Iranian strike hits near Israeli nuclear facility

 As a reminder, an Iranian missile strike hit the town of Dimona in southern Israel on Saturday, approximately 13km (8 miles) from a nuclear research facility.

Though the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said it was not aware of any damage to the facility following the attack, the director general has warned that the "maximum military restraint should be observed, in particular in the vicinity of nuclear facilities".

The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center - located in the Negev desert - is often referred to colloquially as the "Dimona reactor". It is long accepted as holding Israel's undeclared arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Officially, the site is said to focus solely on research. But for around six decades, it has been an open secret that Israel developed a nuclear bomb there, even if each succeeding government has maintained a position of ambiguity over this.

It has meant that Israel is the only nuclear power in the Middle East. So, any indication that it is being targeted is taken with the utmost seriousness by Israel.

Iranian state TV said the strike was in response to a reported attack on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility earlier on Saturday.