Israel-Iran War: Casualties Rising as Attacks Enter Fourth Day

Israel has admitted to rocket attacks on Tel Aviv, Haifa and other Israeli cities, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 500 others.

Iran’s Health Ministry reports a total of 224 people have been killed, with 1,277 people hospitalized, by Israeli attacks.

Middle east (ANN)-The office of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says twenty-four people were killed in Iran’s latest barrage of strikes on the country. as Iran continues its fourth day of bombings. But Israel said attacks on iran to continue and will strikes targets in waves.

Iran has hit back at Israeli cities namely Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem with more ferocity as its ballistic and hypersonic missile landed in two back-to-back rounds. However, as Rifat Jawaid he is a formerly of the BBC World Service, explained the biggest embarrassment for Benjamin Netanyahu-led regime came when its much-publicised American air defence system, Arrow 3 malfunctioned and exploded soon after its launch. Iran claimed it was behind this explosion.

Meinwhile, Fighting between Israel and Iran has entered a fourth day, after Israel launched a sweeping, unprovoked attack. Iran’s Health Ministry reports a total of 224 people have been killed, with 1,277 people hospitalized, by Israeli attacks. Iran has responded by launching a wave of missile attacks on Tel Aviv, Haifa and other Israeli cities, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 500.

According the  speak with Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, who says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “basically bombed away President Trump’s only possibility for a diplomatic win early on in his second term.” Vaez also argues President Trump is the only world leader with the ability to “stop this cycle of escalation from expanding into a much more disastrous regional conflagration.”

Iranian-born Israeli political activist Orly Noy says Netanyau launched strikes on Iran to salvage his dwindling political popularity. The Israeli people are very susceptible to believing “the imaginary threats that Netanyahu uses,” says Noy.

Dozens more have been injured after multiple missiles made it past Israel’s air defense systems. Loud explosions were heard in multiple cities, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Fires have been seen at sites near the port city of Haifa, including the main power plant. Search and rescue efforts are underway.

Elijah Magnier, a military and political analyst, says he believes the hostilities between Israel and Iran will only get worse, but that Israeli support for the war may wane if the destruction continues.
“I think it’s going to continue escalating because we are just in the first days of the war that Israel declared on Iran,” he told Al Jazeera.

Netanyahu said Iran fired a missile at his bedroom window. Iran said that 44 drones and quadcopters of the Israeli regime were intercepted and destroyed along the Iranian borders.

“And also the Israeli officials, the prime minister and the army, have all warned Israeli society that this war is going to be heavy and … the price is going to be extremely high. But the society that stands behind Benjamin Netanyahu and supports the war on Iran did not expect this level of destruction because, since 1973, Israel has not waged a war on a country and never been attacked on this scale, right in the heart of Tel Aviv,” Magnier said from Paris.

“So now they are realising what the Palestinians have been suffering, what the Lebanese have been suffering, and they see the destruction in front of them, buildings in Tel Aviv, in Haifa destroyed, fire everywhere. The properties no longer exist. Eight people killed, 250 wounded in one day. That’s unheard of since a very long time in Israel. So, all that is not something that the Israeli society has been ready for,” he added.

According to BBC, A spokesperson for Israel’s military said on Monday that Israel has “achieved full aerial control above Tehran”. but Araweelo News Network cannot independently verify the claim.

“We have destroyed one third of the Iranian Regime’s surface-to-surface missile launchers,” Brigadier General Effie Defrin also said in a media briefing.

More Israeli air strikes have been reported in Tehran, as the Israeli military warned people in parts of the Iranian capital to evacuate.

Also, The Israel Defense Forces said people in parts of Tehran’s District 3 should leave as it targets “military infrastructure” in the area.


Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent BBC World service, say, “Now he is in, he is all in,” is how one western official described Netanyahu’s game. He also underlined the view that Israel’s main goal was to cripple Iran’s nuclear programme.

That decision has been widely condemned by states across the region, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) whose Director-General Rafael Grossi underlined: “I have repeatedly stated that nuclear facilities must never be attacked, regardless of the context or circumstances.” They have also been condemned by legal scholars who argue that the strikes are illegal under international law.

But many are now asking whether Israel’s prime minister is pursuing the same goals as his top advisors and allies.

Iran had previously issued a similar warning on Sunday. Shortly afterwards, Iran began punitive strikes deep inside Israel, hitting Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among other targets.Iran has been conducting punitive strikes deep inside Israel, hitting Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among other targets, with ballistic missiles and drone. Life has come to a halt in the occupied territories as Israelis have been spending entire days in underground bomb shelters.

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Iran has announced that it has completely suspended talks with the United States that were expected to continue. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas told the media that they were not ready at this time to continue talks with the United States on its nuclear program.

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On the other hand, Israel is facing attacks from the ground from Lebanon, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis in Yemen, who continue to use missiles and drones. The situation appears to be getting worse, with fears that the war will take another turn in the coming hours, as there are currently no diplomatic channels to stop the escalating conflict.