Hundreds of civilians, mostly in Iran, have been killed by dueling airstrikes despite international pleas for de-escalation.

The Israeli military claims its campaign has eliminated high-value targets, including nine senior scientists, and severely damaged Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Iranian authorities confirmed damage to four critical buildings at the Isfahan uranium conversion facility,

Iran was forced to shut part of its operations at the South Pars gas field after a suspected Israeli drone strike ignited a fire at one of its critical processing units on Saturday. The incident caused the suspension of 12 million cubic metres of gas production.

Any disruption in Iran's oil production may impact global prices as Saudi Arabia and UAE are the only Opec+ members that can boost output.

Israel said on Monday that it had struck the command center of Iran’s elite Quds Force, as the fiercest and deadliest confrontation in the history of the Israeli-Iranian conflict entered its fourth day.

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