(19 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Ramat Gan, Israel – 19 June 2025
1. People being evacuated
2. Closed off scene, security forces there
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Daniel Levy, Israel Police Chief:
"Fortunately, there are currently no casualties here. We are continuing to scan the area. As you can see, there are a lot of police officers here, a lot of security forces. With God’s help, once we finish here, we will secure this area and continue to work in all the areas. There are many areas that the Israeli police are currently busy handling. This is our job, this is what we are all here for, and we will do it to the best of our ability. Thank you."
4. Levy with other police officials at scene
5. Security forces at closed off scene
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Smadar Shitrit, Ramat Gan resident:
"It’s not only the US, all the world, we are making the war for all the all the nations, for Europe too, because Iran is not satisfied only to hurt Israel. They want to take all the Middle East, all Europe, and I don’t want to say the rest, I’m not political but I understand something about this life, this is the situation."
7. Truck cleaning street
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Smadar Shitrit, Ramat Gan resident:
"I was 100m from here. I’m living in this building me and my daughter, we heard the first alarm to go in the shelter. I woke up my daughter, I told her to come. She came, we sit in, we closed the door, with our dog. At 07:07 the alarm, the first alarm, nothing happened and we heard the booms far away. And then the second alarm, I heard like a plane is going over our head and it was like a big whistle and then after a second I I heard a big boom. My ears were like bombing, the door of the shelter was open. The dog ran away and we were in fear. I took my carriage, I closed the door back."
9. Bulldozer clearing rubble
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Smadar Shitrit, Ramat Gan resident:
"My daughter started to cry and we waited for "the Home Front Command" (in Hebrew) to come and tell us to go out. When we went out, we saw that the window in the living room was broken. All the pictures were broken pieces from the wall was on the floor and all over the house."
Reporter: The sound was huge?
"Huge, huge. I never heard such a sound. I was in the army and my parents live in Ashkelon. I passed a few bombs. I passed a few wars."
Reporter: But it was nothing like this?
"This one was a tsunami from up, really ."
11. Ambulance and paramedics at scene
STORYLINE:
An Iranian missile strike hit a high-rise apartment building in Tel Aviv and other sites in central Israel, injuring at least 40 people, Israel’s main rescue service said.
Another missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel, causing extensive damage.
Israeli media aired footage of blown-out windows and heavy black smoke.
Smadar Shitrit, a Ramat Gan resident living close to where the missile fell said "this one was a tsunami from up, really ."
Israel meanwhile, carried out strikes on Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, its latest attack on the country’s sprawling nuclear program.
That came on the seventh day of a conflict that began with a surprise wave of Israeli airstrikes targeting military and nuclear sites.
AP video shot by: Paz Bar
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