Qatar warns Israeli attacks on Iran’s energy facilities will affect oil prices

Qatar has warned that Israeli attacks on energy facilities in Iran will affect oil prices.

“The attack on the Iranian side of the South Pars gas field is an uncalculated move that threatens energy security,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said during a press briefing in Doha.

“Regional security cannot withstand more crises or escalation,” he said, cautioning against the “reckless targeting of energy and nuclear facilities in the region.”

Al-Ansari denied reports that Iran had requested Qatari mediation to halt Israeli air strikes.

Mapping Iran’s oil and gas sites and those attacked by Israel

Iran is one of the top global producers of oil and gas, holding the world’s second largest proven natural gas reserves and third largest crude oil reserves, according to the United States Energy Information Administration.

Iran’s energy facilities – some of which have been targeted in Israel’s latest attacks – include onshore oilfields, offshore platforms, refineries, export terminals and pipelines. They are spread across several regions, mainly in the south and west of the country.

Read our explainer for details on where these facilities are located and which ones Israel has targeted.

Oil surges 4% to highest level since late January due to escalating Iran-Israel conflict

Oil prices surged on Tuesday to their highest levels in nearly five months as energy traders brace for further escalation in the Israel-Iran conflict.

The oil rally accelerated as President Donald Trump prepared to meet with national security officials at the White House Situation Room. Two officials told CNN that Trump is growing increasingly warm to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

US oil futures climbed 4.3% to settle at $74.84 – the highest closing price since January 22. Crude has spiked by 23% so far this month, a shift that is already boosting gasoline prices. Brent crude, the world benchmark, jumped more than 4% on Tuesday.

Concerns about the Strait of Hormuz, the most critical oil chokepoint on the planet, were amplified by a collision between two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The incident is under investigation, but the Joint Maritime Information Center blamed “navigation-related” issues.

“The crash and resulting fire has seemingly raised concerns the situation could spiral out of control on the most heavily traveled oil shipping route in the world,” Robert Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities, wrote in a report on Tuesday.

However, Yawger noted that the Strait of Hormuz has never been closed, not even during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

Genocide supporter Germany is on board with Netanyahu and Trump

Germany’s Merz says ‘complete destruction’ of Iran’s nuclear programme possible

The German chancellor says if Iran does not make concessions, the “complete destruction” of its nuclear programme could be “on the agenda”.

“The Israeli army is obviously unable to accomplish that. It lacks the necessary weapons,” Merz told the broadcaster ZDF on the sidelines of the G7 summit. “But the Americans have them.”

Earlier, Trump said he wants a “real end” to the Israel-Iran conflict with Iran “giving up entirely” on nuclear weapons.

Iran accuses EU of acting as Israel’s ‘apologist’

The spokesperson of the Iranian Foreign Ministry has accused the European Union of acting as an “apologist” for Israel after the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas raised concerns over Tehran’s nuclear programme.

In a post on X, Esmaeil Baghaei directly addressed Kallas, urging her to “please stop acting as the aggressor’s apologist”.

He also said: “How can you express concern over Iran’s peaceful program that is under the most robust IAEA inspections and ignore the fact that the Israeli regime has a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons?!”

Baghaei reaffirmed Iran’s position that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.

While Iran is a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Israel is not a signatory, and is widely believed to possess nuclear arms – although it has never publicly admitted it.

“Iran has never sought nuclear weapons,” Baghaei added, “unlike the aggressor that is the only barrier to a Middle East free from nuclear weapons – a goal Iran has advocated since 1974.”

Israel steps up attacks on Tehran

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Explosions reported in western Tehran

Iranian state media IRNA reports that “continuous and intense” explosions are being heard in the capital, Tehran.

War will not end without damaging Iran’s Fordow facility: Israeli official

Israel’s National Security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, tells Channel 12 that the military operation against Iran will not end before damaging the country’s main uranium enrichment site Fordow.

Experts say that Israel will require US help, with a significant number of bombers and munition, to penetrate Fordow’s defences.

The facility, near the city of Qom, is built deep inside a mountain.


‘Search underway’ for Israeli pilot in Iran after plane downed

Iran’s Mehr news agency is reporting that a search is under way for an Israeli pilot after his plane was shot down.

The report said that “an Israeli enemy aircraft was targeted in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province in southwestern Iran, and a search is underway for its pilot”.

Israeli fuel distributor reduces supply amid Iranian strikes

According to the Israeli business website Calcalist, Sonol, one of the country’s leading fuel distributors, has significantly decreased deliveries following severe damage inflicted on Haifa’s oil refinery facilities by Iranian strikes.

“In this state of affairs, and due to these circumstances beyond our control, we are forced to inform you that we will reduce or stop, as the case may be, the supply of fuels to our customers, of which you are one,” Calcalist reported, quoting Sonol.

Israel’s missile system ‘overwhelmed’

The Washington Post reports, citing an unnamed source, that Israel may maintain its missile defence for 10 to 20 days only without new supplies of interceptors from the US.

“They will need to select what they want to intercept,” the source said. “The system is already overwhelmed.”

Houthi official says Yemeni group will intervene in support of Iran

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti says the Houthis will come to the aid of any Arab or Muslim nation under attack. “We will intervene to support Tehran against Zionist aggressions as we supported our brothers in Gaza,” al-Bukhaiti said.

The Houthis have been carrying out drone and missile attacks against Israel in a campaign that they say aims to pressure the country to end its war on Gaza.

Over the past few days, Houthi missiles have coincided with Iranian launches against Israel.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say strikes targeting Israeli air bases

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have just issued a statement saying that its latest missile and drone attacks are specifically targeting Israeli air bases which were used to launch strikes on Iranian territory.

“Our attacks against Israel will continue in a constant, complex, multi-layered and gradual manner… We targeted the airbases from which the Zionist entity launched attacks against Iranian territory,” it said in a statement.

Earlier, IRNA reported Iran launched its tenth wave attacks on targets in Israel.

The missiles and drones were fired towards Israel in different regions across Iran on Tuesday afternoon, it said.

Despite repeated shootings, Palestinians have no option but to return to aid points

Despite the horrifying massacre that was committed earlier today in Khan Younis near the aid distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Palestinians are still gathering and willing to go.

This shows how desperate they are. This is the only way they can get food. This is the only way they can feed their families. They don’t have any other option.

Those who were wounded approaching the aid point are struggling to get treatment due to a shortage of medical supplies, which will likely cause the death toll to further rise, according to doctors at Nasser Hospital.

‘People in Gaza either die of hunger or get killed searching for food’

Crowds of desperate and hungry Palestinians walk through bombed-out neighbourhoods of what were once their homes in the northern Gaza Strip.

They start walking in the evening, hoping they can be the first to get their hands on a bag of flour. They don’t even know if the flour trucks will be there in the next few hours, or at all that day. It’s a chance, they say, they can’t miss.

Israel has recently allowed limited supplies of flour to enter the north of Gaza. There’s no clear distribution mechanism, and desperate families say they have no choice but to try and grab it directly from the trucks.

There’s barely any food left in the local market here in Gaza City. Even the little vegetables that make their way from farms in the south of Gaza are too expensive. Two pieces of tomatoes cost up to $8 – almost impossible for the majority to buy. People here say they either die of hunger or get killed searching for food.

Gaza healthcare at ‘breaking point’ as fuel runs out: WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has pleaded for fuel to be allowed into Gaza to keep its few functioning hospitals running.

“For over 100 days, no fuel has entered Gaza, and attempts to retrieve stocks from evacuation zones have been denied,” said Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO’s representative in the Palestinian territory.

“Combined with critical supply shortages, this is pushing the health system closer to the brink of collapse. Without fuel, all levels of care will cease, leading to more preventable deaths and suffering.”

Peeperkorn said 17 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals were currently minimally to partially functional. They have a total of about 1,500 beds – about 45 percent fewer than before Israel’s war on Gaza began.

Israel continues to restrict most goods entering the besieged territory.

‘People torn to pieces’: Hundreds of casualties in Israeli attack on south Gaza

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has issued a statement about the growing number of Palestinian casualties in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

The organisation said the bodies of 59 killed Palestinians and more than 200 wounded were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

It added that after many injured Palestinians, including aid seekers, arrived at the facility, the MSF team had to evacuate the maternity ward and turn delivery rooms into emergency operating theatres.

“Every day, Palestinians are met with carnage as they try to receive the limited aid trickling into Gaza,” MSF said.

Wafaa Abu Nemer, an MSF pediatrician, said “she saw people torn to pieces”. “It’s a disaster,” she added. “Seeking food should not be a death sentence.”

Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, the organisation’s emergency coordinator, said the medical complex was “over capacity and running on limited supplies … dangerously close to breaking point”.

Israel says two rockets fired from Gaza

The Israeli army says the projectiles have been launched from southern Gaza and have fallen in open areas.

‘Unacceptable’: UN calls for justice after hundreds killed at food sites in Gaza

The UN chief’s deputy spokesman, Farhan Haq, has called for accountability after the latest incident of Israeli forces killing Palestinians at a food distribution point in Gaza.

“The secretary-general condemns the loss of lives and injuries of civilians in Gaza, who are once again being shot at while seeking food,” Haq said at the UN headquarters in New York.

“It is unacceptable. As of yesterday, 338 people have been killed and more than 2,800 injured while trying to access food near distribution sites.”

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‘We were collateral damage. Now we are collateral news’: Palestinian author

Mosab Abu Toha, who won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for his essays on the destruction of Gaza, decries the lack of coverage of the horrific atrocities in the Palestinian territory amid the war between Israel and Iran.

“We were collateral damage. Now we are collateral news,” he wrote in a social media post.

More than 60 people killed while trying to get food on Monday

At least 95 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza on Tuesday - more than 60 were killed trying to reach humanitarian aid. The deaths are the latest in a series of similar incidents - as efforts to distribute much-needed food in the blockaded enclave continue to end in massacres. TRT World’s Victoria Innes has the latest.

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Israel kills at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza’s deadliest day at aid sites

Israeli troops have killed at least 70 Palestinians and wounded hundreds as they sought aid in Gaza on Tuesday, firing at them with tank shells, machine guns and drones. Those casualties are among the 89 Palestinians killed in attacks across the besieged enclave since dawn.

Israeli soldiers fired at the desperate crowds of aid seekers on Tuesday morning as they gathered along the main eastern road in the southern city of Khan Younis. It was the latest in a sustained wave of carnage since the Israel- and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) launched operations to distribute food in the territory three weeks ago.



The death toll is expected to rise as many of the injured are in a critical condition, according to medics at Nasser Hospital, where the casualties are being treated.

Gaza Civil Defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal added that more than 200 people were injured, although reports concerning the number of casualties varied.

“Israeli drones fired at the citizens. Some minutes later, Israeli tanks fired several shells at the citizens, which led to a large number of martyrs and wounded,” the spokesman said, noting that the crowd had assembled in the hope of receiving flour.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said Israeli tanks, heavy machine guns, and drone strikes were “raining down” on crowds, according to eyewitnesses.

The death toll of more than 70 people made Tuesday the deadliest day around the GHF sites so far. Previously, that grim record was set on Monday, when 38 people were killed, mostly in the Rafah area south of Khan Younis.



Reports indicated more than 300 people have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded while trying to collect aid from the GHF since it launched operations in Gaza on May 26.

The United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has called for accountability after the latest GHF site killings.

His deputy spokesman, in comments made at the UN headquarters in New York, said: “The Secretary-General condemns the loss of lives and injuries of civilians in Gaza, where once again being shot at while seeking food.

“It is unacceptable,” added Farhan Haq. “As of yesterday, 338 people have been killed and more than 2,800 injured while trying to access food, food near distribution sites.”

The Guardian view on Gaza’s engineered famine: stop arming the slaughter – or lose the rule of law

As Palestinians starve amid the rubble, western governments defend Israel, fund armed aid and dismantle the very rules they claim to uphold



Gaza’s cries have been drowned out by Israel’s strikes on Iran, and the diplomatic pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu over the suffering has ebbed. Yet as the industrialised world urges de-escalation in the Middle East, the devastation continues. On Tuesday morning, witnesses described Israeli forces firing towards a crowd waiting for trucks loaded with flour, leaving more than 50 dead. These are not stray bullets in wartime chaos, they are the outcome of a system that makes relief deadly.

As Médecins Sans Frontières declared this week, what is unfolding in Gaza is “the calculated evisceration of the very systems that sustain life”. That includes homes, markets, water networks and hospitals – with healthcare continually under attack. Last week, a UN commission found that more than 90% of the Gaza Strip’s schools and universities have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli forces using airstrikes, burning, shelling and controlled demolitions. What’s happening is not the collateral damage of military necessity, it is a programme of civic annihilation.

In such circumstances, words without action are worse than meaningless. Western powers cannot decry war crimes and genocide while supplying the arms that cause them elsewhere. If they believe in international law, countries such as the UK should act to uphold it. The law is not law if no one enforces it. Israel is the occupying power in Gaza and has a clear duty under the fourth Geneva convention to ensure the population’s access to food, water and medical care.

... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/17/the-guardian-view-on-gazas-engineered-famine-stop-arming-the-slaughter-or-lose-the-rule-of-law

Israeli army issues evacuation threat for district in Tehran

The Israeli army says people should leave an industrial area of the Iranian capital known as District 18, near Mehrabad Airport.

“In the coming hours, the [Israeli] military will operate in the area as it has in the past days in areas of Tehran to attack military infrastructure belonging to the regime,” an Israeli army spokesperson said.

The tactic echoes forced evacuation orders Israel has previously issued in Lebanon and continues to use in Gaza.

Iranian forces arrest ‘terrorist team’ linked to Israel

Iranian security forces arrested a “terrorist team” linked to Israel with explosives in a town southwest of the capital, Tehran, Iranian state media reported.

Israeli military announces new attacks on Tehran

Israel’s military has issued a brief statement saying it has “begun a wave of strikes in the Tehran area”. The military gave no further details.

Iranian missile evades Israel’s Iron Dome defence system

In the last hour, there were two separate waves of missile attacks from Iran into Israel. In fact, in the last sort of 15 minutes, the Israeli Home Front Command has issued an all clear, so people are now allowed to leave their shelters.

Something has got through.

Israel always says that its Iron Dome defence system is not able to intercept every missile that’s fired. It gets most of them. Nevertheless, the ones that do – as you see from there – are able to cause considerable damage if they hit a target.

It is early days to say exactly what and where has been hit. And there is also, remember, military censorship in Israel in wartime, and so it is not always possible to know exactly the significance of the location that might have been hit by those Iranian missiles if the Israelis consider it militarily sensitive.

For example, if it’s a military base or something like that, then the media is not allowed to report what the area is that has been hit by a missile.

‘We will show the Zionists no mercy’: Khamenei

Despite Trump’s threats, the Iranian supreme leader reiterates that Iran will harshly retaliate against Israel’s attacks.

“We must give a strong response to the terrorist Zionist regime,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in English on X. “We will show the Zionists no mercy.”