- Israel says it destroyed Iran’s internal security headquarters in Tehran, as Iran fired more missiles towards Israeli territory.
- US President Donald Trump says he’s still weighing his options on US military intervention in the escalating hostilities.
- Earlier, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned the US that any strikes on its territory would have “serious irreparable consequences”.
- 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.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 55,493 people and wounded 129,320, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Israel’s decades of denial over its nuclear weapons programme
Israel has never formally admitted to having nuclear weapons, and its programme remains a closely guarded secret.
Despite the secrecy, monitors have followed information coming out of Israel for decades while the country maintains a policy of neither confirming nor denying it has nuclear weapons.
But whistleblowers and satellite imagery corroborate that Israel does, in fact, have a nuclear arsenal.
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- Israel and Iran have again exchanged blows, with Israeli fighter jets bombing Iran’s capital Tehran and the city of Karaj, as well as a heavy-water reactor at the Arak Nuclear Complex in northwest Iran.
- The Israeli military earlier ordered people near Arak and Khondab to flee their homes, saying their lives were “at risk” as they were targeting Iranian “military infrastructure” in the area.
- Several explosions have also been heard over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as a new wave of Iranian missiles targeted the country, resulting in at least four impact sites.
- The Israeli military has carried out another deadly attack on aid seekers in Gaza, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 100 in an assault near the Netzarim Junction in central Gaza.
- When asked about the potential assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by Israel or the US, Russia’s President Putin said, “I do not even want to discuss this possibility.”
- China’s embassy in Israel has said, starting on Friday, it will assist Chinese citizens who want to evacuate the country to reach Egypt via the Sinai desert.
Israeli army demolishes West Bank home of shooting attack suspect
The Israeli military has demolished the home of a Palestinian man, Samer Hussein, in the occupied West Bank village of Einabus, south of Nablus.
In a post on X, the Israeli military said Hussein was a Hamas member who “carried out a shooting attack at the Gitti Avissar intersection on November 29, 2024”.
Hussein injured five Israeli civilians and four soldiers when he “fired at a bus and the bus stop where several soldiers were standing”, according to the Israeli military. Hussein was killed at the scene.
“The security establishment, with the backing of legal authorities, decided to demolish the terrorist’s home as part of the deterrence policy, according to which anyone who carries out an unusual terrorist attack, even if no one is killed, will have his home demolished,” the post said.