An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council has been called for later on Saturday in New York, the BBC reports.
It will be convened at 21:00 GMT (16:00 ET). The meeting was requested by Bahrain, Colombia, China, Russia and France.
It comes after UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned “today’s military action in the Middle East.”
In a statement, he had said that the actions undermine international peace and security and called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities”.
