Updates: Israel, Iran trade attacks; Trump claims control of Iran’s skies

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• US President Trump said, “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran”, and suggested that the US could kill Iran’s supreme leader.
• Iran launched several waves of missile attacks at Israel, claiming that it targeted airbases used for Israeli air strikes.
• Israel carried out several air raids across Iran, and explosions were reported in the capital, Tehran.
• With the war with Iran intensifying, Israel has pushed on with its attacks on Gaza, killing dozens of aid seekers in Khan Younis.
• The G7 voiced support for Israel and called for “broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East”.

Despite Trump’s threats, the Iranian supreme leader reiterates that Iran will harshly retaliate against Israel’s attacks.

“We must give a strong response to the terrorist Zionist regime,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in English on X.

“We will show the Zionists no mercy.”

Trump faces potentially the hardest choice of his time in the White House as he weighs up whether the US should join Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran.

Trump fuelled speculation about a US intervention as he dashed back from a G7 summit in Canada, warning on Tuesday that the US could kill Iran’s supreme leader, but would not “for now”.

The choice is a monumental one for a president who has promised throughout both his first and second terms in the Oval Office to get the United States out of its “forever wars” in the Middle East.

“It’s a major political and military choice that could define his legacy in the Middle East,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, director of the Iran programme at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

Iranian security forces arrested a “terrorist team” linked to Israel with explosives in a town southwest of the capital, Tehran, Iranian state media reported.

An Iranian missile or shrapnel appears to have fallen in a parking lot in central Israel. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the incident set 20 cars ablaze, and fire crews are trying to put out the fire.

Israel’s increasingly aggressive stance towards Iran is being shaped by the influence of US President Trump, a shift that analysts say has emboldened PM Netanyahu’s government to act with greater impunity.

“There is the matter of the Trump presidency, in which Israel secured a president that might be willing to be bullish on Iran and is generally inclined to support them in whatever foreign policy they pursue,” Benedict Manzin, an analyst at the risk consultancy Sibylline, told Al Jazeera.

Under the watch of Trump, Manzin says, Israel appears more confident that it can carry out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, weapons convoys, and regional allies without facing significant diplomatic consequences from Washington.

Manzin points to Israel’s military activity in Syria and its continued war on Gaza as signs that the Israeli government is exploiting what it views as a favourable strategic window.

“All that taken together,” he said, “Israel has a unique opportunity to invest considerable time and resources not only in degrading Iran’s nuclear capability, but in undermining [the Iranian] government”.

The Palestinian group has renewed its support for Tehran and warned that a US attack on Iran would be a “dangerous” escalation.

“American threats of intervening militarily against Iran push the region to the verge of implosion,” Hamas said in a statement.

As Israeli forces continue attacking Iran and Gaza, here is what they are doing in the occupied West Bank:

• Israeli forces installed a new metal gate between the Kifl Hares and Hares villages, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, effectively blocking the only road left for villagers to access the city.
• A Palestinian was wounded in an assault by Israeli forces in the New Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus.
• Israeli forces took over a Palestinian’s house at the northern entrance of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, and turned it into a military observation and firing position.

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

We’ve just seen missiles on their way to Israel.

Israeli media has reported debris or missiles falling in central Israel, perhaps in the Jerusalem area, and parts of greater Tel Aviv.

This is about the eighth wave of missiles from Iran in the last 24 hours.

Israel says most of the missiles are intercepted/ But as we’ve seen, in the last three or four days, some missiles do get through and can cause considerable devastation.

And, of course, we don’t know where every missile hits either, because of military censorship in Israel.

In his first statement since Trump’s threat to assassinate him, Ali Khamenei wrote on X: “In the name of the noble Haidar, the battle begins.”

Haidar is an alternative name for Ali, the fourth Muslim caliph.

Mosab Abu Toha, who won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for his essays on the destruction of Gaza, decries the lack of coverage of the horrific atrocities in the Palestinian territory amid the war between Israel and Iran.

“We were collateral damage. Now we are collateral news,” he wrote in a social media post.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is “the biggest threat” to the Middle East.

In a phone call with Qatar’s emir on Tuesday, Erdogan said that he “will continue his efforts to end the spiral of violence, and that Netanyahu has shown once again that he is the biggest threat to the security of the region”, according to his office.