Iran launches new strikes on Israel as Israeli assault widens

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Israel and Iran launched strikes towards one another for a 3rd day on Sunday, with each nations vowing to proceed responding to assaults.

On Sunday night, there have been explosions within the sky above Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as Israel's defence system shot down missiles fired from Iran.

In in a single day strikes on Saturday, ten individuals, together with two kids, have been killed and greater than 100 injured in Israel, authorities stated.

Israel stated its strikes had hit dozens of targets in Tehran. Iranian media, quoting the well being ministry, stated 224 Iranians had been killed and 1,277 injured as of Sunday night.

Israel initially launched an assault on Iranian nuclear infrastructure and different targets on Friday.

Iran later confirmed the pinnacle of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) intelligence unit, Mohammad Kazemi, had been killed, alongside a deputy and one other commander.

BBC journalists are unable to report from inside Iran as a result of restrictions by the nation's authorities, making it troublesome to evaluate the injury brought on by Israel's offensive.

In Israel, sirens blared on Sunday night, inflicting individuals to take shelter as incoming missiles have been intercepted.

Iran's state TV stated the nation attacked Tel Aviv, Haifa and different cities with "tens of Iranian missiles and drones".

Israeli police confirmed a weapon hit "one of many settlements" within the northern coastal port metropolis of Haifa, the place footage confirmed thick columns of smoke rising into the night time sky.

"At this stage, no stories of casualties have been acquired, however property injury has occurred," officers stated.

The night assault got here after in a single day strikes into Sunday morning, which hit houses in northern and central Israel.

A ten-storey block of flats in Bat Yam was struck within the early hours, killing six individuals, together with a 10-year-old-boy and a eight-year-old woman. Others have been trapped beneath rubble.

4 individuals have been additionally killed in Iranian assaults on the northern Arab city of Tamra, in keeping with emergency providers and the native hospital.

Rescue paramedic Ori Lazarovich, who was working on the scene in Bat Yam, informed BBC Information: "We began triaging individuals, whereas the constructing was nonetheless on hearth on one facet.

"Some have been crying and a few have been holding their members of the family, I noticed worry of their eyes."

"Individuals got here out all gray, lined in soot and ash and particles and affected by smoke inhalation," he added.

A lady who lived in a constructing subsequent to the blast zone in Bat Yam sat surrounded by suitcases.

"We have been right here 24 years and now we've got to start out over. I am holding myself again from crying," she informed the BBC.

Visiting the scene of the assault, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Iran would pay a "very heavy value" for "the premeditated homicide of civilians, ladies and youngsters".

In the meantime in Iran, Tehran's oil ministry stated the Shahran oil depot within the capital was hit by Israeli strikes in a single day.

Israel's navy stated fighter jets struck greater than 80 targets in Tehran in a single day, together with the Iranian Ministry of Protection and "extra targets the place the Iranian regime hid the nuclear archive".

An aerial refuelling plane was additionally struck at an airport within the north-east metropolis Mashhad.

The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) issued a warning on social media to the Iranian individuals, telling them to steer clear of all weapons manufacturing amenities.

Writing in Farsi, IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee stated: "To your personal security, we ask you to evacuate these amenities instantly and to not return till additional discover."

One resident in Tehran informed BBC Persian: "Everyone seems to be attempting to flee Tehran - a technique or one other".

One other stated: "Tehran is not protected, clearly. We get no alarms or warnings from officers about Israeli assaults. We simply hear the blasts and hope our place is not hit.

"However the place can we go? Nowhere feels protected."

Netanyahu informed Fox Information on Sunday that he thinks Israel has set Iran "again fairly a bit" in its nuclear capability.

"I feel they have been fully stunned," he stated.

Between Saturday and Sunday, the formally reported dying toll within the nation elevated by virtually 100 - from 128 as much as 224.

Nevertheless, different estimates put the variety of fatalities within the nation a lot increased.

Human Rights Activists Information Company (HRANA), a Washington-based human rights organisation that has lengthy tracked Iran, stated the overall variety of civilian or navy deaths within the nation over the previous two days - as of twenty-two:00 GMT on Saturday - reached not less than 863.

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Each nations have promised additional retaliation

"If [Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei continues to fireplace missiles on the Israeli house entrance, Tehran will burn," Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz stated.

Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araqchi stated his nation had the suitable to defend itself from aggression - and that Israel should cease its assaults.

Three US officers informed CBS Information, the BBC's US associate, that US President Donald Trump rejected a latest Israeli plan to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei .

Throughout an interview with Fox Information on Sunday, Netanyahu didn't straight affirm or deny the story, first reported by Reuters.

The Iranian former crown prince Reza Pahlavi - the son of Iran's former Shah who was overthrown within the nation's 1979 Islamic revolution - has informed the BBC individuals who oppose the nation's authorities have been "re-energised" by Israel's assaults, which killed senior Iranian navy leaders.

"The last word answer is regime change, and now we've got a possibility as a result of this regime is at its weakest level," he stated, talking from exile on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg present.

On Sunday, Trump informed ABC Information that "it is doable [the US] may become involved" after reaffirming the nation isn't concerned within the battle "at this second".

He added he's "open" to Russia's Vladimir Putin turning into a mediator between the 2 sides.

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