Iran, IDF and Israel
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In his BBC interview, Iran's former crown prince Reza Pahlavi tried to give the watching audience the sense of a plan - beginning with the current war and followed by Iranians rising up against the Islamic Republic, with the West assisting with measures beyond sanctions, although he did not specify how.
A senior IDF Home Front Command official said on Sunday that the Iranian ballistic missile strike was the worst civilian strike of the war, involving a large amount of destruction and a warhead containing hundreds of kilograms of explosives.The Bat Yam building had a floor-wide safe area and an underground bomb shelter.Anyone in those areas was not harmed, said the senior IDF Home Front Command official.Those who were harmed, he noted, were not in any of the safe areas.There are under 10 people currently missing, said the official. The IDF senior home front official also said that they know who they are looking for and which apartments they were in when the Iranian strike hit.Next, the official confirmed that part of the building has collapsed and that they are reviewing the status of the rest of the building, which remains standing.Arriving to the site was complex, had to break into homes According to the IDF official, it was complex even to arrive at the site, and in some spots they had to break into houses or through walls or partially collapsed areas.Already, he said the IDF has found several people who had been categorized as missing or had been trapped, some whom it turned out were alive and some who were not.Further, he said the IDF has a large number of forces at the Bat Yam location, as well as in Rehovot, Tamra, and other sites..The IDF official noted that they had saved a Rehovot individual who had been trapped, but once rescued, was able to survive.
The conflict between Israel and Iran shows no sign of de-escalation, even though, according to the Israeli press, the Tel Aviv authorities declared yesterday that they are not seeking to overthrow the political regime in Tehran,
The Israeli military issues an "urgent warning" to people in Tehran's District 3 that air strikes will hit "military infrastructure" in the area.
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Two additional bodies were recovered from the rubble of an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam early Monday morning, ZAKA announced. The number of dead in the city alone from the missile strikes has risen to nine since ZAKA's announcement. Another person is still missing in the city due to the strikes, KAN reported.
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The Times of Israel on MSNIDF says rescue efforts in Bat Yam could take at least a dayThe IDF Home Front Command estimates that it will take at least a day to complete scans at the scene of the Iranian ballistic missile impact in Bat Yam. Six people were killed and nearly 200 were wounded after a ballistic missile struck a building,
Police: Body of man aged about 80 retrieved from site in Bnei Brak Police announced that an octogenarian man was found dead at the Iranian missile crash site in Bnei Brak.
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The Christian Post on MSNAt least 13 Israelis killed, hundreds injured during ballistic missile attacks in deadliest night of the war with IranAn Iranian ballistic missile struck a 10-story residential building in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, during a wave of attacks on Israel last night
Iranian missile strike on Bat Yam residential building. Another body located on Sunday night brings number of fatalities to eight.