(19 Jun 2025)
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Beer Sheba, Israel – 19 June 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Haim Bublil, Israeli South District Police Commander:
(Answering a question from reporter saying that one person is missing)
"Right now, the building that’s hard to reach is the one on fire. Once the fire is dealt with, we’ll be here alongside the fire department. Once the fire is dealt with, we’ll be able to thoroughly scan the structure."
2. Security forces evacuating wounded
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Haim Bublil, Israeli South District Police Commander:
"The damage caused is extensive and significant, primarily to the structure that sustained the direct hit, and therefore, we want to be cautious. As long as we do not receive the necessary approvals that the structure is safe and not at risk of collapsing, we are currently not entering except for surgical rescue operations with an emphasis on saving lives."
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STORYLINE:
An Iranian missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel, causing extensive damage early Thursday. Israeli media aired footage of blown-out windows and heavy black smoke.
A crowd of people and emergency personnel could be seen near a building complex with blown-out windows and heavy black smoke.
South District Police Commander Haim Bublil told media at the scene that "right now the building that’s hard to reach is the one on fire. Once the fire is dealt with, we’ll be here alongside the fire department. Once the fire is dealt with, we’ll be able to thoroughly scan the structure."
Separate Iranian strikes hit a high-rise apartment building in Tel Aviv and other sites in central Israel. At least 40 people were wounded, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service.
Israel, meanwhile, carried out strikes on Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, its latest attack on Iran’s sprawling nuclear program. Iranian state television said there was “no radiation danger whatsoever" and that the facility had been evacuated before the attack.
The seventh day of conflict came a day after Iran’s supreme leader rejected U.S. calls for surrender and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage to them.”
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