Crisis en Oriente Medio en vivo: Trump dice que no está en absoluto preocupado por posibles crímenes de guerra a medida que se acerca su plazo

Israel's emergency services said three people were lightly injured on Tuesday after over 20 alerts sounded throughout the day, warning of incoming missiles from Iran or rocket fire from Lebanon.

In the coastal town of Nahariya, less than 10 kilometres from Israel's northern border with Lebanon, the Magen David Adom emergency service said it treated a woman approximately 20 years old “in mild condition with a head injury from debris thrown by the blastâ€, following rocket fire.

Paramedics also treated a 46-year-old man in the south of the country who was “in mild condition with injuries to the upper limbs from interceptor debrisâ€, as well as a 36-year-old man in the north “with a shrapnel injury to his lower limbsâ€.

The three were evacuated to hospitals, Magen David Adom said.

The White House denied Tuesday that remarks by vice-president JD Vance about military operations in Iran had contained any suggestion of a US nuclear strike against the Islamic republic.

After Vance said US forces have tools they “so far haven't decided to use†to enforce a dramatic ultimatum from president Donald Trump, the White House said on X: “Literally nothing @VP said here 'implies' this, you absolute buffoons.â€

The post was in response to one from an account associated with former vice president Kamala Harris that said Vance implied Trump “might use nuclear weapons.â€

Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, has called Donald Trump an “extremely sick person†in response to the president's recent post on Truth Social – in which he said “a whole civilization will tonight†if Iran fails to meet his 8pm ET deadline to reopen the strait of Hormuz.

“Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is,†Schumer added.

Other Democrats have slammed Trump's most recent comments, hours before he promises to follow through on his threat to target civilian infrastructure and power plants in Iran.

Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator who sits on the foreign relations committee, said that Trump's plan is to “murder thousands of innocent Iranians and hope for a civil war that somehow ends up with the strait of Hormuz reopeningâ€. Murphy also highlighted the global energy crisis that has spiralled since the war began and oil prices spiked.

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Lebanon's health ministry said Tuesday that the death toll in more than a month of war between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah had reached 1,530.

The toll includes 102 women and 130 children, as well as 57 heath workers, a ministry statement said, adding that 4,812 people have been wounded.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel struck on Tuesday railways and bridges in Iran “used by the Revolutionary Guardsâ€, after Iranian officials reported damage to at least two bridges and railway infrastructure.

“We are crushing the terror regime in Iran… with even greater vigour and with increasing force,†Netanyahu said in a video released by his office.

“Yesterday, our pilots destroyed transport aircraft and dozens of helicopters at an Iranian Air Force base. Today they struck the railways and bridges used by the Revolutionary Guards.â€

The oil and ‌gas crisis triggered by the blockade of the strait of Hormuz is “more serious than the ones in 1973, ​1979 and 2022 togetherâ€, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said, as Donald Trump's deadline for Iran to reopen the waterway approached on Tuesday.

Fatih Birol, the executive director of the IEA, told â Le Figaro newspaper that the impact of the Middle East conflict on the oil market was larger than the combined force of the twin oil shocks of the 1970s and the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Birol also said the countries most at risk were developing nations, ‌which â would suffer from higher oil and gas prices, higher food prices and a general acceleration of inflation, while European countries, Japan and Australia would also feel an impact.

Oil traded at more than $110 (£83) a barrel on Tuesday after Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight†unless Iran made a deal.

Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, was up 0.7% at $110.60 a barrel in early afternoon trading in Europe, with New York light crude up 2.5% to $115.17 a barrel.

Over at the Guardian's UK politics live blog, it appears that Downing Street is refusing to say out right that the UK will not allow the US to use to use British bases for American air attacks against Iran that are specifically targeting infrastracture like bridges or power stations.

When asked about a report for the i indicating that Britain will refuse to allow Donald Trump to use RAF bases for any strikes on Iranian bridges or power plants, a spokesperson said No 10 would not provide a “running commentary†on what the US was doing, including its use of British bases.

But the spokesperson added that “our position on this hasn't changed†and that the agreement in place for the US use of British bases was that it was for the “collective self-defence of the region, including US defensive operations to degrade missile sites and capabilities used to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuzâ€. However, the spokesperson declined to give details of how the government would ensure that UK bases were only used by the Americans for “defensive operationsâ€.

Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, warned Keir Starmer that by not drawing a hard line, he risks “letting British soil be used to commit war crimesâ€.

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The US has hit Kharg Island again ahead of Donald Trump's deadline, an AP source has reported.

Earlier Iran's Mehr news agency said US-Israeli strikes had hit the key Iranian oil export terminal.

The official said the US hit military targets on the island. The strikes came hours ahead of a deadline president Trump has set for Iran to capitulate to his demands or face a major attack.

He said Tuesday morning that “'whole civilization will die tonight†if Iran did not make a deal. Trump has threatened to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on the island.

US-Israeli strikes have hit the key Iranian oil export terminal of Kharg island, media reported Tuesday.

“The American-Zionist enemy has carried out several attacks on Kharg island, and several explosions have been heard there,†Iran's Mehr news agency reported.

According to an X post by journalist Barak Ravid of the news site Axios, citing a US official, the US carried out “strikes on military targets†on the island located off Iran's western coast.

US president Donald Trump once again warned Iran to make a deal on Tuesday, saying a “whole civilization will die tonight†if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict.

Writing on Truth Social, he said:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?

We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

Iranian officials reported damage to at least two bridges, railway infrastructure and a key highway on Tuesday as part of a wave of deadly US-Israeli airstrikes on infrastructure targets.

A bridge near the holy city of Qom and another carrying a railway line in the central city of Kashan were struck, according to regional officials quoted by state media.

Two people were killed and three were injured in Kashan, senior regional security official Akbar Salehi said, according to Iran's IRNA news agency.

A key highway in northern Iran connecting the main northern city of Tabriz with Tehran via Zanjan was also closed after a hit around 90 kilometres outside of Tabriz, an official told IRNA.

A Telegram channel of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the strike hit an overpass bridge.

The Mizan news agency also reported a strike on railway tracks in Karaj, outside Tehran, with images showing Red Crescent rescuers carrying an injured man on a stretcher.

• The deadline that Donald Trump set for reopening the strait of Hormuz fast approaches. The US president has again threatened to destroy Iran's bridges and power plants if Tehran did not meet his deadline of Tuesday 8pm ET (midnight Tuesday GMT) and said he was “not at all†concerned about that doing so could possibly constitute committing a war crime. “You know what's a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon,†he said.

• As the deadline draws nearer, the US and Iran are engaging in last-ditch talks, according to officials in Pakistan's Islamabad, which is acting as an intermediary for the indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran. Earlier, Iran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wanted a permanent end to the conflict.

• Three gunmen engaged in a shootout with Turkish police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. While their motive is still under investigation – Istanbul's governor told reporters that there have been no Israeli diplomatic staff at the consulate in Istanbul for two and a half years – Mustafa Ciftci, the Turkish minister of the interior, posted on X that one of the attackers had ties to “an organisation that exploits religionâ€. One attacker was killed and the other two were injured. Two policemen were also injured.

• The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Israeli forces struck a key petrochemical compound in Shiraz in southern Iran. The Guardian was not able to independently verify this claim. According to the IDF, this facility was one of the last remaining facilities that produced critical chemical components for explosives and materials for ballistic missiles.

• The Israeli military also on Tuesday warned the people of Iran via X on Tuesday morning not to use trains and be near railway lines “from this moment until 21:00 Iran timeâ€, saying that doing so “endangers your lifeâ€.

• Israel and the US struck 17 civilian targets on Tuesday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent said, in attacks that the humanitarian NGO have decried as war crimes.

• Nearly 3,600 people have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran since attacks began, including at least 1,665 civilians, the Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA) said. Of those numbers, at least 248 of those killed were children. At least 49 civilians were killed and 58 others were injured on Monday, according to HRANA, which recorded 573 attacks across 215 incidents in 20 provinces over that 24-hour period – the highest rate of attacks seen in the last ten days.

• In Lebanon, at least eight people were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes on the southern region, according to the state-run National News Agency. Although the Guardian could not independently verify these numbers, the Israeli military issued an alert on Monday warning residents of a number of villages in the area that the IDF planned to take strong action here.

With Donald Trump's deadline fast approaching, the two sides are in last-ditch talks, according to officials in Pakistan's Islamabad, which is acting as an intermediary for the indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran.

The fact that talks are still going on is a “big thingâ€, according to an official briefed on the dialogue, adding that “they have to find a wayâ€.

An Iranian official said that “more hopes are emergingâ€.

The Iranian ambassador in Islamabad, Reza Amiri Moghadam, said in a post on X: “Pakistan positive and productive endeavours in Good Will and Good Office to stop the war is approaching a critical, sensitive stage … Stay Tuned for moreâ€

Pakistan has offered to host talks between Iran and the United States, which could follow any ceasefire agreement.

Pakistani, Egyptian and Turkish diplomats are working to bridge the large gap between the demands of Tehran and Washington.

The Egyptian and Pakistani foreign ministers spoke on Tuesday. “Both leaders underscored the need for de-escalation and dialogue,†said Pakistan's foreign ministry. The Egyptian foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, also spoke with Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff.

Trump, who set a deadline of Tuesday night in Washington for an agreement, said on Monday that Iran's latest proposal, a 10-point plan, had shown some progress, but it was “not good enough†for him.

Tehran wants an end to the war, not just a ceasefire, so it does not reignite in a few months. One idea being floated is for the US Congress to ratify any agreement, so that it will not be so easy to restart the bombing of Iran.

The U.S. news website Axios reported that Trump's negotiating team, vice president JD Vance, Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner, think that he should try for a deal. However, it added that Israel, and the leaders of Saudi Arabia and UAE, are urging the U.S. leader against accepting a ceasefire. It also quoted a US official saying: “The president is the most bloodthirsty, like a mad dogâ€.

An unknown projectile struck a container vessel south of Iran's Kish Island, the UK Office of Maritime Trade Operations said on Tuesday.

The crew is safe and no environmental impact has been reported. The incident remains under investigation – it's still unclear who launched the projectile and whether the container vessel was the intended target.

Authorities have identified the three attackers who armed themselves with rifles and pistols and engaged police in a firefight near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Mustafa Ciftci, the Turkish minister of the interior, posted on X that one of the attackers had ties to “an organisation that exploits religionâ€. Two of the attackers were brothers, one of whom has a criminal record involving drug charges.

It's still unclear if the Israeli consulate was the attackers' target.