Middle East.- Undoubtedly, the middle of June will be etched in history as the start of the confrontation between powers Israel and Iran, a conflict with guarded forecasts, where geopolitics frames the diplomatic course that will define the near future of the world.
As of the closing of the Houston Press edition, the confrontations with guided missiles have caused varying casualties on both sides.
Iran launched new missiles this Monday against several Israeli cities, where at least 11 people were killed, according to emergency services, in response to Israeli bombings that hit Iranian territory for the fourth consecutive night.
The conflict began last Friday the 13th, when the Israeli army launched an unprecedented attack against Iran with the declared objective of preventing it from arming itself with nuclear weapons.
After decades of indirect warfare and targeted operations, this is the first time the two countries have confronted each other militarily with such intensity.
In Tel Aviv, AFPTV images showed buildings demolished where firefighters were searching for possible survivors. The projectiles also hit Petah Tikva, Bnei Brak, near the capital, and Haifa, in the north of the country.
The Guards of the Revolution, Iran’s ideological army, celebrated the “success” of the attacks and anticipated that they will continue with “effective operations and more devastating against vital Israeli targets.”
In response, Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, warned that the residents of Tehran “will pay the price” for Iranian attacks against civilians in his country.
The Israeli attacks on Monday the 16th targeted several points across Iran, after bombing the capital, the holy city of Mashhad (northeast) and military installations in the western part of the country.
The building of the Musiyan municipal fire department and a hospital in Kermanshah were also hit, Tasnim agency reported.
The Israeli Air Force struck command centers in Tehran of the Quds Force, the external operations arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, according to the army. “One third” of the ground-to-ground missile launchers were destroyed, the country said, according to a spokesman for the armed corps.
Israeli attacks have left at least 224 dead since Friday and more than a thousand wounded in Iran, the Health Ministry reported last Sunday.
On the Israeli side, the casualty tally rose this Monday to 24 dead since Friday, the prime minister’s office said. On Monday eleven deaths were reported in total.
Meanwhile the Israeli Armed Forces reported that they bombed the headquarters of Iran’s public television, IRIB, in Tehran, according to semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr.
The Israeli Air Forces confirmed that they “continue attacking military targets in central Iran,” although at the moment they gave no further details.
This strike comes after the Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, directly pointed to Iranian “propaganda.” “The propaganda megaphone and agitator of Iran is about to disappear,” Katz wrote on social media.