UPDATED: UN Security Council to Convene on Israel’s request

The United Nations Security Council will be meeting on Sunday after Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, requested the council to condemn Iran’s attack on Israel. Israel is also requesting to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.

The meeting will take place at 4 p.m. ET (2000 GMT).

Malta currently chairs the UN’s top decision-making body. Vanessa Frazier, Malta’s UN ambasador, said the meeting was requested by Israel.

In a separate letter to Frazier, Iran defended itself, saying it acted in “self-defence as outlined in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, and in response to the Israel’s recurring military aggression”.

In Other Developments:

• Israel says it and its allies have intercepted the vast majority of more than 300 drones and missiles launched by Iran
• It says there were a small number of hits on its territory, including at an IDF base in southern Israel, while one child has been injured
• Israel’s minister of defence, Yoav Gallant, has said the confrontation with Iran is “not over yet”
• Iran said the attack “achieved all its objectives” and added it would use greater force if Israel responded in kind
• Iran’s unprecedented, retaliatory attack marks the first time it has targeted Israel directly from its own soil
• Tehran’s attack is a retaliation for an Israeli strike that killed an Iranian military commanders in Damascus earlier this month
• Biden says he told Netanyahu that Israel has demonstrated “remarkable capacity” in defending itself, adding that the US helped “take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles”
• Russia is calling for all parties to “show restraint” and “expressed concern” over further escalation after Iran launched missiles and drones at Israel overnight.
• The bombardment was launched from several countries, including Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen
• A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said some Iranian missiles hit inside Israel, causing minor damage to a military base
• US President Joe Biden said “we helped Israel take down nearly all” of missiles and drones
• British RAF Typhoon fighter jets were also deployed to shoot down drones while Jordan says it intercepted flying objects that entered its airspace
• Some 12 people were injured in Israel overall, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari for the IDF said, including a seven-year-old girl from a Bedouin Arab community near the southern town of Arad