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Morning update Good Morning Middle East Eye readers, If you are just joining us, here are key developments from across the region and beyond: *Two Houthi ballistic missiles and…

If you are just joining us, here are key developments from across the region and beyond:

*Two Houthi ballistic missiles and three drones, aimed at Saudi Arabia's Eastern Region and Riyadh, were intercepted and destroyed, according to the Saudi-led coalition.

*Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said their forces carried out a drone attack on a US radar system at a base in Bahrain.

*Bahraini air defence systems intercepted and neutralised several Iran aerial attacks on Sunday, Bahrain Defence Force said in a statement, accusing Iran of continuing its "systematic hostile approach through its malicious attacks" on the kingdom.

*Hamas' armed wing said on Sunday that a senior commander, Samir Abu Younis, 53, who commanded its Rafah brigade, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

*Two oil tankers struck naval mines as they tried to cross the Strait of Hormuz “secretly”, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy says.

*Israeli settlers stormed the al-Harayeq area of the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, and attacked the home of Palestinian citizen Mutie Salim Qutish.

*Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi dismissed nine officials on Saturday, following an investigation into allegations of oil smuggling in the Jurf al-Sakher area, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah group.

*American intelligence believes that Iran has some 1,500-2,500 missiles, and the apparent size of the arsenal has impacted Trump administration's decision on whether to resume strikes on the Islamic Republic, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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