Iran launched strikes against each other for a third day on Sunday, with both countries vowing to continue responding to attacks.
On Sunday evening, there were explosions in the sky above Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as Israel's defence system shot down missiles fired from Iran.
In overnight strikes on Saturday, ten people, including two children, were killed and more than 100 injured in Israel, authorities said.
In Haifa, an oil refinery was damaged, the firm operating it said. Israel’s main international airport and airspace was closed for a third day.
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv said that Iranian missiles had hit a residential building there, charring concrete walls, blowing out windows and heavily damaging multiple apartments.
The Israeli Magen David Adom emergency service reported that two women and one man — all in their 70s — were killed in the wave of missile attacks that struck four sites in central Israel. That brought the total death toll in Israel to at least 17 since Iran began launching missiles at the country in response to Israel’s sweeping attacks on its military and nuclear infrastructure last Friday.
Following a spate of missile strikes from Iran into Israel on Monday morning, local time, Israeli Emergency Services said medical teams have confirmed three people were killed and over 70 others were injured. Two women and one man, all approximately 70 years old, were killed, officials said. A 30-year-old woman is in serious condition and five others are in moderate condition. The remaining injuries were mild, officials said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that if Israeli strikes on Iran stop, “our responses will also stop.” But after a day of intensive Israeli aerial attacks that extended targets beyond military installations to hit oil refineries and government buildings, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard struck a hard line, vowing that further rounds of strikes would be “more forceful, severe, precise and destructive than previous ones.”
The day before Israel’s military struck dozens of sites across Iran, expanding its targets beyond military installations to hit oil refineries and government buildings.
Iran on Sunday said Israel had killed the Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence chief and pummeled population centers in intensive aerial attacks that raised the death toll from Israel’s campaign to 224 people since Friday.
Health authorities also reported that 1,277 were wounded in Iran, without distinguishing between military officials and civilians. Rights groups putting together their own casualty reports in the country have suggested that the Iranian government’s death toll is a significant undercount.
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