Iran war updates: Iran warns of hits on energy sites after Trump threat

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Here’s a reminder of some of the day’s top developments:

• Iran says it will attack the ⁠energy and water systems of Gulf countries if the US follows through with its threat to hit Iranian power plants if Tehran doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz.
• Iran’s representative to the International Maritime Organization says foreign vessels can still pass through the key waterway with coordination from the Iranian government for security and safety arrangements.
• An Israeli attack has hit southern Lebanon’s Qasmiyeh Bridge, which cuts much of the south of Lebanon from the rest of the country, in an escalation that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called a “prelude to ground invasion”.
• Iranian state broadcaster IRIB has quoted Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi as saying that the US-Israeli war has killed 210 children and wounded 1,510.
• Since March 2, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 1,029 people and wounded 2,786.
• Israel’s Home Front Command has closed schools and banned gatherings of more than 50 people in the country’s south until Tuesday, following Iranian missile strikes on the cities of Dimona and Arad, which injured more than 180 people.
• Qatar says seven people, including three Turkish, have died after a military helicopter crashed due to a technical malfunction.

From a humanitarian perspective, this is going to have huge implications for the Lebanese government.

Breaking these bridges – the connection between the north and the south of the country – is going to make it significantly more difficult for the Lebanese government to get humanitarian aid to people.

South of the Litani River, there are still civilians living in those areas – most of them in shelters, like schools, hospitals and other temporary shelters.

But with these bridges broken, it’s going to be very difficult for the government to reach them.

Israel says it is determined to continue attacking Iran, but last night was perhaps the largest Iranian attack on Israel since the war began.

The exchanges have continued with the same level of intensity throughout Sunday across Israel, but especially in the north, along the border with Lebanon – there has been an increase in activity there.

The Israeli military has confirmed it has been hitting targets in southern Lebanon with artillery and air strikes.

Senior military officials, quoted in Israeli media, have made clear that whatever happens in the war with Iran, operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah will continue. They appear to have their own agenda.

Hezbollah, in turn, has said it is responding with attacks of its own against targets in northern Israel. For many communities on the Israeli side of the border, incoming artillery or rocket fire from southern Lebanon can be just seconds away, leaving little time for warning.

And so there is a growing sense of war weariness.

What we’ve been seeing is different discourse and messages coming from the president of the United States, especially on social media.

On Friday, he said he would be starting to “wind down” the situation, and then on Saturday, he started to say that if Iran did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, he would “obliterate” the power plants in the country.

So, suddenly, a big change there. It could be a political strategy. But at the same time, many are saying that he’s changing his mind about what to do next.

The priority for this war was attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, then, later on, regime change. And now we’re seeing the main priority is opening up the Strait of Hormuz.

Falling shrapnel has been reported in several locations across southern and central Israel after another round of Iranian missile attacks.

There are also reports of damage caused by cluster munitions.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

At least 10 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were injured in attacks by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a night earlier.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the wounded in Deir al-Hatab included a 45-year-old man shot in the foot and a woman suffering from smoke inhalation.

Videos obtained by The Associated Press show cars and homes ablaze as army flares lit up the sky near the village east of Nablus and next to the illegal Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh.

The arson and assaults in four Nablus-area villages on Sunday came a day after the Wafa news agency reported simultaneous attacks in at least six communities overnight, the latest spate of violence in the occupied West Bank.

US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer have discussed the need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to resume global shipping, the UK leader’s office says.

“They agreed that reopening the Strait of Hormuz was essential to ensure stability in the global energy market,” a readout said.

Trump has lashed out at Starmer multiple times since launching the war on Iran, saying Starmer was “no Winston Churchill” and claiming he didn’t need the UK to deploy aircraft carriers to the Middle East to help in the war.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior has urged citizens and residents to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place after a siren was sounded.

An Al Jazeera crew on the ground has reported that an Iranian missile has breached the skies over Aqaba, heading towards the Israeli city of Negev.

We are seeing video of bridges in Lebanon being blown up by Israel, including the coastal bridge at Qasmiyeh, which effectively cuts off the coastal city of Tyre from the rest of the country.

There is another bridge further inland at Qasmiyeh, but it is much harder to reach and far less efficient as a link between Tyre and the rest of Lebanon.

That coastal road was used by UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, as well as by NGOs and civilians fleeing the south. It was also a vital route for transporting goods. It is now cut off, and the damage is significant.

Notably, during its last confrontation with Hezbollah in 2024, Israel did not target major infrastructure of this kind. This suggests Israel is deliberately escalating and stepping up its operations.

Lebanon’s prime minister, Nawaf Salam, has condemned the strikes as a flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and warned they could be a prelude to a ground invasion.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah has carried out dozens of attacks from Lebanon into Israel over the past few days. There is, at this moment, a great deal of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.