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US President Donald Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social, that his country had no connection to the attack on Iran last night - and that Jerusalem and Tehran can still reach an agreement.

"The United States had nothing to do with the attack on Iran tonight," Trump wrote, threatening the Islamic Republic:"If we are attacked in any way by Iran, the full force of the American military will fall upon you at levels never seen before." He added: "However, we can easily get a deal between Iran and Israel and end this bloody conflict!!!"

Donald Trump (Photo: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Lior Ben Ari

In Iran, an air force attack was reported in the city of Kermanshah in the west of the country.

The attack in Kermanshah

Yoav Zeiton

The IDF spokesman authorized the publication that Maj. Gen. (res.) Noam Shemesh (21) from Jerusalem, a platoon commander in the Shimshon Battalion (92) of the Kfir Brigade, was killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip. Maj. Gen. (res.) Shemesh was killed after being hit by RPG fire.

Maj. Gen. (res.) Noam Shemesh (late) (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)

Or Hadar

The destruction of a building in Bat Yam (Photo: Yoav Keren)

At least 213 injured people have been admitted to hospitals so far following the serious injuries at the scenes in Bat Yam and Rehovot – a number that may be higher than the official MDA figures, since some of the injured arrived independently. Ichilov Hospital treated 27 injured people, including one baby, most of them in mild condition and three in moderate condition. Kaplan admitted 51 injured people – two in serious condition, seven in moderate condition and the rest in mild condition, including four children. Sheba treated 37 injured people, one of them in moderate condition and the rest in mild condition.

At Wolfson, 65 injured were treated - five in serious condition, seven in moderate condition and the rest in mild condition. At Shamir Assaf Harofeh, 28 injured were admitted: one in serious condition, one in moderate condition, 20 in mild condition and six panic victims. At Assuta Ashdod, five additional injured were reported - one in serious condition and four in moderate condition.

Yoav Zeiton

Combat navigator Major S. (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)

Major S., a combat navigator who participated in the wave of air force strikes in Iran, described the feelings from inside the cockpit:"I felt the responsibility in the cockpit - to remove a real and existential threat to the State of Israel. We are doing this for the peace of tomorrow, for our home. This is our mission." According to her, this is a historic moment that comes after years of focused training."When I flew on a mission 1,500 kilometers from home, I knew I was part of something big. I thought about home."

She added that the air operation was accompanied by full coordination between all teams."In real time, everything worked in perfect synchronization - ground and air teams operated together, like one body. Behind every cockpit in the air there are hundreds of people on the ground, it is an amazing joint success," she said."This is a complex and powerful operation designed to ensure that our children have a better and safer future."

Yoav Keren

The arena in Bat Yam (Photo: Yoav Keren)

G., a woman in her 50s, walked barefoot through the rubble at the scene of the attack in Bat Yam, shouting"Joya! Joyya!" - in search of her dog, which had disappeared in the moments of terror. Home Front Command forces tried to calm her down and promised to look for the dog in her destroyed apartment."I was alone at home, I heard the alarm and thought about going down to the shelter, but I ran to the bathroom first. I heard two booms, I thought it was over. Then, just when I realized that four women had been killed in the north, suddenly everything fell on me - the entire ceiling collapsed. I said to myself: That's it, I'm going to die," she told Ynet.

"I screamed, but I knew everyone was in the shelter and wouldn't hear me. I realized that either I could get out, or I would die," she added."Finally I managed to push myself out. I called my dog - but she couldn't get through the rubble. I went down to the shelter, but it was locked. I saw my neighbor covered in blood. Now my children are looking for me, but my phone is left in the apartment. I think about my parents, who are elderly, who can't go down to the shelter. You really feel like you're buried alive. And since then, I've just been looking for Joya." When she heard that there were fatalities at the scene - she burst into tears.

Meir Turgeman

The commander of the Central and Jerusalem Command in the Home Front Command, Col. Amir Ben David, updated from the scene of the impact in Rehovot that the missile directly hit the residential building and caused heavy damage and the collapse of floors."We are here in a very significant scene in Rehovot - with a missile hitting the building directly, with several floors being captured," he described to Ynet. According to him, regular rescue forces, reserve forces and the national rescue unit are operating in the area."We are currently in the final stages, after evacuating the entire population. We also saw civilians here who behaved responsibly and saved their lives," he said.

Ben David added that so far a full scan of the complex has been carried out, and now the forces are focusing on a dedicated operation to rescue a person who remains trapped at the site."We are doing the best we know how to do to get him out alive," he noted. Regarding the damage, he said that"one building was significantly damaged, and several other buildings were damaged in a relatively extensive environmental way. At first light, we will carry out additional mapping and provide a response to the population."

The destruction in Rehovot (Photo: Meir Turgeman)

(Photo: Meir Turgeman)

(Photo: Meir Turgeman)

(Photo: Meir Turgeman)

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Shalev Kahlon

The scene of the direct hit in Rehovot (Photo: Yuval Chen, Meir Turgeman, Fire and Rescue)

The scene of the crash in Rehovot (Photo: Yuval Chen)

The MDA spokeswoman said that a 10-year-old child, a 69-year-old woman, and an 80-year-old woman were murdered in the direct hit in Bat Yam. In addition, four were seriously injured, seven in moderate condition, and 89 in mild condition. In the hit in Rehovot, two were seriously injured, 12 in moderate condition, and 23 in mild condition.

Lior El-Hai, Or Hadar, Yoav Zeiton

4 girls from the same family. Murdered by a missile strike in Tamra

Four women, including a mother and her two daughters (13 and 20), were murdered last night when an Iranian missile hit a building in Tamra, which was launched during the heavy barrage in the northern region. The fourth woman murdered is also a member of the same family, a relative of the mother. These are the names of the four murdered women: Manar al-Qassem Abu al-Hija Katib, her two daughters Hala and Shada, and their relative Manar Diab Katib.

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Yoav Zeiton

Rocket fire alerts from Iran were issued in large areas of central Israel - in the Dan region, the Shephelah, Jerusalem, Sharon and Samaria. Residents in the center reported the sounds of explosions.

(Photo: Beret)

Lior El-Hai, Or Hadar, Yoav Zeiton

Hamoudi Kiwan, who was injured by the Iranian missile:"Suddenly the house fell on us" (Photos: Lior El-Hai)

Hamoudi, a resident of Tamra who lives in one of the buildings that was hit by the barrage from Iran, recalled the terrifying moments in a conversation with Ynet from his bed in the Rambam hospital."I was with my family, we were watching TV. Suddenly there was a boom, everything fell," he said."Furniture fell on us. Our lives were saved, praise be to God. The house fell on us." He noted that he does not know where the rest of his family was evacuated to.

Mahmoud Hijazi, the father of one of the injured, 16, said:"My son was at a friend's house in the evening. We were in our house. Suddenly we heard a loud boom, the sound of a fall, but we felt as if it was in our house. I started looking for my son on the phone to ask him if he should come take him home. He told me that he was being taken to Rambam. I came here immediately." He noted that his son's condition was generally fine: "He received a strong blow to the leg and back. This is a very difficult incident."

Testimonies from Tamra

Ynet

An oil tanker that was attacked in the Shahran area of Tehran (Photo: ATTA KENARE / AFP)

(Photo: ATTA KENARE / AFP)

(Photo: ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Lior El-Hai

The scene of the direct hit in Tamra (Photo: Northern Fire Department)

Firefighters and rescue workers reported that fire crews are continuing to search for people trapped under the rubble of a building that suffered a direct hit in Tamra, using mechanical engineering equipment (MEE). Firefighters from the Northern District have so far rescued four people trapped in the collapsed house - including two women who were pronounced dead at the scene.

Northern District Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Yair Elkayim, said that"even now, over an hour after the impact, firefighters and Home Front Command teams continue to search for trapped people. There is extensive destruction in the area, which is making rescue work difficult."

Noa Lutzky

The giant flames in Tehran

Ynet

Khamenei (Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS)

Israel does not rule out the possibility of also targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This was stated by a senior Israeli official to the Wall Street Journal. According to him, any target that can help disrupt the Iranian nuclear program is on the table. He noted that Israel has already eliminated nine scientists involved in the Iranian nuclear project, as well as senior officers in the Revolutionary Guards."Additional significant attacks are expected in the coming hours," he noted.

The source added that Iran's physical nuclear infrastructure had suffered a "painful blow," and part of the underground shell of the Natanz nuclear facility may have collapsed. He emphasized that the war would only end if Iran dismantled its program voluntarily - or if Israel made sure it could not rebuild it. The White House said that the US was still interested in continuing talks with Tehran, but added:"What happens today cannot be prevented." Oman announced that the meeting scheduled for Sunday between American and Iranian representatives had been canceled.

Ynet

The scene of the direct hit in Tamra (Photo: Omri Stein, MDA operational documentation)

The scene of the direct hit in Tamra

You are joining tonight's updates on the third day of the war with Iran. Here are some of the notable events that have occurred in recent hours:

Israel continued its broad strikes against targets in Iran - and also in Yemen, in parallel with a heavy missile barrage launched towards the north of the country. In the region, Iran launched a barrage of about 100 missiles towards Israel - most of which were intercepted, but some of which hit directly in the north. Three were killed, including a young woman in her 20s, from a direct hit in Tamra in the Lower Galilee. MDA also reported concerns about the possibility of being trapped.

The barrage from Iran (Photo: Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Oil tanker attacked in Tehran

At the same time, the IDF carried out the largest attack on Tehran since the start of Operation"Am Kalavi" late in the evening. As part of the operation, which was carried out simultaneously with the heavy barrage towards the north, Air Force jets attacked dozens of targets in less than an hour - including a central fuel terminal, weapons caches, and, according to estimates, also thwarted Iranian elements.

Iran's Oil Ministry admitted that the IDF attacked two fuel facilities in Tehran. The Saudi Al-Hadath channel reported an assassination attempt in the capital using an Israeli drone.

As mentioned, there was also activity in Yemen: Israel attempted to eliminate Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari – the chief of staff of the Houthi militia – at a meeting in which leader Abd al-Malek al-Houthi may also have been present. According to reports from the region, an explosion was heard in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.

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First published: 00:49, 15.06.25