Israel Katz, the Israel's defense minister, said on Thursday that his country was prepared to relaunch its military operation against Iran "with even greater force" if necessary.
Benajmin Netanyhau, the prime minister of Israel, said that his country will stay in southern Lebanon "as long as necessary to ensure the security of our communities in the north."
In Bahrain and Qatar, missile alerts sounded early on Thursday morning following a fresh wave of US airstrikes against Iran.
Iran's Health Ministry's head of public relations, Hossein Kermanpour, posted on X that strikes on Iran on Wednesday and Thursday killed fourteen people.
The Strait of Hormuz would only be opened under "Iranian arrangements," according to Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, on Thursday after a Middle East strike exchange between Tehran and Washington.
Winters are always tough on stray animals in most parts of the world. In the eastern Turkish city of Van, where subzero temperatures are the norms for winter, it is especially hard on helpless stray cats and dogs