Officials say US military helped stop Iranian missiles heading to Israel: Report

The US military has helped shoot down Iranian missiles that were headed toward Israel, two US officials told Reuters.

The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, did not provide further information, including whether fighter jets or warships carried out the defensive operation.

US threatens Iran of ‘dire consequences’ if American troops targeted in region

A US representative at the UN has defended Israel’s attacks on Iran, saying the Israeli government told Washington that its bombardment was “necessary for its self-defence”.

“Every sovereign nation has the right to defend itself, and Israel is no exception,” McCoy Pitt told the Security Council.

“The United States was informed of the strikes ahead of time, but was not military involved in these strikes. Our absolute, foremost priority is the protection of US citizens, personnel and forces in the region.”

Pitt said Tehran should not target American troops in the region.

“The consequences for Iran would be dire,” he warned.

Pro-Iran militias in Iraq demand US troops leave the country

Accusing US President Donald Trump of having “authorised” the Israeli attack on Iran, Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah said in a statement that “the American forces in Iraq have enabled this aggression by opening the Iraqi airspace to Zionist aircraft”.

To stop Iraq from becoming “a battlefield”, Kataib Hezbollah said the government in Baghdad “must urgently remove these hostile foreign forces from the country in order to avoid additional wars in the region”.

Akram al-Kaabi, the leader of another pro-Iran militia, al-Nujaba, decried the alleged “coordination” between Israel and the “American occupier” and called for the “complete withdrawal” of US forces.

US forces stationed in Iraq at Baghdad’s invitation have supported the fight against the ISIL (ISIS) group. 

Israeli public rattled by ‘extensive volley’ of Iranian missiles

This was an extensive volley of ballistic missiles, something that Tel Aviv is not used to.

Extensive damage was reported to buildings, but of course, because there was compliance with the instructions to head to shelters, to be in the safe rooms, the number of injuries among the residents was minimised.

For now, people have been told to stay close, but that they don’t have to be in shelters.

Psychologically, though, the sight of damaged buildings, of emergency service providers trying to get people out of those buildings and out of the shelters, this is quite powerful for the Israeli public.

Tel Aviv is thought of as the jewel, if you will, among the cities in Israel. It is politically and economically significant, and it is not used to this kind of military confrontation.

The intensity of the fire, the number of missiles, the kind of explosions that they saw, the impacts, the effects on the buildings – this is new to the Israeli public.



Not so fun when it happens to your city. You've been applauding Netanyahu doing this to Gaza for decades...

More sirens sound across Israel: Military

Alerts in the Eilat area of southern Israel have been activated following the “infiltration of hostile aircraft,” the Israeli army said in a post on X. Moreover, alerts also sounded off in the Negev region, the military added, due to a “drone intrusion”.

Israeli military says it intercepted ‘hostile’ aircraft in Eilat, Negev region

The army says it intercepted a “suspicious aerial target” that was launched into the country, prompting sirens to sound in the southern city of Eilat. In a separate statement, the Israeli military said it also intercepted two more suspicious targets launched into the country’s southern Negev desert region.

Israeli military says more missiles launched from Iran

Israeli defence systems “are working to intercept the threat”, the army says in a post shared on social media. It called on Israelis to enter protected areas and stay there until further notice.

Explosions in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

Live footage in Tel Aviv shows that it is currently under attack. Interceptions can be seen in the sky, and there appears to have been an impact on the ground, but it remains unclear if it was from a piece of debris from an interception or a direct strike.

_{A man walks at an impact site following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Ramat Gan}

Questions swirling over status of Iran’s enriched nuclear material

We’ve been speaking with Miles Pomper, a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, DC, about the effects of Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Pomper said that while the scope of the damage remains uncertain, “clearly, the capability of Iran to enrich material at the same rate it was doing before has been affected.”

“One question that’s open is what’s happened to the material that was accumulated so far and where those stockpiles are and how many of those have been hit,” he told Al Jazeera.

The challenge for the UN’s nuclear agency (IAEA) going forward, if Iran allows inspectors back into the country, will be to account for that enriched material.

I doubt Iran will ever trust the IAEA again

International community must act to prevent further escalation

Yossi Mekelberg, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, says it is up to the UN, the US and other countries to pressure both Israel and Iran to de-escalate the situation.

“This event is still fresh, it’s less than 24 hours old and there is no sign of any of the sides [being] ready to climb down,” Mekelberg told Al Jazeera. He explained that if tensions are not de-escalated, then there could be weeks of tit-for-tat attacks between Israeli and Iranian forces.

“In Israel, the general view [is] that Iran poses an existential threat – especially if it possesses nuclear weapons – and it is prepared [for] this moment,” Mekelberg said.

Trump’s next move critical to prevent region falling ‘into the abyss’

The International Crisis Group (ICG) says “whether an open-ended war plunges the entire Middle East into the abyss will depend largely” on what US President Trump does next.

“Trump’s initial statements paint Israel’s strikes as useful leverage for nuclear talks, but to see them that way is a mistake,” the think tank said in a statement analysing the latest Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory firings by Iranian forces.

“Instead, he urgently needs to press Israel to stop ramping up its campaign and offer Iran incentives to stand down, while making clear to Tehran the ruinous costs of not doing so.”

The ICG added that Trump should press Netanyahu’s government to stop escalating the situation, possibly through a threat to block weapons transfers to the country. At the same time, the US president should offer Iran “a set of reasonable terms” on nuclear deal negotiations, such as sanctions relief.

“Such a course would require difficult diplomacy and for Trump to face down what would be fierce opposition in Washington. But moving in the opposite direction, as he appears to be doing now, is far worse.”

We're doomed, Trump can only give 2 week warnings repeatedly. Better be prepared for recession and high gas prices.

Israeli media report direct hits in central Israel

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz, citing emergency services, is reporting that Iranian missiles fired in the latest round of retaliatory attacks hit several buildings in central Israel.

Israel’s Channel 12 reported loud explosions in several residential areas in central Israel and said that an Iranian missile landed directly in Tel Aviv.


_{Smoke billows after a projectile hits a building in Tel Aviv, Israel}

Israeli woman succumbs to injuries following Iranian missile barrage: Report

Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reports that a woman who was critically injured during Iran’s first missile barrage on the country has succumbed to her injuries. If confirmed, it would be the first Israeli casualty since Iran launched its retaliatory assault on Israel.

Dozens of missiles launched at Israel in last hour, army says

The military says “some” of the missiles were intercepted, without providing a precise figure. Rescue and rescue forces are operating in several areas across the country where reports of casualties have been received,” it said in a statement.

New explosions heard in Tehran: Report

Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reports that “several explosions” were heard in Tehran a short while ago. Footage published by Tasnim shows smoke rising into the air in the Iranian capital. The cause of the explosions is not immediately clear.

📹 هم‌اکنون و همزمان با دور جدید حملات موشکی ایران به اسرائیل، صدای چند انفجار در تهران شنیده شد#اسرائيل_سقطت pic.twitter.com/x5JSV95TkK

— خبرگزاری تسنیم (@Tasnimnews_Fa) June 13, 2025

Israeli army spokesman taunts Iran in social media video

Avichay Adraee has posted an incendiary video on X taunting Iran and its backers in the Middle East as “dwarves”. Israel lives “despite your aggressive missiles”, he wrote in the post.

تحية من قلب تل ابيب لكل اقزام إيران الذين يحاولون رفع معنويات محور المماطلة والمقاولة المهزومة. سنبقى شعب اسرائيل حي غصبًا عن صواريخكم العدوانية pic.twitter.com/LdD53n4Sxz

— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) June 13, 2025

Translation: Greetings from the heart of Tel Aviv to all the Iranian dwarves who are trying to raise the morale of the axis of procrastination and defeated subservience. We, the people of Israel, will remain alive, despite your aggressive missiles.

Fires seen at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport

We reported a short while ago that fresh explosions have been heard in the Iranian capital Tehran.

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency has now published footage reportedly showing fires raging at the city’s Mehrabad International Airport with smoke billowing into the air.

📹 هم‌اکنون آتش‌سوزی مهرآباد pic.twitter.com/2xREF1VzsX

— خبرگزاری تسنیم (@Tasnimnews_Fa) June 13, 2025

Russia could play mediating role in de-escalating crisis

Giorgio Cafiero, an analyst and CEO of Gulf State Analytics, notes that Moscow has offered to play a mediating role and “it will be interesting to see if Tel Aviv and Tehran … decide to take the Kremlin up on this offer”.

But Cafiero told Al Jazeera that any potential de-escalation may be a while off.

“Right now, Iran is not interested in restraint or de-escalation … Iran is determined to send Israel, and by extension, the rest of the world, a message that sending such strikes against Iran meet very, very serious consequences,” he said.

“That is the message that Tehran is sending out right now.”

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate

Israel’s strikes on military and nuclear sites, and Iran’s retaliation, have rocked already strained global supply chains.

As airlines suspend flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran, and other airports across the region, oil companies, shipping firms, and regulatory agencies face growing concerns that key trade routes like the Strait of Hormuz could be caught in the crossfire.

Merchant shipping is still passing through the Strait of Hormuz, but with increased caution.

Iran has previously threatened to close this critical trade route in response to Western pressure.

Even the suggestion of such a move has already sent shockwaves through global markets, and the price of oil has risen.

Situation ‘can get very ugly, very quickly’

We’ve been speaking with Ali Vaez, the Iran Project director at the International Crisis Group, about the continued escalation between Israel and Iran.

Here’s some of what he had to say:

US played role in defending Israel amid Iranian attacks: Sources

What we’re hearing from some of our sources here in Washington is that while the United States was not involved in direct strikes on Iran, we do understand now that there has been a role for the US in defending Israel.

Now, we know already that the military equipment that the Israelis use in their defence is paid for by US taxpayers to the tune of billions annually.

But now we know, in terms of positioning assets, as well as the existing assets of the US military in the region, that there has been at least some role played by the US military with regard to having the ability to defend Israel against some of these Iranian attacks.

According to what we’ve been hearing here in Washington, the US army has also employed the THAAD missile defence system again in an effort to try and defend Israel against the retaliatory attacks.

Netanyahu starts the wars, US ends up paying for them.

Protesters say ‘no war with Iran’ at New York rally

Iranian official says countries that try to defend Israel will become targets: Report

A US broadcaster has quoted an unnamed Iranian official as saying Iran will target the regional bases of countries that attempt to defend Israel.

“Iran reserves the right – under international law – to respond decisively to this regime,” the unnamed official told CNN.

“Any country that attempts to defend the regime against Iran’s operations will, in turn, see its regional bases and positions become new targets,” the official added.

Iran’s extraordinary retaliation amidst reports of Netanyahu fleeing to Athens

Iran on Friday launched unprecedented retaliatory strikes on Israeli cities by firing dozens of ballistic missiles. Visuals of widespread destruction inundated social media platforms with the Iranian Supreme Court vowing to teach the Netanyahu regime a lesson for attacking Iran. Rifat Jawaid looks at the data’s extraordinary events amidst reports of Benjamin Netanyahu leaving for Greece just before the Iranian attacks overwhelmed Israeli cities.

If that's true, then Greece is obligated to arrest Netanyahu and deliver him to the ICC, but it looks like it's just his precious plane

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/netanyahus-official-aircraft-lands-in-athens/3597368

Hundreds protest Israel's attack on Iran outside Israeli Embassy

Fuck Carney

‘A disgrace’: Canada’s PM says Israel has ‘right to defend itself’

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has released a statement on the escalation in the Middle East that begins by saying that “Iran’s nuclear program has long been a cause of grave concern, and its missile attacks across Israel threaten regional peace”.

Carney said he convened his security council to receive an update on the situation in the region.

“Canada reaffirms Israel’s right to defend itself and to ensure its security. We call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and move towards a diplomatic resolution,” he wrote on X.

The Canadian leader’s statement was slammed by rights group Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East as a “disgrace”.

“There you have it. Canada supports Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran, a blatant violation of the UN Charter [and] crime of aggression. Instead of pushing for de-escalation, Carney is enabling Israel’s genocidal leadership as they drag the region further into hell,” it said.

I send a message to Carney, fucking prick.

UN chief urges Israel and Iran to stop firings

Antonio Guterres has called for an end to Israel’s bombardment of Iran and Iranian missile strikes targeting Tel Aviv.

“Time to stop,” the UN secretary-general wrote on X. “Peace and diplomacy must prevail.”

Israeli bombardment of Iranian nuclear sites.

Iranian missile strikes in Tel Aviv.

Enough escalation.

Time to stop.

Peace and diplomacy must prevail.

— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) June 13, 2025

“At this time, the Air Force is working to intercept and attack wherever necessary to eliminate the threat,” the military said in a statement.


_{Rescue personnel evacuate a wounded woman in Ramat Gan}

New wave of Israeli attacks targeting Isfahan: Report

London-based news outlet Iran International is reporting that Iranian air defences are attempting to shoot down a new wave of Israeli projectiles attacking the city of Isfahan.

On Friday, the Israeli air force said it had struck an Iranian nuclear facility near the city, located 450km (280 miles) south of Tehran.

It’s currently unclear if the same site is being attacked. We will bring you more information when we have it.

Five Palestinians injured by shrapnel in occupied West Bank: Report

Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting that three children were among those injured as rocket shrapnel fell near the town of Sa’ir near Hebron in the southern West Bank.

The five injured people – including the children, aged six, seven and 12 – were taken to hospital, according to Wafa, which cited the Palestine Red Crescent Society.

Wafa reported earlier today that Israel has imposed widespread closures across the occupied West Bank amid the escalating conflict with Iran. Israeli forces have shut down roads, set up checkpoints and prevented Palestinian freedom of movement.

‘We’re living between hope and despair’: the Australian groups taking action to support Gaza

As frustration builds over government response, communities organise vigils, petitions, protests and medical missions to besieged enclave

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/14/were-living-between-hope-and-despair-the-australian-groups-taking-action-to-support-gaza

News comes out of Gaza in a constant feed of photos and videos: civilians dying of starvation under Israel’s blockade, Palestinians shot dead while rushing to food distribution points, tents housing displaced people engulfed by flames.

More than 14,000 km away in Sydney, there is an overwhelming sense of grief, frustration and rage, Ziyad Serhan says.

The high school teacher who heads Educaid – an organisation focused on increasing mental health literacy among culturally diverse communities – has been hosting events to help people cope, from group healing circles to educational events with guests such as Jewish trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate and British-Australian doctor Mohammed Mustafa, who worked at al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza.

“We are watching a live-streamed genocide for the last 600 days,” Serhan says. “It is very, very important we have community spaces like this.”

...

Canadian demonstrators detained in Egypt during Global March to Gaza

https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/06/13/canadian-demonstrators-detained-in-egypt-during-global-march-to-gaza/

More than 40 Canadians who were taking part in a global march to Gaza have been detained in Egypt and blocked from reaching the border of the war-torn enclave.

The Global March to Gaza is the latest civil society effort pressing for the entry of food, fuel, medical supplies, and other aid into Gaza. Israel imposed a total blockade in March in an attempt to pressure Hamas to disarm and to release hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip.

To draw attention to the humanitarian crisis afflicting people in Gaza, marchers have for months planned to trek about 30 miles (about 50 kilometers) from the city of Arish to Egypt’s border with the enclave on Sunday to “create international moral and media pressure” to open the crossing at Rafah and lift a blockade that has prevented aid from entering.

Egypt had earlier warned that only those who received authorization would be allowed to travel the planned march route, acknowledging it had received “numerous requests and inquiries.”

...

“Some people were stopped in their hotels, some people had been followed for a large portion of the morning. Some people were stopped while they were in Ubers, some people were stopped in cafes. It’s really been unpredictable as to what to expect as it’s happening everywhere,” said Afnan Kaid, a student at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, who was one of the thousands of activists from around the world who had flown to Egypt to take part in the march.

The movement is aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade that’s stopping food and supplies from flowing into Gaza. Kaid says she was one of those in an Uber that was pulled over by officers, who demanded to see her passport.

A second member of the Canadian delegation also claims his documents were seized even though he had a legal visa to visit Egypt.

“We violated zero Egyptian rules-zero Egyptian rules,” said Ammar Afaneh. “Even the police officers we talked to, we asked them, ‘did we do anything wrong?’ And they said no, we just have orders. Then they shoved us into this bus, without our passports, and now we’re going somewhere – God knows where – without our passports.”

Ammar adds that the group has heard from other Canadians who were randomly dropped off “in the middle of nowhere” and that they had lost contact with them.

...

Both Canadians are calling on the federal government to take action after they were seized in Egypt. Global Affairs Canada has been advising Canadians to avoid all travel to northeast Egypt and to Gaza.

Don't expect any help from our coward government. Egypt is acting in self-defense for Israel...

Dozens killed while seeking food in Gaza

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/dozens-killed-while-seeking-food-gaza



Palestinian health authorities said on Saturday that at least 29 Palestinians were killed and over 380 wounded while attempting to collect aid over the past two days. The overall number of victims targeted near aid distribution points has now risen to 274 killed and 2,532 wounded.

27 Palestinians killed in latest violence in Gaza

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/27-palestinians-killed-latest-violence-094929664.html
https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/06/14/israeli-strikes-on-gaza-kill-at-least-16-as-war-rages-on-after-the-opening-of-a-new-front-with-iran/

At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Saturday, according to health officials. The 20-month war with Hamas has raged on even as Israel has opened a new front with heavy strikes on Iran that sparked retaliatory drone and missile attacks.

Another 11 Palestinians were killed overnight near food distribution points run by an Israeli and US-supported humanitarian group, in the latest of almost daily shootings near the sites since they opened last month.

The sites are in military zones that are off limits to independent media. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private contractor that operates the sites, said they were closed on Saturday, but witnesses said thousands had gathered desperate for food as Israel’s blockade and military campaign have driven the territory to the brink of famine.

The al-Awda Hospital said it received eight bodies and at least 125 wounded people from a shooting near a GHF site in central Gaza. Mohamed Abu Hussein, a resident of the built-up Bureij refugee camp nearby, said Israeli forces opened fire towards the crowd about a half a mile from the food distribution point. He said he saw several people fall to the ground as thousands ran away.

In the southern city of Khan Younis, the Nasser Hospital said it received 16 dead, including five women, from multiple Israeli strikes late on Friday and early on Saturday.

It said another three men were killed near two GHF aid sites in the southernmost city of Rafah, now a mostly uninhabited military zone.