This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas.

And good evening.

Tonight we start with breaking news as we come on the air.

President Trump calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Iran to be phased in over the next 24 hours.

This comes as Iran hits back, launching retaliatory strikes at a major base in Qatar, housing

about 10,000 U.S. personnel. Iran responding with short and medium-range missiles, targeting

Al-UD Air Base. Thankfully, there were no known injuries or casualties. The move of response

to the U.S. strikes on nuclear facilities. You can see here the

impact from those B-2 bombers. U.S. base is in the region tonight on alert, closing airspace,

not just in Qatar, but in Bahrain and Iraq. Israel launching more strikes within Iran today.

Iran continuing their campaign against Israel, you can see here an explosion at a power

station and Ashdod. President Trump waning calling Iran's response, quote, very weak. We've got full-team

coverage starting in Tel Aviv with Richard Engel. And Richard, I want to get right to that breaking

news. What more do we know about President Trump's call for a ceasefire?

Well, Tom, it was less of a call as a more of a unilateral announcement. He said that

that Israel and Iran have completely agreed to a ceasefire, that it will begin over the course

of the next several hours, and that

within 24 hours, it will be over, that it will be marked the end of what he described as the

12-day war. We have heard nothing from Israel, no comment from Israeli officials, nor anything

from Iranian officials, and it came just hours after Iran responded militarily with an attack on a U.S. base.

Iran threatened to respond to the American strikes on its nuclear sites.

And tonight, it did, releasing this video firing missiles at Doha Qatar, targeting a military base,

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