At least two dead outside Israeli Consulate in Istanbul: Live

At least two attackers were killed and one was seriously injured in an extended gun battle between police and assailants directly outside the building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, according to media reports and Reuters video.

Reuters video showed police officers pulling out guns and taking cover as shots rang out for at least 10 minutes. One person was covered in blood.

Other footage obtained by Reuters showed an apparent attacker moving among parked white police and security buses and firing over several minutes with an automatic rifle and handgun. Two bodies lay on nearby streets and grassy areas.

Media reported that two police officers had been injured in the incident, which occurred immediately outside a tower where the Israeli consulate is located in Istanbul’s financial district.

Since the Hamas-Israel war began in 2023, a heavily armed police presence has been maintained in the area near the Israeli consulate.

A source with knowledge of the matter said there were no Israeli diplomats stationed in Turkey at present.

The IDF today issued a chilling warning to Iranians, telling the nation’s citizens to stay away from all trains and train lines.

It said via its Persian-language account on X: ‘For the sake of your security, we kindly request that from this moment until 21:00 Iran time, you refrain from using and travelling by train throughout Iran’.

‘Your presence on trains and near railway lines endangers your life’.

The warning comes several hours before the deadline for Trump’s deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Turkey’s interior ministry said that two of the three attackers in the shooting at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul were brothers.

The UAE today said its air defences are engaging Iranian drones and missiles.

The nation’s defence ministry said the sound of explosions across the country were being caused by air defences targeting ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones.

Airports across Europe are running out of fuel, amid the global oil crisis caused by the US and Israel’s war with Iran.

At Brindisi Airport in southern Italy, kerosene will not be available until at midday on Wednesday at the earliest.

Others in Italy have introduced fuel rationing. In Reggio Calabria, a maximum fuel quota has been introduced, while in Pescara, only a single tanker with limited capacity is available.

Israel’s health ministry said that 133 people were hospitalised across the country between 7am yesterday and 7am today.

Of these 133 people, five are in a moderate condition, one is in a critical condition and 127 are in a mild condition.

Iran has attacked a petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail industrial city, located in the Eastern province.

The Saudi government communications office, state oil giant Aramco and its petrochemicals subsidiary SABIC did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters.

Iranian musician Ali Ghamsari has launched a sit-in protest at the Damavand power plant in Tehran.

He said it was in response to Trump’s threats to attack Iran’s power plants if Tehran does not agree to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran said today that the Strait of Hormuz was a strategic asset that it vowed to keep fighting for.

Government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said the waterway is ‘a bestowed advantage that we must make full use of.’

She added that Iran has done well so far in resisting militarily superior enemies, adding: ‘Our strength is that we have resisted 10 times more than they expected.

‘We will resist for as long as necessary.’