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Free Malaysia Today
20-06-2025
- Health
- Free Malaysia Today
Iran says ‘main target' of attack that hit Israel hospital was military site
Smoke rises from a building at the Soroka Hospital complex after it was hit by an Iranian missile in Be'er Sheva. (AP pic) TEHRAN : Iran said Thursday the main target of a missile attack that hit a hospital in southern Israel was an Israeli military and intelligence base, not the health facility. A hospital in southern Israel and two towns near Tel Aviv were struck after a barrage of Iranian missiles, with Israeli rescuers reporting at least 47 people injured in Iran's latest attacks. 'The main target of the attack was the Israeli Army Command and Intelligence Base (IDF C4I) and the Army Intelligence Camp in Gav-Yam Technology Park, located in the vicinity of the Soroka Hospital,' state news agency IRNA said. It said the hospital was 'exposed only to the blast wave', and that the 'direct and precise target' was the military facility.
Al Jazeera
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 19, 2025
Here's where things stand on Thursday, June 19: A projectile fired by Iran struck the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel – one of the main hospitals where Israeli troops are sent – leaving dozens injured. IRNA, the Islamic Republic News Agency, said on Telegram that the 'main target' of Thursday's missile attack 'was the large [Israeli army] Command and Intelligence [IDF C4I] headquarters and the military intelligence camp in the Gav-Yam Technology Park', and not the hospital. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tehran would pay a 'heavy price' for the strike. Prime Minister Netanyahu said on Thursday that the change or fall of the Iranian regime was not a goal but could be a result. 'The matter of changing the regime or the fall of this regime is first and foremost a matter for the Iranian people. There is no substitute for this. And that's why I didn't present it as a goal. It could be a result, but it's not a stated or formal goal that we have,' he told Israeli public broadcaster Kan.
LBCI
19-06-2025
- Health
- LBCI
Tehran: Strike on Soroka Hospital targeted Israeli military base
Iran stated Thursday that the primary target of its missile strike in southern Israel was a military and intelligence facility, not Soroka Medical Center, which was damaged in the attack. The strike, which also hit two towns near Tel Aviv, left 47 people injured, according to Israeli emergency services. Iran's official news agency IRNA reported that the intended target was the Israeli Defense Forces' C4I command and intelligence base, located within the Gav-Yam technology complex near Soroka Hospital. The report emphasized that the hospital was affected only by the blast wave, while the 'precise and direct' target was the military installation. AFP
Russia Today
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Israel issues death threat to Iran's supreme leader
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, 'can no longer be allowed to exist.' Previous media reports suggested that US President Donald Trump blocked an Israeli plan to assassinate him. Israel launched airstrikes last Friday targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and carried out targeted killings of senior military officials. The attacks elicited an Iranian response and the two countries have traded blows since. Katz made the statement following a missile strike that reportedly seriously damaged Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva, a major city in southern Israel. Shlomi Codish, the hospital's director general, said the missile hit an old building that had been evacuated. 'There is widespread damage to other buildings at the hospital. All patients and all staff were in shelters,' Codish said. 'The several injured we have are lightly hurt, mostly from the blast shockwave.' Katz claimed Khamenei was personally ordering strikes on hospitals, which he asserted justified calling for the Iranian leader's death. He also accused Khamenei of seeking Israel's destruction. Iranian media, however, reported that the intended target was an Israeli military intelligence facility located in the Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park, about 1.3km from the hospital. Reports from several Western outlets last week stated that Israel had consulted the US about a plan to assassinate Khamenei prior to the latest escalation. According to Axios, Trump rejected the idea, with US officials telling Israel, 'The Iranians haven't killed an American and discussion of killing political leaders should not be on the table.' In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Iran had tried to assassinate Trump twice and still considered him a target due to his firm stance against Tehran. The US authorities accused two individuals, one of them posthumously, in two separate cases of trying to assassinate Trump on his 2024 campaign trails, but linked neither to Tehran. US officials also claimed that Iran conspired with people in the US to kill Trump before his second election victory, which Tehran denied. Trump threatened Khamenei this week, stating on social media that he is 'an easy target, but is safe' because 'we are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.' He also demanded unconditional surrender from Iran.
Al Jazeera
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Photos: Iran launches missile attacks as Israel strikes nuclear sites
An Iranian missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel, wounding people and causing 'extensive damage,' according to the medical facility. However, IRNA, the Islamic Republic News Agency, has said on Telegram that the 'main target' of the missile attack early on Thursday 'was the large [Israeli army] Command and Intelligence (IDF C4I) headquarters and the military intelligence camp in the Gav-Yam Technology Park'. It said that this facility is located next to Soroka hospital in Be'er Sheva. IRNA claimed that the hospital only suffered minor damage from the shockwave resulting from the missile attack. 'The military infrastructure was a precise and direct target,' it said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack and promised a response, saying: 'We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran.' Another missile hit a high-rise building and several other residential buildings in at least two sites near Tel Aviv. At least 47 people were wounded in the attacks, according to Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service. Israel, meanwhile, carried out strikes on Iran's Arak heavy water reactor in its latest attack on the country's sprawling nuclear programme, on the seventh day of a conflict that began with a surprise wave of Israeli air strikes targeting military sites, senior officers and nuclear scientists. Israel's military said its fighter jets targeted the Arak facility and its reactor core seal to stop it from being used to produce plutonium. Israel separately claimed to have struck another site around Natanz that it described as being related to Iran's nuclear programme. Iranian state TV said there was 'no radiation danger whatsoever' from the attack on the Arak site. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East – but does not acknowledge having such weapons.
