Iran war live: US attack kills Iranian couple, toddler on Qeshm Island

By Zaid Sabah, Heba Habib and Edna Mohamed

Published On 30 Jul 202630 Jul 2026

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• US forces have bombed Iran, striking a residential building on Qeshm Island and killing a couple and their two-year-old child.
• Explosions were also heard on Kish Island, in Bushehr and in four locations in Khuzestan province, the heart of Iran’s oil industry.
• Iraq condemns US-Saudi strikes on the country, with the Popular Mobilisation Forces saying 20 of its fighters were killed, while 32 others were wounded. Four Iranians were also killed.
• Israeli forces kill two Palestinians and wound more than a dozen in attacks on Gaza, despite the US-brokered ceasefire.

• 14m ago

  (06:50 GMT)

  Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex faces surgical overload with 11 theatres for 5,000-plus operations

  Health authorities say Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex is “under huge operational pressure”, with doctors performing more than 5,065 surgeries in the first half of 2026.

  In a statement, the Ministry of Health said the figure represents a “double challenge” for the hospital as it only has 11 functional operating rooms and 735 beds to handle hundreds of incoming cases.

  Of the total figure, 4,234 were scheduled procedures that faced waiting-list backlogs, while 831 were emergency interventions requiring immediate response, it said.

  The World Health Organization has meanwhile warned that only 17 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain even partially functional, with Nasser, Al-Shifa, and Al-Amal among the few major referral facilities still operating .

  The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Abu Salmiya said  on Wednesday that the health system in the Strip is sliding toward “complete collapse”. He said that hospitals are operating at an occupancy rate exceeding 130 percent.

  

  A Palestinian girl wounded in an Israeli strike on a tent, according to medics, receives medical treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip [FILE:Haseeb Alwazee/Reuters]
• 19m ago

  (06:45 GMT)

  

  Death toll from Israeli air strikes on Gaza rises to six

  Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that the death toll from Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight has risen to six, with at least 25 others wounded.

  We will bring you more as soon as we have it.

• 14m ago

  (06:50 GMT)

  Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex faces surgical overload with 11 theatres for 5,000-plus operations

  Health authorities say Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex is “under huge operational pressure”, with doctors performing more than 5,065 surgeries in the first half of 2026.

  In a statement, the Ministry of Health said the figure represents a “double challenge” for the hospital as it only has 11 functional operating rooms and 735 beds to handle hundreds of incoming cases.

  Of the total figure, 4,234 were scheduled procedures that faced waiting-list backlogs, while 831 were emergency interventions requiring immediate response, it said.

  The World Health Organization has meanwhile warned that only 17 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain even partially functional, with Nasser, Al-Shifa, and Al-Amal among the few major referral facilities still operating .

  The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Abu Salmiya said  on Wednesday that the health system in the Strip is sliding toward “complete collapse”. He said that hospitals are operating at an occupancy rate exceeding 130 percent.

  

  A Palestinian girl wounded in an Israeli strike on a tent, according to medics, receives medical treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip [FILE:Haseeb Alwazee/Reuters]
• 19m ago

  (06:45 GMT)

  

  Death toll from Israeli air strikes on Gaza rises to six

  Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that the death toll from Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight has risen to six, with at least 25 others wounded.

  We will bring you more as soon as we have it.