Iran Fires Second Missile Wave at Israel as Hezbollah Declares Open War and Fujairah Port Burns in UAE

Iran has launched a second wave of missiles toward Israel within about 90 minutes on Tuesday, the Israeli military confirmed, as Hezbollah declared it would enter an “open war” with Israel and a fire broke out at the Fujairah port in the United Arab Emirates following a drone interception.

The Israeli military confirmed that missiles were launched from Iran toward Israeli territory for the second time in roughly an hour and a half. The announcement came amid heightened regional tensions after days of cross-border strikes and retaliatory attacks that have already drawn in Lebanon and multiple Gulf states.

Damage to the Hezbollah-owned Al-Nour radio building in Dahieh; Via: Agoraphobic Journalist

In Beirut, senior Hezbollah official Mahmoud Komati said the group would no longer exercise restraint and would return to armed confrontation with Israel. In comments released by Hezbollah’s media office, Komati has said that after more than a year of observing a ceasefire that ended the previous Israel-Hezbollah war in November 2024, the group’s patience had run out. 

He criticized the Lebanese government for calling Hezbollah’s actions illegal and demanding that it hand over its weapons, while failing to halt what he described as continued Israeli airstrikes. “The Zionist enemy wanted an open war,” Komati said. “So let it be an open war.”

The declaration signals a formal widening of hostilities along Israel’s northern border, where Israeli forces have previously struck Hezbollah infrastructure and where Lebanese authorities have reported displacement of civilians in border areas.

In the Gulf, authorities in Fujairah said a fire broke out at the port Tuesday afternoon after air defense systems intercepted a drone. The Fujairah government media office said shrapnel fell inside the facility following the interception. No casualties were reported. 

Earlier in the day, an industrial zone in Fujairah also caught fire after what officials described as an attempted drone strike. The incident comes amid a pattern of drone and missile activity targeting energy and logistics infrastructure across the Gulf as the conflict expands beyond a bilateral confrontation.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Romanian Orthodox Church pilgrims returned to Bucharest early Tuesday after traveling from Israel to Cairo to escape the fighting. The group had been visiting Bethlehem when the war escalated and were forced to cut their trip short. 

In Moscow, the Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin would convey Gulf leaders’ concerns over Iranian strikes on their territories to Tehran. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin would “make every effort to facilitate at least minor easing of tension” after calls with leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, who expressed deep concern about strikes on infrastructure in their countries.

Tuesday’s developments are showing the horizontal expansion of the war across multiple theaters: renewed Iranian missile launches toward Israel, Hezbollah’s declared entry into open conflict from Lebanon, drone-linked incidents affecting Gulf energy facilities, and continued civilian evacuations from conflict zones.