“Iran’s new attack on Israel” is how Metro describes the rocket attack, which follows a similar bombardment in April. Footage of fighting in Lebanon illustrates the story, including Beirut under Israeli airstrike and an Israeli tank opening fire. (BBC)
‘Revenge from above’ is how the Daily Mirror describes Iran’s attack. A subheading speaks of “the fear of total war”. (BBC)
The Guardian ignores the Iranian attack and reports an Israeli vow to retaliate in turn. According to the newspaper, the conflict appears to be “getting out of hand”. (BBC)
Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense held its ground, the Daily Mail notes, and now the country is vowing revenge. (BBC)
The US has threatened Iran with a “severe response” to its attack on Israel, the Daily Express reports, saying “the world watched in horror” as the missiles were launched. (BBC)
Iran’s ‘missile fire on Israel’ is also front-and-center in the Financial Times, where another headline speaks of an ‘exodus from Lebanon’ as a million people seek shelter from the fighting. The newspaper devotes space on its front page to a story about Jay-Z and other celebrities leaving accounting firm BDO after claims of theft. BDO denies the allegations, it says. (BBC)
The Daily Telegraph brings the drama in Israel to the attention of its readers with a first-person account from a journalist headlined: “A rocket missed me by a minute.” “We were lucky, very lucky,” writes Paul Nuki after his experience on an Israeli highway. (BBC)
In addition to the story about the ‘fear of a new war’ in the Middle East, the I-paper contains an article about a woman entering her ‘granny pants era’ and feeling ’empowered’ by a photo of orange underwear on a clothesline. (BBC)
“Hell fire” is how the Sun summarizes Tuesday’s missile attack. Under the headline ‘Thick Knowles’, the newspaper also reports that DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles has allegedly made a slur against ‘North East women’. The newspaper says he made insulting comments in a ‘sloppy’ conversation with a young charity worker, leaving her ’embarrassed and hurt’. Knowles, it added, “said he had encountered hundreds of people in the course of his work and cannot be expected to remember what he said to everyone he met.” The newspaper said the BBC “declined to comment” but said it “opposed all inappropriate behaviour” and had “robust processes when issues were raised”. (BBC)
War in the Middle East is nowhere to be seen on the front page of the Daily Star, which instead splashes out on an OBE for a horse that took part in the Queen’s funeral. Lord Firebrand the “mourning horse” also received two sugar cubes. (BBC)
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