Something big blew up in or near the Iranian holy city of Qom.

Just 30 kilometers north of Qom is the Fordow nuclear facility 🤔

US Central Command called on Iranian civilians to evacuate all port areas where the Iranian Navy operates.

Sirens across central Israel.

Intercepted.

Iranian and Hezbollah missile fire at northern Israel.

Hezbollah has reportedly fired about 100 rockets in the ongoing barrage.

Initial reports of casualties in northern Israel.

Missile fire now to southern Israel.

Missiles to the south reportedly intercepted.

Israeli forces are currently carrying out a series of strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut. The civilian population has been urged to immediately evacuate targeted neighborhoods.

President Trump again lays into Israeli President Isaac Herzog for not immediately pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling Herzog "pathetic" for insisting first on a legal opinion from the Attorney General's Office.

"He doesn't need a legal opinion," insisted Trump in remarks to Israel's Channel 12. "I need Bibi focused on the war, not on this bulls**t."

"Strike hard"

Israeli and American pilots chatting with one another in the skies over Iran.

"It's a great honor to be fighting with you."

"Likewise...strike hard."

Central Israel now.

A short time earlier there were rockets from Lebanon fired at northern and central Israel.

Missiles and rockets were all intercepted. Rescue teams were dispatched to areas where shrapnel is expected to have fallen.

OVERNIGHT ROUNDUP

🔹 Several volleys of missiles against central and northern Israel, from both Iran and Lebanon; overnight reports of several suffering from shock, but no physical injuries

🔹 Reports from Iran of pinpoint strikes on Basij militia units while on patrol (Basij is the internal security force used to suppress opposition to the regime)

🔹 Netanyahu held an urgent security meeting on expanding the operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon

🔹 Iranian attacks on a fuel depot and the international airport in Bahrain

🔹 Iranian attack on a hotel in Dubai

🔹 Iranian attack on an oil facility in southern Iraq

🔹 Arab media reports Hezbollah is moving forces to the Lebanon-Syria border. New Syrian ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa wants to eliminate Hezbollah

Iran’s Minister of Sport says the Islamic Republic will not participate in the upcoming World Cup being hosted in the US, Mexico, and Canada.