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An Israeli hospital in Beersheba, in the south of the country, has been damaged by an Iranian missile strike.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Tehran would “pay the price” for the attack that left more than 30 people injured at Soroka Hospital.

Iran claims it was intending to strike a military site nearby, as several locations across Israel were hit overnight.

Israeli forces say they attacked Iran’s nuclear sites, including the Arak heavy water reactor and the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.

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Ali Bahreini, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, has said Iran would react without "reluctance" if the US do decide to attack.

When talking about the strikes from Israel, Bahreini said the US has been “complicit in this crime from the beginning”.

Earlier, Donald Trump said "I may do it, I may not do it", when asked whether the US would join Israeli strikes on Iran.

The US president added: "Nobody knows what I want to do. But I can say this: Iran's got a lot of trouble and wants to negotiate".

Israel and Iran have exchanged numerous deadly strikes since Friday.

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US President Donald Trump dismissed questions about US involvement in Iran, saying: "I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I want to do.”

Adam is joined by Chief Presenter Caitriona Perry and BBC Persian Senior Reporter Siavash Ardalan to interpret Trump’s statements on the White House lawn, as well as Iran’s supreme leader threatening "irreparable harm" if the US takes action.

Also, what’s at stake for Russia if things continue to escalate in Iran? Steven Rosenberg calls in (literally) from St Petersburg to share his view from Russia’s International Economic Forum.

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The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has said that at least 40 people have been killed by Israeli fire on Wednesday, including 14 who were seeking aid in central Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces said that despite repeated warnings that the area was an active combat zone, individuals approached troops in a manner that posed a threat to forces.

More than 51 Palestinians were killed and hundreds others injured on Tuesday when Israeli forces opened fire using tanks and drones at an aid distribution site in southern Gaza, witnesses and rescuers said.

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The conflict between Israel and Iran started last Thursday - but what was the cause, what could happen next, and could the US get involved?

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, Mikey Kay, host of the Security Brief on BBC News, and BBC World Service Middle East correspondent Nafiseh Kohnavard answer your questions on the Iran-Israel conflict.

Israel launched a surprise attack last week that it says killed many top Iranian military commanders and atomic scientists. However, Israel does not appear to have achieved its goal of destroying Iran's nuclear development programme.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 224 people in Iran, according to the Iranian health ministry. In Israel, the government said at least 24 people had died.

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US President Donald Trump has said that Iran has “reached out” and “wants to negotiate” with the US when speaking to reporters outside the White House.

Trump dismissed any questions from reporters about US involvement in Iran, saying: “I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I want to do. But I can say this: Iran's got a lot of trouble and wants to negotiate."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier warned that any US military action “will be met with irreparable harm”, and added that Iran would not surrender.

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened that “any form of US military intervention will undoubtedly be met with irreparable harm” in a message on Iranian state television.

US President Donald Trump is considering entering the conflict and joining Israel's strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

In a series of social media posts, Trump called for Iran's "complete surrender” and said the US won't kill Iran’s leader, "at least for now”.

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French police are struggling to halt a potentially record-breaking surge of people from reaching the UK in small boats organised by a growing network of smuggling gangs.

Downing Street has said the situation is “deteriorating."

Although the French authorities claim they’re now intercepting more than two thirds of those boats before they reach the sea, the smugglers are now changing tactics to launch so-called “taxi-boats” from new sites, in new ways, and with ever greater speed.

Instead of inflating their boats in the dunes along the coast, close to police patrols, the gangs are launching them from better hidden locations, often dozens of kilometres from the main departure beaches.

They then cruise along the coastline, like taxis or buses, picking up their paying customers who now wait in the sea, out of reach of the police.

Andrew Harding reports from Calais.

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US President Donald Trump has stepped up his rhetoric against Iran's supreme leader and raised questions about the extent of US involvement in Israel's war with Iran.

It comes as the US moves fighter jets and military planes to the region.

So what role will the US play in the Israel-Iran conflict, and where are we heading next? The Security Brief’s Mikey Kay, a former Senior Officer in the British Military, takes a look.

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran "will never compromise with Zionists", in a series of posts on X.

"We will show the Zionists no mercy," a translation of the post reads. In a different post, he says "the battle begins".

Israel said it struck a centrifuge site in Tehran and weapons facilities as part of its overnight barrage, whilst Iran launched its own attacks on Israel, with sirens sounding twice overnight.

Israeli military officials said strikes which took place last Friday were a pre-emptive attack, to damage Iran’s nuclear programme, as Iran was reaching “the point of no return”, though they have provided no evidence of that.

The latest assessments of the international community, including from the US, have indicated that Iran had not made a decision to weaponize its nuclear programme, something it had abandoned in 2003.

Iran, a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), says it has the right to a peaceful nuclear programme, and has consistently denied it is seeking a nuclear weapon.

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