Explosions over Tel Aviv as Iran launches ballistic missiles towards Israel
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Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile hitting downtown Tel Aviv, Israel, moments ago.
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June 13, 2025
IRAN HAS LAUNCHED a barrage of approximately 100 missiles towards Israel.
Explosions were spotted over the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, as the public was warned by Israel's Home Front Command to seek out the nearest bomb shelter to them.
Israel's national ambulance service, Magen David Adom, said that five people have been injured in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, and are being taken to hospital.
One is in a 'moderate condition' and the other four have been 'lightly injured' by shrapnel, it said in a statement.
Israel's firefighting service said its teams were responding to several 'major' incidents resulting from an Iranian missile attack, including efforts to rescue people trapped in a high-rise building.
Smoke rises after a missile attack in Tel Aviv, Israel
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'Firefighters are working in a high-rise building to rescue trapped individuals and extinguish a fire, as well as responding to two additional destruction sites,' a statement said.
Footage on Israeli television networks showed what appeared to be a building hit by a missile. Huge plumes of smoke can be seen rising around skyscrapers in Tel Aviv.
Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv.
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Footage also shows the Israeli 'Iron Dome' missile defence system intercepting several missiles above the city.
Bright lights were also spotted over Jerusalem, where the missiles appear to have been intercepted.
Traces are seen over Jerusalem during a missile attack alert.
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The Iranian missile strikes are
in response to several Israeli attacks on Iranian sites this morning
, which Iranian sources claim killed 78 people.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed this evening that they had launched an attack on a number of targets in Israel.
'The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps… has executed its decisive and precise response against tens of targets, military centres and airbases of the usurping Zionist regime in the occupied territories,' the Guards said in a statement carried by state media.
The announcement of the missile attacks on state TV came shortly after a televised speech by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in which he promised that 'the Islamic Republic will prevail over the Zionist regime'.
In a statement this evening, Iran's military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said the missile attacks were 'in response to the aggression and criminal assault carried out this morning by the savage, terrorist, and child-killing Zionist regime'.
They added that Israel's earlier attacks on Iran had killed 'several senior military commanders, prominent scientists, and innocent civilians, especially defenseless children'.
'The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as the defensive and offensive arm of the Iranian nation, has launched a forceful and precise retaliation,' a statement said.
Statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC):
In response to the aggression and criminal assault carried out this morning by the savage, terrorist, and child-killing Zionist regime on areas within the Islamic Republic of Iran—resulting in the martyrdom of several…
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— Iran Military (@IRIran_Military)
June 13, 2025
'With reliance on divine power, the wise leadership of the Commander-in-Chief (may his shadow be extended), and the united demand and support of the noble Iranian people, the IRGC has executed Operation 'True Promise 3″ against dozens of targets, including military centers and air bases of the usurping Zionist regime in the occupied territories.
'The operation was launched with the sacred call 'O Ali ibn Abi Talib (AS)' on the blessed night of Eid al-Ghadir,' the statement added.
Earlier this evening, Iranian state media said the country's forces downed two Israeli fighter jets during an air raid.
'At least two Israeli fighter jets were shot down in Iranian skies,' the official IRNA news agency reported.
In a video shared to social media shortly after the attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Iranians to unite against what he described as an 'evil and oppressive regime'.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
To the proud people of Iran,
We are in the midst of one of the greatest military operations in history, Operation Rising Lion.
The Islamic regime, which has oppressed you for almost 50 years threatens to destroy our country, the State of Israel.
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— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM)
June 13, 2025
He said that Israel was engaged in 'one of the greatest military operations in history'.
'Iran doesn't know what hit them, they don't know what will hit them. It has never been weaker,' Netanyahu said.
Additional reporting from AFP
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