US troops at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait (File)
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The Netanyahu Government has ordered Israeli strikes on the Dahiyeh suburb, south of Lebanon’s capital Beirut.
Dahiyeh is Hezbollah’s political and administrative center in the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz cited Hezbollah’s rocket fire on northern Israel as justification for the strikes.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Iran has fired on an airbase used by the US after the American military struck Iranian military sites over the weekend.
US Central Command said its attacks on Iran’s southern coast were in response to “aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters”.
American warplanes “responded by eliminating Iranian air defences, a ground control station and two one-way attack drones”, CENTCOM posted.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 1, 2026
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Monday that they targeted an airbase without identifying its location. Air defenses in Kuwait intercepted missile and drone attacks as sirens sounded.
Six American soldiers were killed by an Iranian attack on the Camp Arifjan base in Kuwait on March 1, two days after the start of the US-Israel War.
Lebanon President: We Face “Vicious Israeli Aggression”
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has said the country faces “a vicious and reprehensible Israeli aggression”, as Israel expands its ground and air attacks and occupation across southern Lebanon.
Over the weekend, Israel seized the medieval Beaufort Castle, near the city of Nabatieh. The Israelis occupied the strategic site from 1982 to 2000.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the expansion of attacks, as the toll in Lebanon rose to 3,412 people killed and 10,269 wounded since March 2.
The capture of Beaufort is a dramatic stage and a dramatic shift in the policy we are leading….We are taking the initiative, we are operating on all fronts – in Syria, in Gaza, in Lebanon.
At France’s request, the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday.
Overnight, an Israeli soldier was killed and three wounded by an Hezbollah drone attack on the town of Yohmor, near the Beaufort Castle.
