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CTV News
3 hours ago
- Politics
- CTV News
Canada facilitating flights home for citizens leaving Israel, Iran
Rescue workers and military personnel inspect the site of a direct hit from an Iranian missile strike in Ramat Gan, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa is helping Canadians leave the Middle East once they reach countries bordering Israel and Iran. With airports closed across the region, Ottawa has stationed consular officials on the other side of certain crossings on the Israeli and Iranian borders to help those fleeing either country to get home. Anand tells The Canadian Press that she is looking at further options beyond commercial means, including help from Canada's allies. She is urging Canadians in the region to register with Global Affairs Canada so that they can get the latest details. Anand says she is 'extremely concerned' about the quickly evolving conflict between Israel and Iran and adds anyone who wants to get home should do so. Ottawa used commercial flights to get Canadians out of Lebanon last year, avoiding a military evacuation that officials had been planning for months. Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press
Sky News
6 hours ago
- Health
- Sky News
Hospital struck in Israel as IDF attacks Iran nuclear site
A hospital in southern Israel has been hit by an Iranian missile strike. The Soroka Hospital, in Beer Sheba, suffered "extensive damage", officials said. It is the main hospital in Israel 's south and sustained a "direct hit" by a ballistic missile this morning, according to Israeli authorities. Two people were seriously injured and around 40 were wounded, according to Israeli emergency services. Iran 's state media said its main targets were an IDF command and intelligence headquarters next to the hospital. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) attacked the Khondab nuclear site, which is roughly 250 miles (400km) west of Tehran, overnight after telling people nearby to evacuate. Iranian media confirmed two projectiles hit an area close to the partially built heavy-water research reactor, with officials telling state media that no risks of radiation or casualties were detected. Iran's atomic energy organisation described the attack on the facility, originally known as Arak, as a "renewed violation of international law". Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to "exact the full price" from Iran after the hospital strike. "This morning, Iran's terrorist tyrants launched missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheba and at a civilian population in the centre of the country," he wrote on X. "We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran." His defence minister Israel Katz vowed to "increase the intensity of attacks" against Iran. "The Prime Minister and I have instructed the IDF to increase the intensity of attacks against strategic targets in Iran and against government targets in Tehran in order to remove threats to the State of Israel and undermine the ayatollahs' regime," he wrote on X. Sky News correspondent Cordelia Lynch was at the Soroka Hospital following the strike and said she saw smoke rising from the building. "We heard eyewitness accounts of people hearing a loud boom as this medical centre was struck," she said. "We've been seeing patients being wheeled out here, we've seen others with minor injuries, but it's unclear when exactly they incurred those." Israeli air defences were penetrated over central parts of the country overnight. According to a military official, several population centres, including the hospital, were hit after dozens of missiles were launched. Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, was one of the areas hit by Iranian attacks overnight, leading to extensive damage. Trails of missiles and interception efforts were visible in the skies over Tel Aviv this morning as explosions were heard. The emergency services said five people had been seriously injured in the attack, with dozens of others hurt in three other locations. In south Tel Aviv, people are trapped in a building, it said. Israel's attack on the Khondab nuclear facility, which its military identified as a key component in plutonium production, was accompanied by strikes on what Israel said were nuclear weapons development sites in Natanz and Isfahan. Construction at the Khondab nuclear site was halted, while its core was removed and filled with concrete to make it unusable under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. But Iran told the UN's nuclear watchdog that it planned to start operating the reactor in 2026. Heavy-water reactors pose a nuclear proliferation risk because they can easily produce plutonium which, like enriched uranium, can be used to make the core of a bomb. The Khondab reactor was "not operational" when it was struck by Israel, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. The nuclear watchdog said the facility was under construction at the time Israel struck it. "It was not operational and contained no nuclear material, so no radiological effects," it added in a post on X. Natanz was the site of a complex at the heart of Iran's nuclear programme that included two enrichment plants. The site was previously struck by Israel during its aerial war with Iran, which started a week ago. The strikes mark the latest in Israeli efforts to dismantle Iran's nuclear infrastructure.
CBS News
12 hours ago
- Health
- CBS News
Israeli hospital hit by Iranian missile as Israel attacks heavy water reactor in Iran
What to expect as Trump weighs whether to enter Israel-Iran conflict Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Israel's main southern hospital sustained a direct hit Thursday from an Iranian missile, with officials reporting "extensive damage." Separate Iranian strikes hit a high-rise apartment building in Tel Aviv and other sites in central Israel. A hospital in Tel Aviv said it had received 16 wounded people, three with serious injuries. The developments came as President Trump was mulling whether the United States would directly take part in Israel's efforts to destroy Iran's nuclear program. A spokesperson for the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheba said the hospital suffered "extensive damage" in different areas and people had been wounded in the attack. The hospital has requested that people don't come for treatment. Israeli officials said the part of the hospital that took a direct hit had been evacuated before the strike. The director general of Magen David Adom — Israel's emergency rescue service — said, "Last night, the Ministry of Health gave instructions to further clear the floor that was damaged in Soroka. Many lives were saved." Smoke rises from Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, Israel following a missile strike from Iran on June 19, 2025. Amir Cohen / REUTERS Israeli Health Minister Uriel Bosso called the attack "an act of terrorism and a crossing of a red line. A war crime by the Iranian regime that was deliberately committed against innocent civilians and medical teams dedicated to saving lives. The Ministry of Health was prepared in advance, and thanks to the immediate actions we took, a very serious disaster was averted." The hospital has over 1,000 beds and provides services to the approximately 1 million residents of southern Israel, according to its website. The strike came as Israel attacked Iran's Arak heavy water reactor, Iranian state television said Thursday. The report said there was "no radiation danger whatsoever." An Iranian state television reporter, appearing live in the nearby town of Khondab, said the facility had been evacuated and there was no damage to civilian areas around the reactor. Israel had warned earlier Thursday morning it would attack the facility and urged the public to flee the area. The Israeli military said Thursday's round of airstrikes targeted Tehran and other areas of Iran, without elaborating. It later said Iran fired a new salvo of missiles at Israel and told the public to take shelter. Israel's seventh day of airstrikes on Iran came a day after Iran's supreme leader rejected U.S. calls for surrender and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause "irreparable damage to them." Israel also lifted some restrictions on daily life, suggesting the missile threat from Iran on its territory was easing. Already, Israel's campaign has targeted Iran's uranium enrichment site at Natanz, centrifuge workshops around Tehran and a nuclear site in Isfahan. Its strikes have also killed top generals and nuclear scientists. A Washington-based Iranian human rights group said at least 639 people, including 263 civilians, have been killed in Iran and more than 1,300 wounded. In retaliation, Iran has fired some 400 missiles and hundreds of drones, killing at least 24 people in Israel and wounding hundreds. Some have hit apartment buildings in central Israel, causing heavy damage. The Arak heavy water reactor is 155 miles southwest of Tehran. Heavy water helps cool nuclear reactors, but it produces plutonium as a byproduct that can potentially be used in nuclear weapons. That would provide Iran another path to the bomb beyond enriched uranium, should it choose to pursue the weapon. Iran had agreed under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers to redesign the facility to relieve proliferation concerns. In 2019, Iran started up the heavy water reactor's secondary circuit, which at the time didn't violate Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Britain at the time was helping Iran redesign the Arak reactor to limit the amount of plutonium it produces, stepping in for the U.S., which had withdrawn from the project after President Trump's decision in 2018 to unilaterally pull America out of the nuclear deal. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, has been urging Israel not to strike Iranian nuclear sites. IAEA inspectors reportedly last visited Arak on May 14. Due to restrictions Iran imposed on inspectors, the IAEA has said it has lost "continuity of knowledge" about Iran's heavy water production -- meaning it couldn't absolutely verify Tehran's production and stockpile. As part of negotiations around the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to sell off its heavy water to the West to remain in compliance with the accord's terms. Even the U.S. purchased some 32 tons of heavy water for over $8 million in one deal. That was one issue that drew criticism from the pact's opponents.
Forbes
3 days ago
- Politics
- Forbes
Israeli And Iran Trade Aerial Strikes As Conflict Enters 4th Day
The blast concussion from an Iranian missile caused some damage to the US Embassy branch building in Tel Aviv—amid a volley of strikes launched by Iran early on Monday—while Israel claimed it had struck the headquarters of Iran's elite Quds Force unit, as the escalating conflict between the two countries entered its fourth day. A young boy walks through the debris at the site of an Iranian missile strike in Bnei Brak, east of ... More Tel Aviv. In a statement on X, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said there was 'some minor damage from concussions of Iranian missile hits' near the U.S. Embassy branch in Tel Aviv, but noted there were no injuries to U.S. personnel. The ambassador noted that the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem will remain closed on Monday, as 'shelter in place' orders are still in effect. In a follow-up post, Huckabee clarified again that there were 'NO INJURIES' to U.S. personnel at the embassy branch and 'the minor damage to property were from the shock waves.' Iran fired a new salvo of missiles at Israel early on Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring nearly a hundred, Haaretz reported. The Israeli military said it struck the headquarters of Iran's elite Quds force, the special paramilitary organization that coordinates with Iran-allied militias across the Middle East, including Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas. The IDF claimed its overnight strikes managed to destroy '1/3 of the Iranian regime's missile launches.' At least 224 people have been killed in Iran since Israel began its attacks on the country on Friday, according to the Iranian Health Ministry. A spokesperson for the ministry, Hossein Kermanpour, said 1,277 people injured by the attacks have been hospitalized so far and claimed 90% of them were civilians.
Times
5 days ago
- Politics
- Times
Israel and Iran exchange fire as conflict escalates
The Beilinson Hospital in Tel Aviv has said that a woman was killed in an Iranian missile strike, bringing the total number of fatalities to three. The hospital also treated seven people who were wounded in the strike early on Saturday. Israel's fire and rescue services said a projectile hit a building in the city. Israel's paramedic service, Magen David Adom, said an Iranian missile struck near homes in central Israel early Saturday morning, killing two people and injuring 19 others. Four homes were severely damaged. The Israeli military said on Saturday it that had targeted Iran's 'defence arrays' with a wave of strikes in the Tehran area overnight. 'Overnight, the IAF struck dozens of targets, including surface-to-air missile infrastructure, as part of the effort to damage the Iranian regime's aerial defence capabilities in the area of Tehran,' the military said. 'For the first time since the beginning of the war, over 1,500km from Israeli territory, the IAF (Israeli military) struck defence arrays in the area of Tehran.' Iran said on Friday that dialogue with the US over Tehran's nuclear programme is 'meaningless' after Israel's biggest-ever military strike against its longstanding enemy, accusing Washington of supporting the attack. 'The other side (the US) acted in a way that makes dialogue meaningless. You cannot claim to negotiate and at the same time divide work by allowing the Zionist regime [Israel'] to target Iran's territory,' Esmaeil Baghaei, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency. Iran's strikes against Israel will continue, Iran's Fars news agency reported on Saturday, citing senior Iranian military officials. 'This confrontation will not end with last night's limited actions and Iran's strikes will continue, and this action will be very painful and regrettable for the aggressors,' Fars cited an unnamed official as saying, citing senior military officials. Iran and Israel targeted each other with airstrikes early on Saturday after Israel launched its biggest-ever offensive against its longtime foe, in a bid to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the country's two largest cities, before dawn, sending residents rushing into shelters. The military said its air defence systems were operating, seeking to intercept Iranian missiles. Read the full story here.
