A fresh wave of bombings has been launched at Iran as the country insists it will keep on fighting while some Australians have chosen to join the conflict in support of Israel.
Almost a week after joint US-Israeli strikes first hit Iran, the war continues to rage across the Middle East with Israel launching a bombardment of strikes against Tehran and Hezbollah in Beirut.
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But Israel has also taken a hit over the last week, in Beit Shemesh an Iranian missile obliterated part of the village with an entire block flattened and nine people killed.
A bomb shelter was impacted by a half tonne warhead which penetrated the roof, leaving rubble, twisted metal and debris. But incredibly, most people survived with those killed caught outside.
On the scene to help was a 25-year-old Australian soldier known as “N” who came from Melbourne with another young woman known as “T” to Israel for the war.
Neither of the Australians’ identities can be revealed.
“Confronting. Look, it’s part of the work. I mean, this is something that we’ve been training for for a long time,” soldier N told 7NEWS chief reporter Chris Reason.
An Australian who has joined Israel to fight speaking with Chris Reason. Credit: 7NEWSAnother Australian who travelled from Melbourne to Israel. Credit: 7NEWSThe damage to a bunker in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Credit: 7NEWS
“With everything that happened in Bondi, it gave me more motivation to be here, and I think it’s even more important now for an Australian representative to be out here.”
In December last year, a father and son allegedly opened fire on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, killing 15 and injuring 40 people, which sent shockwaves through Australia and the world.
For the other Australian who flew to Israel, she had a message for others.
“I have the fitness, I have the ability, and I really believe that anyone who can, should,” soldier T said.
Fresh wave of strikes
Meanwhile, Tehran came under intense bombardment overnight after Israel said it launched another wave of strikes targeting the Iranian capital.
The strikes have damaged more than 3000 homes across Iran, the Iranian Red Crescent Society claimed.
Israel has also continued its assault on Lebanon’s capital of Beirut hours after it said it carried out a “broad-scale wave of strikes” overnight targeting Hezbollah sites in the city.
Rescue workers carry the dead body of a person killed in an Israeli airstrike on a stretcher in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Credit: Mohammed Zaatari/APSecurity officers check the damage at a building struck by an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Credit: Mohammed Zaatari/AP
An Israeli military warning to evacuate almost all of southern Beirut caused panic Thursday evening as people fled parts of the Lebanese capital.
Lebanese authorities say 420,000 people are on the move after they were forced to evacuate their homes and head to the safety of the north of the country.
Seventy people have been killed so far as the Israelis try and search out Hezbollah.
Lebanese people have reported that they’re only being given an hour by the Israelis to pack their bags and get out of the south of the country.
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Credit: Hussein Malla/APSmoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Credit: Hussein Malla/AP
Anyone that lives within five kilometres of the border is being told to pack their bags and get out now.
Iran has continued to retaliate but ballistic missile attacks have sharply reduced, the US Central Command said.
Still, Iran said it launched a hybrid drone and missile attack against Israel overnight, Bahraini officials said a hotel and two residential buildings in the capital Manama were hit, and an Air France repatriation flight leaving the UAE Thursday evening was forced to return due to “missile fire in the area.”
Iran’s president says that there are “mediation efforts” ongoing about the war in the Middle East.
Masoud Pezeshkian says “some countries” had started mediating, without naming them.
“Let’s be clear: we are committed to lasting peace in the region, yet we have no hesitation in defending our nation’s dignity & sovereignty,” the president wrote on X. “Mediation should address those who underestimated the Iranian people and ignited this conflict.”
– With CNN.
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