July 9 (UPI) — The United States and Iran have traded fire for the second day in a row after a cease-fire was upended Tuesday.

Iran’s health ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour posted on X that 14 people were killed in attacks on the country Wednesday and Thursday. There were 78 injuries, and 47 of those people them were hospitalized.

The U.S. military said it has hit about 170 targets in at least nine towns in the past two days. Iran has targeted U.S. military bases in some Middle Eastern countries but have hit much fewer targets thanks to air defense systems.

There have been no reported deaths from Iran’s strikes.

A rail line in Iran was hit overnight, has been reconstructed “in less than 15 hours” and that trains were running on that line. Another damaged line is expected to be back in service a few hours, the head of Iran’s railway company said Thursday, ABC News reported.

Amid the renewed fighting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country will stay in Lebanon “as long as necessary to ensure the security of our communities in the north.”

“If we had not acted at the time we did, and with the intensity with which we did, Iran would have armed itself with nuclear weapons to destroy Israel, that is their plan, and the citizens of Israel would have been in danger of mass death,” Netanyahu said at a pilots’ graduation ceremony Thursday, ABC reported.

“That is why we embarked on these operations with our American friends to ward off the threat of immediate annihilation, and also a great danger to the entire Western world,” Netanyahu said.

A shipping company said it has a ship waiting to cross the Strait of Hormuz but doesn’t feel safe to do so.

“The situation is very sensitive right now,” the executive told ABC. “With the U.S. cover we are more certain so we take the Omani route that hugs the coast.”

But Iran has hit several ships that have opted for that route.

“It’s more uncertain now, and we don’t know if we should take the [U.S. route or the] other route. We don’t feel secure enough for it,” the executive said.

“Especially today, at this moment we are asking — do we have a cease-fire or not? It’s very tough to go via the Iranian route and registering with them, so far we are working with the Omanis to take that route.

“It’s a day-by-day situation. We aren’t working in a vacuum; we speak with U.S. naval forces and security agencies that are giving us guidance, we make a call based on that.”

The U.S. Embassy in Jordan issued a security alert on Thursday, and Jordanian Armed Forces said they intercepted about eight Iranian missiles. There was no damage or injuries reported.

One person was injured in Kuwait from Iranian attacks Thursday, the country’s defense ministry said. It said it intercepted three ballistic missiles, a cruise missile and 10 drones.