Strikes, attacks, interceptions, deployments, and security incidents.
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Qatar's Defense Ministry said a drone hit a cargo ship arriving from Abu Dhabi in Qatari waters, causing a limited fire and no injuries, and Qatar called for an investigation. Kuwait said hostile drones entered its airspace at dawn and the UAE said it intercepted two drones launched from Iran; the UAE blamed Iran, and nobody immediately claimed the attacks.
The UAE Defense Ministry said it engaged two ballistic missiles and three drones launched from Iran, and debris moderately wounded three people. It said it has engaged 551 ballistic missiles, 29 cruise missiles and 2,263 drones since the war began, and the government says 10 civilians have been killed in the UAE.
CENTCOM said Iran fired missiles and drones and sent small boats at the destroyers Truxtun, Rafael Peralta and Mason as they transited the strait, none were hit, and US 'self-defense strikes' hit missile and drone launch sites and command nodes; US officials said Bandar Abbas and Qeshm were targeted. Iran said the US first attacked an Iranian tanker and struck coastal areas, and a local official said 10 sailors were wounded and five missing; Trump called the strikes a 'love tap' and said the ceasefire was still in effect.
Israel struck a building in the Haret Hreik and Ghobeiri area of Beirut's southern suburbs, the first strike there in about a month, and Netanyahu and Katz said it targeted the commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Force. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that Radwan operations commander Malek Ballout was killed, and Israel's army said the next day it had killed the Radwan commander, whom it named as Ahmad Balut, and two other Hezbollah officials.
The UAE Defense Ministry said its air defenses were again intercepting ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones launched from Iran. Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters said its forces had carried out no missile or drone operations against the UAE and warned against any action from Emirati soil, while the Foreign Ministry said Iran's actions were aimed 'exclusively' at the US.
Hegseth called Project Freedom 'separate and distinct' from the war and said 'right now, the ceasefire certainly holds', while Gen. Dan Caine said Iran had attacked US forces more than 10 times and fired on commercial ships nine times since April 8, below the threshold for resuming major combat. Rubio said that evening that Operation Epic Fury was 'concluded'.
The UAE Defense Ministry said it engaged 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles and four drones from Iran, the first attack on the country since the ceasefire; a drone started a fire at the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone and three Indian nationals were hurt. Oman said a workers' building in Musandam was hit and two people wounded, without naming the source, and the UAE said it reserves the right to respond.
Iran's army said it fired cruise missile, rocket and drone 'warning shots' near US destroyers approaching the strait, and CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper said Iran had launched cruise missiles, drones and small boats at protected ships and that the US destroyed six boats. Iranian media said US forces had fired on civilian cargo boats, killing five people, and Trump warned Iran would be 'blown off the face of the Earth' if it attacked US ships.
The State Department approved about $8.6 billion in weapons sales, including $4.01 billion in Patriot missile replenishment for Qatar, a $2.5 billion air-defense command system for Kuwait and laser-guided rocket kits for Israel and the UAE, bypassing the usual congressional review by citing an emergency.
Israeli attacks killed at least 28 people across southern Lebanon on Thursday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. Northern Command chief Rafi Milo said troops were 10 km inside Lebanon clearing an area of 60 villages and would not pull back; Israeli media said a Hezbollah drone wounded 12 soldiers at Shomera in northern Israel.
Acting Pentagon comptroller Jules Hurst told the House Armed Services Committee, at Hegseth's first hearing since the war began, that the conflict had cost about $25 billion, mostly for munitions, with a supplemental request to follow. CBS later reported that US officials put the true cost closer to $50 billion once damaged equipment and bases are counted.
Senior lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran could seize ships in response to the US blockade and that its 'Yemeni allies' were ready to block the Bab el-Mandeb, and Press TV quoted a security source warning of 'practical and unprecedented military action' if the blockade continued.
Israel's military told residents of seven villages north of the Litani, including Arnoun, Yahmar and Kafr Tibnit, to leave ahead of strikes, alleging Hezbollah truce violations; Lebanon's Health Ministry said Israeli attacks that day killed 14 people, including two children and two women, and put the toll since March 2 at 2,509. The Israeli army said one of its soldiers was killed in southern Lebanon, and Netanyahu said Hezbollah's violations were 'dismantling' the ceasefire.
Netanyahu’s office said he instructed the army “to vigorously attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon” after Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks on northern Israel and troops in southern Lebanon that caused no injuries. Earlier that day Israeli strikes killed at least six people Israel said were militants.
Kuwait’s army said two explosive-laden drones guided by fibre-optic cables and launched from Iraq struck two northern border posts that morning, causing damage but no casualties. Iraq’s prime minister ordered an investigation, and the GCC condemned the attack “in the strongest possible terms.”
Trump posted that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill” any boat, however small, putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz with “no hesitation,” and ordered minesweeping to continue at a “tripled up level.” Hegseth said any new Iranian mine laying would violate the ceasefire.
Hezbollah said bombs its fighters planted exploded under an Israeli convoy of eight tanks passing Deir Siryan on Sunday afternoon, destroying four. It was the group’s first claimed attack since the 10-day ceasefire took effect; the Israeli military did not immediately comment.
The Israeli military published its first map of a new deployment line in southern Lebanon, running 5 to 10 km from the border and enclosing dozens of emptied villages, and said five divisions and naval forces were operating south of it to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure. The line, also called a “Yellow Line,” was not in the ceasefire terms published by the U.S.
Trump said Iran’s firing on ships in Hormuz was a “Total Violation” of the ceasefire, announced U.S. negotiators would be in Pakistan on Monday, and warned that if Iran rejected the U.S. deal the U.S. would “knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran.” Iran’s IRNA denied Tehran had agreed to a second round, citing “excessive demands” and the blockade.
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said the ceasefire “cannot be one-sided,” that fighters would remain “with their hands on the trigger” and respond to Israeli violations, and dismissed the ceasefire text published by the U.S. State Department, which gives Israel a right of self-defence, as “an insult to our country.”
Lebanon’s National News Agency said Israeli warplanes carried out two consecutive strikes on the Qasmiyeh Bridge over the Litani River, the last remaining route between Tyre and Sidon, destroying it. The UN estimated 100,000 to 150,000 civilians remained south of the river.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video message that Israeli troops were about to take the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil and that he had instructed the army to widen and extend eastward the security zone it holds in southern Lebanon, while negotiating with Lebanon on disarming Hezbollah.
Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said Pakistani forces, including fighter and support aircraft, arrived at King Abdulaziz Air Base under the two countries’ September defence pact, which treats an attack on either as an attack on both. The base was repeatedly hit by drones and missiles during the Iran war.
Kuwait's air defences engaged drones targeting "vital facilities" on Thursday night and KUNA said a National Guard site suffered material damage; the Foreign Ministry blamed Iran and its proxies, and the army later said it dealt with seven drones from Iran in 24 hours that targeted National Guard-linked facilities, injuring personnel. The IRGC denied attacking Gulf states on Thursday and said any such strike was "the work of the Zionist enemy or America."
Trump wrote that all U.S. ships, aircraft and personnel, with additional ammunition and weaponry, would "remain in place in, and around, Iran" until a real agreement is fully complied with, warning that otherwise "the 'Shootin' Starts,' bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before." He repeated that the terms meant "NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS" and a Strait of Hormuz "OPEN & SAFE."
Hours after the U.S.-Iran ceasefire was announced, Israeli strikes hit several neighbourhoods in central Beirut without warning during the afternoon rush hour, as well as the southern suburbs, the south and the Bekaa; the military said 50 jets dropped 160 munitions on more than 100 Hezbollah targets in 10 minutes, its largest coordinated strike of the war. Lebanon's civil defence counted 254 dead and 1,165 wounded that evening, and the Health Ministry said on April 9 that more than 300 had been killed.
Kuwait's Defence Ministry said it intercepted 28 Iranian drones from 05:00 GMT in "an intense wave," with some causing significant damage to oil facilities, three power stations and desalination plants; Iran's refining company said its Lavan Island refinery was hit at 06:30 GMT, starting a fire without casualties, without naming the attacker. The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain also reported attacks after the ceasefire announcement.
A U.S. official said the military had halted all offensive operations against Iran while keeping defensive measures in place; Israel's military said it had also ceased fire against Iran but was pressing on in Lebanon, and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it would suspend attacks for two weeks. At a Pentagon briefing, Hegseth said Iran "begged" for the ceasefire and forces had been "locked and loaded" to hit bridges, power plants and Kharg, while Gen. Dan Caine said the joint force stood ready to resume combat.
A U.S. official said American forces struck, and in some cases restruck, military targets on Kharg Island, the hub for most of Iran's crude exports, in overnight attacks that again avoided oil infrastructure, after Iran's Mehr agency reported explosions. Vance said the strikes did not signal a change in strategy and the U.S. would not hit energy targets until Iran either made an acceptable proposal or failed to.
The IDF's Persian-language account told Iranians to stay off trains and away from railway lines until 9 p.m. Tehran time; a strike then hit the Yahya Abad railway bridge in Kashan, killing two, Iran's Mehr agency said, and the IDF said it destroyed sections of eight bridges in Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Kashan and Qom that it said were used to move weapons. Netanyahu said Israel attacked railway lines and bridges "used by the Revolutionary Guards."