Reports are trickling in of deaths from the fresh round of Iranian strikes on central and northern Israel. Here's where things stand now:
The situation on the ground remains very fluid. Please stay with us as we bring you the latest.
Three people have died and more than 100 injured in an Iranian strike on a building in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, according to Israeli emergency services.
The BBC has not been able to independently this.
As we've been reporting, explosions have been heard in parts of central and northern Israel, amid fresh strikes from Iran.
These are the latest images coming out of the city of Tamra, in the North District of Israel.
Image source, Sinai Koren
Image source, Sinai Koren
Image source, Sinai Koren
Chris Mason
Political editor
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's mantra is clear.
“The constant message is de-escalate,” he told us. He is neither ruling in nor out the prospect of British jets helping Israel - as happened in both April and October last year.
Iran has warned the UK, and the US that were they to Israel, their ships and bases in the region would be regarded as legitimate targets.
Starmer met the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney here last night for talks on security and trade. Both will head later to the Canadian province of Alberta for the G7 Summit. The Middle East is uppermost on the agenda.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump are among those gathering there for three days of talks.
Iran has fired two waves of missiles into Israel overnight.
One strike killed at least five people when missiles hit a residential neighbourhood near Haifa in the north of country, according to multiple Israeli news outlets.
Another set of strikes near Tel Aviv killed a 60-year-old woman, according to the Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA). A further 20 people have been injured in the same area, as well as 24 people in the Judean Foothills, a spokesperson for the MDA added.
The BBC has not been able to independently these reports at this time.
It's just gone 04:00 in Israel and 04:30 in Iran and both countries have continued to exchange fire through the night.
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The Israel Defense Force is now saying that residents in some parts of central and northern Israel are now "permitted to leave protected spaces".
Earlier, the IDF said that residents must enter protected spaces upon receiving alerts and remain there until further notice.
It also says that search and rescue forces have been deployed to areas across the country where there have been reports of fallen projectiles.
Israeli police have said that they are at the scene of a strike helping to recover the wounded, and that there appear to have been at least two direct hits.
The IDF has urged residents in Israel to follow the instructions of the Home Front Command.
In a statement it said, "At this time, the IAF is operating to intercept and strike where necessary to eliminate the threat. The defense is not hermetic, therefore, it is essential to continue following the instructions of the Home Front Command".
Ghoncheh Habibiazad
BBC Persian
Iran has started a new wave of attacks against Israel just now.
The country's state TV has announced by showing Tel Aviv's sky and saying Iran has launched a "wide drone attack" on Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces says it has carried out a series of strikes on infrastructure sites in Tehran connected to Iran's nuclear programme.
The military says targets include the headquarters of the Iranian defence ministry and the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research.
It adds that it also hit "additional targets" which "advanced the Iranian regime’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon and where the Iranian regime hid its nuclear archive".
Ghoncheh Habibiazad
BBC Persian
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has released a statement about tonight’s attack on Israel.
The IRGC said Israeli facilities “involved in the production of fighter jet fuel and energy supply centres” were targeted tonight.
In the statement, the IRGC said that Iran’s attack will “intensify” if Israeli attacks continue.
Elsewhere in the statement, the IRGC claimed that Iran has “tracked and destroyed three cruise missiles, 10 drones, and dozens of hostile micro-UAVs” in areas of Iran that were attacked.
Ghoncheh Habibiazad
BBC Persian
“Stuck” – that’s how most people I’ve spoken to describe life right now in Iran.
“I had to drive far from home to find a petrol station, because there were heavy queues in front of each,” one Tehran resident tells me today.
Some people in the city are even moving out, “away from where any official lives”.
Someone who re the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s says: “Back then, sirens warned everyone to go somewhere safe or turn off house lights. It seems like they [the officials] don’t care about our lives now.”
But younger people, born after the war, don’t know what it was like.
The internet is becoming even more unstable than yesterday, so it’s very hard to keep in touch with people I know inside the country.
Many of us living outside the country are sending messages to loved ones, hoping for a reply.
By Shayan Sardarizadeh, Paul Brown and Ghoncheh Habibiazad
Videos published by Iranians on social media and authenticated by BBC show a huge fire at an oil depot northwest of the capital Tehran.
One video, confirmed by BBC , shows two residents watching a huge fire at the Shahran oil depot, filmed from Simon Bolivar Street in northwest Tehran.
Another clip, also filmed from Simon Bolivar Street, shows an oil tanker burning, with a man filming confirm the time and location of the video.
A report from the Mehr news agency also filmed a report from the site, confirming that it appeared to have been targeted.
Iran’s oil ministry has said that the situation is “under control”, but Iranian media have asked people to “stay away” from the depot.
Meanwhile, one video shared online and verified by the BBC shows a fire burning near the Haifa oil refinery following tonight’s salvo of missiles fired from Iran.
Although the clip is filmed from distance, we can spot the oil refinery by matching known landmarks surrounding it and finding the precise location from which it was filmed.
BBC is continuing to examine more videos of the aftermath of tonight’s attacks by both countries.
Fire at Shahran oil depot west of Tehran following Israeli attack
We're now hearing more details about Israel's attacks on Tehran.
The Tasnim News Agency, a media outlet d with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, says an Israeli strike targeted the country's defence ministry in Tehran.
One of the headquarters office buildings was slightly damaged in the attack which took place in the Nobaniad area, it reports.
It adds that the ministry's Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research was also hit in a separate attack.
In the last two hours, we've seen missile strikes from Iran towards Israel, and also Israeli strikes at Iran.
Here are the latest key developments:
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Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) says a woman in her 20s has been killed following the Iranian strikes.
The woman, who was pulled from the rubble, was in the two-storey house in Western Galilee we mentioned earlier.
Seven people who were injured are being taken to hospital, MDA adds.
Haifa municipality says there were no rocket hits in Haifa and no casualties are known.
As we mentioned earlier, Iranian state TV reported the port city was one of the top targets of tonight's strikes.
A few interceptor fragments were found in a small number of locations, the statement says.
Image source, Avi Ohayon/ GPOIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has chaired a meeting with his security cabinet.
This comes as Israel faces renewed missile fire from Iran.
The BBC can confirm that the Shahran oil depot in Tehran has been hit by Israel.
Iran's oil ministry also says Israeli strikes have targeted the depot and a fuel tank in southern Tehran.
However, they add that the fuel levels at these two depots are not high and the situation is under control.
Tehran’s fire department had previously warned that the Shahran oil depot was high-risk because it is located too close to where people live in the city.
We’ll bring you more on this as soon as we have it.
Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) says about 14 people have been injured at a two-storey house in the Western Galilee.
One person is in critical condition, while the others have different levels of injury, the service says.