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Iran Missile Strike Israel: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warned that Tehran’s residents would “pay the price” after Iranian missile attacks killed Israeli civilians.
Israeli soldiers search through the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike (Photo: AP)
Iran Missile Strike Israel: On Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Monday warned that Tehran’s residents would “pay the price” for Iranian strikes on Israeli civilians
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“The boastful dictator from Tehran has turned into a cowardly murderer, deliberately firing at Israel’s civilian home front in an attempt to deter the (Israeli military) from continuing the offensive that is crippling his capabilities,” Katz wrote on his Telegram channel.
“The residents of Tehran will pay the price — and soon,” he added.
Katz’s warning came as Iran launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, triggering air raid sirens across the country.
Emergency services reported that at least three people were killed, and dozens more were injured in the fourth day of open warfare between the regional foes.
Iran announced it had launched some 100 missiles and vowed further retaliation for the surprise attack on its nuclear programme and military leadership that Israel began last Friday.
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Powerful explosions, likely from Israel’s defence systems intercepting Iranian missiles, rocked Tel Aviv shortly before dawn on Monday, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky over the coastal city.
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 Associated Press reported.
The Israeli Magen David Adom emergency service reported that two women and one man 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.
The MDA added that paramedics had evacuated another 74 injured people to hospitals, including a 30-year-old woman in serious condition, while rescuers were still searching for residents trapped beneath the rubble of their homes.
On Sunday, Iran said Israel had killed the Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence chief and pummelled population centres 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.
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Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.
Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.
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