Middle East

Israel is not seeking war after Iran's missile and drone attack and "balance is needed in this situation", Israeli President Isaac Herzog told CNN.

New Delhi has called on Tehran to release 17 Indian crew members on board a container ship confiscated by Iran on Saturday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to postpone the ground invasion of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip, following an unprecedented retaliatory attack by Iran on Israrl, according to a report.

The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) have warned that the Iranian attack on Israel risks an “uncontrollable regional escalation". Tehran says it has exercised its inherent right of self-defense against the regime's acts of aggression.

The Israeli army has been committing an average of 16 massacres daily in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Gaza war on Oct. 7, 2023,  the Gaza government has revealed.

Tel Aviv's interception of dozens of Iranian missiles and drones overnight cost Israel up to 5 billion shekels  ($1.35 billion), Israeli media reported on Sunday.

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has urged the Israeli government to "learn lessons" and move on to Rafah" in the Gaza Strip.

The wave of missile and drone strikes launched from Iran towards Israel lasted approximately five hours, two US officials has said.

Iran’s president has warned any new ‘adventurism’ by Israel against Iranian interests will have more serious repercussions than the military strike on the occupied territories on Sunday.

Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani has warned that any Israeli assault against Tehran’s interests will be dealt with a “stronger” blow.

US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call that Washington will oppose any Tel Aviv counterattack against Tehran, a senior White House official told Axios.

Some top US officials are concerned Israel could do  something quickly in response to Iran’s attacks without thinking through potential fallout afterward, according to a senior administration official and a senior defense official, NBC News reported.

Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations defended Tehran’s retaliation against Israel's recent terrorist attack on the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital Damascus. It warnred of more severe raids in case of fresh Israeli attacks.

Lisbon is in contact with Tehran after a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship was seized by Iran on Saturday, Portugal’s government told CNN.

Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military aide to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said the Zionists have, over the past week, been in a state of panic, fearing Tehran’s retaliatory attack in the wake of the Israeli regime’s deadly raid on Iran’s mission in Damascus.

One Palestinian was shot dead and dozens were wounded in a large-scale attack by Israeli settlers and soldiers on the village of al-Mughayyir in central West Bank.

The Persian Gulf monarchies have called on the US not to use American military bases on their territories to launch military operation in response to any potential Iranian attack on Israel, sources told Middle East Eye.

The United States military is moving additional assets into the Middle East to bolster deterrence and force protection ahead of an anticipated Iranian retaliatory strike against Israel, an American defense official has told Sputnik news agency.

US President Joe Biden has warned that the expected attack Iran is planning on Israel could happen soon. Tehran says will retaliate the recent Israeli missile raid on Iran's consulate in the Syrian capital.

Ireland and Norway are both moving closer to recognising Palestinian statehood, leaders of the two countries expressed separately after meetings with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who also champions the move.

More than 250 humanitarian and human rights organizations worldwide have called for ending weapons transfers to Israel amid the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has so far in 2024 announced a record amount of West Bank as "state-owned" land, a move that could see a rapid expansion in settlement construction in the occupied territories.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke to the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, on the phone on Friday and expressed condolences over the death of his sons and grandchildren in an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip.

A total of 33,545 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip since last October, the health ministry in the enclave reported on Thursday.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock discussed the tensions in the Middle East with her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian over the phone on Thursday.