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Updated June 19, 2025, 3:29 AM EDT
What we know
- REACTOR AND HOSPITAL STRUCK: As the struggle entered its seventh day, Israel said the targets of its overnight attacks included Iran's Arak atomic reactor and a atomic weapons improvement tract successful the Natanz area. Israel said it would "increase the strength of attacks" aft a infirmary successful confederate Israel was straight deed by an Iranian missile.
- IRAN’S NUCLEAR SITES TARGETED: Israel’s airstrikes connected Iran person astir apt acceptable the country’s atomic programme backmost by a fewer months, 2 sources with cognition of the substance told NBC News, though it has not achieved its stated extremity of eliminating the programme entirely.
- TRUMP WEIGHS OPTIONS: President Donald Trump said helium was inactive considering a U.S. subject onslaught connected Iran’s atomic sites. “I whitethorn bash it. I whitethorn not bash it,” helium said. “Nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
- SUPREME LEADER DEFIANT: Iran’s ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Trump’s telephone for his country’s surrender was “threatening and ridiculous,” and warned that U.S. involution would origin “irreparable damage.”
- HUNDREDS KILLED: Israeli strikes person killed astatine slightest 639 radical successful Iran during the weeklong conflict, The Associated Press reported, citing a Washington-based quality rights group. Israel said its decease toll remained astatine 24.
Israel volition 'increase the strength of attacks,' defence curate says
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iranian strikes connected an Israeli infirmary and residential buildings were “war crimes of the astir superior kind” and that Iran’s ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “will beryllium held accountable.”
Katz said helium and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed the Israeli subject “to summation the strength of attacks against strategical targets successful Iran and against authorities targets successful Tehran in bid to region threats to the State of Israel and undermine the ayatollahs’ regime.”
Israeli leaders condemn Iranian onslaught connected Israeli hospital
Paul Goldman and Omer Bekin
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned an Iranian rocket onslaught connected a infirmary successful confederate Israel.
Soroka Medical Center, which is successful the metropolis of Be’er Sheva, serves the full Negev godforsaken region, “caring for Israelis of each faiths and our neighbors the Palestinians who travel particularly to beryllium treated there,” Herzog said successful a post connected X.
“I nonstop spot and enactment to the aesculapian teams, to the patients, and to the residents of Be’er Sheva and each cities attacked crossed Israel this morning,” helium said. “In moments similar these, we are reminded of what’s genuinely astatine stake, and the values we are defending.”
In a station connected Telegram, Netanyahu said, “We volition nonstop the afloat terms from the tyrants successful Tehran.”
Sharren Haskel, Israel’s lawman curate of overseas affairs, called the infirmary onslaught “deliberate” and “criminal.”
“The satellite indispensable talk out,” Haskel said successful a post connected X.
Iranian rocket hits infirmary successful confederate Israel, officials say
An Iranian ballistic rocket deed a infirmary successful confederate Israel, causing “extensive harm successful respective areas,” Israeli officials said today.
The aged surgical gathering astatine Soroka Medical Center successful the metropolis of Be’er Sheva suffered “a important impact,” a spokesperson said, adding that respective radical were being treated for mild injuries.
Soroka Medical Center pursuing an Iranian rocket onslaught this morning.AFP via Getty ImagesThe spokesperson said each infirmary buildings were being inspected and that the infirmary was presently closed to each enactment but life-saving care.
Israel says it struck inactive atomic reactor
The Israeli subject said it struck dozens of subject targets successful Iran overnight, including an inactive atomic reactor successful Arak, wherever it had earlier warned section residents to evacuate.
The onslaught connected the reactor, whose operation was ne'er completed, “targeted the constituent intended for plutonium production, successful bid to forestall the reactor from being restored and utilized for atomic weapons development,” the Israel Defense Forces said successful a statement.
The aerial unit besides struck a atomic weapons improvement tract successful the country of Natanz. The tract “contained components and specialized instrumentality utilized to beforehand atomic weapons development, and projects designed to accelerate the regime’s atomic programme were hosted there,” the IDF said.
It said Israel had utilized 40 combatant jets and implicit 100 munitions to transportation retired its latest strikes, which besides deed subject accumulation sites, aerial defence batteries, surface-to-surface rocket retention sites and detection radar systems.
Israeli strikes connected Iran person killed astatine slightest 639, rights radical says
The Associated Press
Israeli strikes connected Iran person killed astatine slightest 639 radical and wounded 1,329 others, a quality rights radical said today.
The Washington-based radical Human Rights Activists offered the figures, which covers the entirety of Iran. It said of those dead, it identified 263 civilians and 154 information unit force being killed.
Human Rights Activists, which besides provided elaborate casualty figures during the 2022 protests implicit the decease of Mahsa Amini, crosschecks section reports successful the Islamic Republic against a web of sources it has developed successful the country.
Iran has not been offering regular decease tolls during the struggle and has minimized casualties successful the past. Its past update, issued Monday, enactment the decease toll astatine 224 radical being killed and 1,277 others being wounded.
Senators to person classified briefing connected Iran adjacent week
Ryan Nobles and Alexandra Marquez
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., confirmed that determination volition beryllium a classified briefing connected Iran aboriginal adjacent week for each senators.
Trump said yesterday that helium hasn’t yet decided however to grip the intensifying struggle betwixt Israel and Iran, which is present successful its seventh time aft the 2 heavy equipped rivals launched caller attacks against each different overnight.
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