June 14, 2025 – Israel-Iran conflict news

• Death and destruction: The death toll from Iranian strikes on Israel overnight into Sunday has risen to eight. This adds to the three people previously killed in Israel and at least 78 killed in Iran during the recent flare-up in hostilities, as reported by authorities in each country.

• “Weeks, not days”: Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in a video address Saturday that Israel will “strike every site and every target of the Ayatollah’s regime.” Iran has threatened to intensify its attacks if Israel continues hostilities.

• Strikes in Tehran: The Israeli Air Force carried out an “extensive series of intelligence-based strikes” on a number of targets in Tehran, including the headquarters of Iran’s Ministry of Defense, the Israeli military said. Iran’s Tasnim News Agency earlier reported that the strike caused minor damage to one of the ministry’s administrative buildings.

• Energy targets: Iran said Israeli strikes targeted South Pars natural gas field – the largest in the world – and Shahran oil depot. Videos from Tehran show a large fire burning and smoke billowing in the distance.

• Failed talks: The next round of US-Iran nuclear negotiations, due to take place in Oman this weekend, has been canceled, Oman’s foreign minister has said. His Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, earlier said such talks were “unjustifiable” while Israel’s attacks continued.

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A 10-year-old boy was among the four people killed by an Iranian missile strike in central Israel, with more people still unaccounted for at the scene, according to emergency services.
A large emergency response operation is underway in Bat Yam city, where a building was directly hit.

A 60-year-old woman, an 80-year-old woman and a girl whose age was not given were also killed in the strike, according to Israel’s national emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA).

Videos from Bat Yam showed a building with its facade ripped from it, and tall piles of rubble. Emergency workers could be seen scouring the scene with search dogs, and residents gathered on the street behind a cordon line.

Brot said the first building was hit around 2:30 a.m. Other buildings in the area were also damaged, with videos showing windows shattered and window frames torn from the outer walls.

Authorities are now setting up family centers and working to support residents displaced by the strikes, he said, urging the public not to go near the site.

Lt. Dean Elsdunne, the international spokesperson for Israel Police, said they received “reports of numerous impact sites” after “a large barrage of rockets” fired from Iran.

“We have a number of casualties that we had to medically evacuate, and unfortunately those include fatalities,” he said, speaking from Bat Yam, in Reuters video. He added that police are working with other Israeli agencies, including the military, to locate missing residents and secure the scene.

About 140 people have been wounded in two locations across central Israel.

In a separate wave of strikes, four additional people were killed in northern Israel, raising the death toll from attacks overnight into Sunday to eight.

Iran says it has used its new kind of ballistic missile in the latest strikes on Israel.

According to the state-affiliated FARS news agency, Israel was hit with the Haj Qassem guided ballistic missile during a wave of strikes overnight into Sunday.

Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh told Iranian TV on May 4 that the new missile would be able to get past defenses such as the US military’s Terminal High Altitude Defense (THAAD), which has been deployed to Israel, as well as Patriot missile defenses and others that Israel employs.

Iran unveiled the missile in early May, saying it is solid-fueled, has a range of 1,200 kilometers and is equipped with a maneuverable warhead that can penetrate missile-defense systems, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.

The missile is named after Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds force, the special operations unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was killed in a US attack in Iraq during President Donald Trump’s first term.

When tensions escalate in the Middle East, Israel turns once again to its extensive air defense system – which includes the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and the Arrow systems, as well as the US military’s THAAD system – to protect its citizens from incoming air attacks at various ranges.

The missile defense system is one of the most important tools in Israel’s arsenal and has saved countless civilian lives over various conflicts in the last decade, analysts say.

Read a full story on Israel’s air defense systems, explained and visualized, here

The death toll from strikes on Israel overnight into Sunday has risen to seven, after Iran launched multiple waves of missile and drone attacks.

In the country’s north, four people were killed by a falling missile late Saturday night, police said. The national emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) had given an earlier death toll of three, saying a residential building in the Palestinian-Israeli town of Tamra had been hit.

A “weapon falling in a direct hit” killed two women in their 40s, one woman aged 20, and one 13-year-old girl, police said. They added that “a number of” residents were wounded, with emergency responders on the scene looking for anyone trapped under the rubble.

In a later wave of missile strikes, three people were killed in central Israel’s Bat Yam city, according to the MDA and Israeli police. One woman around 60 years old was killed when a building was struck, the MDA said, adding there had also been damage to “many buildings around it.”

More than 100 people were also reported injured across regions of central Israel following the strikes.

Israel’s operation against Iran is expected to take “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with implicit US approval, according to White House and Israeli officials.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has not critiqued the weeks-long timeframe in private discussions, an Israeli official told CNN. A White House official said the administration was aware and implicitly supportive of Israel’s plans. When asked about how long the conflict could continue, the official said it depended on Iran’s response.

“The Trump administration firmly believes this can be solved by continuing negotiations with the US,” the official said, adding that the US was not going to direct Israel to do anything but defend itself.

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton said the United States has “real concerns” about supporting Israel’s strikes on Iran with so many questions left unanswered – notably about whether Israel’s strikes succeeded in eradicating Iran’s nuclear program and what Israel’s “endgame” is.

“In principle, we don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon and we want to make sure they never do. But there’s a lot of technical questions that have to be answered about how you get from here to there,” Moulton told CNN’s Boris Sanchez.

Those unanswered questions explain why the US has so far been hesitant to support Israel’s attacks on Iran, said Moulton, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a veteran of wars in the Middle East.

Israel “clearly has the upper hand,” Moulton added, noting Israel’s strikes have been much more effective than Iran’s so far.

“I’d certainly want to be on Israel’s side in this, and that’s why we are. But at the same time, just like we all have been asking for years now (with the war in Gaza), what is Netanyahu’s endgame?”

Some context: Despite advancing its uranium enrichment significantly, Iran has repeatedly said that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and denied that it was developing an atomic bomb.

Israel’s military has confirmed an airstrike on the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tehran, earlier reported by Iranian state media.

The Israeli Air Force carried out an “extensive series of intelligence-based strikes” on a number of targets in the capital, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

“The targets included the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters, the headquarters of the SPND nuclear project, and additional targets, which advanced the Iranian regime’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon and where the Iranian regime hid its nuclear archive,” said the IDF statement.

Despite advancing its uranium enrichment significantly, Iran has repeatedly said that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and denied that it was developing an atomic bomb.

Iran’s Tasnim News Agency earlier reported that the strike caused minor damage to one of the ministry’s administrative buildings. A separate strike in the same area hit the defense ministry’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, Tasnim reported.

Videos posted to social media and geolocated by CNN show the aftermath of the strike with smoke rising.

Several buildings were damaged in central Israel in the latest barrage of Iranian strikes, according to Israel’s Fire and Rescue service.

An eight-story building was directly hit in the Dan district, and another residential building in the area was damaged, according to Fire and Rescue.

Several buildings in the Central district were also directly hit and a fire was burning in an open area, the agency said.

Photos provided by the agency show emergency responders digging through rubble in destroyed buildings.

Videos shared by Israel’s national emergency service Magen David Adom show a badly damaged building in central Israel, with debris on the ground.

Residents of northern and central Israel were instructed to remain near shelters as sirens sounded across the country early Sunday morning.

The Israel Defense Forces said it identified missiles launched from Iran toward Israel. “Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” it added.

An alert issued by the IDF cautioned residents to minimize movement in public areas and avoid public gatherings.

Iran threatened to intensify its attacks if Israel continued its hostilities, the public relations office of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement following a renewed wave of attacks between both countries.

“The offensive operations of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic will continue with greater force and scope if these hostilities and aggressions persist,” the IRGC said.

It added that Iran’s strikes on Israel targeted “fuel production facilities for fighter jets and energy supply centers.” CNN has not been able to independently verify its claim.

The IRGC said that the operation involved a large number of drones and missiles.

Overnight strikes launched by Israel struck the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tehran, according to Iranian state media.

Tasnim News Agency reported that the strike caused minor damage to one of the ministry’s administrative buildings. A separate strike in the same area hit the defense ministry’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, Tasnim reported.

Videos posted to social media and geolocated by CNN show the aftermath of the strike, with smoke rising.

“Tehran is burning,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz posted to X on Saturday, accompanying a video showing a large blaze in the Iranian capital.

Earlier, Iranian state media reported that an Israeli strike targeted an oil depot to the northwest of Tehran.

Videos from Tehran show a large fire burning and smoke billowing in the distance.

Iranian state media reported that the oil ministry said the situation was under control.

At least two people have been killed in Israel’s Northern District following a wave of Iranian strikes across the country Saturday.

Eight fire and rescue teams from the Northern District continued to operate at the scene of the strikes early on Sunday morning. Fire crews said they rescued four trapped women, but that two of them had died.

Northern District Commander Sergeant Yair Elkayim said: “This is a scene with extensive destruction of a four-story building that was damaged, and the upper floor partially collapsed.”

Rescue teams are conducting a search of the area for additional people who might be trapped inside damaged buildings.

The reports come after missiles were seen streaking across the sky over Israel, as both Israel and Iran announced new waves of strikes at one another.

At least one person, a woman in her 20s, has died in the western Galilee town of Tamra after the Iranian missile strike, Israel’s national emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) reported early Sunday.

Separately, firefighters are working at the scene of an impact on a four-story building also in the Galilee region, Israel Fire and Rescue Services said on Saturday. Firefighters rescued a person in critical condition and are searching for trapped people.

Fire and Rescue Services added that they are searching for another impact site near the scene.

In the Lower Galilee, three fire crews are working on a burning agricultural building.

The Israel Fire and Rescue hotline also received reports of several incidents in the coastal and northern districts, including impacts and damage to residential buildings and fires in open areas.

An Israeli strike targeted Iran’s Shahran oil depot and a fuel tank but the situation is “under control,” Iran state media IRNA reported, citing the country’s oil ministry.

The Shahran oil depot is northwest of Tehran while the tank is situated south of Tehran. Operational and emergency response teams responded to the scene, IRNA reported.

“According to initial reports, the fuel levels in both tanks were not high, and the situation is fully under control,” IRNA reported.

This comes after state media reported that an Israeli drone strike hit Iran’s South Pars gas field – the world’s largest natural gas field. Video footage circulating on social media and geolocated by CNN showed a large blaze and plumes of smoke rising from the gas field in Iran’s southern Bushehr province.

Israel released images of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with his security cabinet late on Saturday as Israel and Iran traded a fresh round of missile strikes.

On a wall behind the ministers, television screens can be seen showing the quote from the Book of Numbers that Israel used to code-name its strikes on Iran: “Behold, a people that rises like a young lion, and lifts itself up like a lion.”

A CNN journalist witnessed missiles streaking across the sky over Jerusalem late Saturday.

Iranian state media announced minutes before that a new barrage of missiles was headed towards Israel.

Iran has launched a new barrage of projectiles towards Israel, state media outlet IRNA reported late Saturday.

The Iranian outlet said that this latest volley includes both missiles and drones.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it detected incoming missiles launched from Iran in an alert issued late Saturday, urging residents across Israel to head to bomb shelters once they receive an alert.

“A short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” the IDF’s Homefront Command said.

“Upon receiving an alert, the public is instructed to enter a protected space and remain there until further notice.”

Israel has launched a wave of strikes targeting different areas of Iran, according to the Israeli military and Iranian media.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson Effie Defrin said that the Israeli Air Force’s (IAF) “ongoing operation” has lasted nearly 40 hours and targeted over 150 objectives.

“IAF aircraft are completing a wave of strikes against military and strategic assets, nuclear program sites, and high-ranking figures in Iran’s terror leadership. These are significant targets at the very heart of Iran and its terrorist proxies,” Defrin said.

The IDF confirmed that they are currently striking military targets in Tehran.

Air defenses were activated in several Iranian cities, including Tehran, Isfahan, and Mashhad, Iran’s state-owned Press TV reported.

Iranian state media also posted videos purportedly of air defenses intercepting projectiles in Zanjan and Khorramabad.