Heavy Israeli Air Force airstrikes ongoing in Iran’s capital, Tehran right now. pic.twitter.com/BvAGnTgkF4
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 1, 2026
The CIA identified the precise location of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shortly before the US and Israel launched their coordinated strike on Iran, providing what officials describe as “high fidelity” intelligence that shaped the operation, The New York Times reports, citing officials familiar with the matter.
According to the report, US intelligence had tracked Khamenei for months, refining its understanding of his movements and security patterns. The breakthrough came when the CIA learned that Khamenei would attend a morning meeting of senior Iranian officials at a leadership compound in central Tehran.
The intelligence was shared with Israel, and the two countries adjusted the timing of their planned strike — which was initially planned to take place under the cover of darkness — to exploit the opportunity, moving it to coincide with the gathering at 9:40 a.m. Tehran time.
The New York Times says that the White House and CIA declined to comment on the report.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet this evening at 9 p.m., the office of one of the ministers tells The Times of Israel, on the second day of the US-Israeli attack on Iran.
There are no reports of injuries or direct impacts in residential areas following the latest salvo of Iranian ballistic missiles launched at Israel.
The IDF Home Front Command, meanwhile, says civilians in areas where sirens sounded can now leave bomb shelters, but should still remain close to them.
The Dutch arm of Air France‑KLM says flights to and from Dubai, Dammam and Riyadh due to take off over the weekend have been canceled.
KLM had suspended its Amsterdam–Tel Aviv service amid the war with Iran.
The carrier says it is monitoring developments closely and will update its schedule as needed, and that passengers on affected flights will be rebooked once operations resume.
Oman’s maritime security center says that Palau-flagged oil tanker Skylight was attacked about five nautical miles off Oman’s Musandam.
Four people are injured and the whole crew of 20 people is evacuated.
Standing at the site of an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid calls on the public to adhere to Homefront Command instructions.
“The safety instructions save lives. Israel is doing the right thing, the coordination with the Americans is unique, and the entire nation of Israel stands united behind this operation,” says Lapid.
The IDF officially announces that it killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in an airstrike in Tehran yesterday.
“Ali Khamenei was targeted in a precise, large-scale operation carried out by the Israeli Air Force, guided by accurate IDF intelligence, while he was in his central leadership compound in the heart of Tehran, where he was together with additional senior officials,” the military says in a statement.
The military says Khamenei, who served as the supreme leader since 1989, “was directly responsible for the violent repression of Iranian citizens for many years.”
“Khamenei was the architect of the plan to destroy the State of Israel and was known as the ‘head of the Iranian octopus,’ extending its arms throughout the Middle East and to the borders of the State of Israel. Foremost among them was the Hezbollah terror organization. The supreme leader of the Iranian regime was responsible for terrorist attacks against the State of Israel, and the blood of many civilians from around the world was on his hands,” the IDF says.
The IDF says it has “brought to an end a decades-long chapter with the elimination of the leader of the Iranian terror axis.”
“His elimination joins a series of eliminations of senior members of the terror axis carried out by the IDF during the war,” the statement adds.
The Israeli Air Force is carrying out an extensive wave of airstrikes against “targets of the Iranian terror regime in the heart of Tehran,” the military says.
The military says the IAF carried out extensive strikes in the past day “to establish air superiority and open the way to Tehran.”
Fresh sirens sound across a huge swath of Israel amid incoming missile fire from Iran, from the Golan Heights southward to Ashkelon near the Gaza border, including in Haifa, Tel Aviv and areas in the West Bank.
More sirens are sounding in the northern city of Haifa and surrounding areas, including the Galilee and the Golan Heights, after warnings of incoming ballistic missiles.
At least eight people have been killed during pro-Iran protests at the United States consulate in the Pakistan megacity of Karachi today, a rescue service spokesman tells AFP.
“We have moved at least eight dead bodies to Karachi’s civil hospitals, while 20 others were injured in the consulate incident,” says Muhammad Amin, a spokesman for the Edhi Foundation rescue service, adding most had bullet wounds.
Hundreds of pro-Iranian protesters had tried to storm the consulate following the US-Israel strikes on Iran.
Massive celebrations were held in the streets of one of London’s largest Jewish communities last night following word that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the joint US-Israel military strike on Iran.
Videos show Israeli and Iranian flags being waved at the celebration in the Golders Green neighborhood after Shabbat ended. It is said that local Persians participated in the dancing, but that could not be independently confirmed.
In Golders Green in London, Jews and Persians are celebrating together.pic.twitter.com/DQTDTLvsHy
— John Aziz (@aziz0nomics) March 1, 2026
Sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Rishon Lezion and other areas in central Israel as well as the West Bank after the IDF warned of incoming ballistic missile fire from Iran.
Oman’s Duqm commercial port was hit by two drones, injuring one expatriate worker, the state news agency says.
Debris from another drone fell in an area near fuel tanks, but there were no casualties or material losses recorded, it adds.
The US embassy in Oman asks staff and citizens to shelter in place today, citing unspecified “activity” outside the capital Muscat, as Iran conducts a second day of retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.
“Due to ongoing activity outside of Muscat, the US Embassy in Oman has instructed staff to shelter-in-place (ie, take cover). We recommend all Americans in Oman do the same until further notice,” the embassy says in a post on X.
Oman, a key mediator in the US-Iran talks, had so far been spared Iranian attacks. It was unclear what the activity mentioned by the embassy was.
The IDF says it has detected a new launch of ballistic missiles from Iran.
Sirens are expected to sound in central Israel in the coming minutes.
Sirens sound in the Jordan Valley area following the launch of a ballistic missile from Iran.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the missile.
The woman killed in last night’s Iranian missile strike on Tel Aviv did not manage to enter a bomb shelter, according to a military investigation of the attack.
The Home Front Command has determined that a complete Iranian ballistic missile — not fragments — struck next to an apartment building, causing extensive damage and a large crater.
The missile carried a warhead of several hundred kilograms, the Home Front Command assesses.
The building is relatively old, without its own safe rooms, and most residents had evacuated to a nearby public bomb shelter, according to the Home Front Command.
The slain woman, who is a foreign caregiver for an elderly woman, did not manage to evacuate in time and was killed in the strike. The woman she was caring for was extracted by rescue workers from the rubble alive.
In the past day, the military has detected that Iran has launched several hundred missiles at Israel and other countries in the Middle East — mostly from western Iran.
The continuous salvos have consisted of a small number of missiles, usually three at a time, with breaks of a few minutes between each launch, according to the IDF. Still, the barrage last night on Tel Aviv consisted of over 20 missiles.
In contrast, during the June 2025 war, Iran initially launched larger barrages with longer breaks between each salvo.
The Home Front Command says it has mobilized some 20,000 reservists, mainly for search and rescue operations.
Hundreds of pro-Iranian protesters tried to storm the United States consulate in the Pakistan megacity of Karachi, an AFP journalist says.
A crowd of young people climbed over the main gate and gained access to the driveway of the consular building, smashing some windows.
Police fired tear gas at the protesters, who dispersed, the AFP journalist says.
Thailand is readying to evacuate its citizens from the Middle East by military or charter flights, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says, after the US and Israel attacked Iran, which answered with its own missile strikes.
The Thai government has “coordinated with the Royal Thai Air Force to prepare aircraft to evacuate Thai citizens, prioritizing those in Iran,” Anutin tells reporters in Bangkok, adding that charter flights were also under consideration.
“We have to check the closure of airspace, whether we need to evacuate them to the third country first,” he adds.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets have dropped over 1,200 pieces of munition during strikes in Iran over the past day, the military says.
According to the IDF, the strikes have hit hundreds of Iranian military targets, including ballistic missile launchers and air defense systems.
There are no reports of injuries or direct impacts in residential areas following the latest salvo of Iranian ballistic missiles targeting central and northern Israel, medics say.
Police say they received reports of missile and interceptor fragments that landed in the Jerusalem area, and the Fire and Rescue Service says it is responding to a gas leak caused by falling shrapnel in the West Bank.
The IDF Home Front Command, meanwhile, says civilians in areas where sirens sounded can now leave bomb shelters, but should remain close to them.
Iraq announces a three-day mourning period after the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Government spokesman Bassem al-Awadi says in a statement that “with deep sorrow, we extend our condolences to the noble people of Iran and the entire Muslim world” after Khamenei was killed in “a blatant act of aggression.”
The Magen David Adom rescue service says it has not received any reports of injuries in the latest round of Iranian missile attacks.
First responders are headed to scenes where there are reports of possible impacts, it says.
A third round of missile sirens is sounding in northern Israel.
Loud booms are heard in the Jerusalem area, but there is no immediate word on injuries or damage.
More missile sirens ring out in the Jerusalem area as an incoming attack continues.
Sirens are sounding across Tel Aviv and other cities in central Israel following a warning of incoming missile fire from Iran
The United Nations’ nuclear agency will hold an extraordinary meeting on Iran tomorrow in the wake of the US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic, aimed in part at Tehran’s atomic program.
In a statement late last night, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said it would convene a “special session of the IAEA Board of Governors on matters related to military strikes of the United States and Israel against the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran” at Russia’s request.
Iranian TV says that the country’s armed forces chief of staff Abdolrahim Mousavi was killed in strikes on Iran.
Mousavi was among the some 30 key Iranian regime leaders and military chiefs reportedly targeted in yesterday’s joint US-Israel strikes.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Israeli carrier Arkia announces that it will start to operate special flights from Athens in Greece to Taba in Egypt today to help stranded travelers return home via land border crossing following the closure of Israel’s airspace amid US-Israel attacks on Iran.
The Arkia flights will be operated using Electra’s Airbus A320 aircraft to allow passengers flying from Athens to Taba International Airport and then cross the Taba land border with Egypt into Israel. Travelers can depart Israel via the route.
Flights are available for purchase on the Arkia website and through travel agents only.
Hundreds of Iraqis attempted to storm Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, where the US embassy is located, after the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an AFP journalist reports.
“Their attempts had been thwarted so far, but they keep trying,” a security source tells AFP.
AFP’s journalist says protesters, some holding flags of pro-Iran armed groups, threw stones at security forces, who responded with tear gas.
Local media reports protests in other provinces in southern Iraq.
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani warns against attempts to divide Iran following the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US and Israeli strikes.
“Groups seeking to divide Iran should know that we will not tolerate it,” says Larijani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, in an interview broadcast on state TV, calling on Iranians to unite.
AFP correspondents in Dubai heard a second wave of explosions a short while ago, as Iran carries out retaliatory attacks on the Gulf following US and Israeli strikes that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Earlier blasts were heard in Dubai, Doha and the Bahraini capital Manama.
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani says the transition process following the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will begin today.
“An interim leadership council will soon be formed. The president, the head of the judiciary and a jurist from the Guardian Council will assume responsibility until the election of the next leader,” says Larijani, the head of Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, who was an adviser to Khamenei.
“This council will be established as soon as possible. We are working to form it as early as today,” he says in an interview broadcast by state TV.
Iran has prepared for “all scenarios,” including the way forward, after the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following US and Israeli strikes, its parliament’s speaker says.
“We have prepared ourselves for these moments and have considered all scenarios,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says in a video carried on state TV, adding that US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have “crossed our red lines” and “will suffer the consequences.”
US President Donald Trump threatens to hit Iran with unprecedented force if it strikes in the coming hours.
“Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever hit before. THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IF THEY DO, WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!” Trump writes on Truth Social.
There are no reports of impacts in residential areas or direct injuries following several salvos of Iranian ballistic missiles targeting central and southern Israel, medics say.
Magen David Adom says it is responding to reports of people lightly hurt by falling while running to bomb shelters.
The IDF Home Front Command, meanwhile, says civilians in most areas where sirens sounded can now leave bomb shelters, but should still remain close to them.
Defense Minister Israel Katz says “justice has been served” after an IDF airstrike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran yesterday.
“The tyrant Khamenei was eliminated in the opening strike of Operation Roaring Lion, along with other senior figures in the Iranian terror regime’s stronghold,” says Katz in a statement.
“Whoever worked to destroy Israel was destroyed. Justice has been done, and the axis of evil sustained a crushing blow,” he says.
Several loud blasts are also heard over the Qatari capital Doha for a second day, witnesses say, as Iran launches retaliatory strikes on the neighboring Gulf states in response to US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic.
Iran has said it will target US bases in the region. It has hit a range of other targets.
Sirens continue to sound across southern and central Israel as Iran launches a barrage of ballistic missiles toward the country.
The IDF issues a statement saying that civilians in areas where sirens sound should remain in bomb shelters until further notice as it works to shoot down the missiles.
More sirens sound across central Israel amid Iran’s latest ballistic missile attack.
An early warning is also issued in southern Israel as more projectiles are launched.
Civilians in areas where sirens sound are instructed to enter bomb shelters.
The IDF says it is working to intercept the missiles.
Several loud bangs are heard in the Dubai area for a second straight day, witnesses say, as Iran launches retaliatory strikes on the neighboring Gulf states in response to US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic.
Iran has said it will target US bases in the region. It has hit a range of other targets.
Israel and the US waited for a rare opportunity to target Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and top advisers in his palace, The Wall Street Journal reports, without citing sources.
The report says three such meetings were identified by intelligence authorities, leading to the unusual broad daylight strike.
The report says 30 bombs were dropped on the compound.
Incoming missile sirens sound in central Israel and parts of the northern West Bank due to a missile salvo from Iran, sending millions to bomb shelters.
Loud explosions are heard near Erbil airport, which hosts US-led coalition troops in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.
An AFP journalist reports seeing thick black smoke rising from the airport area.
Yesterday, US-led coalition forces downed several missiles and explosive-laden drones over Erbil.
The IDF says it has detected a missile barrage from Iran, warning residents of wide swaths of the country that alarms may sound in their area soon.
As the army declares “over” the event that triggered suspected drone infiltration sirens a short while ago in towns north of Eilat, more such alerts sound in the southern city itself.
That incident it, too, soon declared “over” by the IDF, which provides no additional details.
Iran’s judiciary confirms that US and Israeli strikes killed the chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and another top security adviser.
The Guards’ commander, General Mohammad Pakpour, and Ali Shamkhani, the head of the national defense council, were “martyred” in yesterday’s attacks, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan online news portal reports.
Suspected drone infiltration alerts sound in several southern communities, north of Eilat.
A council has formed to govern Iran after the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
That council is enshrined in law in the Islamic Republic. It is made up of Iran’s sitting president, the head of the country’s judiciary and a member of the Guardian Council chosen by Iran’s Expediency Council, which advises the supreme leader and settles disputes with parliament.
Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian and hardline judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei are on it.
Iranian law says the Assembly of Experts “must, as soon as possible,” pick a new supreme leader.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vows to punish the “murderers” of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, after his death is confirmed by state television, promising what it says will be the “most ferocious offensive operation in history” against US bases and Israel.
“The hand of revenge of the Iranian nation for a severe, decisive and regrettable punishment for the murderers of the Imam of the Ummah will not let go of them,” the IRGC says in a statement.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and what it called the vast popular Basij forces will powerfully continue the path of their leader in defending his legacy, standing firm against internal and external plots and delivering what it described as a lesson-giving punishment to aggressors against the Islamic homeland,” it says.
Iran’s cabinet meanwhile warns that this “great crime will never go unanswered.”
Air raid sirens are activated in numerous Israeli communities near the Lebanon border due to a suspected drone infiltration.
A rocket alert is also heard in the town of Ghajar.
A new series of powerful blasts are heard in Tehran, AFP journalists in Iran report.
The source of the blasts, which went off at 5:30 a.m., is not immediately clear.
About 90 minutes earlier, detonations were also heard in the Iranian capital.
Iranian state television describes Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as being at his compound in downtown Tehran when the initial attack began. Satellite photos from Airbus show the site was heavily bombed.
The death of Iran’s Supreme Leader at his office “showed that he consistently stood among the people and at the forefront of his responsibilities, confronting what officials call global arrogance,” state TV says.
State media also announces that 40 days of public mourning have been declared.
The IDF says the air force is continuing to carry out strikes in western and central Iran, after a latest wave of attacks on some 30 targets.
The military says the strikes by dozens of Israeli fighter jets were aimed at harming Iran’s ballistic missile and aerial defense systems, hitting targets such as missile launchers, command posts and “regime targets.”
SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “will not be mourned,” as state media in the Islamic Republic confirms he has been killed.
“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was responsible for the regime’s ballistic missile and nuclear program, support for armed proxies and its brutal acts of violence and intimidation against its own people,” Albanese tells reporters.
“He was responsible for orchestrating attacks on Australian soil. His passing will not be mourned.”
The well-known journalist accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy is identified as Yoav Zitun, military correspondent for the Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth and the Ynet news site, after a gag order on his name expired.
Zitun is accused of raping a 15-year-old he met on the dating app Grindr last week. The alleged assault took place on Tuesday afternoon, after the minor invited him to his home. He is suspected of having then forced himself on the boy.
The reporter was arrested and brought Thursday evening to the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court, where a judge extended his detention by four days and issued a gag order on his name lasting 36 hours, until tonight.
In the hearing, the police’s representative argued Zitun was aware of the minor’s age based on correspondence found on the teen’s phone. He denies the severe charges, calling the complainant’s version of events “easy to refute,” according to Walla.
Suspected drone infiltration sirens sound in towns in the north, including Kiryat Shmona.
