Three killed in Israel’s Beersheba
The Times of Israel and YNet News are reporting that three people who were said to be in critical condition following a missile attack on the southern Israeli city have now been pronounced dead.
Footage from the scene, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, shows damage to a multistorey building and parked cars. Other footage taken from afar shows a huge cloud of smoke in the sky.
The report comes as sirens continue to blare across Israel amid a third wave of attacks. Israel says the missiles are from Iran. There’s been no comment from Iran so far.
Israel says Iran has launched a third wave of missiles
The Israeli military says a third Iranian missile attack is under way and is urging the public to take shelter.
Iranian scientist killed in Israeli strike: Report
According to Iran’s English language channel Press TV, nuclear scientist Sedighi Saber was “assassinated” in an Israeli strike in Tehran. Earlier reports said the attack on Saber was carried out near the main streets of Ferdowsi and Vali Asr in the downtown area of the Iranian capital.
Several of Iran’s top nuclear scientists have been targeted by Israeli strikes since it launched its military operation against the country on June 13.
Ex US official says Trump’s Iran-Israel deal ‘neither verifiable nor permanent’
Ned Price, a former spokesperson for the US State Department, has criticised the ceasefire deal between Iran and Iraq announced by Trump, describing it as “neither verifiable nor permanent”.
In a series of posts on social media, Price, who served under Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, wrote, “Success would’ve been permanently and verifiably preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuke, just the type of arrangement Trump needlessly tore up in 2018.”
He was referring to Trump’s decision to abandon the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and world powers in 2015, under then-President Barack Obama.
Price said the Trump administration should “leverage this moment” to reach a new diplomatic deal, warning that the US involvement in the war could push Tehran “to sprint towards a nuclear device”.
