Day Seven of US-Israeli Assault on Iran: Over 1330 People Killed, Hundreds Injured
Tehran (QNN)- The US and Israeli assault on Iran has entered a seventh day, killing more than 1,330 people since Saturday, including around 180 children, and injuring hundreds, as Israel says it has carried out about 2,500 strikes, most of them in densely populated areas.
At least 1,332 people in Iran have been killed by the US, Israeli attacks since Saturday, the Iranian Red Crescent reported.
Jalil Hasani, deputy governor of Iran’s Fars province, has said recent US, Israeli strikes have killed 20 people and injured 30 in the city of Shiraz.
He was quoted in Iranian state media as saying the attack took place in a residential part of the city’s Zibashahr area, killing “innocent citizens”.
Earlier, two paramedics were also killed in an attack in Shiraz. The two emergency responders worked at the Shiraz Emergency Medical Service (EMS) base.
Pir Hossein Kolivand, president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, said the US-Israeli attacks have damaged 3,643 civilian sites, including 3,090 homes. Also damaged are 528 commercial and service centres, 14 medical or pharmaceutical facilities and nine Red Crescent facilities, he said.
Most of the targets, he added, were in “densely populated residential areas”.
According to UNICEF, At least 181 have been killed in Iran. During the first day of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, a girls’ school was hit in Minab, southern Iran, killing at least 175 schoolchildren, according to the IRGC.
Israel’s military chief warned that the US-Israeli assault against Iran was moving to “the next phase” and would “further dismantle the regime and its military capabilities”.
“We have additional surprises ahead which I do not intend to disclose,” Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir said in a televised statement.
Zamir issued the statement as a wave of new attacks was reported in the Iranian capital Tehran in the early hours of Friday.
Residential areas in Tehran were among the locations hit in the latest US and Israeli strikes on Friday morning, according to Iran’s English-language news channel Press TV.
The Iranian news outlet Mamlekate also reported that the vicinity of the country’s premier educational institution, Tehran University, was also hit on Friday morning, according to a video it posted on X.
The United States and Israel have launched an assault on Iran on Saturday, claiming their attacks are targeting Iran’s leadership and military and nuclear infrastructure. Several senior officials have been killed so far, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In Lebanon, Israel is also intensifying its assault and advancing its forces into Lebanese territory, as Defense Minister Katz said troops had been instructed “to advance and seize additional controlling areas in Lebanon”, killing dozens and displacing thousands.
