On Monday, John Kirby, the White House's national security communications adviser, refuted claims and news reports that Iranian officials had given the U.S. advance information on the date and intended targets of their assault against Israel over the weekend.

Google employees dressed in traditional Arab head scarves stormed into the California office of the tech company’s top cloud executive, while other staffers staged a sit-in at the company’s headquarters in New York City in a move to protest Google’s ties to the Israeli government.