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JERUSALEM, June 20 (Xinhua) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel has already destroyed “more than half” of Iran’s missile launchers and is “capable of striking all of Iran’s nuclear facilities.”
In an interview with the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation, B. Netanyahu said that in seven days of military action, Israeli troops are advancing on Iranian nuclear and missile sites ahead of schedule. The prime minister did not give a deadline for the end of the Israeli operation.
The change or fall of Iran’s leadership is not the goal of Israeli attacks, but could be their result, noted B. Netanyahu.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Thursday that it had launched a major air campaign inside Iran, including a strike on the inactive nuclear reactor in Arak in the west of the country.
Also on Thursday, rockets fired from Iran hit a hospital and residential buildings in Israel, injuring more than 30 people, Israeli health authorities and local media reported.
Iran struck Israeli military intelligence facilities in the southern part of the country on Thursday morning, not a hospital as some media outlets reported, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.
The latest exchange of blows marks a sharp escalation in fighting that began after Israel launched airstrikes on Iran on June 13. –0–