PARIS, France, April 4, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - The latest developments in the 
Middle East war:

- Iran sites hit -

US-Israeli strikes on Iran targeted a nuclear plant, a petrochemical hub, a 
trade terminal and a cement factory, Iranian media reported.

An attack near the Bushehr nuclear power station killed one of the facility's 
guards but caused no damage, the official IRNA news agency said. The UN's 
IAEA nuclear watchdog said no increased radiation levels had been detected.

The strike happened just minutes before Russia started the evacuation of 198 
more of its workers from the Bushehr plant, which it helped build and assists 
in operating.

An attack on a petrochemical hub in the southwestern port city of Mahshahr 
wounded five people, the Fars news agency said.

Iranian media said a strike on a trade terminal in Khorramshahr, on the 
border with Iraq, killed one person. The ISNA news agency said the fatality 
was an Iraqi driver, and two Iranian workers were wounded.

Another strike hit a cement factory in the southern port of Bandar Khamir, 
Tasnim news agency said. Iran's science minister, Hossein Simai Sarraf, said 
that "more than 30 universities" had been targeted since the war began.

- Ships through Hormuz -

An Indian-flagged LPG tanker transited through the Strait of Hormuz -- the 
latest of several vessels to make it through the Gulf chokepoint in recent 
days.

Turkey said a second Turkey-flagged ship also went through the strait. On 
Friday, tracking data showed one French-owned ship and one Japanese-owned 
vessel had passed through.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards also said on Saturday they targeted an Israel-
linked ship in a drone attack in a Bahrain port, setting it on fire. They 
said the ship was called the MSC Ishyka.

- Israel tells Lebanese to evacuate -

Israel, which is simultaneously going after the Iran-backed armed group 
Hezbollah in Lebanon, issued an "urgent warning" for residents in parts of 
the Lebanese city of Tyre and nearby areas to evacuate.

Earlier, Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli airstrikes in Tyre that 
wounded 11 people damaged several buildings, including a major hospital.

- Italy PM talks energy -

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, on a visit to the Gulf, spoke with 
leader of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani about energy 
issues, and "possible measures to mitigate the shocks suffered", according to 
her office.

- Iraqi fighter killed -

An attack killed a fighter in the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in Iraq, 
near the Syria border, the former paramilitary coalition said, blaming a US-
Israeli strike.

The PMF -- now part of Iraq's regular army but containing pro-Iran factions -
- has been repeatedly targeted since the outbreak of war on February 28.

- Iran executions -

Iran executed two men convicted of membership in a banned opposition group 
and carrying out actions aimed at overthrowing the Islamic republic.

They were the latest in a series of executions targeting the banned People's 
Mujahedin of Iran (MEK). Four other members were executed earlier in the 
week.

- Four injured in Bahrain -

Shrapnel from intercepted drones injured four people in Bahrain, authorities 
said. Separately, two buildings in Dubai were hit by debris, including one 
housing the US cloud computing firm Oracle, United Arab Emirates authorities 
said.

- Peacekeepers wounded -

Indonesia slammed as "unacceptable" an explosion that wounded three of its UN 
peacekeepers in Lebanon, just days after three other Indonesians were killed 
in separate incidents.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said the blast occurred 
inside a UN facility near El Adeisse on Friday. Indonesia said there was an 
"urgent need to strengthen protection for UN peacekeeping forces".

A UN security official told AFP that Israeli forces had in 24 hours destroyed 
17 surveillance cameras linked to UNIFIL's headquarters in southern Lebanon. 
The bodies of the three Indonesians arrived back in their home country on 
Saturday.

- Missiles fired at Israel -

The Israeli army said its air defences responded to missiles fired from Iran, 
which medics reported wounded one person.

Israel's emergency services said a 45?year?old man was treated for minor 
injuries from glass shrapnel in the central city of Bnei Brak.