* Air raid sirens blared and two blasts were heard in Jerusalem on Thursday, AFP journalists reported, after Israel said it had identified missiles launched from Iran.
* The blasts came shortly after Israel’s air raid warning system sent out an alert to people living across central Israel.
* Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Thursday they had launched at dawn missiles carrying one-tonne warheads at Israel’s main airport Ben Gurion, and an air force base in the area. It was unclear if any of the missiles reached the airport.
* Debris from a drone injured six people in an industrial zone of the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on Thursday, while Dubai, Doha and Manama were subjected to missile attacks. Saudi Arabian officials said they had intercepted three cruise missiles and several drones.
* Iran has not requested military aid from its ally Russia since Israel and the United States began striking the country last week, the Kremlin said Thursday.
* Spain will send its most advanced frigate to protect Cyprus after a drone strike on a British base on the Mediterranean island, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The “Cristobal Colon” will join French aircraft carrier “Charles de Gaulle” and Greek navy ships to offer protection and help evacuate civilians, the ministry said.
* Israel’s military said Thursday it had “just begun a large-scale wave of strikes against infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran”.
* Iran said Thursday it had targeted the headquarters of Kurdish forces in Iraqi Kurdistan with three missiles, following strikes on Kurdish regions in both Iran and Iraq.
* Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike had killed a senior Hamas official Thursday, the first reported targeted killing of a member of the Palestinian militant group since the war began.
* Azerbaijan, a close ally of Israel, on Thursday said two people were wounded in drone hits on an airport and near a school in the exclave of Nakhichevan.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States of committing an atrocity by sinking an Iranian navy ship off Sri Lanka. * Iran hit a US oil tanker with a missile Thursday, “in the north of the Persian Gulf” and set it on fire, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement reported by state television. The incident has not been independently confirmed.
* Iran’s internet is “around one per cent of ordinary levels” with a communication blackout sparked by the war with Israel and the United States entering a fifth day, monitor Netblocks said Thursday. * Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday that “military assets” had been deployed to the Middle East as a contingency plan.
AFP
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