US Strikes Kill Eight in Iran, Bahrain Downs Iranian Drones, Knesset Dissolves Before October Vote

US military air attacks on infrastructure in several Iranian provinces killed eight people and injured 20 others, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported. The strikes occurred late Thursday night and early Friday morning. Iran stated that 38 people have been killed and more than 400 injured in US attacks since the June 22 ceasefire talks in Switzerland.

Bahrain's armed forces said its air defence systems intercepted and destroyed a number of hostile Iranian aerial attacks on Friday, describing them as cowardly strikes targeting civilians. Only three commodity vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, the fewest daily transits since May, according to Kpler and LSEG shipping data.

Most ships halted or turned back after recent Iranian attacks on vessels and the resumption of a US blockade on Iran-related shipping.

Israel's Knesset voted 62-0 to approve a party financing bill that includes a clause dissolving the legislature before the October election. The parliament then entered recess and will not resume regular sittings until the newly elected body is sworn in. UK police charged 39-year-old Vahid Aberi, a Liverpool resident, with a National Security Act offence for assisting Iran's intelligence service.

He was arrested Wednesday in the Birmingham area and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday. Israeli forces arrested at least three Palestinian citizens in Nablus on Friday and 32 people across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian media. US coalition forces shot down eight explosive drones over Erbil in northern Iraq with no casualties reported.

He added that the authority has abandoned its people and is indifferent to their suffering and Israeli crimes against them.