Israel-Iran conflict LIVE updates: Strikes on Tel Aviv, Tehran continue with multiple fatalities, injuries reported; UN two-state solution meeting between Israel, Palestine postponed
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5.57am
In pictures: Middle East braces for more conflict
By Lachlan Abbott
Both Israel and Iran surveyed the damage from the first overnight exchange of missile attacks on Saturday.
Here are some of the scenes out of the Middle East in the last 24 hours:
5.40am
Trump reveals Putin wished him happy birthday, calls for wars to end
By Lachlan Abbott
Donald Trump says he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agree: the Israel-Iran conflict needs to end.
In a message posted on his Truth Social platform just after 5am AEDT, the US president said:
President Putin called this morning to very nicely wish me a Happy Birthday, but to more importantly, talk about Iran, a country he knows very well. We talked at length. Much less time was spent talking about Russia/Ukraine, but that will be for next week. He is doing the planned prisoner swaps - large numbers of prisoners are being exchanged, immediately, from both sides. The call lasted approximately 1 hour. He feels, as do I, this war in Israel-Iran should end, to which I explained, his war should also end.
5.35am
Welcome to our live coverage
By Lachlan Abbott
Good morning.
I'm Lachlan Abbott, and I'll be with you today as the world braces a possible further escalation in the Middle East after Israel's major strike on Iran on Friday.
Here is what we know so far:
Israel pounded Iran with air strikes for a second day on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) after targeting their nuclear facilities and wiping out several top military leaders and scientists early on Friday.
The new strikes appeared to target Iran's energy infrastructure, as local media reported a fire at a major gas field in the country's south in recent hours.
In a video posted on social media just before 2am AEDT, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country's campaign would intensify.
Nuclear deal negotiations planned for today between the United States and Iran have been scrapped.
In Tehran, authorities said around 60 people, including 29 children, were killed in an attack on a housing complex.
Three people were killed in Israel after Iran launched its own retaliatory missile volley on Friday night and early Saturday.
It is now just past 10.30pm in Tel Aviv.
Stay tuned for updates as they arise.
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Semi-official news agencies close to Iran's Revolutionary Guard reported one strike in the area of Vali-e Asr Square downtown and another in a neighbourhood named for the air force, which is headquartered there. US President Donald Trump has expressed full support for Israel's actions while warning Iran that it can only avoid further destruction by agreeing to a new nuclear deal. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that if the Israeli strikes on Iran stop, then 'our responses will also stop.' He said the United States 'is a partner in these attacks and must take responsibility.' Explosions in Tehran Iran's UN ambassador said Saturday that 78 people had been killed and more than 320 wounded. There has been no official update since then. Israel says 13 people have been killed and more than 360 wounded in Iranian attacks. Iran has fired over 270 missiles, 22 of which made impact, according to official Israeli figures. The country's main international airport and airspace remained closed for a third day. Israeli strikes targeted Iran's Defense Ministry early Sunday after hitting air defences, military bases and sites associated with its nuclear program. The killing of several top generals and nuclear scientists in targeted strikes indicated that Israeli intelligence has penetrated Iran at the highest levels. In a sign that Iran expects the Israeli strikes to continue, state television reported that metro stations and mosques would be made available as bomb shelters for the public beginning on Sunday night. Death toll mounts in Israel In Israel, at least six people, including a 10-year-old and a nine-year-old, were killed when a missile hit an apartment building in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. Daniel Hadad, a local police commander, said 180 people were wounded and seven are still missing. An Associated Press reporter saw streets lined with damaged and destroyed buildings, bombed out cars and shards of glass. Responders used a drone at points to look for survivors. Some people could be seen leaving the area with suitcases. Another four people, including a 13-year-old, were killed and 24 wounded when a missile struck a building in the Arab town of Tamra in northern Israel. A strike on the central city of Rehovot wounded 42. The Weizmann Institute of Science, an important center for research in Rehovot, said 'there were a number of hits to buildings on the campus.' It said no one was harmed. Israel has sophisticated multi-tiered air defences that are able to detect and intercept missiles fired at populated areas or key infrastructure, but officials acknowledge it is imperfect. Urgent calls to deescalate World leaders made urgent calls to deescalate. The attack on nuclear sites set a 'dangerous precedent,' China's foreign minister said. The region is already on edge as Israel seeks to annihilate Hamas, an Iranian ally, in the Gaza Strip, where the war is still raging after Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed off such calls, saying Israel's strikes so far are 'nothing compared to what they will feel under the sway of our forces in the coming days.' Israel, the sole though undeclared nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, said it launched the attack to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. The two countries have been adversaries for decades. Iran has always said its nuclear program was peaceful, and the US and others have assessed it has not pursued a weapon since 2003. But it has enriched ever larger stockpiles of uranium to near weapons-grade levels in recent years and was believed to have been able to develop multiple weapons within months if it chose to do so. The UN's atomic watchdog censured Iran last week. 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Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, said Saturday that the nuclear talks were 'unjustifiable' after Israel's strikes, which he said were the 'result of the direct support by Washington.' In a post on his Truth Social account early Sunday, Trump reiterated that the US was not involved in the attacks on Iran and warned that any retaliation directed against it would bring an American response 'at levels never seen before.' 'However, we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict!!!' he wrote.
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Israel ‘immeasurably' stronger militarily since October 7
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"If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the US Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before," he said on Truth Social.
