Iran-Israel war LIVE: UAE reports drone, missile attack as ceasefire is challenged
Hey there, future lawyer! This news is super relevant for your CLAT current affairs. Basically, the fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel is breaking down, with missile and drone attacks reported by the UAE, and the US intercepting Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. What this really means is that global energy security, especially for countries like South Korea and the ASEAN summit in Cebu, is threatened by the Strait of Hormuz
U.S. President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was still in place, despite exchanges of fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz.
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Defence announced on Friday (May 8, 2026) that the country’s air defences are “actively engaging” with a missile and drone attack early in the morning as the Iran war’s shaky ceasefire was again challenged.
Hours earlier, the U.S. military said it had intercepted Iranian attacks onthree American destroyers in the Strait of Hormuzon Thursday night and “targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces.”
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The violence threatened to unravel a fragile truce in effect since April 8 that brought an end to weeks of U.S.-Israeli attacks on the Islamic republic, which has retaliated with strikes across West Asia and by blocking the strait, a vital route for oil and gas shipments.
The U.S. military said no ships were hit. It said it doesn’t seek escalation but “remains positioned and ready to protect American forces”.
U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed the attacks as “a trifle,” saying he considered the ceasefire still active. He added that the U.S. is still negotiating with Iran.
An Israeli strike on south Lebanon killed a member of Lebanon’s civil defence, the rescue organisation said on Friday (May 8, 2026), a day after another strike killed a rescuer from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee.
In a statement, the civil defence said their rescuer was killed “as a result of an Israeli strike that targeted him” on the road between two southern towns, despite the truce in effect.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday (May 6, 2026) it had “verified 152 attacks on healthcare that resulted in 103 deaths and 241 injuries” in Lebanon since the war began on March 2.
An oil tanker that passed through the Strait of Hormuz arrived in South Korea on Friday, the first such vessel to reach the Asian nation by that route since Iran declared the critical waterway closed.
South Korea relies heavily on West Asian fuel imports, most of which transited through Hormuz until U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran in late February prompted Tehran to effectively shut the strait.
The arrival of the Malta-flagged Odessa, carrying one million barrels of crude oil, will likely ease Seoul’s concerns over energy security as the war in West Asia drags on.
Leaders of Southeast Asian countries holding a summit on Friday are expected to thrash out a coordinated response to the impacts of the West Asian crisis, as they aim to ease pressure from an energy shock that has rattled their oil import-reliant economies.
Meeting on the Philippine island of Cebu, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are expected to press for a harmonised strategy to ensure energy and food security in a region particularly exposed to a nearly 70-day blockade of the critical Strait of Hormuz.
In opening remarks as chair of ASEAN, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said ASEAN was standing together to demonstrate its capacity to respond with unity and resolve, but must remain agile.
“We must ensure regional energy security and resilience,” he said.
“At a time of heightened volatility, ASEAN must strengthen coordination and reinforce preparedness, pursue practical collective measures to safeguard a stable energy supply and improve interconnectivity.”
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Defence on Friday announced that the country’s air defences are “actively engaging” with a missile and drone attack as the Iran war’s shaky ceasefire was again challenged.
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The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Defence advised residents not to approach, photograph or touch “any debris or fragments that have fallen as a result of successful air interceptions.”
The ministry announced that the country’s air defences are “actively engaging” with a missile and drone attack early on Friday.
The United Arab Emirates said on Friday (May 8, 2026) its air defences engaged missiles and drones coming from Iran, hours after the United States and the Islamic republic traded fire and strained a fragile truce.
“UAE air defences are currently engaging missile and drone attacks originating from Iran,” the Defence Ministry said on X, adding that interception sounds were heard “across various parts of the country”. --AFP
While Donald Trump continues to make sweeping claims about winning the war, the fact that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed — and that the operation to reopen it did not last even three days — points to a very different reality on the ground. The U.S. not only failed to achieve any of its declared objectives during the 40 days of war, but is now grappling with a crisis created by the war itself — the closure of the strait.
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Around 1,500 ships and 20,000 crewmen remained trapped in the Gulf due to the Iranian blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, the UN’s International Maritime Organization chief Arsenio Dominguez said in Panama.
Lebanon’s health ministry reported at least 12 people killed, including two children and a paramedic, in a series of Israeli airstrikes on Thursday.
The new deaths came a day after Israel killed a Hezbollah commander in its first attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs since the shaky truce sought to end weeks of fighting.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was still in place Thursday, despite exchanges of fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz.
“They trifled with us today. We blew them away,” he told reporters in Washington, insisting that talks were “going very well.”
The U.S. military said it carried out strikes on Iranian military targets on Thursday (May 7, 2026) after an attack on three American destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz, while Tehran accused Washington of striking first.
U.S. and Iran clash amid ceasefire tensions, threatening fragile peace and escalating military actions in the Strait of Hormuz.