Israel and Iran have traded fire overnight, in the most serious exchange of hostilities since the ceasefire was agreed in April. The exchange of attacks began on Sunday evening, when Iran sent a barrage of missiles at Israel – which were intercepted.
Tel Aviv has since struck a number of targets in Iran, including a petrochemical complex in the southwest of the country, the Israeli military said. As fears the Middle East may be dragged into a regional war grow, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said the operation against Israel “is not a passing event, but rather the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes”. The Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen have since joined the new hostilities, claiming responsibility for this morning’s attack on central Israel and vowing to block “Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea”.
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