As Israel and Iran exchange fire for the seventh day in a row, a new wave of Iranian missiles have struck several locations across Israel, causing a hospital to be damaged, and Israel has attacked the country’s heavy water nuclear reactor Arak.
After an Iranian missile struck the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Thursday, rescue operations were underway. In the attack, Iran claimed to be aiming for a military base.
According to reports, the Iranian missiles were fired on at least six other locations, including in Holon and Ramat Gan, two of Tel Aviv’s districts. At least 50 people were hurt, according to emergency personnel, including four who were in critical condition.
According to the Israeli army, its fighter jets bombed Iran’s Arak heavy water nuclear reactor and numerous other sites.
The partially finished reactor was originally known as Arak and is now known as Khondab.
The military specifically targeted “the core seal’s structure,” a crucial component of plutonium production, in a statement from the military.
Two projectiles struck a nearby area of the Khondab nuclear facility, according to Iranian media reports.
Before the strikes, there was no risk of radiation or casualties, according to officials who spoke to Iranian state TV. No damage was made known.
The two nations exchanged fire for a seventh day following Israel’s major attack on Iranian military installations and nuclear sites, which resulted in the deaths of senior military officials and top nuclear scientists.
Iran launched airstrikes against Israel in response to that attack, and the conflict has since expanded to include civilian targets, including homes and oil and gas facilities.
Israel’s multiple-tiered air defenses have fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Iran, but the majority of them have been shot down by the country’s multiple missile defenses.
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The emergency room at the hospital, which has more than 1, 000 beds and serves the roughly 1 million residents of southern Israel, said in a statement that there was “extensive damage” in several areas of the facility and that several minor injuries were being treated. Except for potentially fatal cases, all new patients were confined to the hospital.
In Israel, many hospitals have started emergency plans in the past week, switching hospital floors from underground parking and moving patients underground, especially those who are on ventilators or moving quickly.
Israeli Army Radio quoted Israeli Health Minister Uriel Buso as saying, “This is a war crime committed by the Iranian regime,” in reference to the Soroka attack. The Iranian government would “pay a high price” for the attack, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The large headquarters of the Israeli army’s Command and Intelligence (IDF C4I) and the military intelligence base in the Gav-Yam Technology Park were the “main target” of the Beersheba attack, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA. According to the statement, the facility is next to the Soroka Medical Center, and it claims the missile strike’s shockwave only caused minor damage to the hospital.
Information about places like the military and intelligence facilities is not made available to the general public because of strict military censorship in Israel. A hospital’s building, which Israeli media reported, sustained significant damage in a building that was referred to as “sensitive.”
Israeli authorities were attempting to send a “message that the Iranians target hospitals,” according to Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg, according to Al Jazeera.
Israelis, of course, also target hospitals. Because Israel places its military headquarters in the middle of residential neighborhoods and towns, he continued, adding from Tel Aviv, that there are actually very sensitive installations and headquarters very close to the hospital.
Meanwhile, Iranian state television reported the Arak site attack, claiming that there was “no radiation danger whatsoever.” The facility has been evacuated, according to an Iranian state television reporter who spoke live from the nearby town of Khondab. No harm has been done to civilian areas surrounding the reactor.
Israel had earlier issued a warning to the facility’s owners on Thursday morning and urged the public to leave. Without going into further detail, the Israeli military claimed that its most recent airstrikes also targeted Tehran and other Iranian regions.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rejected American demands for a surrender and warned that any US military involvement in the conflict would “inflict irreparable harm to them” (iraqi law) one day prior to the strikes.
Source: Aljazeera
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