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Middle East: Israel strikes Beirut in first since ceasefire

The Israeli military said it is carrying out strikes on infrastructure it says belongs to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. This comes after it said projectiles were shot at Israel earlier today. DW has more. Read below for a roundup of news related to the Iran war  and the wider Middle East on Saturday, June 6, and Sunday, June 7, 2026. Tired of missing our real-time updates? Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google . Then tap the "Star" or "Preferred" to keep DW News at the top of your feed Israel's military said it had successfully intercepted two Iranian missile barrages late on Sunday and warned of further incoming salvos. "The [Israeli military intercepted all missiles from Iran thus far," it said in a post on the platform X. It added that it had "identified additional launches fired toward the state of Israel." "The Aerial Defense Array is currently identifying and intercepting threats,"  it said. Israel said on Sunday that it had detected incoming missiles from Iran. The Israeli military said in a post on X it had "identified missiles launched from Iran toward Israel." "Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat," the post read. Minutes later, the military said it had detected another barrage. They are the first such missile barrages since the United States and Iran reached a ceasefire agreement early in April. The statement comes after Israel struck Beirut's southern Dahia neighborhood — known as a stronghold of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia — earlier on Sunday. Iranian parliament speaker Bagher Ghalibaf vowed Iran would give a "decisive" and "proportionate" response to the Israeli strikes on Lebanon. Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim ‌Rezaei said ⁠in ⁠a ​post on X ​on ​Sunday ‌that Tehran will ‌deliver a "decisive and painful response" to Israeli strikes on the southern outskirts of Beirut. "Look at the sky of the occupied territories tonight," wrote Rezaei, who serves as the spokesperson for the Iranian parliament's national security commission. There was no immediate formal response from Tehran.  Later, parliamentary speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf accused Washington of approving the Israeli strikes on Beirut and vowed a "decisive" and "proportionate" response, according to Iranian state media. He said that the attack turns US and Israeli "bases and assets … in the region into legitimate targets." "Our armed forces, as always, are free to act," he said. US President Donald Trump said Iran's highly enriched uranium will end up in the US' hands, whether the two countries reach a deal to end the war between them or not. "If we make a deal that now we're friendly, we'll all go together. It'll be our equipment," Trump told US broadcaster NBC, saying the uranium will be destroyed. "Now, if we don't make a deal, then we're going to take (the enriched uranium) out very harshly," the US president said. Trump also added that any agreement with Tehran will not immediately result in the freezing of Iran's assets. “Yeah, if they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking," Trump said. At least five people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a police station in the Gaza Strip , the enclave's civil defense service said. This comes despite an ongoing US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Gaza-based militia Hamas , with both sides trading the blame for alleged ceasefire violations. At least 961 Palestinians have been killed since the October 10 ceasefire went into force , with the Israeli army reporting five military casualties during the same period. International media outlets are still barred from entering Gaza due to an Israeli government decision , resulting in an inability to  independently verify news coming out of the enclave. Israel carried out strikes on Lebanese capital Beirut's southern Dahia area, Israeli authorities said.  The neighborhood is known as a stronghold of Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah. "This comes as a response to Hezbollah's shooting towards Israel," ajoint statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said. The Israeli military described the targets of the strikes as "infrastructure of terrorist group Hezbollah" on its official X account. This is the first time Israel has carried out strikes in the Lebanese capital since a new ceasefire was announced on Wednesday, with reports saying Israel had wanted to strike Beirut earlier and US President Donald Trump prevented the strikes from taking place. The Israeli military warned residents to leave the Lebanese  city of Tyre and surrounding areas ahead of possible strikes. The continued clashes between Israel and the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah  come despite a new ceasefire announced Wednesday. Earlier today, two projectiles were launched from Lebanon towards Israel's north, with the Israeli army saying both were intercepted. Hezbollah has not claimed responsibility for the launches. A 37-year-old man of Palestinian origin was arrested on the Greek island of Crete for allegedly being a member of Islamist organization Hamas and planning terrorist attacks, according to the Athens police.  The man, who reportedly arrived in Greece about a year ago and received asylum in the country, is one of three Palestinians who received joint training in the use of explosives abroad, police said, with the investigation still ongoing. The other two were recently arrested in Cyprus.  Searches in flats in Crete and Athens resulted in the authorities finding several mobile phones, a laptop and bank cards. Many parts of Europe are still on high alert due to the potential targeting of Israeli and Jewish institutions across the continent in connection with the conflict in the Middle East. At least one man has been killed and at least five injured in a shooting in Israel, rescue services said. The shooting took place in the Israeli villages of Kochav Yair and Tsur Natan, located near the border with the occupied West Bank , with the suspected shooters fleeing by car. According to reports in Israel, one of the suspects has been caught and arrested, and a manhunt is underway for a second suspect. The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level for Israel to the highest possible level, the US media reported. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, part of the Pentagon, the Israelis' "ability to conduct human espionage and technical collection is at a 'critical level,'" NBC News reported. The New York Times has also reported on attempts by Israel to eavesdrop on senior US officials, including Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy and the administration's Middle East negotiator, as well as Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's top policy official. Israel is considered one of the US's closest allies, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has often praised his close relationship with President Trump. The Israeli military said it had intercepted two projectiles fired from within from Lebanon . This comes despite a new ceasefire agreement that intends to end the escalation between Israel and Iran-backed militia Hezbollah . Hezbollah rejected the agreement, demanding Israel to stop the fire and withdraw from southern Lebanon first. Both Israel and Hezbollah blamed each other for violating the previous US-brokered ceasefire, agreed in November 2024. The US military's Central Command said it intercepted two Iranian drones in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. "Earlier today, US forces in the Middle East shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones that threatened international maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz," CENTCOM posted on X. "American forces remain postured and ready to continue defending against Iranian aggression," the military added. The United States and Iran launched retaliatory strikes at each other's assets in the region over the weekend after weeks of indirect ceasefire talks failed to produce an outcome. A 7-month-old baby boy was laid to rest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The infant was shot by Israeli forces while his parents were driving Friday evening in the Tel Rumeida area, south of the northern West Bank city of Hebron, according to the ministry. His parents were injured in the same incident. The Israeli military has acknowledged that its forces fired a shot at the vehicle and that "uninvolved civilians" had been injured, saying that soldiers had "perceived a vehicle accelerating towards them before the shot was fired." It said that the incident is under review. The British consulate in Jerusalem said it was "shocked and saddened" by the killing. "Civilians must be protected. Call for immediate and transparent investigation and accountability," the UK mission said in a post on X. Lebanese army chief Rodolphe Haykal departed for  Pakistan  on Saturday to meet with his counterpart, Asim Munir, Lebanon's military said. The AFP news agency cited an unnamed source as saying the visit is linked to  Pakistan's mediation efforts in the war between the United States and Iran. Iran has insisted that Israel cease its ground invasion and bombing campaign in Lebanon as part of any ceasefire agreement between Tehran and Washington. On Friday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called for Iran to stop using Lebanon as a "bargaining chip" in negotations. The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has rejected a conditional truce between Lebanon and Israel announced earlier this week and has demanded a full Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. Iran accused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of allowing its reports to be politicized in the conflict with the United States. "If the agency wants to be part of a diplomatic solution, it must refrain from turning a technical report into a tool of political pressure," Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi wrote on the platform X. "One cannot bomb safeguarded facilities, destroy the access and safety necessary for inspections, and then use the consequences of that very attack as a grievance against Iran," he wrote. The deputy minister's comments come in response to an IAEA report that expressed concern over its lack of access to Iran's nuclear sites . "While the agency acknowledged that the military attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities and sites have created an unprecedented situation, it is critical for the agency to conduct verification activities in Iran without delay," the IAEA said in a statement, as cited by the AFP news agency. The United States and Israel struck Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025 and also in the current war with Tehran they launched on February 28. Washington and its allies accuse Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, while Iran insists its nuclear enrichment program serves purely civilian purposes.