Iran launched the 17th wave of its retaliatory campaign, striking Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Beersheba with long-range missiles and targeting Israeli military and media infrastructure.
On the eighth day of the war between Tehran and Tel Aviv, Iranian missiles struck several areas across Israel, from Haifa in the north to Beersheba in the south, causing serious injuries and widespread material damage.
According to Israeli media, rockets landed in Haifa, the Gush Dan region—which includes Tel Aviv—and Beersheba.
Loud explosions were reported in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
🇮🇱/🇮🇷Footage captures the direct impact of an Iranian missile near the Ministry of Interior in Haifa. pic.twitter.com/Gqs6NOkHbI
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Israel’s national ambulance service reported at least 27 injuries, including several in serious condition, following a strike in Haifa.
Meanwhile, the fire department cited significant damage in central Israel.
Israel’s Channel 13 warned of possible hazardous material leaks as a result of the Iranian bombardment, while Channel 7 reported that Iran launched approximately 20 missiles in this latest round.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that this was the 17th wave of Operation True Promise 3, involving a coordinated barrage of long-range and very heavy missiles.
❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 A different angle of the Haifa strike. pic.twitter.com/El8uFJW3AW
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According to an IRGC spokesperson, the strikes targeted “military sites, weapons industries, and command centers of the Zionist entity.”
The Iranian news outlet Nour News reported that the IRGC specifically struck Channel 14’s field broadcast headquarters in Haifa using Sejil-3 missiles, following prior warning.
In the early hours of Friday morning, a missile hit Beersheba after Israeli air defenses failed to intercept it. Iranian sources claimed the targeted facility housed active military and cyber infrastructure.
(PC, AJA)
There is a famous statement that has survived from Classical Greece ” Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive insain!” It can apply to zionist israel. For decades, israel has attacked one Arab Nation after another, with little consequence… recently they increased their mad drive for control by carrying out their utterly cruel and racist Genocide in Gaza… Secure, so they thought, in their brutal power and believing their own LIES that Iran was weak, they made the Colossal mistake of attacking IRAN.. even believing they could overturn Shi’i Islam! Well, as they are discovering now, IRAN is Not weak,…and israel may well have committed national suicide.ALLAHU AKBAR !!
Well put! Dr. Ali Abunimah had the same thought: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-made-catastrophic-mistake-attacking-iran
The Mullah Nasrudin was sitting in his local cafe, drinking coffee with some friends when a small boy ran past and knocked his hat off. He did nothing other than picking up his hat and putting it back on his head. “Aren’t you going to do something to stop him?” asked his friends. “It can wait”, was the Mullah’s reply. And over the weeks following the small boy did exactly the same thing. Till one day a big burly soldier was sitting at their table, drinking coffee. The small boy ran past, and knocked his hat off. The soldier didn’t say a thing, merely stood, swung his sword at the boy and sat down. “You see,” the Mullah Nasrudin said. “He’ll never do that again.”