A hospital located in the Beersheva region, southern Israel, has suffered a direct impact this Thursday during the last launch of Iranian missiles against Israel shortly after 7:00 local time (4:00 GMT), firefighters report.
The affected center is the Soroka hospital and one of its spokesmen ensures that the facilities have suffered “extensive damage” in different areas. Several minor injured have been treated, according to Israeli media.
“Scene in the Southern District: Direct impact on a medical center, there was a fire in the place,” confirms the Fire Department in a statement, which also details impacts without injured in the Dan district, which engages the city of Tel Aviv and its metropolitan area, and in the center of Israel.
According to social networks images, a strong smoke has flooded the center after the impact, which suffers severe damage on a facade of more than four floors, in addition to broken crystals and generalized destruction inside. Vehicles close to the center have also finished carbonized.
According to the Haaretz newspaper, the staff were on the ground floor in order to mitigate the risk for their lives in case of an impact. Firefighters are looking for and rescuing trapped people. At least three people suffer serious injuries, including a man of about 60 years, one is in a moderate state and seven suffer minor injuries after an impact on the central city of Holon, according to toilets of the Israeli emergency service Magen David Aadom.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, has said they will pay “a high price” after the missile reached the medical center. “At the moment, we remember what is really at stake,” said the president of the country, Isaac Herzog. For his part, the Israeli minister, Israel Katz, has accused the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Jameneí, to hide in his fortified bunker while “shoots with precision against hospitals and residential buildings in Israel.” And he added: “These are war crimes of the greatest gravity, and Jameneí will respond for their crimes.”
During the offensive of more than 20 months that have claimed the lives of more than 54,000 people, the Netanyahu Army has constantly attacked hospitals and their surroundings in Gaza, leading to the health system of the Palestinian enclave on the edge of the total collapse. An independent commission sent by the UN accuses Israel of a list of war crimes and against humanity, including extermination, while the country faces a cause for genocide in the Court of International Justice and its prime minister is the object of an order of arrest of the International Criminal Court.
Israel attacks an inactive nuclear reactor in Iran
Meanwhile, the Israeli army has confirmed to have attacked an inactive nuclear reactor in Arak during the night, located in the center of Iran and about 250 kilometers to the southwest of Tehran, “in order to prevent it from being reactivated.”
“Within the framework of a broad effort to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon, the nuclear reactor in the Arak area, in Iran, was attacked, including the structure of the seal of the reactor nucleus, a key component in the production of plutonium,” reports a military state other areas.
Israel had warned this morning that the installation would attack and urged the population to flee from the Arak area, according to an evacuation order issued in X by the military spokesman in Arabic, Avichay Adraee.
“The attack was aimed at the component for the production of plutonium, in order to prevent the reactor from being restored and used for the development of nuclear weapons,” adds the army, which details that it has also attacked from the air batteries of air defense, land-land missile stores and components used in the assembly of ballistic missiles, among other objectives.
It is the seventh consecutive day that Israel Bombardea will go since last Friday launched an extensive military offensive on the Persian country to prevent it from moving forward in its nuclear program.
The attacks have decimated the military and nuclear infrastructure of Iran, and the lives of 224 people have been claimed, according to the official figures of the Persian government, although the total number can be higher. Iran's response to Israel has left 24 dead.
