Bahrain on Monday said an Iranian drone attack on the island of Sitra injured 32 people overnight, as Gulf nations reported new attacks with Tehran pressing its retaliatory strikes across the region.

All of the wounded were Bahraini citizens and there were four "serious cases", including children, the health ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency.

The wounded included a 17-year-old girl, who suffered severe head and eye injuries, and a two-month-old baby.

Several explosions were also heard on Monday in the Qatari capital Doha, journalists said, as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait all reported new attacks.

Doha has been targeted by waves of Iranian drones and missiles since Iran launched a sprawling retaliation campaign across the Gulf in the wake of US and Israeli attacks against the Islamic Republic.

Qatar's defence ministry on Monday said its forces had intercepted a missile attack.

Elsewhere in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia's defence ministry said the kingdom intercepted and destroyed two drones heading towards the Shaybah oil field in the southeast of the country.

Kuwait's defence ministry said the country's air defences were working to intercept a missile and drone attack on Monday.

On Sunday, the Gulf nation was targeted by seven missiles and five drones.

The United States on Sunday said it was ordering embassy staff to leave Saudi Arabia as Iran strikes the kingdom.

Drones hit the US embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh last week, and drones have also caused damage at the US embassies in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

Gulf countries have borne much of Tehran's response after the United States and Israel launched a massive air campaign against Iran on February 28.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that the Islamic Republic "will be forced to respond" against its neighbours if their territory is used to attack it.

In Lebanon, the pro-Iranian Hezbollah paramilitary group said on Monday it was engaging Israeli forces who landed in eastern Lebanon by helicopter across the Syrian border, the second such operation since the outbreak of the latest conflict with Israel.

Israel, which has kept up strikes targeting Hezbollah despite a 2024 ceasefire, launched multiple waves of strikes last week across Lebanon and sent ground troops into border areas.

In a statement on Monday, Hezbollah said it detected "the infiltration of approximately 15 Israeli enemy helicopters" from the Syrian side of the border in eastern Lebanon, an area where Hezbollah holds sway.

The group said its fighters "engaged the helicopters and the infiltrating force with appropriate weapons, and the confrontation" was ongoing.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency earlier reported "fierce clashes... towards the outskirts of the town of Nabi Sheet to repel Israeli forces that carried out a landing by helicopters" in the area. (AFP)


Edited by Tony Sabine