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Iran launched dozens of missiles at Israel early on June 16, causing some 300 casualties and some heavy material losses.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that some 40 missiles were fired and that air defense systems intercepted most of them. Still, multiple impacts were reported in the north, center and south of Israel, with Hebrew media reporting casualties.
Four people were killed in the central city of Petah Tivka and another in the city of Bnei Brak, located in the same region. Three more were killed in the northern city of Haifa, where a power plant was allegedly hit. Damage was also reported at the United States embassy in the central city of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli Health Ministry also said that 287 people were hospitalized nationwide as a result of the Iranian missile attack. One person was listed in serious condition, and 14 were moderately injured. The remainder were lightly injured or suffered acute shock.
While the IDF didn’t acknowledge any losses, videos posted to social networks showed the explosion of what appear to be air defense systems in Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel.
Later, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that the latest missile strike “disrupted the enemy’s multilayered defense systems by employing new methods. Iranian media said that more hypersonic ballistic missiles were used.
Iran has one known hypersonic ballistic missile in service, the Fattah-1. The missile can travel at 15 times the speed of sound and has a range of up to 1,400 kilometers.
Amid the Iranian strike, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen targeted Israel with a single ballistic missile. The IDF said, however, that the missile fell short.
Beside the missiles, the IDF announced the interception of multiple suicide drones over the last 24 hours. Video footage showing warplanes and warships shooting down several were released by the military, which didn’t provide any specific number.
Iran has launched some 350 ballistic missiles at Israel since the start of the confrontation on June 13, according to the IDF, which said that the barrages consist of some 30-60 missiles each, adding that the majority of the missiles were intercepted.
The IDF also revealed that the Israeli Air Force has so far intercepted more than 100 Iranian drones. The Israeli Navy intercepted 25 additional dornes, some using LRAD interceptor missiles, part of the Barak MX air defense system installed in Sa’ar 6-class corvettes, according to the military. The range of the radar-guided LRAD is reported to be around 70 kilometers with an altitude of 20 kilometers.
Video footage shared by Iranian media revealed that the IRGC has began to use Arash-2 suicide drones in attacks on Israe. The drone has a 2,000 km strike range and carries a 150 kg warhead.
In all, 24 people have been killed in Iranian strikes, so far. That number is expected to rise, as one person is still missing and presumed dead.
Iranian strikes, part of a retaliatory operation codenamed True Promise 3, are clearly becoming more effective. Israel likely planned for its attack on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, codenamed Operation Rising Lion, to be a quick one, but recent developments suggest that this confrontation could go on for weeks, or even months.
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it was very obvious for a long time that israel (probably the us behind it) wanted to provoke iran into a war. when you forgo basic human decency (like not slaughtering defenseless women and children), you are ready to go to any length. iran resisted the urge to respond violently to the various provocations. it enabled it to probably prepare well for the inevitable.
it also made it clear for those who weren’t already aware of who the aggressor is, what its methods are and ultimately how to protect your nation from being targeted. and all of this reeks of desperation. all the plans of the us, carefully designed by think tanks with ulterior motives, fail more or less completely. but such is the path of declining empires that they can’t change the methods that worked before even when they have become totally counterproductive.
why are top israelian officials making plans to flee?
they know their bibi regime is on the verge of collapse…eheheheh
unlike trumps us backstabbers, usa is coming not to the aid of its greatest ally israel… jewish potato-diggers will shit their diapers after tel aviv is leveled…heheheh
jewish idiots already forgot their total humiliation when their hero menachem begin go death from israel & sent to a jewish grave apartment…eheheheheheeh!!!!!!!!!!
menachim begin always begins but never ends things
israel only has few desalination plants. knock out just 3. there is something in the water there anyway. they might need a change of water
has bibi returned from his greek holiday yet?
it was “obvious” but it was also obvious that it was a death wish.
israel also forgot they fired the first shot and thus became the aggressor.
the regime change plan for this is laid out in a document. i will direct you. find the paper by brookings institute “which path to persia”. go to chapter 5. it spells it out – the “leaving it to bibi” option. trump of course knew. the problem is, persians will not rise up and do what the moronic israeli foreign ministry calls for – to sow chaos in their nation to appease zionist reptilians. when they took out bashar assad, they cleared the airspace for bombing iran.
i wish the europeans where that open about their dirty dealings
all you have to do is study ussa stink tanks papers. they lay everything out openly. you will be ahead by decades. train ai models on them. then yo can have a westoid neocon ai chatbox that talks like vicki nudelman. she can answer all your pressing question
operation timber sycamore
exactly, but what sort of morons are those julani head choppers to help them?
in this war of attrition, israel will lose. iran has 40, 000 missiles to rain down on israel. this was a terrible blunder by bibi.
sure. thx for rhe good laugh, sf! ruzzian propaganda is so fking crappy and therefore hilarious 🇷🇺=🤡 😆😆😆
🫵=🤡 😂😂😂😂😂 go and knock your head on a wall sholom 😂😂😂😂
that army parade was pretty embarrassing.
i was a bit disappointed too. there wasn’t any tik tok dancing. and transsexual team 6 wasn’t on the parade.
el trumpo…wishes he was putin
i have never seen sloppy marching like it, more like slouching
most important thing is that iran fights the thing through. israel cannot cope with months of constant rocket strikes. but iranians same as taliban should be tough and pray and stick to allah, and fight the thing through !!! also hezbollah needs to be reactivated, and shoot rockets volley into israel and destroy that f+cking dimona israeli nuclear reactor !
butt hurt yiddy idiot squeals
keep coming back for more, you know you like it
when this war ends there will be no “israel” remaining.
time for iran to put the finishing touches on the straits of hormuz… “plug it up”!… lets see how western europe reacts when 0range tac0 makes that one a reality which increasingly is looking like will happen!.. how do you make an uncle $hl0m0 moan?… take away it’s entitlement($)!… rinse and repeat for the great eu. they both should have turned on their leaders in civil war long before iran was forced to do this.
trumpy dumpty taco man had a big fall. trumpty dumpty taco man could not be put tigether again hahahah
trump is pot of his depth he doesn’t know what to do now iran has given him a reality check.
payback is a bitch.
es el momento en el que las fuerzas de resistencia deben estar más unidas y coordinadas que nunca(yemen, hezbollah, hamas, resistencia de irak)deben atacar coordinadamente la infraestructura militar y energética del régimen de israel, bases, industrias militares, para ello cuentan con misiles de presicion drones de ataque.ademas irán debe recibir la ayuda militar de sus aliados rusos, chinos, corea del norte.
estos países podría proveer a irán de sistemas antiaéreos, de distinto tipo, además de misiles balísticos, de crucero y drones de ataque. esto sería necesario ya que ee.uu y sus aliados occidentales están ayudando a israel con armas y equipos. irán no debe combatir solo debe apoyarse en sus aliados y los grupos de resistencia.
abrir nuevos frentes es ahora necesario ya que israel no podría hacer frente al ataque combinado de los houties, hezbollah, hamas y los grupos de resistencia iraquíes, estos podrían disparar misiles hipersonicos, balísticos y drones de ataque que saturarían las defensas antiaéreas israelíes.