Evening Recap

Our live coverage is now closed until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

An Israeli air strike on Beit Lahiya in the besieged north of Gaza has killed at least 40 people, some of them entire families, reporters on the ground have said. Emergency crews and hospitals in northern Gaza are almost entirely non-functional, leaving people to search through the rubble for their loved ones. Palestinian Islamic Jihad called the act a "Nazi crime" and said the US is "complicit". 

The son of the director of northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital has been killed in the latest Israeli attack on the facility, health officials reported. Footage from the funeral of Ibrahim, the son of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, was shared widely on social media as the hospital remains under siege, with 200 critically wounded patients inside.

Iran said four of its soldiers were killed by the Israeli army's attacks early Saturday, but downplayed the extent of the damage to its military infrastructure, saying that radar systems were "affected" but quickly "repaired".

Tehran also said Israel's attack was launched from Iraqi airspace, some 70 miles from Iran's border, blaming Washington given its unfettered access to Iraqi airbases. 

Hezbollah fired around 80 projectiles into Israel on Saturday, just hours after Israel launched air strikes targeting military facilities in Iran, the Israeli military said.

The US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has warned Iran not to "make the mistake" of responding to Israel's attacks early Saturday.  In a post on X discussing his latest phone call with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant, Austin said the US is "well postured to defend [its] forces and facilities across the region."