{"id":153890,"date":"2025-06-19T05:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/israel-iran-live-israeli-hospital-hit-by-missile-israel-bombs-nuclear-reactor-after-warning-iranians-to-flee-area-sky-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:14:58","slug":"israel-iran-live-israeli-hospital-hit-by-missile-israel-bombs-nuclear-reactor-after-warning-iranians-to-flee-area-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/israel-iran-live-israeli-hospital-hit-by-missile-israel-bombs-nuclear-reactor-after-warning-iranians-to-flee-area-sky-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Iran live: Israeli hospital hit by missile &#8211; Israel bombs nuclear reactor after warning Iranians to flee area &#8211; Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran continued, with fighting now entering a seventh day. This morning, there have been explosions reported over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as missiles were fired from Iran. Meanwhile, Israel has bombed a heavy water nuclear reactor in Iran.<br \/>Thursday 19 June 2025 06:13, UK<br \/>&nbsp;Here are some of the latest pictures from the Israel-Iran conflict.<br \/>We&#8217;ve brought you news of the Iranian attacks on Israel, and Tehran&#8217;s missiles lit up the sky over some Israeli cities overnight.<br \/>These strikes were pictured from Tubas and Jerusalem.<br \/>The hospital that has been struck by an Iranian attack in southern Israel has been named.<br \/>It is reported to be the Soroka Hospital, in Beersheba, according to the country&#8217;s foreign ministry.<br \/>It was said to have sustained &#8220;extensive damage&#8221;.<br \/>Israel has attacked an Iranian heavy water reactor after demanding that people nearby evacuate, state media says.<br \/>Iranian officials said the facility was not properly evacuated by the time of the attack, ISNA agency reports.<br \/>State television also confirmed the attack.<br \/>It marks the latest in the Israeli efforts to dismantle Iran&#8217;s nuclear infrastructure.<br \/>A hospital in southern Israel has been hit after Iranian missile strikes this morning, Israeli media says.<br \/>It was one of a number of attacks, with reports that other areas have also been targeted.<br \/>According to a military official, several population centres, including the hospital, were hit after dozens of missiles were launched.<br \/>Rescuers said an Iranian missile landed a &#8220;direct hit&#8221; on a medical building.<br \/>Both state media in Tehran and the Israel Defence Forces commented on the attack.<br \/>The IDF said: &#8220;Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat.&#8221;<br \/>However, despite this, it seems Israeli defences were penetrated.<br \/>It isn&#8217;t clear where all of the attacks have taken place.<br \/>Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage of the conflict between Israel and Iran.<br \/>Overnight, back-and-forth strikes between the two nations continued as fighting has now entered its seventh day.<br \/>The Israel Defence Forces conducted a series of strikes on the capital Tehran, and beyond.<br \/>Israel also issued evacuation orders for people living near Iran&#8217;s Arak heavy water reactor.<br \/>It comes after Iran&#8217;s supreme leader rejected US calls to surrender and warned that any Washington involvement would cause &#8220;irreparable damage to them.&#8221;<br \/>Meanwhile, in Washington, Donald Trump discussed striking Iran, saying: &#8220;I may do it. I may not do it.&#8221;<br \/>He also claimed Tehran was weeks away from a nuclear weapon before holding a meeting on the conflict in the Situation Room.<br \/>Iran itself continued to launch a wave of attacks on Israel, with explosions reported over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.<br \/>Israeli media reported at least four impact sites after the strikes.<br \/>Iran&#8217;s state media also reported that missiles were launched towards Israel.<br \/>In the UK, Sir Keir Starmer chaired a COBRA emergency meeting on the situation in the Middle East.<br \/>And while the world&#8217;s focus has switched to the fighting with Iran, Palestinians continued to be killed in Gaza, with at least 140 people being killed by Israel yesterday, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.<br \/>Thank you for following the latest updates on the aerial war between Israel and Iran.<br \/>Before you go, here&#8217;s a summary of today&#8217;s key updates:<br \/><b>Watch: Trump demands Iran&#8217;s surrender<\/b><br \/><b>Watch: Supreme leader&#8217;s warning to US<\/b><br \/><b>Watch: Can Iran&#8217;s leadership be toppled?<\/b><br \/>A hacking group with possible ties to Israel says it has attacked one of Iran&#8217;s largest cryptocurrency exchanges and destroyed nearly $90m (\u00a367m) in crypto.<br \/>Gonjeshke Darande, or &#8220;Predatory Sparrow,&#8221; claimed the attack on Nobitex, which it claimed helps the Iranian government avoid sanctions and finance illicit operations around the world.<br \/>In a post on X Nobitex said it had pulled its website and app offline as it reviewed &#8220;unauthorised access&#8221; to its systems.<br \/>The funds were moved to hacker-controlled wallets denouncing Iran&#8217;s&nbsp;Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs, which said the total theft amounted to $90m across multiple types of cryptocurrencies. <br \/>The way the hacker-controlled wallets were created suggests the hackers would to be able to access the stolen money, meaning they &#8220;effectively burned the funds in order to send Nobitex a political message,&#8221; blockchain analysis firm Elliptic said in a blog post. <br \/>Elliptic&#8217;s post shared evidence suggesting Nobitex had sent and received funds from cryptocurrency wallets controlled by groups in Gaza such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as the Houthis in Yemen.<br \/>It was&nbsp;Gonjeshke Darande&#8217;s second operation in two days, with the group claiming to have destroyed data at Iran&#8217;s state-owned Bank Sepah yesterday.<br \/>Israel&#8217;s air strikes on Iran have likely set the country&#8217;s nuclear programme back by a few months, Sky News&#8217;s US partner NBC News reports.<br \/>Over the last week Israel has hit centrifuge plants used to enrich uranium and labs used to convert uranium gas into a metal, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Israeli officials.<br \/>The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany plan to hold nuclear talks with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva on Friday, Reuters reports.<br \/>A German source told the news agency the ministers will first meet with the European Union&#8217;s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, before holding a joint meeting with the Iranian foreign minister.<br \/>The aim of the talks is to persuade the Iranian side to firmly guarantee it will use its nuclear programme solely for civilian purposes, the source said.<br \/>Iran has summoned the Swiss envoy to Tehran as a representative of the United States in the country to protest Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;provocative&#8221; remarks, Iranian media has reported.<br \/>There is no official US embassy in Iran, after diplomatic ties were severed following the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, when a group of Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran and took 66 American diplomats and citizens hostage.<br \/>It came after Trump demanded Iran&#8217;s &#8220;unconditional surrender&#8221; earlier today (see 06.42 post).<br \/>Tehran also summoned the German ambassador in Iran to protest&nbsp;Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s &#8220;offensive remarks,&#8221; Iranian media reported.<br \/>Yesterday the German chancellor said the complete destruction of Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons programme could be on the agenda if Tehran does not back down and return to the negotiating table.<br \/>Be the first to get <span>Breaking News<\/span><br \/>Install the Sky News app for free<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxPTC1mRVNoaThkZVJmMEhzM05hUHhDWng5M2hnRHNUMnFzZzZIRFQ5bVBZYU45NFV2Zm16ajgtNXRyOS1peEh6ZXVpbzdXMEotcHRyWXlzTWZYVzc5Uy1ldDJjMTgxN3JmSlVUMW5vbFhwa0F3cWNibE9VaXpBTHNId09mR2ZfdFVveE01WC11ZklrOHFiNWc?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran continued, with fighting now entering a seventh day. This morning, there have been explosions reported over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as missiles were fired from Iran. Meanwhile, Israel has bombed a heavy water nuclear reactor in Iran.Thursday 19 June 2025 06:13, UK&nbsp;Here are some of the latest pictures from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}