Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened Monday that Tehran residents “will pay the price and soon” after Iranian missiles attacked Tel Aviv and the port city of Haifa before dawn, killing at least five people.
The last military exchange between arch Tel Aviv has said that he wants Tehran to build an atomic weapon, which the latter has constantly denied, saying that his uranium enrichment program is for civil purposes.
“Tehran residents will pay the price, and soon,” Katz wrote in X, while the missile exchange continued for a fourth day, feeding concerns among world leaders at the G7 meeting this week that the battle between the two old enemies could lead to a broader regional conflict.
Israel’s army warned Monday of a new missile save that enter Iran, such as AFP The journalists reported strong explosions in Jerusalem and fires outside the coastal city of Haifa.
“Recently, the FDI identified missiles launched from Iran to the territory of the state of Israel,” the Army published in Telegram, using the acronym for its official name.
He said that his aerial defenses were working to intercept the threat, but advised people to “enter a protected space and remain there until again notice.”
A AFP The journalist heard strong explosions in Jerusalem on early Monday, while the images showed Israeli aerial defenses working in the city.
According ReutersThe British maritime security firm Ambrey said that fires were observed in the power plant near the port of Haifa de Israel.
Ambrey said he observed video images from the Israeli army who intercepted the attack, followed by two hypersonic missile impacts.
Out of Haifa, a AFP The journalist saw the fires explode after the last Iranian flood.
Public slope of Israel, KhanHe informed that at least four areas were beaten in the last Iranian attacks against the center of Israel.
Twenty -nine people have been injured and evacuated after the last attacks of Iran, Al Jazeera He informed, citing the ambulance and blood bank of Israel.
Three of the injured are in a moderate condition, and 26 have minor injuries, he added.
A senior American official said Sunday that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, told Israel to backed up a plan to kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Reuters reported.
Israel has claimed attacks as far as Mashhad in the Far East of Iran, 2,300 kilometers (1,430 miles) from Israel. Iranian state television reported that at least five people were killed on Sunday by an Israeli strike that hit a residential building in the center of Iran.
Colonel Reza Sayyad, a spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, threatened a “devastating response” to Israel’s attacks.
“Leave the occupied territories (Israel) because they will certainly no longer be habitable in the future,” he warned in a televised direction, adding that shelters “will not guarantee security.”
The dead number in Iran has increased to 224, including 70 women and children. The Chief of Intelligence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Iran (IRGC) and two other generals were killed in Israeli attacks on Sunday, Al Jazeera reported.
According AFPThe residential areas in both countries have suffered mortal attacks since hostilities broke out, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Iran on Sunday for allegedly aiming civilians.
“They will pay a very heavy price for the premeditated murder of civilians, women and children,” he said, during a visit to the site of a missile strike in a residential building in the coastal city of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv.
His comments arrived hours after Iranian missile fire killed at least 10 people, according to the authorities, pushing the number of deaths in Israel to 13 since Iran began their retaliation strikes on Friday.
Meanwhile, a probable Iranian dron killed a woman in Syria, said a war monitor based in Britain, in what would be the first death in the Syrian soil from the current hostilities between Iran and Israel, he reported, he reported AFP
The drone hit the Women’s House in the western province of Tartus, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
The Israeli army said early on Monday that it was surprising surface to surface missile sites in the center of Iran, and added that it was “operating against this threat in our heavens and in the Iranian heavens.”
‘I will not leave’
A strong smoke cloud hung on Tehran after Israeli aircraft hit two fuel deposits. Local media also reported an Israeli strike over the police headquarters in the city center.
“We have not been able to sleep since Friday due to the terrible noise,” said a Tehran resident who gave his name as Farzaneh.
“Today they arrived at a house in our alley, and we were very scared. So we decided to leave Tehran and go to the north of the country.”
Some, however, were determined to stay.
“It is natural that the war has its own stress, but I will not leave my city,” said Shokouh Razzazi, 31, AFP
AFP Meanwhile, the images of the Israeli city of Haifa also showed a column of smoke that rose on Sunday night after a flood of Iranian missiles.
The army said the rescue teams “have been sent to several sites in Israel”, while firefighters reported that rescuers went to a building on the coast that suffered a “direct blow.”
Early in the day, in Bat Yam, the first to respond with helmets and front headlights collected a bombarded building.
“There was an explosion and I thought that the whole house had collapsed,” said Shahar Ben Zion, a resident of Bat Yam.
“It was a miracle that we survived.”
‘Make a deal’
Trump said Washington “had nothing to do” with the Israel bombing campaign, but threatened to unleash “all the strength and power” of the US army if they will attacked US interests.
On Sunday, he urged the two enemies to “make a deal”, adding that “sometimes they have to fight first.”
A senior United States official told him AFP That Trump had urged Israel to leave a plan to kill Khamenei.
“We discovered that the Israelis had plans to hit the Supreme Leader of Iran. President Trump was against, and we told the Israelis not to do so,” said the US official, speaking under condition of anonymity.
Donald Trump told him ABC News On Sunday that he would be “open” to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, being a mediator.
“It is possible that we can get involved” in the current battle in the Middle East, he said.
However, apparently contradicting his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that US pilots were knocking down drones towards Israel. In the same interview, he also said that he and Trump were “completely coordinated.”
Asked in an interview with Fox News If the regime change in Iran was one of the objectives of Israel’s strikes, Netanyahu said that “it could certainly be the result, because the Iran regime is very weak.”
Iran’s main diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, maintained that Tehran had “solid evidence” that US forces had supported Israel in their attacks.
He also told a meeting of foreign diplomats that Iran’s actions were a “response to aggression.”
“If the aggression stops, naturally our answers will also stop,” he added.
They will discard planned nuclear conversations with the United States, saying that it made no sense to negotiate while it was under fire.
Iranian media reported on Sunday that the police had arrested two suspects for alleged links with the Israel Mossad Espionage Agency.
Israel, in turn, said he had arrested two people about the alleged links with Iranian intelligence.
