We’ve just received reports of a new wave of Iranian strikes across central Israel as Tehran responds to Israel’s continued bombardment of its military sites and other infrastructure.

And in the last few hours, US President Donald Trump has left the G7 summit in Canada early, with the White House confirming he has “important matters” to attend to back in Washington.

He took to his Truth Social platform not long after boarding Air Force One to say, despite comments by French President Emmanuel Macron, he did not leave the G7 to work on a ceasefire. “It certainly has nothing to do” with that and is “much bigger”, he says.

Here’s what else we’re watching this morning:

• Iran and Israel have traded fire for a fifth day, though attacks were less intense than before, our Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega reports
• Israel says several “military targets” in western Iran were hit in overnight attacks, including surface-to-surface missiles and drone storage sites
• The G7 has issued a statement urging a “de-escalation of hostilities” and calls Iran the “principle source of regional instability and terror”
• Heavy traffic can be seen in Tehran and queues are growing for petrol stations as residents evacuate the capital
• People in the city are questioning how to leave, with one resident writing online: “How can 10 million people evacuate Tehran?”

We’ve just received an update from Israel’s emergency services following the Iranian strikes that were just reported across the country.

It reports that five people were lightly injured by shrapnel at one of the impact sites in a bus parking lot in central Israel, a spokesman for Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom says.

No injuries were found at other sites, the spokesman adds.

The Israeli military has issued a new update, saying it is “possible to exit the protected area in several areas of the country”.

Rescue forces have been sent to places where reports of falling missiles have been received, it adds.

People are again asked to continue to follow the Home Front Command’s instructions.

Tom Bennett
Reporting from Jerusalem

At least one hit has been reported in central Israel.

We’ll bring you more on this when we get more details.

Tom Bennett
Reporting from Jerusalem

I’m hearing several booms and explosions from Jerusalem.

Colleagues in Tel Aviv heard similar sounds.

As we just reported, sirens are sounding off across Israel, signalling a new Iranian missile barrage.

Iran has launched a fresh wave of missiles at Israel, the Israel Defense Forces says.

Air raid alert sirens are sounding across the country and the IDF has urged residents in Israel to follow the instructions of the Home Front Command.

Donald Trump – who we’ve just seen board Air Force One – says he did not leave the G7 summit early to work on a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, he says French President Emmanuel Macron was “wrong” when he earlier said Trump was returning to Washington to engage in ceasefire talks.

“He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington,” Trump says. “But it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that.”

Trump does not elaborate on his reasons for leaving, but ends his post with “Stay Tuned!”

Speaking at the G7 summit in Alberta late on Monday, the French president said Trump’s departure was positive, given the objective to get a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.

“There is indeed an offer to meet and exchange. An offer was made especially to get a ceasefire and to then kick-start broader discussions,” Macron told reporters.

Earlier, Axios reported the White House was discussing a possibility of a meeting between US and Iranian officials this week to discuss a nuclear deal.

Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem

Iranian media reported explosions and heavy air defence fire in Tehran in the early hours of the morning.

Overnight, Iran launched two waves of missiles in response to the Israeli attacks, setting off air raid alerts in parts of central and northern Israel.

The attacks were less intense than the previous nights, and there were no reports of direct impacts or casualties.

Speaking to the London-based Iranian International television channel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had significantly damaged Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missiles programmes – but that his forces still needed more time.

He again hinted at regime change, saying the campaign was giving Iranians the chance to topple the Islamic Republic.

Trump’s trip cut short amid an eventful G7 summitpublished at 06:22 British Summer Time

Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent, at the G7

Donald Trump’s visit to Canada and the G7 summit turned out to be a short one.

While those of us in his press pool were holding in vans, awaiting the short drive with the motorcade to the leaders “family photo” and dinner at a nearby resort golf course, we were informed of a change of plans.

The president would be heading back to Washington.

A few minutes later, in a post on X, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told us that it was because of “what’s going on in the Middle East”.

It had already been an eventful day here in Kananaskis.

We had multiple chances to interact with the president, and he was adamant that Iran’s nuclear programme must be fully dismantled – and that the nation was not winning its war against Israel.

According to Fox News, he has told his National Security Council to be ready to meet. He will have all the secure communications he needs aboard Air Force One.

Donald Trump is preparing to leave Calgary and return to Washington, after being seen boarding Air Force One just moments ago.

He boarded the presidential plane without speaking to reporters.

As we reported earlier, the US president left the G7 summit early “because of what’s going on in the Middle East”, his press secretary wrote in a post on X.

He has asked the National Security Council to convene in the Situation Room in Washington, but the US is not joining Israel’s offensive on Iran, US officials said.

Before leaving the summit, Trump signed a joint statement on the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, which described Tehran as the “principal source of regional instability and terror”.

James Landale
Diplomatic correspondent

Donald Trump’s intentions remain unclear.

His press secretary said he left the summit early because of what’s going on in the Middle East. The President himself said merely it was “very important” he return to Washington for what he called “big stuff”.

On social media earlier he’d urged Iranians immediately to evacuate Tehran. This set hares running. There was speculation US forces might join Israel’s attacks on Iran. This was firmly denied by officials at the White House and the Pentagon.

As Mr Trump left Canada, he and other G7 leaders published a statement about the war that did not call for a ceasefire.

They said Israel had a right to defend itself and Iran was a source of terror that should not have a nuclear weapon. They called only for a resolution of the Iranian crisis that led to a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, a diplomatic compromise that preserved G7 unity but watered down its impact.

A news editor and another employee of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) have died after the company’s headquarters was hit in an Israeli strike on Monday, Iranian state media IRNA is reporting.

Iranian media previously reported that at least one staff member was killed.

Dramatic footage from a live broadcast showed blasts being heard and studio lights going out, as debris fell over the studio.

IRIB resumed broadcasting hours after the attack.

Read this for more information on the strike.

US President Donald Trump has reportedly vetoed a plan by Israel to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But in an interview with ABC News a few hours ago Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that he was considering it. An assassination of Khamenei would “end the conflict” and prevent nuclear war, he said.

Where does this leave Khamenei, Iran’s long-ruling leader who has repeatedly asserted Iran’s right to develop its nuclear programme?

“I think regime survival is his number one goal,” Jeffrey Feldman, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, who has met the Supreme leader, told BBC’s Newshour.

“So if regime survival is going to require him to offer some concessions … to sit down with the ‘devil’, as he describe the United States, I think that he would be willing to do that.”

But, Feldman added, Khamenei could also stay the course, and the war may “incentivise Iran to race for a bomb”.

Which option the Iranian leader will choose is “one of the big questions” looming overhead as the conflict continues, he said.

Tom Bateman
US State Department correspondent

Amid much second-guessing of Trump’s intentions, one extraordinary comment stands out in his social media posts on Monday night.

“Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” he wrote at the end of a message berating Iran’s leaders for, he says, not signing a nuclear deal.

The message is currently pinned to the top of his Truth Social feed.

After 20 months of war in the Middle East, so-called evacuation, or displacement, notices have become a new norm. Iran issued an “evacuation” order for Israeli news channel staff on Monday after Israel bombed Iran’s state broadcaster. Israel has issued many hundreds of notices to populations in Gaza and in Lebanon to leave their homes during the fighting there.

Israel argues the orders are to protect civilians ahead of strikes on militant groups but the UN has condemned “chaotic mass evacuation orders” that amount to forcible transfer into ever shrinking areas.

International law and the Fourth Geneva Convention set out a series of specific conditions for evacuations in warfare, detailing safeguards and describing when an evacuation order ceases to be legitimate.

As for the American president’s message, it’s impossible to see how saying an entire city of up to 17 million people – if his message applies to Tehran and and the greater metropolitan area, which is unclear – should immediately leave their homes can fit with the established norms.

US President Donald Trump has left the G7 summit in Canada early.

But before that, he did sign the G7’s joint statement on the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Iran, despite earlier indications that he would reject a summit statement on the conflict, as reported by the BBC’s US partner CBS.

Trump is now flying out of the G7 Summit in Canada, AFP reports.

As we reported earlier, the US President was set to cut his trip short, heading back to Washington a day early to handle the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran after wrapping up some formalities at the G7.

Ghoncheh Habibiazad
BBC Persian

More and more people are trying to flee Tehran, but traffic is still very much packed, just as it has been over the last few days.

A family I know started their journey from Tehran and arrived 14 hours later on a journey that would normally take three hours. They said they were “lucky” to have finally made it out. The same feeling was shared by many others I spoke to, who managed to escape Tehran, but were worried about friends and family who hadn’t been able to pack and go.

“The roads are literally blocked, so it’s rather irrational to just go and get stuck in the traffic jam for now,” a friend told me tonight when I asked if they had left Tehran yet.

First, it was Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday asking the residents of part of Tehran to leave, then US President Donald Trump told “everyone” to evacuate the capital tonight.

Every random Iranian group chat on messaging apps that I’m a member of has turned into a place for political talk and telling others about locations that have been targeted in the country.

“I’m so exhausted, both physically and emotionally. I haven’t slept for four nights now,” someone said in the group chat for a community of video game streamers. Another asked “How can 10 million people evacuate Tehran?”

That question went unanswered in the chat.

We’re getting photos taken overnight in Tehran showing heavy traffic heading west out of the Iranian capital on the Karaj-Chalus road.

US President Donald Trump earlier wrote on social media that “everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran”.

Overnight, Israel also issued an evacuation warning for north-eastern parts of Tehran.

The US Embassy in Jerusalem has asked US government employees to “continue to shelter in place in and near their residences until further notice”.

“The US Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel,” its statement said.

The US Embassy in Jerusalem also said it would be closed on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Chinese embassy has urged its citizens to leave Israel as soon as possible, via land crossings to neighbouring Jordan.

In case you missed this a short while ago, China’s embassy in Israel on Tuesday urged its citizens to leave the country “as soon as possible”, as Israel and Iran continue to trade heavy strikes.

“The Chinese mission in Israel reminds Chinese nationals to leave the country as soon as possible via land border crossings, on the precondition that they can guarantee their personal safety,” the embassy said in a statement on WeChat.

“It is recommended to depart in the direction of Jordan,” it added.

Beijing’s embassy said on Tuesday the conflict was “continuing to escalate”.

“Much civilian infrastructure has been damaged, civilian casualties are on the rise, and the security situation is becoming more serious,” it said.