Iranian missile strike hit Israeli Hospital – DW – 06/19/2025

A major site at Iran’s nuclear program, killed by Israeli forces, a area near the heavy water research reactor in Khondab, according to a report by the Iranian student news agency (ISNA) on Thursday.

ISNA said that the authorities had evacuated the facility before the attack and emphasized that there was no radiation risk.

The reactor, earlier known as extracts, is still under construction. Iran has informed the United Nations Nuclear Sentinel that it is planning to start operating the facility next year.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry has reported a direct hit in a hospital in the south, as Iran started another round of missile attacks on the country on Thursday morning.

“Breaking: A direct hit is reported at Soroca Hospital in Barsheba, Southern Israel. To follow more details,” the ministry posted on X.

A hospital spokesperson said that “the hospital has suffered losses and widespread damage in various areas. We are currently assessing damage including injuries. We ask the public not to come to the hospital at this time.”

Group human rights activists in Washington say that the Israeli attacks on Iran have killed at least 639 people and injured 1,329 others.

Among those killed, the group identified 263 civilians and 154 security forces personnel.

Iran has not given regular updates on the number of people killed in Israeli attacks. On Monday, the given figure was 224 killed and 1,277 injured.

According to Israeli officials, at least 24 people have been killed by the Iranian attacks in Israel.

Israel says that it hit Iran into self -defense, afraid of an atomic danger.

But the international law covering self-defense by the states is a very strict-futile heat debate about the validity of Israel’s early attack.

Read the full story on debate on the validity of Israel’s attacks on Iran.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Rawenchi retaliated against the United States, if it enters the war in favor of Israel.

“If Americans join … our hands are tied,” Takht-Rawanchi said in an interview with US Broadcaster CNN, saying that Iran would not be residential in its response to American intervention.

“We will do whatever we will do to protect our people and our interests,” the official said.

While the US government supports Israel’s defense efforts, it has said that it is not special in the military conflict between Israel and Iran.

However, US President Donald Trump has indicated that he is considering it. On Thursday, US outlet Bloomberg News reported that senior White House officials were planning a possible US attack.

Israel’s army announced that it was doing a “series of strikes” around the Iranian capital Tehran and others around Iran.

The goals intended to strike were not immediately disclosed. Israel said it had stopped a “suspected air target” launched from Iran.

Earlier, the Iranian semi-official news agency SNN reported that the air defense system became active in the central Tehran.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) advised Iranians to Iranians in two villages to vacate the area around Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor.

Heavy water is used to cool the reactors, but it can also be used to produce plutonium, which is another potential source for a nuclear weapon.

“IDF issues an immediate warning for residents, workers and people present in the area of ​​two Iranian cities of Arak and Khondab, which is in the area marked on the map before targeting the IDF -related IDF related to the Irani regime,” it is written on social media in Arabic and Persian.

Foreign minister Germany, France and The United Kingdom has been designed to meet on Friday with his Iranian counterpart in Geneva, Switzerland, citing diplomatic sources on Wednesday evening.

The meeting is about coordinated by German Foreign Minister Johan Wadeful, Who recently changed the plan to travel to Lebanon, Syria and Israel to hold crisis talks in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman Last Friday after Israel’s attacks on Iran.

Muscat is believed to have, especially, to maintain very strong contact with Tehran and was mediation in the middle conversation The United States and Iran for about two months before the Israeli attack.

The meeting was allegedly being coordinated with Washington.

Wadeful is expected to launch the so -called “E3” -Germany, France and UK as well as neighboring Arab states on the initiative to find a diplomatic solution for the current conflict to find an initiative to find as Oman.

Wadeful said in the first day, “It was never late to visit the conversation table.”

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it fired hyperric missiles in Israel in the latest round of overnight attacks between countries.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that war aircraft had attacked the Iranian Centrifuge Production Site in Tehran, as well as several arms factories in the latest range of attacks.

The first tariff to carry Israelis, which was located abroad to cancel the flight abroad, landed at the Ben Gurian Airport.

Iran’s ambassador The United Nations, Ali Bahini, said that the country’s wood “aggression” with the “aggression” of Israel gives “strongly” to the United States, should it join enmity.

Unclear Watchdog said that it is known that two facilities in Iran that form centrifuge parts have been killed.

us President Donald Trump said that Iran had approached him to reconstruct the conversation on the country’s nuclear program. Hey said that he has not yet decided whether the US Army should be ordered to join the Israeli campaign in Iran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry called German ambassador for Tehran due to comments made by Chancellor a day earlier. Frederick Merz said that Iran, what by striking Israel “Do dirty work for all of us.”

At the same time, reports of the Palestinians continue to close to help the distribution sites in Gaza continue.

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While the country continues to exchange strikes, Germany, France and the United Kingdom hoped to help bring a diplomatic solution to the current conflict.

According to media reports, foreign ministers of three European countries are scheduled to meet with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday.

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