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The Israeli Defense Minister has openly threatened Iran Supreme leader Thursday after Last missile dam From Iran damaged a large hospital and hit a skyscraper and several other residential buildings near Tel Aviv.
At least 40 people were injured in the attacks, according to Israel Magen David Adom Livestage Service. Black smoke raised from the Soroka Medical Center, in the city of southern Beersheba, while the emergency teams evacuated patients. There was no serious injury in the hospital’s strike.
In the aftermath of the strikes, the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz blamed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and said that the army “had been educated and knows that to achieve all his goals, this man should absolutely not continue to exist.”
US officials said this week that President Donald Trump had opposed his veto to an Israeli plan to kill Khamenei. Trump later said that he was not planned to kill him “at least not yet”.
Israel, on the other hand, made strikes on the Iranian Arak Iranian water reactor in its last attack on the country’s sprawling nuclear program, on the seventh day of a conflict that began with a wave of Israeli air strikes targeting military sites, higher officers and nuclear scientists.
An Iranian human rights group based in Washington said that at least 639 people, including 263 civilians, had been killed in Iran and more than 1,300 injured. In retaliation, Iran pulled some 400 missiles and hundreds of drones, killing at least 24 people in Israel and injuring hundreds.
The Main Missile Hospital in southern Israel
Two doctors told the Associated Press that the missile had struck almost immediately after the air raid sirens died, causing a strong explosion that could be heard from a safe part. They spoke under the cover of anonymity because they were not allowed in brief the media.
The hospital said the main impact was on a former surgery building that had been evacuated in recent days. After the strike, the medical center was closed to all patients, with the exception of potentially fatal cases, he said. Soroka has more than 1,000 beds and provides services to around 1 million residents in southern Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sentenced the strike to the hospital and promised an answer, saying: “We are going to demand the total price of Tehran tyrants.”
Iran has pulled hundreds of missiles and drones in Israel, although most of them were killed by aerial defenses on several levels of Israel, which detect incoming fire and cut missiles heading to population centers and critical infrastructure. Israeli officials recognize that it is imperfect.
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Haim Bublil, a local police commander, told journalists that several people had been slightly injured during the strike.
Many hospitals in Israel have activated emergency plans during the last week, converting underground parking in the hospital and moves patients underground, in particular those who are under fans or which are difficult to move quickly.
Israel also has a fortified underground blood bank which entered the action after the attack on Hamas on October 7, 2023 ignited the current war in the Gaza Strip.
“ No danger of radiation ” after a strike on the reactor
The Israeli army said that its fighter planes had targeted the installation of Arak and its basic reactor seal to prevent it from being used to produce plutonium.
“The strike has targeted the component intended for the production of plutonium, in order to prevent the reactor from being restored and used for the development of nuclear weapons,” said the army. Israel said separately to have struck another site around Natanz that he described as being linked to the Iranian nuclear program.
Iranian state television said that there was “no danger of influence” of the attack on the Arak site. A journalist on Iranian state television, live in the neighboring city of Khondab, said that the installation had been evacuated and that there was no damage to the civil zones around the reactor.
Israel had warned earlier Thursday morning that he would attack the installation and urged the public to flee the region.
Iran rejects calls to surrender or end its nuclear program
Iran has long maintained that its program is for peaceful purposes. However, it also enriches up to 60% uranium, at a short technical step in the level of weapons of 90%. Iran is the only state of non -nuclear weapons to enrich at this level.
Israel is the only state of nuclear weapons in the Middle East but does not recognize having such weapons.
The strikes occurred one day after the supreme head of Iran rejected calls to the United States and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause them “irreparable damage”. Israel had raised some restrictions on daily life on Wednesday, suggesting that the threat of Iran’s missiles on its territory succeeded.
Already, the Israel campaign has targeted the Iranz enrichment site in Natanz, centrifuge workshops around Tehran and a nuclear site in Isfahan. Its strikes also killed the best generals and nuclear scientists.
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, said that he would go to Geneva for meetings with his European counterparts on Friday, indicating that a new diplomatic initiative could take shape. Iran’s official Iran news agency said the meeting would include foreign ministers in the United Kingdom, France and Germany and the first diplomat of the European Union.
Trump said he wanted something “much bigger” than a ceasefire and has not excluded the United States to join the Israel campaign. Iran has warned of disastrous consequences if the United States deepens its involvement, without developing.
Arak had been redesigned to respond to nuclear concerns
The Arak heavy water reactor is 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of Tehran.
Heavy water helps to cool nuclear reactors, but it produces plutonium as a by-product that can potentially be used in nuclear weapons. This would provide Iran with another path to the bomb beyond enriched uranium, if he chose to continue the weapon.
Iran had agreed under its 2015 nuclear agreement with the global powers to rethink the installation on proliferation problems.
The discord point became a discord point after President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement in 2018. Ali Akbar Salehi, a senior nuclear official in Iran, said in 2019 that Tehran bought additional documents to replace part of the reactor in which he had paid concrete to make him unusable in the agreement.
Israel, during his strike, reported that the installation could be used to produce plutonium one day again.
“The strike has targeted the component intended for the production of plutonium, in order to prevent the reactor from being restored and used for the development of nuclear weapons,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear surveillance dog, has urged Israel not to strike Iranian nuclear sites. IAEA inspectors would have visited Arak last time on May 14.
Due to the restrictions that Iran has imposed on inspectors, the IAEA said that it had lost “continuity of knowledge” on the production of heavy water from Iran – which means that it could absolutely not check the production and stock of Tehran.
