The UN Refugee Agency warns that Israeli and US attacks on Iran have displaced more than 3 million people in nearly three weeks, affecting up to 1 million households.
Iranians are fleeing the capital and major cities for northern areas, while commercial flights remain suspended and airspace closed.
The US and Israel say they are targeting Iranian leaders and military infrastructure, but Iran reports thousands of civilian sites have been hit.
Meanwhile, Israeli operations in Lebanon have displaced over 1 million people, representing about 19 percent of the country's population, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Al Jazeera's Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff explains.

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"The United States is run by an Epstein class. Israel is a safe haven for pedophiles. There is no world in which the United States and Israel has any moral authority to act on behalf of women."

🎧 On #TheTake, Malika Bilal speaks with Hoda Katebi about the US strike on Iranian schoolchildren in Minab, and why women and girls are the first targets in this war.

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In this episode of This is America, hosted by Anna Burns-Francis, Al Jazeera's special coverage from Washington DC examines whether the war on Iran serves "America First" or "Israel First" interests. With President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking almost daily, analysts question whose objectives are driving the conflict—particularly after Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged the US acted knowing Israel would attack first.
The programme features former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy, who argues Netanyahu sees a "golden opportunity" to drag the US into his broader regional war, aiming for "greater Israel domination" and regime collapse in Iran, indifferent to consequences for Gulf states or America. Levy notes this strategy has broad Israeli establishment support, transcending Netanyahu's personal political needs.
A panel with former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney and Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Ariel Cohen debates US-Israel dynamics. Sedney contends Netanyahu has "huge influence" over Trump, who he calls "irrational" and "subject to manipulation." Cohen counters that the US remains the senior partner, with Trump focused on China and using the war to defang Iran—degrading its nuclear and missile programs—while acknowledging midterm election pressures may push Trump to end it sooner than Israel wants.
The episode highlights the resignation of top counterterrorism official Joe Kent, who wrote Iran posed "no imminent threat" and that the US started the war "due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby." Media coverage from Axios to the Wall Street Journal reflects growing questions about divergent US-Israel endgames, with conservative commentators like Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens amplifying the "Israel First" critique online.

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Israel has attacked a building in Bashoura, a neighbourhood in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, with a blast and smoke rising over the area shortly after Israel issued a forced evacuation order for the site.
The attack was part of a deadly wave of Israeli strikes across Lebanon that killed 56 people and wounded dozens of others on Wednesday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, with raids stretching from the capital through southern and eastern parts of the country, a devastating front in the wider United States-Israeli war against Iran embroiling the region.

Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports from Beirut.

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Ross Harrison, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, told Al Jazeera that while Iran’s system was “built for resilience”, it may not have been designed to absorb this scale of attack.

He said Tehran had learned from past state collapses and created an “institutionally centric as opposed to personally eccentric” system to withstand pressure. But he warned that Israel is now “taking their strategy that they used to use with non-state actors, Hamas and Hezbollah … and applying it to a country that’s basically 10 times their size, and a country where there were diplomatic paths available”.

Meanwhile, Daniel Levy, former Israeli negotiator and president of the US/Middle East Project, is joining Al Jazeera’s live from London.

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Iranians in Tehran burned effigies of Israeli PM Netanyahu and US President Trump as crowds gathered to commemorate the victims of the US strike on the warship IRIS Dena.

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Iran has carried out its threatened retaliation, with five ballistic missiles fired at Qatar. The country's Defence Ministry confirmed its forces intercepted four missiles, but one struck the Ras Laffan Industrial City—home to the world's largest LNG production facility—causing a fire. Civil defence teams are working to contain the blaze. Qatar Energy later confirmed extensive damage at the complex, with all workers safe and no injuries reported. Qatar's foreign ministry condemned the "brutal Iranian targeting" as an escalatory act pushing the region "towards the abyss." In Saudi Arabia, four ballistic missiles were intercepted over Riyadh, with debris falling across the city but no reported casualties. The attacks came as Gulf foreign ministers gathered in Riyadh for emergency talks on security coordination. Iran had earlier issued evacuation warnings for facilities including the UAE's Al Hosn gas field, Saudi Arabia's Jubail petrochemical complex and Samref refinery, and Qatar's Mesaieed complex.

Al Jazeera's Victoria Gatenby reports from Doha.

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Relentless US and Israeli attacks on Iran - top figures killed with thousands of air-strikes across the country.
Iran has retaliated, hitting Israel and Gulf neighbours, targeting energy facilities and supply routes.
So what are Iran's options now?

Presenter: Imran Khan

Guests:
Elijah Magnier -- Military and political analyst who specialises in wars in the Middle East

Setareh Sadeqi -- Assistant Professor in the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran

Mehran Kamrava -- Iranian Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

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