Morning recap

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are some of the latest key updates from the Iran war:

• Qatar said it had intercepted a missile attack, as Iran continued its retaliatory campaign over US-Israeli strikes that killed its supreme leader. 

• Falling shrapnel from an intercepted missile killed a Pakistani national in Abu Dhabi, the government media office said.

• Israeli strikes rained down on three neighbourhoods in Beirut, as Lebanon said more than one million people had been displaced in two weeks of fighting.

• Iran’s intelligence organisation in Khorasan Razavi said it arrested 10 suspected foreign-linked “mercenary elements” accused of espionage activities, Tasnim news reported.

• At least four people were killed in Baghdad as US forces and Iraqi militia groups exchanged fire, with multiple explosions reported across the Iraqi capital.

• A three-day-old infant and his two-year-old sister were among those killed in a US-Israeli strike that hit their home in the city of Arak.

• France is running low on MICA air-to-air missiles as Rafale fighter jets continue intercepting Iranian drones over the UAE, according to French media reports.

• A new wave of rocket attacks targeted a US diplomatic facility near Baghdad airport.

• President Donald Trump said “numerous countries” are preparing to help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz.