IRGC targets Israeli command center in Beersheva
The latest Iranian missile strikes caused significant damage to several sites in Israel, including the Tel Aviv stock exchange building
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on 19 June that it targeted an Israeli command center near Soroka Hospital in the city of Beersheva, following the launch of approximately 30 ballistic missiles at Israel that morning.
“The fourteenth wave of Operation ‘True Promise 3’ has commenced with a coordinated attack using suicide drones and strategic missiles. In this operation, a [Israeli] regime army command and intelligence center located near a hospital was struck with high precision and absolute accuracy,” the IRGC said in a statement on Thursday morning.
“The intelligence and target identification capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s armed forces are now evident to the entire world,” it added.
“All military centers have been evacuated, and the regime’s army has deployed ineffective missile and defense systems amid urban centers, covering civilian areas. We previously warned that the entire sky above the occupied territories is now defenseless, and no place is safe,” the IRGC went on to say.
The IRGC “now warns that the Zionist regime’s corpse will not withstand the ongoing economic strikes.”
Over two dozen ballistic missiles were launched from Iran towards Israel early on 19 June, with many making impact in several locations and causing destruction, including in Tel Aviv.
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange building was damaged in the attack.
Several sites in the Gush Dan region (Greater Tel Aviv) were struck. Buildings in Holon were heavily damaged, as well as high-rises in the Ramat Gan area. Additional areas in central Tel Aviv were also impacted by the strikes.
According to Israel's Channel 12, one of the missiles hit the home of Danny Naveh, a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and former environment minister.
Six injured Israelis are in serious condition as a result of the missile strikes.
Two of them are at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, and the other four are at Holon’s Wolfson Medical Center. Around 65 others have been wounded by Iran’s latest attack.
Heavy Israeli media censorship has been imposed on the targeted sites, including near Soroka Hospital – which is known to treat wounded Israeli soldiers fighting in Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.
The hospital was damaged by the missiles, and Israelis have been warned not to approach the area. Israeli police halted the broadcast of several foreign news outlets reporting from missile impact sites on Thursday morning.
“Iran’s terrorist tyrants launched missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beersheva and at a civilian population in the center of the country. We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran,” Netanyahu said on 19 June.
The Israeli military has destroyed numerous hospitals across the Gaza Strip with airstrikes. Israeli ground troops have also raided Gaza’s medical facilities, kidnapped patients and doctors, held staff at gunpoint, and carried out executions.
Thursday’s Iranian strike was among the heaviest since the start of Operation True Promise 3. Iran has vowed to continue responding to Israel’s brutal war against the country.
The Israeli army is reportedly “running low” on interceptors for the Arrow missile defense system, a US official told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on 18 June.
According to a source cited by the Washington Post, the Israeli missile defense system is “already overwhelmed.”
The IRGC declared “complete control over the skies” of Israel in a statement on 18 June, following a wave of missile strikes on Wednesday night.