The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they unfold.
The cabinet is set to approve today a plan to fund the de facto establishment of 61 new settlements in the West Bank, Axios reporter Barak Ravid posts on the social media platform X.
The reported proposal, supported by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, includes government funding for homes and facilities at temporary settlement sites, but also sets aside funds for the permanent communities that would follow — including permanent infrastructure.
“In practice, it would allow the government to establish temporary settlement sites while planning procedures are still underway, creating facts on the ground that could later evolve into permanent settlements,” Ravid says.
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— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) June 11, 2026
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it fired ballistic missiles at a US command center in Jordan, according to state media.
This “punitive operation against the aggressor” targeted “Al-Azraq Air Base and its control center, using 12 ballistic missiles,” the IRGC says, as quoted by the Tasnim news agency, claiming to have destroyed these facilities “and a large number of fighter aircraft.”
Kuwait says it has closed its airspace over ongoing Iranian attacks and that flights are being diverted to alternative airports, without elaborating.
Flights had been circling outside of Kuwait for some time before the announcement after it said its air defenses were firing.
Kuwait International Airport has taken a direct Iranian hit in recent days, which killed one person and wounded dozens.
After sirens sound in northern towns, the IDF says that two rockets fired by Hezbollah impacted in an area near where troops are operating in southern Lebanon.
Warning sirens sound in a pair of northern Israeli towns near the Lebanon border, after the military warned residents of numerous communities in the area of impending Hezbollah rocket fire.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that it struck bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in response to the latest US strikes.
“During two waves of operations, eighteen important targets belonging to the US Army in the bases of Ali and Ahmad Ahmad Air Force (were hit),” the Guards says in a statement quoted by state-run IRNA, adding that they also “hit and destroyed Sheikh Isa air bases.”
The US military says it carried out a second wave of overnight strikes against Iran.
According to US Central Command, the strikes hit “Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites” across the Islamic Republic, with American forces using “precision munitions on Iranian targets that posed a threat to US forces and international commercial ships transiting regional waters.”
“The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression. US forces remain vigilant, lethal, and ready,” CENTCOM adds in a statement posted to X, which is accompanied by video of Tomahawk cruise missiles being fired from a guided missile destroyer.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 11, 2026
Iranian media reports that Iran had attacked the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, after US strikes on its territory.
“In this wave of army drone strikes, communication antennas and radar facilities of the Patriot system of the 5th Fleet were targeted,” the Mehr and Fars news agencies post on Telegram.
An air raid alert has been issued in Bahrain and residents have been urged to “remain calm and head to the nearest safe place” the Gulf country’s interior ministry says on X.
Twenty-two countries including the United States and European nations warn Iran to stop attacking people “on our soil.”
“Attempts to kill, kidnap, harass, intimidate, or otherwise attack people on our soil, undermines national sovereignty and international norms. These actions must stop immediately,” they say in a joint statement.
Iran’s state media cites a senior official as denying that Iranian officials were in contact with US President Donald Trump in the wake of US attacks on areas in southern Iran.
“Trump’s false claim that Iranian officials contacted him is a cover to evade war with Iran,” the unnamed official is cited as saying.
