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Lebanese state media says Israeli attacks, mostly in southern Lebanon, killed 35 people Friday, including three other children.
The militant group Hezbollah has responded to the Israeli attacks with strikes on Israeli military targets.
Iran's state media said this was the announcement relayed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy.
to ships in the area around the strategic waterway.
It said they would be part of what it called intense attacks during the night, targeting military and economic interests.
The narrow waterway controlled by Iran.
connects the biggest Gulf oil producers with the export route to outside markets.
Closing the strait could lead to higher oil prices.
One West Tehran resident told NPR by phone that bakeries and supermarkets were packed.
She said streets were almost empty in residential neighborhoods she had seen, apart from a show of force by internal security forces.
Many of them are on the streets on motorbikes showing off their guns.
They want to create fear, she said.
The woman did not want to give her name in fear of retaliation by the Iranian regime.
She said there were also long lines at gasoline stations.
The Iranian government told citizens it expected the Iranian capital and other big cities to
to be the main focus of strikes and advised them to leave the cities if they could.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the SDF, says it has lost control of al-Shadadi prison in Hasakah province, where thousands of ISIS suspects have been held since the defeat of the militant group seven years ago.