Missiles from Iran rained down on Tel Aviv
The Israelis killed by air raid sirens before the epoch of nuclear cooperation: Iran’s nuclear program and the U.S.
The Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists were killed by Israeli strikes before scheduled talks in Oman on Sunday that aim to address international concerns over Iran’s enrichment program.
Air raid sirens sounded in Jordan with announcements from mosques advising Jordanians to seek shelter. The Jordan government said that it had shot down several missiles and drones over the country.
Netanyahu said Iran would accelerate its nuclear program once the region’s Iranian axis was broken. The attack on Iran was supposed to occur in April but it was postponed, Netanyahu added.
The IAEA declared Iran in violation of the non-proliferation agreements due to their proximity to nuclear weapons. Iran says its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes.
Trump said he was giving the nation “chance after chance to make a deal” on its nuclear program and said that the alternative “would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told.”
I gave Iran 60 day ultimatum to make a deal. They should have done it. he wrote on Truth Social. “Maybe they have a second chance now!”
The meeting was canceled on Saturday according to the minister of foreign affairs. But he said “diplomacy and dialogue remain the only pathway to lasting peace.”
The sixth round of talks between the United States and Iran about their nuclear program was scheduled to begin in Oman on Sunday. The U.S. was trying to strike a deal with Iran to limit its uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting sanctions, which have crippled Iran’s economy.
The Israeli military said the scientists had played key roles in advancing Iran’s nuclear program, and called their deaths a “significant blow” to Iran’s ability to pursue weapons of mass destruction.
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Fears of a larger regional conflict have grown because it could affect neighboring countries as well as disrupt global energy markets.
The air defense systems of the U.S helped shoot down Iranian missiles that were fired at Israel. The U.S. official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Iran’s U.N. ambassador to the UN accused Israel of trying to kill diplomacy and called it the most dangerous and terrorist regime in the world. He urged the Security Council to hold Israel accountable.
Over 320 people were injured and 78 people were killed. Iran’s state television reported that a residential building in Tehran was also hit, and the death toll was expected to rise.
Israeli emergency services organization Magen David Adom said three people were killed and dozens more injured. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that children were among the Palestinians injured by shrapnel near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran “crossed red lines” by firing missiles at “civilian population concentrations,” and warned it would would pay a “very heavy price,” the Times of Israel reported.
In a video statement on Friday evening, Prime Minister Netanyahu said the attack on Iran was in the works for months since September, following Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, in Beirut.
The devastating impact of a rocket strike on a neighborhood: One house and one building in Rishon LeZion, Tel Aviv
Mr. Malachi said he was at home with his wife, sons and two of his small grandchildren when the missile hit, around 5 a.m. on Saturday. The door to his room was opened by the impact. The man emerged onto the street and saw ambulances and bloodied people in the street.
It was not immediately clear whether the damage and deaths had been caused by the missiles themselves or interceptors sent to shoot them down, or falling fragments of both. The Israeli military wouldn’t give details about where missiles and interceptors had hit.
The streets of central Tel Aviv were empty on Saturday, and there was a loud alarm from damaged cars and buildings. A gaping hole in one of the highrises was left by the missile attack the night before.
After the air-raid alarms went off, a loud blast and smoke poured into their shelter in the fortified room in the apartment that Amit and her husband were in.
They were not able to see in the dark, so they ran into a hallway and found their floor had been destroyed. She said you couldn’t recognize anything. There was no more house.
Like dozens of residents in the area, she will be housed in a hotel until the building can be made habitable again. The municipal office said that because her building was hit, Ms. Tzur-Amrani will not be able to retrieve her belongings for at least a week.
People from the Rishon LeZion suburb — and some curious visitors — came out to inspect the damage of a strike that had killed two people in a two-story home, one of hundreds of houses in the dense neighborhood of palm-lined streets, cul-de-sacs and alleys.
The sight was not entirely unfamiliar to residents. Since the beginning of the war in Gaza in October of 2020, Rishon LeZion has previously been hit with a number of rockets.
Tzabari Malachi lives next to the destroyed home and said that they are already practiced. On Saturday, he watched the tumult on the street from his balcony.
There were shattered roof tiles and glass on the sidewalks after a projectile killed two people in a two-story home. People who lived close to the impact site were hurrying to get their belongings out of their homes.