Death toll mounts in Israel and Iran as both countries threaten further response after trading strikes overnight

Israeli forces have opened fire on people at several aid distribution sites in Gaza, killing at least five civilians, according to Palestinian media.

The news agency Wafa reports three people were killed and others injured at the former Netzarim corridor in central Gaza, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.

IDF says defense system is operating to intercept missiles from Iran; explosions in Tehran and surrounded areas reported by Iranian state media

• Fears of full-scale war as Israel says attack on Iran is ‘just the beginning’

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying the IDF had targted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.

He said that Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz had been targeted.

This operation will continue for as many days as it takes … We are at a decisive moment in Israel’s history.