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Emergency personnel work at the site of a strike on a residential building in Tehran, Iran, on Monday [Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters]
By Ted Regencia, Zaid Sabah, Erin Hale, Stephen Quillen, Yashraj Sharma, Caolán Magee, Shola Lawal, Mariamne Everett and Lyndal Rowlands
Published On 24 Mar 2026

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25 Mar 2026 - 00:00
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Staff at Nabih Berri Hospital mourn following reports that an Israeli drone strike killed the son of one of the hospital’s workers on Tuesday in Nabatieh, Lebanon [Adri Salido/Getty Images]
24 Mar 2026 - 23:55
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Here’s what happened today

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Here are some of the day’s top developments:

  • US-Israeli attacks killed at least 12 people in southern Tehran, the Fars news agency reported.
  • Israeli forces killed at least 33 people in Lebanon over the past day, including a 15-year-old boy, Lebanese officials said.
  • Israeli medics said one person was killed and two were injured by rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.
  • The UAE said an Iranian attack killed a Moroccan civilian working with its armed forces in Bahrain. Several soldiers were also injured.
  • US President Donald Trump said that talks to end the war on Iran are ongoing, claiming that Tehran wants to make a deal “so badly”.
  • Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Trump’s claims about negotiations are “fake news” being “used to manipulate financial and oil markets”.
  • Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi welcomed German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s remarks that the US-Israel war is a “violation of international law”.
24 Mar 2026 - 23:52
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Houthi

Fire breaks out at Kuwait airport after drone attack

Kuwait’s Civil Aviation Authority has announced that drones targeted a fuel tank at Kuwait international airport, leading to a fire at the site.

Spokesperson Abdullah al-Rajhi told the Kuwait News Agency that according to preliminary reports, the damage was limited to property, with no casualties.

Al-Rajhi stated that authorities immediately began implementing emergency procedures, and fire brigades and relevant agencies are currently dealing with the blaze.

24 Mar 2026 - 23:40
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Canada condemns Israel’s plans to occupy territory in southern Lebanon

The Canadian has strongly condemned Israel’s plans to occupy territory in southern Lebanon, adding that Lebanese sovereignty and territorial integrity must not be violated.

It also said that Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel must cease and called for the Lebanese group’s disarmament.

24 Mar 2026 - 23:30
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WATCH: Building collapses after Iranian missile strike on Israel

A building has collapsed in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, after Israeli authorities said it was hit by an Iranian missile, injuring several people.

Watch below for scenes from the ground:

24 Mar 2026 - 23:20
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UK’s Starmer, Saudi crown prince discuss US-Israel war on Iran

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has discussed the US-Israel war on Iran with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a Downing Street spokesperson said.

Starmer reiterated support for Saudi Arabia amid the ongoing attacks across the region and updated the Saudi crown prince on the deployment of further UK defensive military equipment, the spokesperson said.

“Iran’s ongoing attacks, including on critical national infrastructure, were appalling,” Starmer said.

“Following the UK-led joint statement last week, the UK was now working with partners on what a viable plan could look like to ensure the flow of goods through the key maritime route,” Downing Street said, quoting Starmer.

24 Mar 2026 - 23:15
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Houthi

Multiple casualties following Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon

The National News Agency (NNA) has reported additional casualties in southern Lebanon following Israeli air strikes.

According to the report, two people were killed after their apartment was hit in the Mieh Mieh refugee camp near Sidon. The attack also left four people hurt.

In a separate incident, an air strike on the town of Adloun, in the Sidon district, killed four people and left one other injured.

We have reported earlier that three people were killed in an Israeli air strike targeting the town of Habboush, in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon.

24 Mar 2026 - 23:10
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Analysis

Governments need short and long term plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels

Independent energy analyst Ketan Joshi has told Al Jazeera that the International  Energy Agency’s suggestions that people should be “working from home or rationing” fuel are likely “just the beginning.”

“If this crisis continues to get worse, these suggestions will move into enforced rules, and this will get very serious indeed,” Joshi said.

“The concern for many governments right now is short-term reductions in dependency on fossil fuels,” Joshi said, but in the longer term, he added, there should also be consideration of fuel types that aren’t as dependent on “long and complicated” global supply chains.

“Renewable energy and electric vehicles have come up a lot, but there are many other technologies as well that we can consider to reduce reliance in the short, medium and long term.”

Joshi added that “there needs to be much more condemnation of attacks against energy and power generation facilities,” as these are also “very much a threat to civilians, rather than just the infrastructure of fossil fuels.”

24 Mar 2026 - 23:00
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Israel ‘not part of negotiations’ between US and Iran: UN envoy

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, has said his country is not part of alleged talks between the US and Iran that are speculated to be held later this week.

Danon told UN reporters today that the US, along with Israel, was continuing to hit “military targets in Iran, and we will continue to do that”.

The strikes first launched by the two allies on Iran have “accomplished a lot”, he said, but not everything.

Danon added that Israel is bent on ensuring Iran has no capabilities for nuclear or ballistic missiles.

The envoy further accused Iranian authorities of saying, weeks earlier, that Iran did not have intermediate-range missiles – then allegedly firing a missile 4,000km (2,485 miles) towards the Diego Garcia island, which hosts an important US/UK army base.

Iran denied that it carried out the attack on the remote Indian Ocean location yesterday. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Sunday said the alliance could not confirm Israel’s claim that the projectiles used were Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles.

24 Mar 2026 - 22:50
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Cyprus seeks new security arrangements with UK after drone strike on RAF base: Report

Cyprus has asked the United Kingdom to negotiate new security arrangements for UK military bases on the island following Iranian drone attacks earlier this month, The Telegraph reports.

Al Jazeera could not immediately verify the report.

24 Mar 2026 - 22:46
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Houthi

Three killed, 18 injured in Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon

The National News Agency reports that three people have been killed in an Israeli air strike targeting the town of Habboush, in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon.

The strike also left 18 people wounded, according to the report.

Israel has killed more than 1,070 people in Lebanon in just over three weeks of intensified strikes, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said earlier.

24 Mar 2026 - 22:40
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Analysis

US-Israel war on Iran will see ‘end of sanctions regime’

Prominent US economist Steve Hanke, of Johns Hopkins University, says one of the unintended consequences of the US and Israel’s war on Iran is the benefits Russia is reaping.

Moscow is now supplying global markets with critical helium and fertiliser, which are no longer flowing freely from the Gulf, he said, among other products.

Another unintended but beneficial consequence to some countries, the economist added, will be the end of US sanctions on certain states, an approach the expert said is “ill-conceived”.

“The sanctions regime worldwide is going to disintegrate, [and] this will be the end of sanctions,” he told Al Jazeera.

The US eased sanctions on some Iranian oil on Friday. US President Donald Trump, a few weeks ago, eased sanctions on Russian oil in a temporary move meant to aid demand pressures.

24 Mar 2026 - 22:40
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At least 12 killed, 28 wounded in attacks on southern Tehran, Iran says

Iran says that at least 12 people have been killed and 28 others wounded in an “enemy attack” on the residential areas of Varamin in southern Tehran, in a statement carried by the Fars News Agency.

Since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, at least 1,500 people have been killed, and more than 18,550 others have been injured.

24 Mar 2026 - 22:30
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Lebanon says Israeli attacks killed 33 in last day

Earlier, we reported that Lebanon’s Health Ministry had said that the number of people killed in Lebanon since Israel escalated its offensive on March 2 has risen to 1,072.

The government’s Disaster Risk Management Unit has now said that the number of people killed in the last daily reporting period was 33, while 90 people were injured.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike that hit the eastern outskirts of the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on Tuesday [Kawnat Haju/AFP]
24 Mar 2026 - 22:20
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Hezbollah says it attacked Israeli army in southern Lebanon, Golan Heights

Hezbollah has said it has targeted Israeli soldiers and infrastructure in southern Lebanon and the occupied Golan Heights.

In a series of statements, the group said it attacked Israeli troops gathering in three different areas of the southern Lebanese town of Taybeh with rockets and artillery shelling on Tuesday afternoon.

The group also said it targeted Israeli army infrastructure in the illegal Israeli settlement of Katzrin in the occupied Golan Heights with a rocket on Tuesday evening.

Lebanese officials have warned that the Israeli military appears to be planning a full-scale ground invasion south of the Litani River, an area US and Israeli officials have said they consider a part of the so-called “Greater Israel“.

24 Mar 2026 - 22:20
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Lebanon sheltering close to 135,000 displaced people

Lebanese authorities have provided an update on the number of people in state shelters amid the ongoing Israeli attacks.

A total of 134,921 people are currently in 657 shelters, the Disaster Risk Management Unit operating under the Presidency of the Council of Ministers said, according to the National News Agency.

Nearly one in five people in Lebanon – more than 1 million – have been displaced since Israel renewed its attacks on Lebanon on March 2.

Women pack clothes into a suitcase at a school being used as a shelter for displaced people in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Tuesday [Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP]
24 Mar 2026 - 22:10
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At least 12 wounded in Israel after Iranian missile launch

Israeli emergency services say at least 12 people have been injured in the centre of the country this evening after a missile launch from Iran.

The Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said it provided first aid to nine people in the city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, before taking them to local hospitals.

It said the wounded included a 23-year-old man in moderate condition with shrapnel injuries to the abdomen and head, and “eight in mild condition, including six children”.

Three people were also wounded in nearby Givat Shmuel, the MDA said.

The AFP news agency’s TV service ran footage from Bnei Brak showing heavy damage to buildings, including a balcony that collapsed onto a car. Images published by the MDA showed a building where a top-floor apartment had collapsed into the floor below.

The Israeli military has issued 12 alerts warning of incoming Iranian missiles this evening.

24 Mar 2026 - 22:00
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US sent Iran 15-point plan aimed at ending war: Report

Washington has sent Iran a 15-point plan aimed at ending the US-Israel war, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

News of the US plan was reported earlier by The New York Times, which, citing two officials, said the plan was delivered by way of Pakistan.

24 Mar 2026 - 21:50
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Israeli air attacks reported in southern Lebanon

The latest Israeli air attacks on southern Lebanon have targeted the towns of Beit Lif and Hanin in southern Lebanon, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.

In a statement, Hezbollah also said it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the border town of Naqoura with a swarm of attack drones.

24 Mar 2026 - 21:45
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Houthi

Israel issues evacuation threats for parts of Beirut’s southern suburbs

The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of residents from seven neighbourhoods in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Spokesman Avichay Adraee said the Israeli military would continue to attack Hezbollah infrastructure throughout different parts of the southern suburbs.