ISLAMABAD: Monitoring Desk – Eight people have been killed in Iran’s strikes across central Israel overnight with dozens of people injured, according to Israel’s national emergency service. Strikes by Israel and Iran continue as the conflict between the two countries enters its fourth day. Iran launched fresh missile strikes on Israel.
BBC reported, Eight killed in Iranian missile attack early Monday morning, one still missing. Emergency services report at least 92 hospitalized since night . Two bodies found in rubble of building in central Israel hit on Sunday morning, taking death toll to eight.
Haaretz shared , Four of the victims were found in Petah Tikva, where two residential buildings were hit . Another body was recovered in Bnei Brak, where a missile hit a school and damaged nearby homes. Rescuers found three more victims in Haifa.
Iran has confirmed that the head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) intelligence unit, Mohammad Kazemi, has been killed.
IRGC-linked Tasnim news agency and Iranian state TV say Kazemi died along with his deputy Hassan Mohaqeq and commander Mohsen Baqeri in Israeli attacks on Sunday.
In a Fox News interview earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “I can tell you we got their chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran.”
Iran’s health ministry says Israeli strikes have killed 224 people across the country since Friday. That’s almost a hundred more than the 128 deaths by midday on Saturday that were reported earlier. The health ministry also says 1,277 people have been injured.
Irani News Agency IRNA reported ,A new salvo of missiles and drones has been launched at targets in Israel amid continued Israeli aggression on Iran.
As with previous rounds, and despite heavy Israeli censorship, footage began to appear of the Iranian missiles hitting their intended targets.
Israeli media said a Rafael Advanced Defense Systems facility and Ben Gurion Airport had been hit.
Israeli media later said missiles and drones had also been launched toward the occupied territories from Yemen.
The Israeli regime began strikes inside Iranian territory, including on residential buildings, in an unprovoked act of aggression overnight on June 13. Top Iranian military officials were assassinated in targeted strikes. Civilians died when houses were directly struck. Entire population centers were affected.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei appointed new military commanders later that same day and said life would turn bleak for Israel. Shortly afterwards, Iran began punitive strikes deep inside Israel, hitting Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among other targets. Life has come to a halt in the occupied territories as Israelis have been spending entire days in underground bomb shelters.
Israel is killing children, committing ‘war crimes’ in its acts of aggression: Foreign Ministry
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei has condemned the Israeli regime for killing children in its ongoing war of aggression against Iran.
“The Israeli regime has killed many children during the past 3 days of its war of aggression on Iran and has also targeted a children’s hospital (Hakim Children’s Hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences),” Baqaei wrote on his X account on late Sunday.
He noted that the Israeli regime is “killing children as a hobby” as admitted once by Yair Golan, the former deputy chief of staff of the Israeli army.
Separately, Saeed Khatibzadeh, deputy foreign minister for research, has denounced Israel for committing war crimes by targeting the ministry’s infrastructure in its aerial assault on Tehran.
“The criminal regime of Israel launched a deliberate and ruthless strike on one of the buildings of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, located directly across from the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS),” Khatibzadeh posted on X.
“Several civilians were injured in the attack, including a number of my colleagues, who were taken to the hospital for treatment,” he said, adding that the library of IPIS was targeted in this “cowardly assault” as well.
“This is yet another clear war crime, part of the Israel’s ongoing and systematic campaign of aggression against Iran,” Khatibzadeh, who is also the chairman of the IPIS, added his social media post.
