Live – Kuwait City tower on fire as Iranian air strikes continue across Gulf countries

A large tower in Kuwait City is on fire as several civilian facilities in the Gulf country have been damaged by falling debris after drone interceptions, the army said on Sunday.

Kuwait’s military said air defence systems were intercepting missile and drone attacks, as Iran continues its strikes across the region.

“Kuwaiti air defences are currently engaging hostile missile and drone attacks,” the military said in a post on X, adding that explosion sounds were the result of interceptions by air defence systems.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty called for de-escalation on Sunday to stop the war in the Middle East from expanding even further.

Abdelatty’s comments were made during a phone call on Saturday evening with his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan, according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

Israel’s military said on Sunday that it had struck a series of fighter jets that pre-revolutionary Iran purchased from the United States.

The fleet of F-14s parked at Isfahan Airport, south of Tehran, was a pillar of the Iranian air force and historically used to defend its airspace.

The Israeli military did not say whether the jets were destroyed. It also said it had struck detection and air defence systems.

The United States and Israel hit five oil facilities in overnight strikes in and near the Iranian capital, an official told state TV.

“Last night, four oil depots and a petroleum products transport centre in Tehran and the Alborz were attacked by enemy aircraft,” the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company Keramat Veyskarami told state TV.

He added that the five facilities “were damaged” but the “fire was brought under control.”

Air raid sirens sounded across Israel early on Sunday, warning of incoming missiles from Iran, with no reports of damage or casualties.

Israeli military statements said air defences were responding to at least four waves of “missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel” within about five hours.

Alerts were activated across much of northern, southern and central Israel including in major cities like Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba, according to the army’s Home Front Command, which ordered residents to go into shelters or safe rooms.

The alerts were later lifted, with the military saying, “it is now permitted to leave protected spaces in all areas of the country.”

Israeli media reported that several missiles were launched and most had been intercepted.

Falling missile debris injured three people and damaged a university building in Bahrain on Sunday, the interior ministry said, as Iran pressed its air campaign against neighbouring Gulf states.

“As a result of the blatant Iranian aggression, 3 people were injured and material damage was inflicted on a university building in the Muharraq area after missile fragments fell,” the ministry said in a statement, referring to an island area northwest of Manama.

Bahrain also said a water desalination plant was damaged in the drone attack.

The Israeli military said it launched a wave of strikes “across Iran” on Sunday, targeting military sites.

A military statement said it had “initiated a wave of strikes targeting the Iranian terror regime military infrastructure across Iran.”

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country “will be forced to respond” to any attack or invasion attempt from a neighbouring country, in remarks aired by state TV on Sunday.

If Iran’s enemies “try to use any country to attack or invade our land, we will be forced to respond to that attack. Responding does not mean we have disputes with that country or wish to harm its people. We would be responding out of necessity,” said Pezeshkian.

On Saturday the president apologised to neighbouring countries hosting US military bases for attacks on their territory.