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Attacks on various fronts in the Middle East war continued on Friday as oil prices rose due to the near-ending conflict...

Life |Iran threatened "more serious attacks than ever".

Attacks on various fronts in the Middle East war continue this Friday, and oil prices continue to rise as the conflict continues to enter its fifth week.Israel condemned on Friday a new attack by Iran on its territory, after Tehran launched about 30 missiles the day before, at the same time as the beginning of the Jewish Passover celebrations.After threatening to attack "very severely".

At least 1 person died and 4 were injured in an attack on a gas plant in Abu Dhabi

At least one person was killed and four others injured in the attack on a gas plant in Habshan, Abu Dhabi on Friday, due to falling fragments after air defenses were intercepted, official sources said.

According to a statement from the press office of the government in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the action - the origin and form of which was not identified - "caused the death of an Egyptian while evacuating the site, as well as four minor injuries: two Pakistanis and two Egyptians".

The death brings to a dozen deaths in the UAE - most of them migrant workers - since the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran on February 28.

The US rescues one of the two pilots of the fighter jet shot down by Iran

This Friday, US forces rescued one of the two crew members of a US fighter jet shot down by Iran, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.

Shortly after Washington launched a mission to rescue the two crew members on board, he managed to recover at least one of them, who is still alive and receiving medical attention, two sources told the American broadcaster.

Iran shot down an American soldier

Iran shot down a US fighter jet on its territory for the first time since the start of the war in the Middle East, US officials and Tehran-linked media outlets told several US media outlets this Friday.

The exact location of the fighter jet, believed to be an Air Force F-15E, is unknown, but media outlets such as the Washington Post believe the incident took place in southern Iran.

Israel bombed Beirut and Tehran simultaneously.

The Israeli army this Friday announced the simultaneous bombing of both Beirut and Tehran, the Iranian capital, now the 35th consecutive day of a war launched together with the United States.

In addition to the attacks in Beirut, the air force launched a "massive wave of attacks" on Iranian state facilities in Tehran, a military statement today did not specify which facilities were bombed.

In another statement, Israel's military said it had carried out "over 70 strikes" against western and central Iran in the past 24 hours, listing the towers and drones it fired at.

Maloney sails to Persian Gulf to strengthen energy union

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni began a "surprise" visit to the Arabian Gulf on Friday to promote national energy security amid the crisis that erupted after the start of the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The president, the first Western leader to travel to the region since the conflict began on February 28, has already landed in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea city of Jeddah, the Italian government confirmed, without giving further details.

The tour will last for two days and will also pass through the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, government sources said.The mission aims to "strengthen national energy security" amid the war between Iran and the United States and Israel.

At least three defenders were injured in another explosion in one of Lebanon's southern regions

At least three members of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were injured on Friday in an explosion at their base in Odaise, south of the country, after dozens of peacekeepers have been killed in recent days in the conflict.

"This afternoon, three peacekeepers were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion at a UN position near Odais. All are being transported to hospital," mission spokeswoman Candice Ordiel said in a statement, adding that the cause of the explosion was not yet known.

Ardiel recalled that this new incident occurred during a "difficult" week for the soldiers deployed in the central UNIFIL region, who lost three members in two incidents on Sunday and Monday.

Irán asegura que ha derribado un caza de EEUU y que Washington intenta rescatar a los pilotos

Iranian television reported on Friday that the army had shot down an F-15E fighter jet that was battling a US fighter jet in the south of the country and that they had launched an operation to rescue the two pilots.

"Iran shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle," Iran's state TV IRIB reported.The network showed images of two American helicopters searching for the pilots of the downed fighter.

US media outlet Axios reported that a source familiar with the situation confirmed the demolition and rescue operation, although US Central Command (Centcom) has yet to comment.

Russia and Egypt demanded an immediate end to the Iran war from Moscow

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Egyptian counterpart Bedr Abdelaty called for an immediate end to hostilities in the Middle East at a meeting in Moscow on Friday.

Both Russia and Egypt have called for a return to the political and diplomatic process without exception, guaranteeing the security interests of all states in the region.

Although it is in the fifth year of the war with Ukraine, the Russian side has called the current war with Iran "the biggest problem of the present time" from the "unacceptable aggression of the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran."

Israel reopens its largest natural gas field for the first time since the start of the war.

Israel resumed operations at the country's largest gas field, the Leviathan natural gas platform - which also exports gas to Egypt - after a 33-day shutdown since the start of the attack on Iran on February 28.

“After assessing the situation and assessing all relevant aspects, the decision has been made at this stage to relaunch the Leviathan platform,” Israel's Ministry of Energy and Transport said late Thursday in a statement shared by an EFE spokesperson.

Natural gas supplies to the local economy will be maintained and increased by integrating an "additional platform" into its production system, operated by the NewMed and Chevron groups, according to the ministry.

The Israeli army will start demolishing houses and villages in southern Lebanon

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz announced this Friday that the army will begin demolishing homes in southern Lebanese villages that Tel Aviv considers "outposts" of the Shiite group Hezbollah.

“Houses in villages near the border in Lebanon, which in fact serve as Hezbollah outposts, will be demolished following the model of Rafah and Khan Yunis in Gaza, to eliminate the threat they pose to the Israeli community,” Katz said in a message posted on his channel.

The minister stated that the Israeli army will maintain "security control" over the area south of the Litani River (which represents approximately 8% of the neighboring country's territory) and will not allow the return of the more than 600,000 evacuated residents "until the safety of the citizens of northern Israel is guaranteed."

Attacks by Iran and Hezbollah are concentrated in northern Israel

The attacks began this Friday.which falls on the second day of the Easter holiday.by Iran and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.gathered in northern Israelwhich Iranian missiles caused the firedestroy a lot of thingsand at least one person was injured.According to emergency services

According to the statement of the Israel Fire Department, fragments of these explosives destroyed houses and burned a number of parked cars in various areas of Haifa and other cities in the Galilee in northern Israel.

The volley, the second shelling by Iran this day, caused at least one minor injury, MDA emergency services reported, including a 79-year-old man who was taken to hospital by paramedics after being shot in the hand.

Operations at the gas plant in Abu Dhabi were suspended due to the attack

According to official sources, the operation of the Habshan gas plant was suspended on Friday due to an attack on the infrastructure, which caused a fire and there were no casualties.

According to a brief press release issued by the government media office in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the authorities of the emirate indicated that they are responding to an incident caused by the explosion at the gas plant in Habshan, after "later they intervened in the air defense system."

He confirmed that operations were “suspended while authorities deal with the fire” and that no injuries were reported.

The ship of the French CMA CGM shipping company has successfully left the Strait of Hormuz

A container ship of the French shipping company CMA CGM has safely left the Strait of Hormuz and is now in the Gulf of Oman, according to data published this Friday on the Maritime Traffic website.

This is the small container ship CMA CGM Kribi, which sails under the flag of Malta and, in the maritime traffic file, appears as "French owner" and as cargo type "risk A (high)".Shipping company CMA CGM has not yet commented on the matter.

On March 11, the executive director of CMA CGM, Rodolphe Saade, said that about fifteen of his ships were blocked at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz and announced to the newspaper Le Figaro that he was establishing a "new supply corridor" by road and rail, to prevent disruption in the global oil trade and trade in other key products.

Iran's military vowed to carry out "the most devastating attack ever" after the bridge bombing

Iran's military warned on Friday, after bombing a bridge under construction in the Alborz region, that attacks on these infrastructures or power plants would trigger "massive" attacks not only on the United States and Israel, but also on their allies.

"Any attack on Iran's bridges, electricity or electrical infrastructure will lead to an attack not only on all US and Israeli targets in the region and the occupied territories, but also on the main US facilities allied with the host countries, more severe and destructive than before," said Khatam al Anbiya Central Headquarters Lieutenant Colonel Ebrarihim.

In addition, he reiterated that "countries where US bases are located must force the withdrawal of US forces if they want to remain secure."At least eight people were killed and nearly a hundred wounded this morning in several US airstrikes in this northern Iranian province next to the capital.

At least 8 dead and 95 injured in Alborz (Iran).

At least 8 people were killed and 95 civilians were injured as a result of airstrikes carried out by the United States in Iran's Alborz province, local media and Iran's Revolutionary Guards-related agency Tasnim reported this Thursday.

For its part, the Iranian Red Crescent announced that it had "deployed rescue teams in the attacked areas" and noted that "the American and Israeli attacks were concentrated near the Azimieh neighborhood of Karachi.One of the targets of this attack was the B1 bridge, the longest in the Middle East."

Trump says "they haven't even begun to destroy what's left of Iran"

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US Armed Forces "have not yet begun to destroy what is left of Iran" and asked Tehran to "quickly" do what it "knows" must do to end the war.

"The leaders of the new government know what needs to be done, and it needs to be done quickly!" In a message published on Truth Social, a White House official warned that the next attack on infrastructure will be "bridges, and later, power plants."

The statement, which coincides with another a few hours earlier, followed a similar line in an effort to force Iran to reach an agreement to end the conflict in the Middle East, which erupted after the United States and Israel launched an attack on Tehran on February 28.

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