Israel’s emergency response service said three people were seriously injured by Iranian strikes overnight across the country, with two “moderately” hurt.

Some 42 people were impacted by shrapnel injuries while another 18 were hurt on their way to shelters, Magen David Adom said in a post on X.

Dr. Shlomi Kodesh, the director of the Soroka Medical Center that was struck overnight, said approximately 40 patients there suffered mostly minor injuries, the majority of which were from broken glass.

There were no reported deaths from the hospital strike.

Kodesh told CNN patients in the urology department — which was directly struck — had been evacuated to the basement a day earlier. Remaining patients at the center were evacuated to other medical facilities on Thursday morning.

Kodesh added that he was “shocked” that a hospital had been hit, and that there was “no prior knowledge or warning the hospital would be struck.”

Iran said it was targeting an Israeli intelligence and command center “near a hospital.”

The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will meet three European countries for talks on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland, Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA reported.

The meeting will be held between Iran’s foreign minister and his counterparts from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, along with the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, the report said, citing Araghchi.

Araghchi told IRNA the meeting was at the request of the European countries.

Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy is traveling to Washington, DC, to discuss the situation in the Middle East with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the UK’s Foreign Office told CNN Thursday.

The meeting will allow “continued engagement with our greatest ally,” the Foreign Office said, as US President Donald Trump continues to mull entering Israel’s conflict with Iran.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Thursday that it targeted an Israeli intelligence and command center “near a hospital.”

“In this operation, the command and intelligence center of the (Israeli) regime’s army was targeted with high precision and in a pinpoint strike near a hospital,” the IRGC was cited as saying on Thursday by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.

The statement didn’t specify the name of the alleged command center it targeted, nor the hospital or their location.

Israel earlier said that Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Beer Sheva was directly targeted Thursday morning.

The IRGC said its attack used a “combination of suicide drones and strategic missiles.”

“We had previously warned that the entire sky of the occupied territories is defenseless and there will be no safe spot,” the IRGC said, referring to Israel.

IRNA earlier claimed the “principal target” of the strike that damaged the Soroka Medical Center was a nearby technology park it said was used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The apparent target, Gav-Yam Negev technology park, is less than a mile from the medical center.

The technology park’s website describes itself as “Israel’s most advanced center of research and development… adjacent to the Ben Gurion University campus and the IDF C4i Branch campus.”

C4i directorate is the IDF’s elite technological unit.

The Israeli military confirmed that its fighter jets struck dozens of military targets in Iran overnight, including the “inactive” Arak nuclear facility in what it said was an attempt to prevent its potential use for nuclear weapons development.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed Thursday the facility, about 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Tehran, was designed to product weapons-grade plutonium, a material used in the development of nuclear weapons.

Iran has repeatedly denied that it is building nuclear weapons, and international inspectors and intelligence agencies have yet to find evidence that it is.

“The strike targeted the component intended for plutonium production, in order to prevent the reactor from being restored and used for nuclear weapons development,” the IDF said in its statement.

While the heavy water production plant at the site has been working for years, the nuclear reactor was never fully completed under pressure from the international community to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation.

The Israeli military said it also struck what it said was a nuclear weapons development site in the area of Natanz, around 180 miles (300 kilometers) south of Tehran, which it said contained “components and specialized equipment” used to advance a nuclear weapons development.

Israel had also struck Natanz on June 13, on the first day of its attack on Israel.

Iranian military production sites were also struck, including factories producing raw materials and components used in assembling ballistic missiles, as well as sites for the production of Iranian air defense systems and missiles, the IDF said.

Iranian citizens are speaking of their fears as the conflict with Israel escalates, with some families fleeing Tehran and others determined to stay.

Multiple Iranians have described daily life in and around the capital in recent days to CNN. All asked not to disclose their full names due to safety concerns.

“We are all in shock,” 45-year-old Sima said. “Some of us have nowhere to go. Some of us are still in our apartments just waiting to see if we survive.”

Sima added how her friend, from Shiraz in south-central Iran, was forced to hitchhike for three days to reach his grandparents due to a lack of fuel.

Another woman said she had to call upon extended family for shelter, with nowhere to “hide out.”

“It’s brought some people together, and all the little children together so they’re just playing, having the time of their lives, not knowing the reality,” she said.

Those living outside of Iran have found themselves cut off from their loved ones.

“What was supposed to be the happiest time of my life has turned into a nightmare,” one woman, who was supposed to get married among her cousins in Tehran, told CNN.

Others have made the decision to leave the country.

One woman said her in-laws drove 385 miles from Tehran to Shiraz city on Monday before crossing the border by taxi to join family in Turkey. “The eight-hour drive took them almost double, about 15 hours, because of traffic,” she said.

Elnaz is among those Tehran residents who have decided to remain.

“I haven’t left Tehran because I believe that leaving, abandoning your city, is wrong,” she said. “There is no place like Tehran. Even though the government has done so little to protect us over the last 46 years, we have nothing to protect us, leaving is wrong.”

The impact of an Iranian ballistic missile in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan damaged buildings and cars in nearly every direction around the blast radius. The missile, which struck the location just east of Tel Aviv shortly after 7 a.m. local time (00.00 ET), shredded the facades of buildings and blew out windows in high-rise blocks.

Debris from the explosion dangled from the windows of several buildings, while falling wreckage damaged cars on the streets below and covered the entire area in shrapnel and dust.

First responders closed off an intersection near the impact site, as they began surveying the damage Thursday morning.

The missile that struck Ramat Gan was part of a barrage that saw missiles strike a hospital in Beer Sheva, southern Israel, and in Holon to the south of Tel Aviv.

Search and rescue teams were deployed to the different impact sites, said Golan Landsberg, an emergency responder with the Israeli military.

“We sent teams across the different hits… I came in here because the density of this area and potential casualty count – people that need extraction – was high in our estimation. And this one was probably the highest damage in this round,” Landsberg told CNN.

“Whoever stayed in the safe room was unhit. (There was) major damage to the apartments, but the safety rooms are complete and safe. They save lives.”

CNN’s Fred Pleitgen is on the ground in the Iranian capital Tehran. He drove through a substantial part of the country to get there. Hear what he has to say.

Iran’s IRNA state news agency has claimed the “principal target” of the missile strike which damaged an Israeli hospital was a nearby technology park it said was used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The apparent target, Gav-Yam Negev technology park, is less than a mile from Soroka Medical Center, the Beer Sheva hospital which was damaged in the strike.

The technology park’s website describes itself as “Israel’s most advanced center of research and development… adjacent to the Ben Gurion University campus and the IDF C4i Branch campus.”

C4i directorate is the IDF’s elite technological unit.

The website adds that the park connects “veterans of the IDF’s elite technological units, graduates of Ben Gurion University, the high-tech industry” as well as investors and academics.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have instructed the Israeli military to “intensify strikes against strategic targets” in Iran, after Iran launched its latest wave of ballistic missiles at cities across Israel on Thursday.

“The cowardly Iranian dictator sits deep inside his fortified bunker and launches deliberate attacks at hospitals and residential buildings in Israel,” Katz said in a statement shared by the defense ministry, referring to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“The Prime Minister and I have instructed the IDF to intensify strikes against strategic targets in Iran and against government sites in Tehran, in order to remove the threats facing the State of Israel and destabilize the Ayatollahs’ regime,” he said, according to the statement.

An Iranian missile hit and caused “extensive destruction” to Soroka Medical Center, a major hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva, Israeli authorities said.

Israel’s emergency response service, Magen David Adom (MDA), said it had received a report about “a building that had sustained heavy damage” and that its responders saw “extensive destruction” at the site. A 60-year-old woman was wounded in the strike, the MDA said.

“We are currently assessing the damage, including injuries,” a spokeswoman for Soroka said, noting there was “extensive damage in various areas.”

Videos posted to Telegram claiming to show the aftermath around the hospital showed several structures damaged and piles of debris on the ground.

Soroka is one of Israel’s leading medical centers and provides care to more than 1 million people in the south, according to its website. Just 22 miles from Gaza, Soroka is the primary evacuation destination for people wounded in the war, its website says.

Israel’s emergency services said at least 65 people were wounded in Iran’s latest wave of strikes on Thursday.

Three people are in serious condition, including an 80-year-old man and two women around 70 years old, Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) said in an update Thursday.

Two people are also in “moderate condition” and 42 people sustained minor injuries from shrapnel and blast trauma, it said. An additional 18 people were injured while running to shelter, it said, without specifying their condition.

MDA teams are providing medical care at several locations and evacuating victims to hospitals, it added.

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said the Iranian missile strikes that damaged southern Israel’s Soroka hospital targeted civilians.

The Soroka Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva was extensively damaged in Iran’s strikes, according to its spokeswoman.

“I send strength and support to the medical teams, to the patients, and to the residents of Be’er Sheva and all cities attacked across Israel this morning,” Herzog said.

“In moments like these, we are reminded of what’s truly at stake, and the values we are defending,” he added.

A new wave of Iranian missile strikes hit cities across Israel on Thursday, with several landing in civilian areas, according to Israeli military officials.

Images from multiple cities showed damage to buildings and first responders leading evacuations. In the southern city of Beer Sheva, a hospital suffered “extensive destruction” due to the strikes.

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A hospital in Tel Aviv told CNN it had received 10 people who were wounded in Iran’s latest wave of strikes on Israel.

Ichilov Medical Center said most of the wounded are in “mild” condition and are being treated in the hospital’s trauma room.

Iran’s latest wave of missiles struck an area near Tel Aviv, causing damage, according to videos released by Israel’s national emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA).

The footage shows major damage to several high-rise buildings on a street in Ramat Gan city, around three miles from Tel Aviv city center.

Scores of emergency service workers and several fire trucks were seen on video responding to the scene. Damage to other structures surrounding the site can also be seen.

Ramat Gan city has an estimated population of just over 175,000 and is home to Israel’s Diamond Exchange, one of the world’s top diamond districts.

Neighboring cities Tel Aviv and Holon were also hit in the Iranian attack, according videos shared by Reuters news agency.

Israel’s second-largest city, Tel Aviv is the country’s commercial hub.

Israel attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, a nuclear facility about 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Tehran, according to Iranian state media and the Israeli military.

Two projectiles were fired at the facility around 6 a.m. local time, state-run news agency IRIB said. The facility has not been seriously damaged and there is no radiation, it reported.

An Israeli military official confirmed its fighter jets struck the facility, during a series of overnight raids across the country.

“The attack was carried out against the component intended for producing plutonium, thus preventing its ability to be reused to produce nuclear weapons,” the spokesperson added.

Earlier Thursday, the IDF issued an evacuation warning to residents near the Arak facility, saying: “Your presence in this area puts your life at risk.”

The attack comes almost one week after Israel targeted three Iranian nuclear facilities – Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow – and several top scientists.

The Arak heavy water reactor was a focus of the 2015 nuclear deal with the US and other powers, because heavy water (or deuterium oxide) can be used to produce plutonium – providing Iran with a second pathway to a potential nuclear bomb, beyond enriched uranium.

Under the deal, Iran was required to redesign Arak into a peaceful research facility which could no longer produce weapons-grade plutonium. However, in the years since and following the US withdrawal, Iran has breached some aspects of the deal and no longer allows UN inspectors to monitor its production or stocks of heavy water.

Iran launched “dozens” of ballistic missiles at Israel on Thursday morning, with “several hits” on civilian areas, an Israeli military official said.

The official said there were “several hits to civilian population centers” including the Soroka hospital in southern Israel.

Israel Defense Forces Homefront Command Search and Rescue teams have been sent to several reported impact sites, the official said.

Soroka Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva was damaged in Iranian strikes, its spokeswoman said.

“We are currently assessing the damage, including injuries,” the spokeswoman said, noting there was “extensive damage in various areas.”

Videos posted to Telegram claiming to show the aftermath around the hospital, which describes itself as one of Israel’s leading medical centers, showed several structures damaged and piles of debris on the ground.

A 60-year-old woman was wounded in the strike, Israel’s national emergency service, Magen David Adom (MDA), said.

Sharren Haskel, Israel’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, called the strike a “deliberate” attack against a “civilian target,” in a post to X.

“This is the main medical center for Israel’s entire Negev region,” Haskel said. “The world must speak out.”

Israeli search and rescue teams are operating in several locations across the country after reports of fallen projectiles following Iran’s latest barrage of missiles, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.

Video from Reuters showed a multi-story building in Tel Aviv that had been damaged. Debris was shown lying on the road outside and responders had cordoned off part of the area.

Hundreds of Indian Muslim pilgrims are currently stranded in Iran, many of them elderly and in need of medicine, a religious leader in their home country has told CNN.

Iran is home to several Shia Muslim holy sites, and draws pilgrims from across the world. The Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad draws 20 million pilgrims every year, according to UNESCO.

Speaking to CNN, Shia cleric Moulana Syed Saif Abbas Naqvi, president of the Shia Markazi Chand Committee India, said the situation is difficult.

“Usually, 70% of the pilgrims are middle-class with a very limited budget,” he said. “They pay the tour operator prior to departure and only bring along a couple of thousand rupees (around $23) with them.”

Beyond the limited cash they brought, their plight is further compounded by the age and health of the hundreds of travelers, as Abbas said many were “running very low on medicine.”

He appealed to the Indian government to evacuate Indian citizens from Iran.

For context: Shia Muslims make up the majority of Muslims in Iran, Iraq and Azerbaijan, with sizable minority populations in a number of countries including Pakistan and India.

Shia Muslims split from Sunni Muslims following the death of Imam Hussein bin Ali in the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD as a succession war raged over who was considered the rightful successor to the prophet Mohammed.