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 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. *A car bomb killed two people, including a child, and wounded another, in a suburb of Damascus on Saturday, Syrian Arab News Agency (Sana) said. *President Donald Trump has told senior advisers in recent days that he may hold off on attacking Iran if the US faces no new provocations from Tehran or the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, Reuters reported.