Israel-Iran live: Trump threatens to retaliate ‘at levels never seen before’ if US targeted by Tehran – UK Times

It’s mid-morning in both Israel and Iran, after both countries traded missile strikes overnight.

The official death toll remains unclear in both countries, but it has increased.

In Israel, emergency services have confirmed the deaths of at least seven people after Iranian strikes. Local media is reporting the death toll to be higher, at 10.

It is unclear where each confirmed death took place, but fatalities were reported in the northern town of Tamra, the city of Bat Yam, which is just south of Tel Aviv, and in western Galilee.

Iran has not reported any fatalities from the overnight strikes yet.

Iran has said 78 people were killed there on the first day of Israel’s campaign on Friday, and scores more on the second, including 60 when a missile brought down a 14-storey apartment block in Tehran, where 29 of the dead were children.

A fire raged over night at Shahran oil depot, an oil refinery near Iran’s, after it was targeted in an Israeli attack overnight.

The Iranian government has said the situation is now “under control”.

Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other overnight into Sunday.

A fire erupted at Shahran oil depot, an oil refinery near the capital, after it was targeted in an Israeli attack.

Iran has said the situation is now under control.

The Israeli military said early on Sunday it had also targeted Iran’s Defence Ministry headquarters in Tehran as well as sites it alleged were associated with Iran’s nuclear programme around Tehran.

Residents were urged to seek shelter in the early hours of the morning as explosions echoed through Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Strikes were reported in a number of areas, including Bat Yam, a city south of Tel Aviv, the northern town of Tamra and in western Galilee.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Sunday that they targeted central Israel’s Jaffa with several ballistic missiles in the last 24 hours, the first time an ally of Iran has joined the fray.

It was unclear how many buildings were hit overall overnight.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard also claimed that Iranian missiles targeted fuel production facilities for Israeli fighter jets, something not acknowledged by Israel.

Donald Trump has threatened to respond ‘at levels never seen before’ if Iran attacks US bases.

Posting on Truth Social, the US president said his forces had “nothing to do with the attack on Iran, tonight”.

He added: “If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before.

“However, we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict!!!”

Israel and Iran traded airstrikes and missiles again overnight.

On Saturday, Iran warned that it would target US, UK or French bases in the region if they shot down missiles heading for Israel.

A 13-year-old girl was killed after Iranian missiles struck a residential building in the town of Tamra, in northern Israel, according to CNN.

A “weapon falling in a direct hit” killed three women and the teenager, according to the network.

Three more were killed in the city of Bat Yam, according to the national emergency service Magen David Adom and Israeli police.

“Tehran is burning,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a post on X in the early hours of Sunday.

His message comes as Israel and Iran both unleashed a wave of fresh strikes on one another.

Israel launched an expanded assault on Iran on Sunday, with direct strikes targeting its energy industry and Defense Ministry headquarters, while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles blamed for the deaths of four people.

The simultaneous strikes represented the latest salvo since a surprise attack by Israel two days earlier aimed at decimating Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

New explosions boomed across Tehran as Iranian missiles entered Israel’s skies in an attack that Israeli emergency officials said killed four people in an apartment building in the Galilee region.

Casualty figures weren’t immediately available in Iran, where Israel targeted its Defense Ministry headquarters in Tehran as well as sites that it alleged were associated with the country’s nuclear program.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed that Iranian missiles targeted fuel production facilities for Israeli fighter jets, something not acknowledged by Israel.