In the night between Friday and Saturday, Iran targeted central and southern Israel, Tel Aviv retaliated with strikes on missile positions. Israel claims the strikes killed a senior Iranian commander responsible for funding and arming Hamas before October 7, 2023.
Iran and Israel carried out new mutual attacks on the night between Friday and Saturday, a day after Tehran announced that it would not negotiate on nuclear program while under threat, and Europe tried to hold peace talks, reported Reuters.
Israeli the military announced that a barrage of missile fire from Iran was detected shortly after 2.30:XNUMX this morning local time, triggering air raid sirens in central Israel, Tel Aviv, as well as West coast.
Israeli air defense systems intercepted multiple missiles, and explosions echoed throughout Tel Aviv.
The national emergency service, Magen David Adom, announced that sirens sounded in the south of the country as well.
According to an Israeli military official, Iran fired five ballistic missiles, but there were no immediate reports of direct strikes.
At the same time, the Israeli army launched a new series of airstrikes against targets in Iran, and as they say, they also targeted warehouses and missile launch sites.
Israel: An Iranian commander responsible for financing Hamas was killed in the attacks
Iranian media also reported that Israel attacked a building in the city of Qom.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday (June 21) that a high-ranking Iranian commander, Said Izadi, was killed in an attack on an apartment in Qom, local media and the Reuters news agency reported.
Said Izadi was responsible for funding and arming Hamas before the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Katz said.
"This is a major achievement for Israel's intelligence and air force," Katz said in a statement.
Izadi was a member of the branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responsible for activities abroad, including supporting Iranian intermediaries in the region.
The IRGC has not yet confirmed Izadi's death.
Disputes over Iran's nuclear program
Israel launched attacks on Iran on June 13, saying its longtime enemy was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Iran, which maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, has retaliated with missile and drone attacks on Israel.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he thinks Iran will be able to have nuclear weapons "in a few weeks, or certainly in a few months".
"We can't let that happen," Trump said.
Negotiations in Europe
European foreign ministers met on Friday with their Iranian counterparts in Geneva, but the meeting, which lasted more than three hours, did not bring any progress, writes the BBC.
European ministers, however, came away convinced that Iran is ready to continue talks and that it is more ready to put issues on the table that were not raised before.
All stressed that Iran must continue talks with the United States.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said he was ready to meet again with the Europeans, but that he would consider diplomacy with the US only when the Israeli attacks stopped and, in his words, the aggressor was held accountable.
He said Iran was unsure whether it could trust the United States in diplomatic talks, after Israel launched an airstrike on the country just days before scheduled talks with US officials.
In an interview with the American NBC in Geneva, after a meeting with the foreign ministers of Great Britain, Germany, France and the European Union, when asked whether an agreement with the US can be reached within two weeks, which was recently given by US President Donald Trump, Arakchi said that it is up to the Trump administration "to show its determination to advocate for a negotiated solution".
The message from leading European diplomats was that only a negotiated deal - not additional military action - could provide a lasting solution to Iran's nuclear program and regional stability.
Israel's airstrikes on Iran have killed 639 people, according to Human Rights Activists, a US-based human rights organization that monitors Iran. Among the dead are top military officials and nuclear scientists.
According to the Israeli authorities, 24 civilians were killed in that country.
Source: Reuters/BBC/NBS
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