quinta-feira, 19 de junho de 2025

Summary of the day so far

 


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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/19/israel-iran-conflict-live-hospital-in-southern-israel-hit-in-iran-missile-strike-say-israeli-officials?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6853cb008f0809fcc2eb6536#block-6853cb008f0809fcc2eb6536

Summary of the day so far

Soroka hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba has been hit by a ballistic missile, Israeli officials have said, after Iran launched its latest wave of retaliatory airstrikes on the country. The medical centre has over 1,000 beds and provides services to the approximately 1 million residents of Israel’s south. A hospital statement said several parts of the medical centre were damaged and that the emergency room was treating several minor injuries.

 

Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said on Thursday that at least 47 people were injured in Iran’s other missile strikes, updating an earlier toll and reporting 18 more injured “while running to shelter”. Three people are in serious condition, and two are in moderate condition, an MDA spokesperson said in as statement reported by Agence France-Presse.

 

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will exact the full price from the “tyrants” in Tehran. “This morning, Iran’s ‘terrorist tyrants’ launched missiles at Soroka hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in central Israel,” he said in a post on X.

 

Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz said on Thursday that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be “held accountable” after the Iranian strike on Soroka hospital in Israel. The minister added that he had ordered the army to “intensify strikes” on the Islamic republic.

 

Israel attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor early on Thursday, Iranian state television has reported. The report said there was “no radiation danger whatsoever” and that the facility had been already evacuated before the attack. Israel’s military warned people to evacuate the area around the heavy water reactor in the regions of Arak and Khondab just a couple of hours before it launched its attack.

 

Donald Trump has suggested to defence officials it would make sense for the US to launch strikes against Iran only if the so-called “bunker buster” bomb was guaranteed to destroy the critical uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, according to people familiar with the deliberations. Trump was told that dropping the GBU-57s, a 13.6-tonne bomb would effectively eliminate Fordow but he does not appear to be fully convinced, the people said, and has held off authorising strikes as he also awaits the possibility that the threat of US involvement would lead Iran to talks.

 

The US president also told reporters that “a deal could still happen” and that he thinks “Iran was a few weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.” The news came shortly before several US media outlets reported that Trump approved plans to attack Iran on Tuesday, but has not yet given the final order to do so. US intelligence sources briefed US senators on Monday that Iran was not working to develop a nuclear weapon.

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