Iran war live: Leader funeral draws millions; Israel attacks Gaza, Lebanon

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  • Israel indicts Tajik man over alleged spying for Iran

    Israeli prosecutors have filed an indictment against a 33-year-old Tajikistani national accusing him of spying for Iran, a local media report says.

    The man, who was in Israel without a visa, is accused of passing information through the Telegram platform about sites where missiles landed during the 2025 war with Iran, Haaretz newspaper reported.

    He is also accused of sending images of military and strategic infrastructure, including the Port of Haifa and an Elbit Systems facility, with what Israel described as the intention of “harming national security”.

  • 20m ago

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    Here are the latest developments:

    • Iran’s press agencies reported millions of mourners are on the streets of Tehran for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s funeral procession.
    • Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tehran remains deeply at odds with the US, describing the recently signed interim deal as “difficult but possible”.
    • Israel continues to kill Palestinians in Gaza with at least six killed and 20 wounded in attacks.
    • Four people have been killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon as the US-backed “ceasefire” continues to be violated.
    • Defence Minister Katz said it assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei for allegedly planning “to destroy” Israel and again threatened to “eliminate” Iranian leaders.
    • A Palestinian commission said Israeli forces and settlers have carried out 11,074 attacks across the occupied West Bank in the first half of 2026.
  • 35m ago

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    WATCH: Khamenei’s funeral procession moves through Tehran

    As we’ve been reporting, huge crowds have filled the streets of Tehran for Khamenei’s hours-long funeral procession.

    Watch our video report from the Iranian capital below:

     

  • Number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 73,098

    Gaza’s Health Ministry has released its latest daily update on the number of casualties in Israel’s genocidal war.

    In a statement, the ministry said five people were killed and seven wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period. Three people were recently killed and two bodies were recovered, it added.

    The figures bring the number of those killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war to at least 73,098, with 173,571 wounded.

    Israeli attacks on Gaza since the “ceasefire” came into effect in October last year have killed at least 1,072 and wounded 3,463.

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    Hamas says Interior Ministry staff to remain in place for security

    Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Government Media Office in Gaza, tells Al Jazeera: “All Ministry of Interior employees will continue their work to ensure there is no security vacuum.”

    The move comes after Hamas announced the dissolution of the body that governs the Gaza Strip and handed over the territory’s leadership to a team of technocrats, as stipulated by the US-brokered “ceasefire”.

  • 55m ago

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    Israeli missile attack kills 4 in southern Lebanon

    Four people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, southern Lebanon, according to the National News Agency.

    The victims included the principal of Youssef Shamoun Public School, her mother, a foreign domestic worker and a Syrian citizen.

    They were checking on the family home when their vehicle was hit by a missile near Dar al-Muallimeen, it said.

    Rescue teams from the Lebanese Red Cross and civil defence agency transferred the bodies to hospitals in Nabatieh city.

  • 1h ago

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    At least 6 killed as Israeli attacks continue across Gaza

    Below is a roundup of ongoing Israeli strikes throughout the war-battered Palestinian territory despite a US-brokered “ceasefire”:

    • Israeli attacks continue across the Gaza Strip, with at least six Palestinians killed and more than 20 wounded.
    • At least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone attack on a vehicle along al-Rashid Street in Khan Younis, according to medical sources.
    • A source at Nasser Hospital said two other Palestinians were killed in an attack on a tent sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi near Khan Younis.
    • At least two Palestinians, a married couple, were killed in an Israeli drone attack on an apartment in Gaza City, according to a source at al-Shifa Hospital.
    • The latest attacks come amid tightening Israeli restrictions on Gaza and severe shortages of medical supplies.
      Mourners carry a body as they participate in the funeral of two Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment, in Gaza City, July 6, 2026. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
      Mourners carry a body after an attack on Gaza City on Monday [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
      Palestinians stand near the site of an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 6, 2026. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
      The aftermath of an Israeli attack on a vehicle in Khan Younis, southern Gaza [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
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    Israeli army claims ‘operational control’ of south Lebanon village

    The Israeli military says troops took “full operational control” of the village of Haddatha in southern Lebanon, describing it as part of the “security zone”.

    According to Israeli news outlet Arutz Sheva, the army said Haddatha is a major centre of Hezbollah activity, and it destroyed more than 90 “infrastructure sites and firing positions” there.

    More than 20 Hezbollah fighters were killed during the assault, it said.

    The announcement comes despite a US-backed ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.

    Israeli army battle are seen in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel
    Israeli battle tanks deployed in the Upper Galilee [File: Jalaa Marey/AFP]
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    Hamas says handover made to stop Israel’s ‘war of extermination’

    We just reported that Hamas announced the dissolution of the body that governed Gaza for nearly two decades, clearing the way for a committee to implement civilian rule.

    The move marks a significant political shift by Hamas, which has run Gaza since 2007 after winning legislative elections the previous year.

    Since a “ceasefire” took effect in Gaza last October between Hamas and Israel, the group has repeatedly said it is prepared to step aside from day-to-day governance.

    “The head of the government’s emergency committee, Mohammed al-Farra, has officially submitted his resignation,” Ismail al-Thawabta, head of Hamas-run Government Media Office, told AFP.

    “He has also decided to dissolve the committee to facilitate the administrative and governmental transition to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza [NCAG].”

    The NCAG was created by the Board of Peace that Trump established when he brokered the “ceasefire” between Hamas and Israel in October 2025.

    “Hamas has taken a new step in that it will no longer be in charge of the Gaza Strip in order to remove any pretexts for the occupation, which continues its aggression and war of extermination,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said.

    “We hope for the swift entry of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, and Hamas affirms its readiness to hand over governmental responsibilities to the committee to ensure its success.”