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It has been "a lot calmer" in Jerusalem than it has been in the past week, Sky correspondent Tom Cheshire, who is on the ground there, reports.

He says there has been a lot of focus on the Fordow nuclear site in Iran and the extent of the destruction there, but in terms of the wider picture, it's not just about that military site but also about the diplomatic effort.

"I think that's why the ceasefire is so important. We don't have many of the details yet but it has been holding," he says.

"People here in Jerusalem slept easy for the first time in a while, we don't have sirens or alerts sending people down to shelters."

Cheshire says it is "a lot calmer than it has been in the past week".

"That calmness means attention probably can turn back to Gaza," he adds.

"That might be the next chapter here."

We have some pictures to bring you from Iran now, after the Israeli strikes on the country in the last two weeks.

As we've been reporting, so far today, a ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to be holding.

But during the conflict, it has been difficult to report on the damage inside Iran, due to restrictions on journalists in the country.

These pictures have been released today but Sky News cannot independently verify where or when they were taken.

And the pictures below show members of the Iranian Red Crescent Society inspecting a damaged building following an Israeli strike in Iran. Again, they were released today.

Speaking ahead of the NATO summit earlier, Donald Trump claimed the US strikes on Iran brought the war between Tehran and Israel to a close.

Asked how long he thinks the Iranian nuclear programme had been put back, he said: "I think decades. I don't think they will ever do it again."

He added: "I think they have had it. They just went to hell. The last thing they want to do is enrich.

"When you look at a site like that, it is very hard to rebuild."

He went on to say "that hit ended the war".

Watch Trump's comments here:

We brought you reports earlier from Israel's military that seven personnel, an officer and six soldiers, were killed in fighting in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday (see post at 6.35).

Israeli media reported the seven were in the city of Khan Younis when an explosive device planted on their vehicle detonated, setting it on fire.

Now, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a statement. 

He said: "This is a very difficult day for the people of Israel."

"Together with all citizens of Israel, my wife and I mourn, and are pained over, the fall of seven of our fighters, of blessed memory, from the Combat Engineering Battalion", he said.

The Israeli leader said on behalf of the citizens of Israel, he sent "heartfelt condolences to the families that have lost what is dearest to them".

Despite doubts from the Kremlin (see previous post) and reports about US intelligence assessments in the American press, Donald Trump and his top team are sticking to the line that Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed.

Earlier, we brought you Trump's comments from the NATO summit. Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, chipped in at the same news conference.

And before that, Rubio said in an interview that Iran is "much further away from a nuclear weapon" because of Trump's decision to order strikes.

In an interview with , Rubio said: "The bottom line is, they are much further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the president took this bold action.

"That's the most important thing to understand - significant, very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components, and we’re just learning more about it."

As we have been reporting today, an early intelligence assessment has indicated that the US military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of Tehran's nuclear programme and likely only set it back by months.

On the reports, Rubio said it was "false".

Away from the NATO summit, the Kremlin has disputed Donald Trump's claims that the US "obliterated" Iran's nuclear enrichment sites, saying it was too early for anyone to have a realistic picture of the damage inflicted.

Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Moscow viewed the attack on Iran as unprovoked and added the situation was concerning.

He claimed the reputation of the UN's nuclear watchdog had "suffered seriously" as a result of the US and Israeli strikes, adding that the Iranian parliament's decision to suspend cooperation with the watchdog was a direct result of the "unprovoked attack".

Inside The Hague, members of the NATO alliance are seated for talks - with Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump side-by-side.

Members of the media have now been asked to leave the room as world leaders hold discussions.

Addressing world leaders at the summit, Mark Rutte says NATO's enduring commitment to Article 5 that an attack on one is an attack on all "sends a powerful message".

"In this meeting we will take historic and transformational decisions to make our people safer through a stronger, fair and lethal NATO," he says.

He says raising defence spending to 5% GDP is how this will be done.

Turning towards Donald Trump, who is sat beside him, the NATO chief says for too long the US has "carried too much of the burden of the commitment".

"That changes today," he says.

"Dear Donald, you made this change possible. Your leadership on this has already produced $1trn in extra sending from European allies from 2016."

Donald Trump's claim to know Iran's nuclear facilities were "completely obliterated" within hours of the US strikes "is just not technically credible", our military analyst Michael Clarke has just been telling Wilfred Frost on Sky News.

Defence agencies typically give "varying confidence" in what they say about the impact of such strikes, and he adds: "That's, I imagine, what the report will have said."

He says it was "undoubtedly" a "technological triumph" for the US to drop its bunker buster bombs "very close together in the same place".

But he says "these bombs have never been tested before" so "nobody is entirely sure" how much damage they would have caused".

"Undoubtedly, it would be logical to assume enormous damage was probably caused, but damage beyond repair? We don't know."

He says Israel's Mossad intelligence agency "will get a good idea" of how much damage has been done, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency, "because they have lots of monitoring units all over Iran".

But such intelligence will take "a couple of weeks, maybe three to four weeks," he says.

"The idea that we know within hours that it was completely obliterated is just not technically credible."

Donald Trump was asked again about the intelligence report saying the US had not destroyed Iran's nuclear programme in its strikes.

The US president initially said "the intelligence was very inconclusive" and seemed to concede the damage may not have been as absolute as he suggested.

"The intelligence says we don't know, it could have been very severe," he said.

But then he went on to claim: "It was very severe, it was obliteration."

Asked if the US would strike again if Iran built its nuclear enrichment programme, he replied: "Sure."

The US president was also asked if the US strikes in Iran had brought a deal between Israel and Hamas to return Israeli hostages taken on 7 October 2023 any closer.

Trump said even before the strikes "we were very close to making a deal on Gaza".

"I think this helped," he added.

The US president has now finished speaking at the NATO summit news conference with Mark Rutte.