US strike cuts water to 10,000 in Iran’s Hormozgan

A US strike on a water desalination plant in Iran’s southeastern coastal village of Bunji, in Hormozgan province, has left around 10,000 without water, a provincial official said.

The attack “completely disrupted the supply of drinking water to 20 villages with a population of about 10,000 people,” Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim quoted the CEO of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company as saying Saturday.

“These villages are facing a water shortage crisis,” added the official.

Tensions have heightened in the Middle East, where the US and Iran continue to exchange attacks in recent days.

Meanwhile, the US on Saturday called on its citizens not to travel to Lebanon and northern parts of Israel, citing “high tensions” in the region.

“Due to high tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation,” the US Embassy in Beirut said in a statement.

The US Embassy in Jerusalem also issued a similar warning, stating that Americans “should not travel to Gaza, Northern Israel, and the Egyptian border except for the Taba crossing, and reconsider travel to/through the Middle East.”

Iran’s health ministry said on Saturday that 50 people were killed and over 500 others injured in US strikes since June 27, Anadolu reports. “Among those killed were 5 women and 2 children and teenagers under 18,” Hossein Kermanpour, head of the Health Ministry’s Public Relations and Information Center, said through US social media company X.

Those wounded included 32 women, as well as 18 children and teenagers, Kermanpour added. “The US has violated and suspended all its commitments within the framework of the Islamabad MoU,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, said, referring to the agreement signed last month. As a result, Tehran has “likewise suspended all our own commitments” and implementation of the agreement and is “busy defending the country”, he added.