Israel attacks
Tel Aviv, Israel (dpa) — Israel continued its large-scale attacks on Iran on Sunday, expanding its 10-day offensive to the central province of Yazd despite fears of a devastating regional escalation following U.S. strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites.
Around 30 Israeli fighter jets dropped bombs on a strategic missile command in Yazd, where Khorramshahr missiles are reportedly stored, marking the first Israeli attack in this part of Iran.
Around 60 of these medium-range missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers are said to have been fired from there at Israel recently.
According to a military spokesman, the Israeli Air Force also bombed missile launchers, production facilities for air-defense systems, and drone command centers and storage facilities in Isfahan, Bushehr and Ahvaz.
Iranian soldiers operating missile systems were eliminated in the attacks, he said.
The civilian nuclear power plant in Bushehr was not a target of these attacks, the spokesman added.
Revolutionary Guards killed by Israeli attacks
Seven members of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and another two soldiers were killed in Israeli strikes on military sites in the city of Yazd, according to the Tasnim news agency, the IRGC’s mouthpiece.
Elsewhere in Iran, another four IRGC members were killed in an Israeli attack on a military base in Qom province, home to the Fordow uranium enrichment facility, the local crisis team said.
The facility — widely believed to be one of Israel’s most critical targets in the war launched on June 13 — was also one of the targets of the U.S. overnight attacks on Iran.
The United States intervened in support of Israel in the conflict with Iran, launching unprecedented attacks on nuclear facilities in Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, involving the use of massive bunker-busting bombs.
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. strikes had totally obliterated Iran’s “key nuclear enrichment facilities,” but the extent of destruction was initially unclear, with the Iranian leadership saying it was still working to assess the exact damage.
An Iranian official said there is no risk to people in the region following the U.S. attack on Fordow.
The International Atomic Energy Agency also said no radiation was released outside the facilities following the attacks.
Iran retaliates
Iran threatened severe retaliation following the U.S. attacks and launched another barrage of missiles at Israel on Sunday.
Emergency services said 16 were wounded by the retaliatory attacks, with Israel’s Haaretz and ynet outlets reporting 23 injured. A hospital in Tel Aviv said it had admitted 21 people for treatment, including two children.
Before Sunday’s missile attacks, the Israeli Health Ministry had counted 2,835 injured people since the start of the war between Israel and Iran, while 24 people have been killed.
Iran’s Health Ministry meanwhile says more than 400 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israeli attacks in Iran. Since the outbreak of the war a little over a week ago, 3,056 people have been injured, it said.
Israel’s military said it had again bombarded “military targets” in western Iran following rocket attacks from the country.
Israeli airspace reopened
Israel reopened its airspace on Sunday following an hours-long closure due to the U.S. attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran.
Take-offs and landings at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv were permitted again from 2 pm (1100 GMT), Israeli media reported, citing the Ministry of Transport.
Israel’s largest airline El Al also announced on its website that flights to Israel would resume in accordance with government authorization.
Israel first closed its airspace immediately after launching large-scale attacks on Iran on June 13.
Since then, a number of special flights have taken off and landed at the airport near Tel Aviv to bring back Israelis stranded abroad as well as carry foreign nationals looking to leave the country.
On Monday, a number of regular flights to several European destinations were due to take off again from Tel Aviv. There was initially no information on possible changes to the schedule following the U.S. intervention in the conflict.
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