(14 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ramat Gan, Israel – 13 June 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Mednick, The Associated Press:
+PARTIALLY OVERLAID+
"This is Ramat Gan , it’s a suburb of Tel Aviv that was just hit really hard by missiles that came from Iran. You can see behind me here, this area is cordoned off. This balcony up here, we were just told that we needed to get out of the way because first responders were worried that it was going to fall. Over there, that we were just pushed away from, there is a house completely, the entire front is ripped off and we’re told that there are 15 people about who are trapped underneath the house right now. First responders are trying to get them out. They went into the safe room when the missiles came and they are now trapped in there. There’s a lot of elderly people in this area. This is one hard hit area, but as you drive through the city of Tel Aviv, you can see fire trucks and police that are tending to other incidents. Here you can just see debris and glass all over the floor, burnt out cars, houses that are damaged and destroyed, and first responders right now are just scrambling to make sure everyone is OK."
2. Various of destroyed building
3. Destroyed car
STORYLINE:
15 people were reportedly trapped inside a collapsed building late Friday in the Tel Aviv satellite of Ramat Gan as projectiles launched from Iran rained on central Israel throughout the day.
The wail of air raid sirens and the rumble of explosions could be heard throughout Israel on Friday night, and Associated Press journalists documented explosions as Iranian rockets hit Tel Aviv, the commercial hub of Israel.
Hours earlier and again Friday evening, Israel launched strikes across Iran that targeted its nuclear program and military sites, killing several top military officers and raising the prospect of an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries.
It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq.
As the Iranian rockets descended on Israel, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed not to let Israel “escape safely from this great crime.”
The strikes came amid simmering tensions over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
For years, Israel had threatened such a strike and successive American administrations had sought to prevent it, fearing it would ignite a wider conflict across the Middle East and possibly be ineffective at destroying Iran’s dispersed and hardened nuclear program.
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