Trump Vows to Halt Israeli Attacks on Iranian Gas Field

US President Donald Trump said Israel, enraged by recent events, had “violently lashed out” by striking Iran’s largest gas installation — a dramatic escalation in the US‑Israeli war — while insisting Israel would not carry out additional attacks unless Iran retaliates.

The strike on the sprawling South Pars gas field lifted oil prices and prompted Tehran to threaten oil and gas sites across the Gulf, even as it launched missiles toward Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The flare‑up deepened an already unprecedented disruption to global energy flows, raising the political stakes for Mr Trump, who joined Israel in attacking Iran nearly four weeks ago.

Qatar’s state producer, Qatar Energy, reported “extensive damage” after Iranian missiles hit Ras Laffan Industrial City, which processes about a fifth of the world’s gas supply.

Iran again targeted Qatari gas infrastructure, and its missiles also aimed at the Saudi capital.

Qatar Energy said “sizeable fires” and extensive damage broke out at several liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities struck in missile attacks this morning.

Mr Trump said the United States had no advance notice of Israel’s strike and added that Qatar was not involved.

“Israel, out of anger for what ‌has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed ⁠out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” Mr Trump posted on X.

A view of part of Phase 19 of the South Pars gas field in Assaluyeh on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast

“Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility.”

“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar,” Mr Trump added.

“In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at ‌ an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.”

Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Mr Trump had approved Israel’s plan to strike Iran’s natural gas field.

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South Pars is Iran’s portion of the world’s largest natural gas deposit, which it shares with ⁠Qatar — a close US ally that hosts America’s biggest military base in the Gulf.

Since the conflict began, Tehran has targeted not only Israel but also US diplomatic and ‌military facilities around the Gulf, warning neighbors against hosting attacks on Iran.

With no sign of de‑escalation, Mr Trump is weighing the deployment of ⁠thousands more US troops ‌to the Middle East, according to a US official and three people familiar with the planning.

Those forces could help secure oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for one‑fifth of global oil trade.

Iran missile fire kills 3 Palestinians in West Bank, foreign worker in Israel

Iranian missile attacks killed three Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank and a foreign worker in central Israel, medics said.

Shrapnel from falling debris hit a hair salon in the West Bank town of Beit Awa near Hebron, killing the three women, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society — the first Palestinian fatalities from Iranian strikes in the current Middle East war.

The Red Crescent said at least eight others were wounded, including a woman in critical condition.

Shortly afterward, Israeli medics said Iranian missile fire killed a man in central Israel, bringing the death toll in Israel from attacks during the war to 15.

Civil defence workers survey damage from an Iranian missile near Tel Aviv

Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service described the victim as a “foreign worker,” while Israeli media said he was a Thai agricultural laborer.

He was killed in Moshav Adanim, about 20 kilometres northeast of Tel Aviv and less than eight kilometres from the West Bank, the service said.

A Magen David Adom statement quoted medic Idan Shina as saying “metal shrapnel was scattered across the scene,” where the man was found dead with “severe shrapnel injuries.”

‘Unprovoked’

The Israeli military said earlier it had detected a round of missile fire from Iran and was “operating to intercept.”

Since then, the military has reported several additional waves of Iranian attacks, triggering air‑raid alerts across parts of central and northern Israel as well as in West Bank settlements.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they launched missiles and drones at targets across Israel, according to statements carried by Iranian news agencies Fars and ISNA.

Iran and Israel have previously accused each other of using cluster munitions.

Islamic foreign ministers condemn Iran attacks

Foreign ministers from six Islamic countries meeting in Riyadh condemned Iran’s strikes on Gulf neighbors and demanded an immediate halt.

They said Iran’s targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure — including ⁠oil facilities, airports and desalination plants — could not be justified under any circumstances.

“This pressure from Iran will backfire politically and morally and certainly we reserve the right to ⁠take military actions, if deemed necessary,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told a news conference after the talks in Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister (R) and his Qatari counterpart (L) attending the meeting in Riyadh

Interceptors were seen launching near the Riyadh hotel where the meeting took place, around the time ministers convened for their consultations on the Iran war.

The UAE shut down its Habshan gas facility after intercepting missiles fired in what its foreign ministry called a “terrorist attack” by Iran.

More than 3,000 people have been killed in Iran since the US‑Israeli attacks began on February 28, the US‑based Iran human rights group HRANA estimates.

Authorities in Lebanon said 900 people have been killed there and 800,000 forced from their homes.

Iranian attacks have killed people in Iraq and across Gulf states, and at least 13 US ‌service members have died in the war.

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