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Israel has hit a building in south Beirut after issuing an evacuation warning (see previous post), according to reporting in Lebanese state media.

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“The enemy targeted the threatened building in the Ghobeiry area towards Bir Hassan-Jnah,” Lebanon’s state-run national news agency reported. We will bring you more on this as soon as we have it.

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In a post on X, the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee sent out an “urgent” warning for people in Beirut’s southern suburbs, particularly in the Ghobeiry neighbourhood, to flee ahead of a military attack.

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Below the post is a graphic featuring a building marked in red which Adraee said is “affiliated” with Hezbollah, without providing any evidence to support his claim. He said everyone in that building – and the ones adjacent to it on the map – should leave immediately (before airstrikes).

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Israel has repeatedly launched deadly strikes on Beirut’s densely populated southern suburbs since its renewed assault on Lebanon that began on 2 March – killing over 1,360 people, including at least 125 children, injuring over 4,130 others, and displacing over a million, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

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The renewed Israeli war on Lebanon was launched after Hezbollah – the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group – fired rockets into northern Israel in response to the killing of the former Iranian supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in joint US-Israeli airstrikes.

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At least five people were killed in US-Israeli attacks in south-west Iran during rescue operations for the then missing US crew member from the downed F-15 jet, a local governor has been quoted as having said by the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

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The governor of the mountainous provinces of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad said all five people were killed after an attack in the “black mountain” area of Kohgiluyeh.

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As we have been reporting, both crew members from the downed F-15 fighter jet have now been rescued. The US president, Donald Trump, said no Americans were killed or injured in the rescue mission, about which few details have been officially confirmed.

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US President Donald Trump has confirmed on Truth Social that the US has rescued the second crew member from a F-15 fighter jet shot down over Iran on Friday.

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Identifying the crew member as a colonel, Trump wrote that US forces were monitoring his location “24 hours a day” and planning for his rescue.

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“WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is now SAFE and SOUND!”

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Trump said that at his direction, “the US Military sent dozens of aircraft” to retrieve him, and claimed “not a single American” was killed during the operation.

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The jet’s pilot was rescued on Friday.

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Reuters is reporting it has been told by US officials that US forces have rescued the second crew member of a downed F-15 fighter jet in Iran. On Friday, the pilot was rescued after the F-15E Strike Eagle became the first plane to be downed over Iran during the five-week-long war.

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Iran has rejected Donald Trump’s demand that the regime cut a deal in 48 hours or face “all hell”.

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On Saturday, the US president posted on social media: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” referring to an ultimatum issued on 26 March.

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“Time is running out – 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.”

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Iran’s central military command rejected the ultimatum, with Gen Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi saying Trump’s threat was a “helpless, nervous, unbalanced and stupid action”.

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Echoing Trump’s language, he warned that “the gates of hell will open for you”.

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Trump later posted a video showing explosions lighting up a night sky along with text that said: “Many of Iran’s Military Leaders … are terminated, along with much else, with this massive strike in Tehran,” without specifying when it took place.

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Welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran and the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.

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Iran launched missiles and drones at Israel and Kuwait early on Sunday, a day after Donald Trump said the Islamic republic had 48 hours to cut a deal or face “all Hell”.

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Kuwait and Israel said their air defences were responding to the latest attacks from Iran, part of the war that erupted more than a month ago with US-Israeli strikes that triggered retaliation by Tehran.

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The war has spread conflict throughout the Middle East and convulsed the global economy. Iran’s forces maintain a tight grip on the strait of Hormuz shipping lane – a vital conduit for oil and gas – and strike economic targets in Gulf neighbours they see as linked to the US-Israeli war effort.

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Elsewhere today:

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  The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed that Israel attacked Iran’s petrochemical plants after reports from Iranian media saying at least five people were killed in an attack on the Mahshahr petrochemical zone.

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  US search and rescue efforts for the missing second crew member of the downed F-15E fighter jet continued into a second day as Iran came under heavy bombing. A pilot had been rescued on Friday after the F-15E Strike Eagle became the first US plane to be downed over Iran during the five-week-long war.

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  American and Israeli fighter jets targeted multiple strategic and civilian sites inside Iran’s capital on Friday afternoon, including Shahid Beheshti University, one of the country’s leading academic institutions, Iranian state media reported.

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  The death toll in Lebanon has reached 1,422 since the conflict with Israel began on 2 March, according to data from the Lebanese health ministry and reported by the Associated Press. In just the past 24 hours, Israeli strikes have killed 54 people and wounded 156.

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  The Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that its air defense forces successfully intercepted eight ballistic missiles and 19 drones over the last 24 hours. However, on Sunday a fire has erupted in the Shuwaikh oil sector complex that houses the oil ministry and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation headquarters, after a drone attack, and Kuwaiti state media reported that two power and water desalination plants sustained “significant material damage” after being attacked by Iranian drones.

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  A Lebanese security source at the main crossing between Syria and Lebanon, said they were evacuating the crossing after Israel threatened to attack it. The Israeli military said on Saturday it would strike an area near the Masnaa crossing urging residents to evacuate immediately as it continued its attacks across Lebanon.

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  Residents of southern Lebanon’s Kfar Hatta were told on social media by Israel to immediately leave the area, and warned that the Israeli military would soon act “with force” in the area.

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Key events

Dan Sabbagh

The rescue of the second F-15E crew member was made possible with the help of CIA subterfuge, according to reports in the US media. Here is some detail from the Guardian’s defence and security correspondent, Dan Sabbagh, who has filed a story about the mission:

The CIA took more than a day to locate the missing airman, according to a report in Axios, and launched a disinformation campaign in Iran to give the impression that he had been found in order to fool Iranian forces on the ground. After more than a day the intelligence agency located him, the report added.

Uncrewed Reaper drones were used to protect the airman once he had been located, by “striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometer” according to a correspondent with the US Air & Space Forces Magazine, who said he had been briefed on the operation.