LIVE: 5 killed, dozens injured as Iran launches fresh missile attacks on Israel
Iran announced it had launched some 100 missiles and vowed further retaliation for the surprise attack on its nuclear programme and military leadership that Israel began last Friday
Iran on Monday (June 16) launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported projectiles striking and shrapnel falling in Israel's north and centre, wounding at least 67 people.
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Fourth day of warfare
Powerful explosions, likely from Israel's defence systems intercepting Iranian missiles, rocked Tel Aviv shortly before dawn, ushering in a fourth day of open warfare between the regional foes. Plumes of black smoke rose into the sky over the major coastal city.
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv said that Iranian missiles had hit a residential building there, charring concrete walls, blowing out windows and heavily damaging multiple apartments. There was no immediate word on the number of casualties from that strike as rescuers searched through the ruins.
Iran says it fired 100 missiles
Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service said it was treating 67 wounded people evacuated from four different places hit by missile strikes. It said most of the people were in moderate or mild condition.
Iranian state TV said the country fired at least 100 missiles at Israel, signalling that it had no intention of yielding to international calls for de-escalation as it pressed on with its retaliation for Israel's surprise attack Friday on Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme and military leadership.
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The latest salvo comes after a weekend of escalating tit-for-tat attacks between Israel and Iran that raised fears of a wider, more dangerous regional war.
Iran on Sunday said Israel struck oil refineries, killed the intelligence chief of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and hit population centres in intensive aerial attacks that raised the death toll from Israel's campaign to 224 people. Health authorities also reported that 1,277 were wounded, without distinguishing between military officials and civilians.
Israel said Iran had fired over 270 missiles since Friday, 22 of which slipped through the country's sophisticated multi-tiered air defences and caused havoc in residential suburbs, killing 14 people and wounding 390 others as of late Sunday.
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- 15 Jun 2025 10:36 AM IST
29 children among 60 killed in Tehran
At least 60 people, including 29 children, were killed in Tehran after a housing complex was struck amid a fresh wave of Israeli airstrikes, Iranian officials said on Sunday. In total, 78 deaths were reported in the first two days of Israeli strikes in Iran. Visuals showed buildings flattened, and upper floors collapsing into the street.
- 15 Jun 2025 10:34 AM IST
Seven killed in Iranian strikes
At least seven people were reportedly killed in Iranian strikes, including a 10-year-old boy and a woman in her 20s, and more than 140 injured in multiple attacks.
Israeli media said at least 35 people were missing after a strike hit Bat Yam, a city south of Tel Aviv.
- 15 Jun 2025 10:30 AM IST
'Nothing compared with what's coming': Netanyahu warns Iran
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel's strikes had set back Iran's nuclear programme possibly by years and rejected international calls for restraint.
"We will hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs' regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days," he said in a video message on Saturday.
"Israel is defending freedom in the Middle East and beyond. We're doing so against a tyrannical and radical Iranian regime that wants to build atomic bombs to destroy us and wants to build ballistic missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, to be able to threaten anyone and everywhere in the world," he added.
- 15 Jun 2025 9:03 AM IST
Israeli warplane fuelling sites targeted
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said early Sunday that the country had struck sites used by Israeli warplanes for refuelling, as the two rival states bombarded each other for a second day.
"Installations producing fuel for fighter planes and the (Israeli) regime's energy supply centres were targeted by a multitude of drones and missiles," the Guards said in a statement. "The Iranian armed forces' offensive operations will continue more fiercely and more broadly if the depravity and attacks (against Iran) continue."
- 15 Jun 2025 9:02 AM IST
Major escalation in conflict
In a sharp escalation, Israel and Iran have exchanged direct strikes on key military and strategic sites. Israel targeted Iran’s energy infrastructure, defence ministry headquarters, and alleged nuclear-related sites, while Iran fired around 200 missiles and explosive drones at major Israeli cities, including Haifa, near the country’s largest oil refinery. The attacks have killed at least seven civilians and injured over 200, signaling a dangerous new phase in the conflict.
- 15 Jun 2025 9:00 AM IST
Dozens missing after missile strike in Israel’s Bat Yam: Report
Israeli news outlet Ynet has reported that the Home Front Command estimates that 35 people are missing at the site of the hit in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv.
The number of people hurt in that strike has risen to 100, including four people with serious injuries, Ynet said.
Those killed include a 10-year-old boy and two elderly women, aged 69 and 80, the news outlet said, citing Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom.
Ynet added that in Rehovot, another city south of Tel Aviv, at least 37 people were injured in a separate missile strike.
- 15 Jun 2025 7:15 AM IST
Satellite photos reveal damage to Iranian missile bases, nuclear facilities
Satellite images analysed Saturday by The Associated Press revealed some of the damage sustained by Iran's ballistic missile arsenal and nuclear facilities in the blistering Israeli attack on the country.
Images from Planet Labs PBC taken Friday showed damage at two missile bases, one in Kermanshah and one in Tabriz, both in western Iran.
At Kermanshah, where the base is up against a mountainside, burns could be seen across a wide area after the attack. In Tabriz, images showed damage at multiple sites on the base.
At the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, southwest of Tehran, the images show multiple buildings either damaged or destroyed, including structures experts say supply power to the facility. The Natanz images were taken on Friday and Saturday by Maxar Technologies.
Natanz's enrichment plant — where Iran enriched uranium to 60 per cent purity, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90 per cent — was also destroyed.
All the Natanz facilities damaged in the strikes are above ground and it doesn't appear from the images that underground enrichment halls had any apparent damage.
Iran has not acknowledged the damage, though it reported on Israeli strikes in the area. (AP)
- 15 Jun 2025 7:14 AM IST
Putin, Trump discuss Middle East tensions, Ukraine war in phone call
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a lengthy call on Saturday to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Russia's war in Ukraine.
Trump in a posting on his Truth Social platform said they spent the bulk of their conversation focused on Israel's ongoing blistering attacks aimed at decapitating Iran's nuclear programme and Iran's retaliatory strikes. But Trump said that he also pressed Putin to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
"He feels, as do I, this war in Israel-Iran should end, to which I explained, his war should also end," said Trump, who added the conversation went about an hour.
Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said Putin briefed Trump on his recent talks with the leaders of Iran and Israel and reiterated Russia's proposal to seek mutually-acceptable solutions on the Iranian nuclear issue.
"Vladimir Putin, having condemned the military operation against Iran, expressed serious concern about the possible escalation of the conflict," Ushakov told reporters. He added that Putin raised concerns that escalating conflict between Israel and Iran threatened "unpredictable consequences for the entire situation in the Middle East".
Putin also emphasised Russia's readiness to carry out possible mediation efforts, and noted that Russia had proposed steps "aimed at finding mutually-acceptable agreements" during US-Iran negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme.
The Russia-Iran relationship has deepened since Putin launched a war on Ukraine in February 2022, with Tehran providing Moscow with drones, ballistic missiles and other support, according to US intelligence findings. AP
- 15 Jun 2025 7:13 AM IST
Israel's military says latest missiles from Iran incoming, explosions heard overhead
The latest US-Iran talks on Tehran's rapidly-advancing nuclear programme will not take place on Sunday, mediator Oman said on Saturday, while Iran launched another missile barrage a day after Israel's blistering attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites.
Both Israel's military and Iran's state television announced the latest round of missiles as explosions were heard overhead in parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv, less than an hour before midnight. Fire officials reported a collapsed building in the north. Neighboring Jordan said it has closed its airspace.
Israel's military quickly noted that it was currently striking "military targets" in Tehran, where witnesses said they heard at least two strong explosions, in the city's northeast and western areas.
Israel's ongoing "widespread strikes" in Tehran and elsewhere have left Iran's surviving leadership with the difficult decision of whether to plunge deeper into conflict with Israel's more powerful forces or seek a diplomatic route.
Oman's foreign minister, Badr al-Busaidi, said on social media the sixth round of indirect nuclear talks on Sunday "will not now take place". Although the talks are off for now, "we remain committed to talks and hope the Iranians will come to the table soon", said a senior US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss diplomacy.
Israel and Iran signalled further attacks, despite urgent calls from world leaders to deescalate and avoid an all-out war. The attacks on nuclear sites set a "dangerous precedent", China's foreign minister said. AP/PTI
- 15 Jun 2025 7:12 AM IST
Iran fires another round of missiles at Israel; explosions heard in Tehran
Iran launched a second round of missiles against Israel late on Saturday while Israel's military kept up attacks in Tehran, a day after Israel's surprise attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites over Tehran's rapidly-advancing nuclear programme. The latest US-Iran talks will not take place on Sunday, officials said.
"Tehran is burning," Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on social media, and Iranian state television said explosions were heard in the city's east and west.
Both Israel's military and Iran's state television announced the latest round of Iranian missiles as explosions were heard near midnight, while the Israeli security cabinet met. Iran's state television said oil facilities and other business installations in Haifa and elsewhere were targeted.
The Magen David Adom emergency service said one woman was killed, with over a dozen others wounded, when a two-story home in the north was hit. Within the hour, Israel's military said people could leave shelters. PTI
