Iran war updates: US attacks nuclear site; Kuwait desalination plant hit

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• US forces redirected six commercial vessels and disabled another while enforcing a naval blockade on Iran.
• Bahrain sounded warning sirens and urged residents to seek shelter, while Kuwait said its air defences were intercepting Iranian missiles and drones.
• Kuwait accused Iran of causing fires and severe damage to power, water and oil facilities, prompting condemnation from Gulf governments.
• An American service member was killed in northern Iraq on Saturday during what the US military said was a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from an Iranian drone.
• Iran said it shot down several US drones, including an MQ-9 over Ahvaz, and intercepted a US cruise missile.
• Iran condemned a reported US strike on the partly built Darkhovin nuclear facility. The IAEA said the site contained no nuclear material and posed no radiological risk.
• Iraq’s prime minister is expected to visit Tehran on Thursday as Iraq, Qatar, Pakistan and Turkiye pursue efforts to revive diplomacy.
• Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE condemned Iran’s regional attacks and urged de-escalation and a return to dialogue.
• Israeli attacks in Gaza, including a strike on a tent in al-Mawasi, killed four Palestinians and wounded more than 15.
• Israeli forces issued stop-work orders for Palestinian-owned properties near Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

Two Palestinians have died of their wounds sustained in an attack by Israeli settlers on the town of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Three Palestinians were initially wounded in the attack, with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society saying its crews treated a serious abdominal injury caused by the settler assault.

Local sources told Wafa that Israeli forces fired at an ambulance transporting one of the wounded to hospital.

The incident is the latest in a surge of settler violence across Ramallah and the el-Bireh governorate, with attacks including beatings, live fire, property arson and damage to agricultural land, often carried out under the protection of Israeli forces.

Several Palestinians have been wounded in Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, the Wafa news agency reported.

Ambulance and emergency services confirmed casualties after Israeli artillery struck on Sunday evening.

Local sources told Wafa that an artillery shell hit a home belonging to the Khuwaiter family near Salah al-Din Mosque east of Gaza City, causing injuries.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister has said the US attack on the under-construction Darkhovin nuclear power plant is “a dangerous assault on Iran’s peaceful infrastructure”.

Kazem Gharibabadi said he “fully implicates the US government in the consequences stemming from heightened insecurity and instability”.

We reported earlier that Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said multiple projectiles hit the site in Khuzestan province.

Gharibabadi added that Iran “will take appropriate measures to defend its national interests and security”.

A missile has struck the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdish opposition group Komala in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s northern Kurdish region.

The group has blamed Iran for the attack, according to Iraq’s Shafaq News.

Komala, formally known as the Kurdistan Toilers’ Party, is a left-wing Iranian Kurdish opposition group reportedly founded in 1969, which has long operated out of Iraq’s Kurdish region.

The group said its facilities have been targeted by more than 91 missiles and drones since the outbreak of the US-Israel war on Iran.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says it has not carried out any military attacks against US bases in Iraq or elsewhere in the region in recent days.

In a statement, the Iran-aligned collection of armed groups renewed its threat to become directly involved in the conflict if the US further expands its attacks on Iran.

It said that, in such a scenario, it would target US interests and military bases in Iraq and across the region “with full force”.

The Wafa news agency reports that Israeli forces have issued stop-work and construction orders for Palestinian-owned properties in the eastern area of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, near the Kadim settlement.

The orders were delivered to several Palestinian residents and applied to homes and other properties in the area.

The agency said the move was part of an escalation of Israeli measures against Palestinians living near the settlement, aimed at restricting Palestinian urban expansion.

Wafa added that Israeli authorities routinely issue stop-work and demolition orders for Palestinian structures across the occupied West Bank, particularly in Area C, citing the lack of Israeli-issued building permits.

There is optimism, but not much optimism, because despite diplomatic efforts by Qatar, Pakistan and other regional countries to de-escalate the situation, things remain highly uncertain.

Iraq’s PM is expected to visit Tehran on Thursday, according to Iraqi sources. The discussions will focus on bilateral relations.

But the timing is important. The Iraqi PM has recently been in Washington and is expected to travel to Turkiye after Iran, while Baghdad continues efforts to help end the confrontation. Iraq’s foreign minister says he will not carry a specific message, but the positions discussed with the American side are still likely to come up.

• An Israeli drone strike on a tent housing displaced people in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killed one Palestinian and wounded 10 others.
• An ambulance and emergency services source said six children were among the wounded.
• Four Palestinians were killed and more than 15 wounded by Israeli fire on Sunday.