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Israel's military says more missiles have been launched from Iran and that it is working to intercept them.

It says air raid sirens have sounded in several areas of the country as dawn breaks (it's two hours ahead of the UK).

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We will bring you more information when it's available.

The AG°Ù¼ÒÀÖÔÚÏß¹ÙÍø lit up over Israel's biggest city, Tel Aviv, on Friday evening and the sound of Iranian missiles being intercepted boomed out.

Air raid sirens went off across the country, including in Jerusalem, and people were told to seek shelter.

Authorities said 34 people were injured in Tel Aviv's metropolitan area.

Here's how the situation played out.

New pictures are coming in showing damage caused by Iranian missile strikes in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, where several cars and buildings were destroyed.

However, many of the missiles launched at Israel were shot down by its sophisticated Iron Dome defence system.

We've mentioned already the anti-Israeli protests that happened on the streets of Tehran today (see 14.25 post).

Hundreds gathered, demanding "revenge" and chanting anti-Israel and US slogans.

"We are ready for retaliation," said one woman. "We were waiting for Israel to make a mistake so that we can show the world the power of Iran."

We haven't seen or heard from Trump today, who has so far been uncharacteristically quiet amid the fast-moving developments in the Middle East.

Behind the scenes, the US president - who has touted himself as a peace broker for the region - has had a busy day of calls and briefings.

We know Trump has been in the West Wing thanks to a black-and-white photograph tweeted by his deputy chief of staff:

He was in the situation room where an extensive security briefing took place in the hours before Iran's counterattack, US correspondent Mark Stone says.

As for what else has been on his agenda, Trump has shared a call with Starmer � though we don't know when this took place � and he's also spoken with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

"The leaders stressed the need for self-restraint, de-escalation, [and] resolving disputes through diplomatic means," a statement from the Saudi embassy in Washington said.

Again, it's unclear exactly when this call happened.

Trump also spoke to Netanyahu at some point today, a White House official said.

"I would be surprised if we didn't see him by the end of today," says Stone. 

An eyewitness has reported hearing a loud boom in the holy city of Jerusalem in Israel.

It comes amid reports air raid sirens have been heard in the city as well as in Tel Aviv - where more 30 people were injured in Iranian missile strikes.

Vladimir Putin offered his condolences to the leadership and people of Iran during a call with Iran's president, the Kremlin says.

It adds that Putin emphasised his condemnation of Israel's actions to Masoud Pezeshkian, which Moscow says violate the UN Charter and international law.

In a separate call with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Kremlin says Putin stressed the need to return to the negotiation process and resolve all issues related to the Iranian nuclear program through political and diplomatic means.

Around 20 minutes ago, the Israeli military said sirens had been sounded in the area of Eliat - a port city on the Red Sea near Jordan - due to a suspected "drone intrusion". 

It has now said the aerial attack on Eilat was intercepted, along with two heading for Negev, a desert region in the south of the country. 

A total of 34 people in Gush Dan, or the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, were injured in tonight's strikes, Israel's emergency services has said.

Magen David Adom said all of those injured have been taken to hospital.

They include one critically-injured woman, one seriously-injured man and two people who were moderately injured, it added. 

By Mark Stone, US correspondent

Reading between the lines of President Trump's social media posts is an art, not a science.

But whether by intention or not, there is always insight in his posts. His Truth Social words reacting to the Israeli attack on Iran are intentionally ambiguous.

When was he told by Israel that they would strike Iran? Did he give them a green light or was it more amber? Was his insistence as recently as 48 hours ago that a strike would 'blow' the chances of a deal with Iran actually just a ruse to afford Israel the element of surprise? That's what the Israelis are claiming.

Clearly President Trump does not want to give the impression that his "don't strike" advice was ignored by Netanyahu. His social posts are filled with enough ambiguity to allow him to maintain his "good cop" stance - "I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to 'just do it'..."

Trump's "art of the deal", whether it be in real estate or nuclear weapon negotiations, requires unpredictability and ambiguity. Both of those, as it happens, are useful to hide ineptitude too. The line between diplomatic masterstroke and disastrous diplomacy is thin.

The president is insisting that the Israeli attacks make a deal more not less likely because of the pressure Iran will now be under. Perhaps.

But the other pressure the Iranian supreme leader is under is the pressure of survival. Self-preservation is necessitating the Iranian response that we're now seeing before any renewed negotiations can come. The Israelis and the Americans are calculating that Iran and its proxies are now sufficiently degraded, and so the response will be limp and containable.

They might be right in terms of conventional attacks, but asymmetrical operations are another fear - against Israeli targets or more broadly, softer western targets in the region or beyond.

We are at yet another unsettlingly tense moment for the region.