Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to personally pursue senior commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensified.
“We’re going after the regime. We’re going after the IRGC, this criminal gang,” Netanyahu said during a visit to the southern town of Arad, which was hit by an Iranian missile a day earlier.
The World Health Organization warned that strikes near nuclear-related sites in Iran and Israel had pushed the conflict into a “perilous stage”.
“I urgently call on all parties to exercise maximum military restraint,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
Iranian officials issued fresh threats, with parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warning that any attacks on Iran’s infrastructure would trigger retaliatory strikes across the region targeting energy and oil facilities.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military had been ordered to strike additional infrastructure in southern Lebanon, including bridges over the Litani river, which he said were used by Hezbollah.
Israel’s military said Iran had fired more than 400 ballistic missiles since the start of the war, adding that about 92% had been intercepted.
Iranian missiles targeting a joint UK-U.S. base
In a separate development, Britain said two Iranian missiles targeting a joint UK-U.S. base at Diego Garcia were either intercepted or fell short.
Iran’s Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi said U.S. and Israeli strikes had damaged water and energy infrastructure, including transmission and treatment facilities.
The conflict has spread across the region. Iraqi security officials reported multiple overnight attacks on a U.S. diplomatic and logistics centre at Baghdad International Airport.
In Lebanon, the Iran-backed Hezbollah group said it attacked Israeli forces near the border, while Israeli authorities reported one person killed by rocket fire in the northern community of Misgav Am.
Air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem early on Sunday following a fresh barrage of Iranian missiles, though Israel’s emergency services reported no immediate casualties.
Saudi Arabia said it detected ballistic missiles near Riyadh, while the United Arab Emirates reported intercepting Iranian missiles and drones.
Israel said it carried out a new wave of air strikes on Tehran hours after Iranian missiles hit two cities in southern Israel, underlining the continuing cycle of escalation.
