- 19 Jun 2025 - 23:59(23:59 GMT)
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Also, check out this analysis piece on what US President Trump’s “endgame” is amid conflicting statements this week.
Or, if you’re interested in Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, see our explainer on its significance here.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 23:50(23:50 GMT)
Here’s what happened today
We will soon be closing this live page. Here’s a look at the day’s major events:
- Israel has continued its attacks across Iran, with the military warning residents of a small village in the country’s northwest to evacuate ahead of expected bombings.
- Iran has fired dozens of missiles at sites across Israel, including in the Tel Aviv area and in Beersheba in the south.
- The White House has said President Trump will decide within the next two weeks whether Washington will get involved in Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran.
- Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah – an Iran-aligned group – says if the US joins Israel in its assault, it will suffer severe consequences.
- In Gaza, at least 92 Palestinians – including dozens of aid-seekers – have been killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave, the Health Ministry said.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 23:45(23:45 GMT)
How does Israel’s censor restrict its media from reporting on the Iran conflict?
The Israeli government has issued new directives restricting how its media covers its current war with Iran.
On Wednesday, a circular from Israel’s military censor, Brigadier General Kobi Mandelblit, announced new rules on what Israeli media organisations and journalists within the country can – and cannot – publish about the effect of Iranian strikes.
According to figures from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Israel has killed at least 164 journalists in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
More have been killed in Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and, now, Iran.
Since May 2024, the Israeli government has banned Al Jazeera from its territory and, since November, has sanctioned the Israeli liberal daily, Haaretz, for coverage considered critical of its actions.
So, what are the new restrictions on journalists, and how does media freedom in Israel stack up against that in other countries?
Read our explainer here.
Professor Roee Ozeri speaks to the media surrounded by rubble caused by an Iranian missile strike at the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science on Sunday, in Rehovot, Israel [Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters] Advertisement - 19 Jun 2025 - 23:30(23:30 GMT)
European stance making US policymakers ‘think twice, three times’ about plans
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says Trump’s decision to leave the door open for diplomacy may be linked to pressure from US allies in Europe and his recent talks with Pakistan’s army chief.
French President Emmanuel Macron has been pushing for diplomacy to be given a chance, Bishara noted. “The other thing that the French [president] said is that he’s totally and vehemently opposed to regime change” in Iran.
Still, Bishara said European leaders will likely not be able to exert enough pressure to change the US position. “But it does make policymakers in Washington think twice, and three times, and give it a week or two weeks, to consider what they’re doing,” he said.
Ultimately, if the US gets involved in Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran, “then the Americans are going to need the Europeans,” Bishara added.
“If [Trump] wants to break up Iran, if he wants to do regime change, he’s going to have to own it. There’s no other way about it, and he doesn’t want to invest anything in Iran, and it’s going to be left to the Europeans,” he said.
“The Europeans are saying from now, ‘We don’t want to get involved in regime change, we don’t want to get involved in bombing nuclear reactors. What we want is a diplomatic pathway towards a solution.'”
- 19 Jun 2025 - 23:15(23:15 GMT)
Australia closes embassy in Iran citing deteriorating security environment
Australia has suspended operations at its embassy in Tehran due to the deteriorating security environment in Iran and has directed the departure of all Australian officials, Foreign Minister Penny Wong says.
In a statement, she said Australia’s ambassador to Iran will remain in the region to support the government’s response to the crisis.
“We are continuing planning to support Australians seeking to depart Iran, and we remain in close contact with other partner countries,” Wong said in a statement.
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will deploy consular staff to Azerbaijan, including its border crossings, to support Australians departing Iran.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 23:00(23:00 GMT)
Photos: Bedouin families build makeshift shelters in southern Israel
Children sit inside a makeshift tunnel made from a truck cargo trailer buried under dirt, in Israel’s southern Negev region, amid Iranian missile attacks [Amir Cohen/Reuters] 
A Bedouin man makes tea inside a tunnel under a bridge that he and his family use amid a lack of public shelters for Palestinians in Israel [Amir Cohen/Reuters] 
Dozens of Bedouin villages in southern Israel are deemed ‘unrecognised’ and do not get basic services from the state, including water and electricity [Amir Cohen/Reuters] - 19 Jun 2025 - 22:45(22:45 GMT)
Israeli president says ‘we know what to do’ if US does not intervene
Isaac Herzog says diplomacy “can always be part of the solution” to the crisis with Iran.
Asked what would happen if the US decides against joining the war, Herzog told Politico, “We know what to do. We’ve shown that we know what to do.”
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog [File: Nathan Howard/Pool via Reuters] - 19 Jun 2025 - 22:30(22:30 GMT)
‘Lives of Palestinians are being completely abandoned’
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said that about 50 percent of the Palestinian citizens of Israel do not have access to public shelters to seek safety amid Iranian missile attacks.
Palestinians make up about 20 percent of the Israeli population, numbering about two million people.
B’Tselem noted that in Tamra, a city in northern Israel where four members of a Palestinian family were killed by a missile fired from Iran this week, about 37,000 residents do not have access to a single public shelter.
“In southern Israel, around 85,000 Bedouin citizens live in villages unrecognised by the state. Some of these areas are designated by the Israeli military as ‘open terrain’ – and receive no protection from missile interception systems or even siren alerts. Most of the villages lack any safe rooms, and authorities have even opposed placing portable shelters,” the group said on X.
“In the occupied territories: in the West Bank and certainly in Gaza, the situation is far worse – residents are not only left unprotected against foreign missile attacks but are also defenceless in the face of … Israeli daily attacks.”
Israel is bombing in the Gaza Strip, attacking in the West Bank — and abandoning its Palestinian citizens to incoming missiles
The city of Tamra, where four members of the Khatib family were killed by a missile fired from Iran (pictured), is home to about 37,000 people without a… pic.twitter.com/Gkixr6JBLu
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) June 19, 2025
- 19 Jun 2025 - 22:15(22:15 GMT)
UK’s Starmer, Bahraini crown prince urge de-escalation
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stressed the need to de-escalate the crisis in the Middle East during talks with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in London.
“The leaders called for de-escalation and both agreed on the need for enduring and closer relationships across the region to support stability,” a spokesperson for Starmer’s office said.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, #Salman_bin_Hamad Al Khalifa, meets with the Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer MP @Keir_Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and witnesses the signing of key agreements during his… pic.twitter.com/skCTFRuYIs
— أخبار سمو ولي العهد (@BahrainCPnews) June 19, 2025
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Iranian official suggests Israel’s plan for Iran failed
Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee says Israel aimed to create chaos in the country by killing top military leaders, but the plan was repelled.
“In the next stage, it intended to turn Iran into Syria and plunge it into a 10-year insecurity,” Rezaee said.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 21:45(21:45 GMT)
‘Says one thing, does another’: What’s Trump’s endgame in Iran?
Analysts say Trump may not have a clear strategy or endgame for his Iran policy; rather he is being dragged to war by Netanyahu, who has been seeking US attacks on Iran for decades.
Alternatively, could Trump be using his increasingly bellicose rhetoric against Iran to compel Tehran to agree to entirely give up its nuclear programme?
If so, experts warn that brinkmanship could turn into an all-out war between the US and Iran.
Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, said Trump could be attempting to build leverage with threats to strongarm Iran into accepting his demands of “total surrender”.
“I think he’s trying to present himself as this madman who is unpredictable, and in so doing, he can then insist on this very hard line that Iran has refused to accept for decades of full dismantlement of its enrichment programme,” Abdi told Al Jazeera.
Read the rest of the story here.
Netanyahu with Trump in the Oval Office at the White House, April 7 [File: Kevin Mohatt/Reuters] - 19 Jun 2025 - 21:40(21:40 GMT)
‘Very little trust left’ between Iran and the US
Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari says Iran will undoubtedly be suspicious of the White House’s statement that Trump will make a decision on whether or not to join the war in two weeks.
“There is very little trust left between the Iranians and the Americans. There was not much trust there to begin with,” Jabbari said.
Part of that goes back to 2018, when Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, which saw Tehran scale back its nuclear programme in exchange for a lifting of global sanctions. His administration then imposed a series of biting sanctions on the country.
“Assuming that the Israelis have the green light from the Americans to carry out these attacks inside Iran, there is going to be very little trust there,” Jabbari said.
“But really, this is the diplomatic game they have to play,” she added, referring to the upcoming diplomatic talks in Geneva between the Iranian foreign minister and some of his European counterparts.
“If they don’t go, they’re going to be accused of basically saying we’re not going to talk, we just want war. They’re going to have to travel, and the Europeans are acting as a mediator between Iran and the US.”
- 19 Jun 2025 - 21:32(21:32 GMT)
Israeli army issues evacuation threat for village in Iran’s northwest
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee has threatened residents in the Iranian village of Kolesh Taleshan to evacuate an industrial area immediately, as the military plans to attack.
Adraee said the army was attacking “military infrastructure”.
As we’ve been reporting, hundreds of Iranians have been killed in Israeli bombings across Iran over the past several days.
We’ll bring you more on this as soon as we can.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 21:21(21:21 GMT)
Israeli army says intercepted drone launched from Iran
The military says the drone was intercepted in the Haifa area in northern Israel.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 21:15(21:15 GMT)
What options does Iran have to end Israel war?
As the conflict with Israel continues, Iran’s official position has been that it will not negotiate while under attack, fearing it will be forced to fully surrender to US and Israeli terms.
Iran may instead have to hope that Trump can be persuaded to rein in Israel, which may be in his interest to avoid getting entangled in a far-away war.
Still, the US president has recently appeared to favour striking Iran and reiterated that it cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
“If the United States recognises the urgency of de-escalation and manages to persuade Israel to halt its military campaign, then – given the mounting costs of war for Iran and the fact that Iran’s primary goal is to stop, not expand, the conflict – it is highly likely that Iran would agree to a ceasefire or political resolution,” said Hamidreza Aziz, an expert on Iran for the Middle East Council for Global Affairs think tank.
Read more in our story here.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 21:00(21:00 GMT)
Iranian missiles ‘delighted the noble of the world’: Khamenei
The Iranian supreme leader’s account on X shares a video opening with scenes of Israeli air strikes and atrocities in Gaza, followed by footage of people celebrating the falling of Iran’s missiles on Israel and the damage they caused.
“Missiles that delighted the noble of the world,” it said.
Missiles that delighted the noble of the world pic.twitter.com/vz7VrD5uDd
— Khamenei Media (@Khamenei_m) June 19, 2025
- 19 Jun 2025 - 20:50(20:50 GMT)
Explosion reported at Norway’s ambassador residence in Tel Aviv
An explosion has occurred at the residence of the Norwegian ambassador to Israel in Tel Aviv, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry says.
“We have been in contact with the embassy tonight. No staff with the embassy was injured during the incident,” the foreign ministry said in an emailed statement. It did not say what caused the explosion.
In a post on X, Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said he spoke a short time ago with ambassador Per Egil Selvaag.
Saar said a grenade had been thrown in Selvaag’s yard and that it was a “dangerous crime” that he condemned.
Norwegian newspaper VG reported that the Norwegian embassy in Tel Aviv was closed on Monday due to the security situation.
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If you’re just joining us
Let’s bring you up to speed on the latest developments:
- The White House says President Trump will decide whether to launch an attack on Iran within the next two weeks.
- More than 200 Israelis have been reported injured in a volley of dozens of Iranian missiles today, including four in critical condition.
- Large crowds have gathered in the Iranian city of Ahvaz for the funerals of people killed in Israel’s attacks on Iran.
- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he would not exclude the possibility of targeting Iran’s supreme leader, after Israel’s defence minister said “eliminating” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is one of the country’s war goals.
- In Gaza, at least 84 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the enclave today, according to Palestinian health officials.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 20:30(20:30 GMT)
Trump to get intelligence briefings on Friday, Saturday, Sunday: White House
US President Donald Trump will be briefed by the National Security Council on developments between Israel and Iran, the White House says.
Earlier, we reported that Trump has stated he will decide on whether the US will get involved in the Israel-Iran conflict in the next two weeks.
- 19 Jun 2025 - 20:15(20:15 GMT)
More than 5,100 children treated for malnutrition in Gaza in May: UNICEF
The UN’s child rights agency has warned that childhood malnutrition is rising at at “alarming rate” in the bombarded Palestinian territory, as Israel continues to block most aid from entering Gaza.
UNICEF said that 5,119 children aged between six months and five years old were admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition last month alone. That’s a nearly 50 percent increase from the number of child admissions in April.
“In just 150 days, from the start of the year until the end of May, 16,736 children – an average of 112 children a day – have been admitted for treatment for malnutrition in the Gaza Strip,” Edouard Beigbeder, the agency’s Middle East and North Africa director, said in a statement.
“Every one of these cases is preventable. The food, water, and nutrition treatments they desperately need are being blocked from reaching them. Man-made decisions that are costing lives,” he said.
“Israel must urgently allow the large-scale delivery of life-saving aid through all border crossings.”
Palestinian children try to get food at a charity kitchen in central Gaza in May [File: Moiz Salhi/Anadolu]
Updates: Trump to decide whether US to attack Iran ‘within two weeks’
These were the updates on Israel’s attack on Iran for Thursday, June 19.
Published On 19 Jun 2025
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- The White House says US President Donald Trump will make a decision on whether the US will join in the Israel-Iran conflict in the next two weeks.
- Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz says “eliminating” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is one of the country’s war goals.
- Iranian missiles caused serious damage at four sites in central and southern Israel, including at the Soroka hospital, while Israeli forces attacked Iran’s Arak heavy-water reactor.
- US President Donald Trump says he’s still weighing his options on United States military intervention in the escalating hostilities.
- The death toll from Israel’s attacks on Iran has risen to more than 240, including 70 women and children. At least 24 people have been killed in Iranian attacks on Israel.
