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The Lebanese Health Ministry says that 850 people have now been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the recent conflict in the Middle East.

These figures cover the period since 2 March, when Israel launched a campaign in Lebanon following Hezbollah's firing of rockets towards the country.

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Several people have been injured following strikes on central Israel, Israeli emergency services say.

Israeli police say three people have suffered minor injuries after a cluster bomb landed near them during a barrage of such bombs causing damage in several parts of Tel Aviv.

The force shared footage of a man staggering away after a blast hit the centre of a road spraying debris.

Cluster munitions are a method of dispersing large numbers of tiny bomblets from a rocket, missile or artillery shell that scatters them in mid-flight over a wide area.

Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's emergency services, report four people having been injured in the strikes, they say:

• A man aged about 60 is in moderate condition after suffering glass shard wounds to the head in the Bnei Brak area
• A man in his 70s is in a mild condition after suffering blast injuries in the Ramat Gan area
• Two women, aged 46 and 18, are both also in a mild condition suffering from ringing in the ears following a blast in the Petah Tikva area

We are working to establish if Israel Police and the MDA are referring to the same incident.

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We're now seeing the most recent set of images from Tehran.

Iranians are clearing debris from damaged homes and walking past piles of rubble in the capital city.

Earlier, Israel said it had launched "wide scale" strikes on targets in western Iran, but we're yet to hear an update on whether those strikes have caused any damage.

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Azadeh Moshiri
South Asia Correspondent in Dubai

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Countries in the Gulf are still dealing with attacks in a war they feel they've been unjustly pulled into.

In Iran, residents I've spoken to are not surprised that Iran is lashing out at the region.

One man in northern Iran tells us "it was predictable since the regime has no way of putting pressure other than threatening the world economy".

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has told Fars News Agency, which is linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, that Iran is not targeting civilian or residential areas.

Here in Dubai, images of debris striking the airport, a residential building, and a luxury hotel have circulated widely online, as the United Arab Emirates continues to intercept attacks.

There are fears in Iran of how Gulf countries will approach their relationship with Tehran, should the regime stay intact.

Oman, and at times the United Arab Emirates, have played mediating roles during periods when the West would impose sanctions on Iran.

"The relationship is very important if the regime survives this," a resident tells us. "I foresee a huge breakdown for the regime but also for normal people like us."

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Operations at one of the largest oil facilities in the Middle East have restarted after it was targeted by a drone strike, reports say.

Thick plumes of smoke were seen at the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday and Fujairah officals said a fire was caused by "falling debris following the successful interception of a drone by air defenses".

Bloomberg reports that oil loading operations at the port have now resumed, quoting several people who are familiar with the situation.

The port is a key location for fuelling ships as it sits 70 miles from the Strait of Hormuz - meaning vessels do not need to navigate through the key oil route that has been practically cut off.

Officials in Bahrain say five people have been arrested for their involvement in collecting and passing on "precise and sensitive information" to the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC).

Bahrain's Ministry of the Interior says the arrests were also for "recruiting terrorist elements" to carry out terror plots against Bahrain.

The ministry says a sixth individual is also on the run abroad.

We're now turning our attention briefly to some of the updates we're seeing from the Gulf nations.

The United Arab Emirates says it has intercepted four further ballistic missiles and six drones fired from Iran.

It also lists the total number of attacks it has intercepted since the conflict began: 298 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles, and 1,606 drones.

These attacks have resulted in six deaths and 142 "minor and moderate injuries", the ministry of defence says.

US weapons in UK illustrate air supremacy over parts of Iranpublished at 12:27 GMT 15 March

12:27 GMT 15 March

Chris Partridge
BBC News weapons analyst

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I'm at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, UK, where I can see racks of GBU-31(v)3 JDAM bunker busters at the rear of one of several USAF B-52 bombers.

These point to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's comments on Friday that the US are using 99% stand-in weapons over targets now - which also illustrates a greater level of air supremacy over parts of Iran.

These precision-guided weapons have a thickened outer casing of steel allowing them to penetrate hardened and buried targets. A delay fuse means they can detonate at various depths depending on what intelligence is advising.

Also here are the heavy B-1 Lancer bombers which have been carrying out frequent strikes - again using mainly GBU-31 bunker busters.

It seems stand-off cruise missiles are still in use against Iran. I spotted a B-52 at the RAF base loaded up with AGM-158 JASSM/JASSM-ER munitions - three to a pylon on each wing.

With a range of up to 500 miles, these missiles are used against heavily defended or high value targets where getting closer using free-fall precision guided bombs would be deemed too dangerous.

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Jon Donnison
Reporting from Tel Aviv

We’re just on the outskirts of Tel Aviv where, just as we were driving in, the sirens went off.

In front of us we can see the impact, a couple of cars have been completely destroyed, fires are burning and there’s bit of a sense of panic amongst the people here.

There’s a lot of people running towards the area, presumably to try to find out if anyone they knew has been hurt. It’s a pretty built up residential neighbourhood.

Most of these Iranian missiles are being shot down, but some are getting through.

Some of these missiles break up in the sky and form these smaller cluster bombs that don’t do as much damage when they fall, but are still potentially deadly.

Frank Gardner
Security correspondent, reporting from Riyadh

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Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB) at Al-Kharj, near the capital of Riyadh, has come under repeated missile and drone attack from Iran.

The air base is home to a number of US warplanes, with the Saudi defence ministry saying it has intercepted at least 10 drones in the Riyadh and Eastern Province regions.

Iran’s Fars news agency says it has fired a salvo missiles at the base.

Ghoncheh Habibiazad
Senior reporter, BBC Persian

Iranians have told BBC Persian they are worried that it could take years to rebuild energy facilities and Iran could become "ruined" if attacks continue at pace.

One man describes how Kharg Island, where the US says it struck more than 90 military targets on Saturday, is a "very small island with kind people" but had not progressed much.

"It is the Islamic Republic's fault that they were neglected," he adds.

A man in his 20s who is not being named, from Tehran, says he strongly disagrees with the attacks and tells the BBC "at this pace we will end up with a ruined Iran".

Another man in his 20s, from Karaj, adds: "I just hope energy facilities are not attacked.

"It’s unclear how many years it would take to rebuild them - but I really don't care about military sites."

BBC Persian is the Persian language service of BBC News, used by 24 million people around the world - the majority in Iran - despite being blocked and routinely jammed by Iranian authorities.

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US intelligence shows that Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was wary of his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, taking power, sources tell the BBC's US partner CBS News., external

The sources report that the elder Khamenei was wary of his son ever taking power because he was perceived as not very bright, and was viewed as unqualified to be leader.

The intelligence also indicated that the father was aware that his son had issues in his personal life.

Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen publicly since he was elected supreme leader on 8 March, but on Sunday Iran's foreign minister said he was "in good health" and "fully controlling the situation".

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Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has dismissed reports from US media outlet Semafor that Israel told the US it is running "critically low" on missile interceptors.

"The answer is no," Saar tells reporters on a visit to a site in northern Israel damaged by an Iranian missile attack.

He also denies reports that Israel could soon hold direct peace talks with Lebanon, claims which were reported over the weekend by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

He adds that Israel sees "eye-to-eye" with the US and that their objective is to "remove the existential threats from Iran for the long term".

"We don't want to go every year to another war."

A few minutes ago, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had detected another wave of Iranian missiles being fired at Israel.

It comes less than two hours after the previous wave was reported.

New images show the damage caused by Israeli strikes on Haret Hreik, an area in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Smoke rises from a charred residential block, and debris litters the street. A car has been crushed and its windows smashed.

The neighbourhood is one of several that the IDF told people to evacuate earlier today. Strikes are aimed at Hezbollah targets in the region, the IDF says.

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An Israeli strike on a Lebanese town south of Beirut has killed one person and left three children injured, according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA).

The strike occurred in Sharhabil, in the Sidon district, about 20 miles (32km) south of Beirut, NNA reports, citing the Lebanese health ministry,

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It's now day 16 of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Here's what you need to know this morning:

Strikes continue: Israel and Iran continued to exchange strikes overnight. Pictures from the Israeli city of Holon show an overturned car and a hole in the side of a residential building. Two people suffered minor injuries, according to emergency services. New strikes in the last hour also set fire to a car, and injured two men in their 50s.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says it has launched further strikes on western Iran. And in Lebanon, the IDF has issued new evacuation orders for those in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Gulf states intercept missiles: Gulf nations reported intercepting more missiles overnight. Saudi Arabia said it had taken down 26 Iranian drones, while Kuwait said it had downed five over the previous 24 hours. Meanwhile, sirens sounded in Bahrain.

No deal, Trump says: In a telephone interview with NBC News published late last night, US President Donald Trump said Iran wanted a deal but he was not ready for one, "because the terms are not good enough yet". He also said the US had "totally demolished" Iran's oil hub, Kharg Island, but that the US "may hit it a few more times just for fun".

Strait of Hormuz: This morning, British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said "any options" to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened are "being looked at". It comes after Trump called for a host of nations, including the UK, to send warships to the region. Here's how others have responded.

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In an update from Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency services, it says that it has now treated two men in their 50s for "minor injuries" following Iran's latest strikes.

It previously said no casualties were reported, but that its teams were still working in the affected areas.

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South Korea says it is "closely monitoring developments" related to the conflict in the Middle East after US President Trump called on the nation, among others, to deploy warships to the region.

Trump yesterday urged China, France, Japan, the UK and South Korea to send ships to "get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE!".

A spokesperson for the South Korean Foreign Ministry says Seoul is "paying close attention" to the US president's statements and is continuing to "communicate closely" with the US.

It says it is "exploring various measures" to protect Korean national and "ensure the safety of energy transportation routes".

Colleagues from Jerusalem have sent us this image from the outskirts of Tel Aviv, which shows the aftermath of the latest round of Iranian strikes.

As we said in the previous post, Israel's emergency services have said there have been no reported casualties following the attack.

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