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Donald Trump has rubbished reports by the Wall Street Journal that he approved attack plans for Iran but is holding back on the final order for now.

Trump told senior aides he is waiting to see if Tehran would abandon its nuclear programme first, the WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the deliberations.

But the president has since posted a brief rebuttal on his social media platform, Truth Social.

"The Wall Street Journal has No Idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran," he wrote.

As our US correspondent Mark Stone explained yesterday, Trump has been ambiguous on his next steps.

This suits him, Stone said, with his support base split firmly between those supporting intervention and those against entering the US into a war.

Watch Mark Stone's analysis below...

Israel's military has just said alerts have been activated in several parts of the country, warning of a wave of missiles launched from Iran.

"At this time, the Air Force is working to intercept and attack wherever necessary to eliminate the threat," the IDF said in a short statement on social media.

We've been reporting on the strike at Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheba today, which happened during an Iranian attack overnight.

While Israel has accused Iran of a direct hit, Tehran has now said it struck a military command headquarters nearby - with the "blast wave" causing "superficial damage" to the hospital.

The hospital's director general, Shlomi Kodesh, told reporters at the site that several wards have been destroyed and 40 people injured, mostly staff and patients.

Iran's foreign minister said on social media there is damage to a "small section" of the "largely evacuated" facility, which he claimed is used mainly to treat Israeli soldiers.

"It is the Israeli regime and not Iran that initiated all this bloodshed, and it is Israeli war criminals and not Iranians who are targeting hospitals and civilians," Abbas Araghchi added.

"Hundreds of innocent Iranians have been murdered in cold blood since Israel launched its illegal war against the Iranian people last week."

He also called on Israelis to "heed our evacuation orders" before strikes and to "avoid proximity to military and intelligence sites".

"Our powerful armed forces will continue to pummel the criminals who target our people until they cease and pay for their criminal aggression against our nation," he said.

Regime change in Iran "can be a result" of its attacks, but it is not the goal, according to Israel's foreign minister.

Gideon Saar told reporters it isn't "at least until now" one of the aims of the security cabinet.

"The goals are connected to the nuclear program, to the ballistic missiles program, to the elimination program," he said.

Earlier today, defence minister Israel Katz said Iran's supreme leader "cannot continue to exist" (see our 11.13 post).

Saar, however, said it's "not the goal for the time being". 

"Maybe it will be changed in the future," he said.

Israel has taken out the majority of Tehran's missile launchers, a military official has said.

According to the official, Israel estimates it has hit two-thirds of Iran's launchers.

But it was said Iran still has more than 100 missile launchers left.

Early this afternoon, Israel's air force said it had conducted attacks on "infrastructure and surface-to-surface missile launchers" in western Iran.

Lithuania will evacuate the family members of embassy staff in Tel Aviv after a missile struck 200 metres from its building.

It follows moves taken by other embassies in the central Israeli city, which has become a focal point of Iranian attacks.

Non-essential staff will also be evacuated after the missile hit the Ramat Gan neighbourhood, Lithuania's foreign ministry said.

The area suffered heavy damage in overnight attacks.

Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking outside the Soroka Hospital, in Beer Sheba, in the last few minutes.

The Israeli prime minister visited the site in southern Israel after it was hit by an Iranian missile attack.

Here's what he said when asked about American involvement in the region:

"President Trump will do what's best for America. 

"I trust his judgement, he is a tremendous friend, a tremendous world leader, a tremendous friend of Israel and the Jewish people.

"And we will do what we have to do, and we are doing it.

"We are committed to destroying the threat of a nuclear annihilation against Israel.

"But I have to say that the partnership with the United States, the partnership with President Trump, with whom I speak to almost every day, is incredible. 

"I think his resolve, his determination and his clarity when he says Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and for that to take place, Iran cannot enrich uranium. 

"It's as simple as that. 

"He gave them the chance to do it through negotiations, they strung them along. 

"You don't string along Donald Trump, you know, he knows the game, and I think that we're both committed to making sure that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon and they won't."

He was asked if the US would join in with attacks and said it was a decision for Trump himself,  but said the US was "already helping a lot" by helping to defend the skies of Israel.

American intervention in the Middle East is a sign of Israel's "weakness and inability," Iran's supreme leader has said.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted on social media, as the US leader moves warplanes to the region and weighs up his options.

In a separate post, he asked Iranians to "continue with strength".

Pictures and flight tracking data show F-35 jets and tanker aircraft being moved towards the Middle East.

It all gives Donald Trump more options, if he is to intervene.

But one particular plane that has not been seen yet - the B-2 stealth bomber - would reveal the most about America's intentions towards Iran.

Read more here...

Watch our correspondent Cordelia Lynch question far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

She spoke to him at the site of Iranian strikes on a hospital in southern Israel, asking him about possible US involvement, before he told reporters he wanted an end to the regime in Tehran.

Watch the full clip below: