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While the focus has mostly been on Iran since Israel began its air war, Palestinians are continuing to be killed across Gaza, with Israeli gunfire and strikes killing at least 140 people in the past 24 hours, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said.

At least 40 of those were killed today, the ministry said.

The deaths included Palestinians killed in homes in the Maghazi refugee camp, the Zeitoun neighbourhood and Gaza City.

It also included 14 people killed in Israeli fire at crowds of Palestinians waiting for aid trucks brought in by the United Nations along the Salahuddin Road in central Gaza, medics said.

Responding to the Salahuddin road incident, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said despite repeated warnings the area was an active combat zone, individuals approached troops in a manner that posed a threat to forces.

Its troops fired warning shots, it said, adding it was unaware of injuries.

Commenting on the other strikes, it said it was "operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities" while taking "feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm".

Earlier this week Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said 397 Palestinians among those trying to get food aid had been killed and more than 3,000 injured since aid deliveries started in late May.

We've heard more from Donald Trump today, and Iran's supreme leader gave his first public remarks since Israel's first attack last Friday.

If you want a quick recap, here's a reminder of today's key developments so far:

• Trump told reporters he "may or may not" strike Iran, adding "nobody knows what I'm going to do" and that Tehran has reached out to him;

• The Iranians, however, denied that claim and insisted it won't "grovel at the gates of the White House" -  labelling Trump a "has-been warmonger";
  
• And in brief remarks televised in Iran, the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Israel has made a "huge mistake" and his country will not surrender;
  
• Any US intervention in the Middle East would be "a recipe for all-out war in the region", a spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry said;
• In the UK, Sky News understands the prime minister is chairing an emergency COBRA meeting this afternoon on the situation in the Middle East;
• Meanwhile, attacks continue - though Iranian strikes appeared to be reduced overnight. A human rights group reportsed at least 585 people have now been killed in Iran, with 1,326 injured;
• Israel, for its part, said earlier it struck 40 military targets today, though further blasts have reported since then.

The Iranian capital continues to be targeted by the Israeli military.

These are some of the latest pictures out of Tehran, showing smoke rising above buildings following a strike.

Iran's mission to the UN has just responded to Donald Trump's claim that Tehran has reached out to Washington - see our 15.02 post.

"No Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House," it said in a written statement.

"The only thing more despicable than his lies is his cowardly threat to 'take out' Iran's Supreme Leader.

"Iran does NOT negotiate under duress, shall NOT accept peace under duress, and certainly NOT with a has-been warmonger clinging to relevance.

"Iran shall respond to any threat with a counter-threat, and to any action with reciprocal measures."

We just heard from Donald Trump, who said he may or may not authorise US strikes on Iran - see our 15.02 post.

Trump told reporters Iran has reached out to his administration, though he went on to say it's "late" to be talking.

He's keeping the ambiguity going, our US correspondent Mark Stone said, and there are two potential reasons for that.

"The first is he wants to keep everyone guessing," Stone says.

"It is useful to keep everyone guessing because that creates this sense of jeopardy.

"It means that the Iranians don't quite know where they stand, don't quite know what he's going to do. No one does."

But that ambiguity is also "inevitable", Stone said, because he believes the president "doesn't know what to do".

"So, it's useful to him to be able to say, you know, I might do this, I might do that," Stone added.

"But that's also because he doesn't know what he is going to do next. And he is in a real bind."

The forever wars

That's because Trump ran his campaign as a man who will stop the wars.

"And yet now he finds himself on the precipice of being forced by Israel, effectively, to join a new war," Stone said.

But, domestically, he is being pulled in different directions, with highly influential figures in the MAGA movement speaking out against intervention, such as Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

He's also got more traditionalist Republicans, such as Ted Cruz, saying the US must take this opportunity and take Iran out now.

"This is a huge, huge domestic challenge for Donald Trump, and it doesn't just threaten to split his base, it is splitting his base," Stone said.

"It's useful to be unclear about what he might do, but it is also because he has no idea himself, I don't think, what to do next."

By Adam Parker, OSINT editor

Sky News analysis of flight-tracking data shows more than 30 US military planes have been active over parts of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea over the past three days.

These include planes used for reconnaissance, aerial refuelling, and carrying cargo.

It also includes 12 F-35 jets that travelled from the UK to the region yesterday.

Images taken by photographer Glenn Lockett in Suffolk show three US air tankers escorting four F-35 fighter jets each.

The flight-tracking data shows the tankers travelled to the Mediterranean, then came back to the UK yesterday.

Most of the US military planes we've tracked regularly turn off their locations and final destinations, according to the data from Flightradar24.

Some of the planes moved from the US to Europe, while others appeared to move closer to the Middle East.

At least five of the US military aircraft landed at Chania Airport on the Greek island of Crete.

In the image below, a Boeing KC-46A Pegasus primarily used for aerial refuelling is seen on tracking in the eastern Mediterranean.

Donald Trump is speaking at the White House, where he is asked whether the US is moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities.

"You don't seriously think I'm going to answer that question? 'Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component and what time exactly, sir, sir, would you strike it?'"

He adds: "You don't know that I'm going to even do. You don't know. I may do it. I may not do it."

He says "nobody knows what I'm going to do", but he can say this: "Iran's got a lot of trouble, and they want to negotiate.

"And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you go?

"I said to people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago?"

He says Iran has reached out to him, claiming they even "suggested" they come to the White House.

"They had bad intentions, you know, for 40 years they've been saying death to America, death to Israel, death to anybody else that they didn't like anywhere," he adds.

"Bullies. They were schoolyard bullies. And now they're not bullies anymore. But we'll see what happens."

He also says "nothing's finished until it's finished", and that war is "very complex".

"I wouldn't say that we won anything yet," he says.

"I would say that we sure as hell made a lot of progress. And we'll see - the next week is going to be very big, maybe less than a week, maybe less."

Donald Trump is in front of the media now at the White House.

He's at a flagpole installation event, but it's likely he will face questions about the Middle East.

We'll bring the latest here with his response.

Some restrictions in Israel will ease this evening, the military has said.

This includes orders around school closures, for example.

As of 6pm (4pm UK time), parts of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and West Bank - in addition to Israeli communities near Gaza and in Eilat in the south - will be changed from "essential activity" to "partial activity".

Other parts will change from "essential activity" to "limited activity".

These changes will apply until 8pm on Friday.

Israel's air force has destroyed Iran's internal security headquarters, according to the country's defence minister.

"The tornado continues to hit Tehran," said Israel Katz.

"Air Force jets have now destroyed the Iranian regime's Internal Security Headquarters - the Iranian dictator's central repressive arm.

"As we promised - we will continue to damage symbols of power and strike at the ayatollahs' regime everywhere."