Middle East

• Guardian:  Israeli media reports that Israel’s military has said Iran did succeed in striking Israeli airbases with missiles during yesterday’s attack, but the attack was “ineffective”. No aircraft were damaged and the IAF was able to continue to operate. Impacts were said to have damaged office buildings and other maintenance areas

• Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz has threatened Israeli retaliation for Iran’s “brutal” missile attack yesterday in a post to social media thanking world leaders for their support One person in the Israeli-occupied West Bank was killed by falling debris from an intercepted missile, and two people were lightly wounded by shrapnel in Tel Aviv

• Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian said “If the Zionist regime does not stop its crimes, it will face harsher reactions”. Pezeshkian has left Tehran for a scheduled visit to Qatar

• Israel has announced the death of a soldier in Lebanon. It said the 22-year-old, part of a commando brigade, “fell during combat in Lebanon”. Earlier Hezbollah claimed that it had inflicted casualties on Israeli troops it engaged in Maroun al-Ras, a Lebanese village in the south of the country which is opposite Avivim and Yir’on in Israel. Israel has announced that additional troops are to join its ground invasion, and issued another message that residents in over 20 Lebanese villages should flee their homes to avoid being attacked

• The IDF claims to have destroyed “over 150 terror infrastructures” which it says includes “Hezbollah headquarters, weapons storage facilities, and rocket launchers” inside Lebanon. Israel’s military also reported a continued barrage of projectiles fired into the country from Lebanon. There have been no reports of any casualties today but Israeli media reports that 10 houses have been damaged by rockets or artillery fire in Metula, an Israeli community which is right up against the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon

• Israel’s military has said that its chief of staff, the head of Shin Bet and the head of the Mossad all met at the Kirya in Tel Aviv

• Foreign minister Katz has also said on social media that he has declared UN secretary-general António Guterres a “persona non grata” and banned him from entering the country, although it is unclear whether this is official government policy

• Germany’s foreign ministry has urged its citizens to leave Iran. China’s state-owned news agency Xinhua reports that over 200 Chinese nationals have been evacuated from Lebanon

• Russia has said the situation in the Middle East is developing in “the most alarming direction” and Egypt’s cabinet has condemned what it called a “dangerous” Israeli escalation in southern Lebanon

• Police in Denmark have said they are investigating two blasts in Copenhagen overnight that were near the Israeli embassy

• Yemen’s Houthis in a statement have said they will not hesitate in broadening their operations against Israel

• Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 60 Palestinians overnight, including in a school sheltering displaced families, medics in the territory said. The Hamas-led Gaza health mIsrael barred the U.N. secretary general from entering the country, reflecting broad Israeli anger at the organizationinistry said Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,689 Palestinians and wounded 96,625 since 7 October. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict

  NY Times - Israel barred the U.N. secretary general from entering the country, reflecting broad Israeli anger at the organization