Israel hit more Iranian military targets and Iran retaliated
Tehran meets Israel in a fourth day of conflict: Iran targets more Iranian military targets, Iran retaliates on Monday, a joint statement by the United States
The conflict between Iran and Israel entered its fourth day on Monday and some in the region are worried that it will spiral out of control.
Four people were killed when a missile hit a house in Petah Tikvah. The dead included two men and two women, all in their 70s. The Magen David Adom emergency services shared pictures of babies being saved.
One missile hit the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv, causing minor damage to its facade, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in a post on X, adding the consulate would remain closed on Monday. No U.S. personnel were hurt in the strike. Despite continued international calls for de-escalation, neither side showed signs it was prepared to enter talks.
“The issue here is not ceasefire, the issue here is stopping those things that will threaten our survival and we are committed to stopping it and I think we can achieve it.”
On Monday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned more rounds of strikes against Israel would be “more forceful, severe, precise and destructive than previous ones.”
In a post on his website, President Trump urged Iran and Israel to make a deal, but later said they need to fight it out.
If confirmed, the strike would mark the latest blow in a string of hits to Iran’s military power since Israel launched its surprise attack last week targeting the country’s nuclear capabilities. Israel considers Iran’s nuclear program to be a direct threat to its national security.
The military spokesman is from Israel. Gen. Effie Defrin said the Air Force had achieved “full aerial superiority” over the skies of Tehran on Monday. He added that the military had destroyed a third of Iran’s missile launchers.
Gaza: The death toll mounts in Gaza — and hunger deepens, says a Gazan teacher who fled from Hamas during a 1922 attack
Iran’s Health Ministry says more than 200 people have been killed since the start of Israel’s offensive, including many women and children, and more than 1,000 people have been injured.
GAZA CITY and DUBAI — Israel’s primary focus is now its war with Iran, but Israeli troops are still holding territory deep inside Gaza, and Tuesday marked the deadliest day in recent weeks for Palestinians there trying to reach food distribution sites and trucks.
Health officials in Gaza say at least 59 people were killed by Israeli military drones and artillery fire Tuesday, and more than 200 wounded, trying to get food. Most of the deaths, at least 45, occurred at an intersection in southern Gaza’s city of Khan Younis, where a large crowd of people had amassed waiting for trucks to enter carrying flour.
Israel says its restrictions on food and its continued blockade of other aid is to keep the items from benefiting Hamas. The group holds at least 20 hostages still alive and the bodies of 33 hostages who died in the October 7, 1922, attack on Israel.
The 32-year-old teacher walked from his tent encampment near the coast for several hours in the hopes of getting a sack of flour to feed his four children.
He said he often tries to distract his children when they talk about hunger until they go to sleep. “So, I decided to go and take the risk and get some flour.”
He and others slept on the road while waiting for trucks. He was going to take a sack of flour out of the trucks, but also had the equivalent of $170 in his wallet to buy something if he couldn’t get one himself.
Source: As Israel turns its focus to Iran, the death toll mounts in Gaza — and hunger deepens
Gaza’s Red Cross Field Hospital: Delivering Food to the Gazan Population after Israel’s Attack in Khan Younis, Israel, a statement from Gaza on Tuesday
Palestinian survivors and doctors say just before 9 a.m., the crowd swelled and moved closer to the main roundabout, which is in an area Israel has ordered evacuated. They claim that the drones fired on the crowd. Artillery shells were also fired.
Saigaly said that piece of human flesh and bones fell over him, but that it did not hit him. I saw lots of dead people.
The dead and wounded were brought to the nearby Nasser Hospital, the last functioning hospital in the area and currently Gaza’s biggest. Videos were taken by hospital staff and shared online showing corpses in carts outside the emergency room.
Doctors Without Borders, which has staff at the hospital, said its medical team had to evacuate the maternity ward to make room for the wounded from Israel’s attack in Khan Younis on Tuesday. The group says many of the injured required amputations.
“The hospital has exceeded its capacity and is operating with limited supplies. It could collapse at any moment,” the group’s emergency coordinator Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa said.
More than 170 people were brought to the Red Cross Field Hospital in southern Gaza by gunshots, and many of them were wounded trying to get to one of GHF’s sites. And on Monday, the field hospital said another 200 cases arrived at the hospital under similar circumstances.
The food is being provided at a number of fenced-off sites. The sites are located in the red zones of Gaza. This has drawn thousands of Palestinians almost daily to areas designated as off-limits to them, and where Israeli troops are positioned.
In a statement Tuesday, GHF said, “People are starving in Gaza and their desperation can create hazardous conditions.” The group said that until there is enough food in Gaza, it will not always complete orderly deliveries but is doing everything it can to provide food quickly.
He said that the scheme for aid distribution wouldn’t work. “Now I think all of the world can agree that that was the case.”