Israeli and Iranian attacks on residential buildings and research centers in the Bat Yam suburb of Tel Aviv – the longest night since the Fourth Day of the Israeli-Israel War

Israel and Iran traded more deadly strikes early Monday as the conflict between the two countries entered its fourth day, raising concerns that the region was headed toward a wider Middle East conflict.

The President said on social media that there was nothing to do with the attack on Iran, but warned “the full strength of the U.S.” would come down on Iran if they attacked us.

It marked the hardest night since the start of the fighting for Israelis, with at least ten casualties and hundreds injured, according to the Israeli emergency services organization.

At least 6 people, including two young children, were killed in the Bat Yam suburb south of Tel Aviv when the holiest strikes hit a residential building. Another 180 people were wounded and seven still missing, according to local police.

Four people were killed after a missile was fired at a building. Four people were dead, two men and two women. Israel’s emergency services, Magen David Adom, shared images of babies being rescued from the rubble.

In the central city of Rehovot, at least 42 people were injured and several campus buildings at The Weizmann Institute of Science, a prominent research center, were also struck. The center said no one on campus was hurt, despite the extensive damage.

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Sunday that they had assisted Iran by launching more ballistic missiles at Israel. The missiles launched at Israel on Friday were also fired at Iran.

The Israeli military official said that the Defense Force attacked 80 targets, including Iran’s nuclear headquarters and two fuel sites.

The death toll in Iran from the latest explosions wasn’t immediately clear. Iran’s UN ambassador stated on Saturday that more than 300 people had been wounded and at least 78 died since the start of Israel’s attack.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on both sides to “show maximum restraint” and Pope Leo XIV called for “sincere dialogue” after stating the situation between Israel and Iran had “deteriorated drastically.”

Israeli intelligence indicated that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon, leading to the first attack late Thursday. Israel — widely thought to possess its own nuclear weapons — considers Iran’s nuclear program a direct threat to its national security.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog said yesterday that Iran wasn’t complying with its agreements to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Iran said that it would create a new enrichment facility. Iran says it has peaceful intentions with its enrichment program.

Israeli Foreign Minister Mike Huckabee: The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has been struck by a missile and is refusing to open on Monday

The meeting was canceled on Saturday, according to the foreign minister. But he said “diplomacy and dialogue remain the only pathway to lasting peace.”

The U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv was hit by a missile but will not be open on Monday, according to Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel. No U.S. personnel were hurt in the strike. Neither side appeared to be prepared to enter talks, despite calls for de-escalation.

“The issue here is not ceasefire, the issue here is stopping those things that will threaten our survival and we are committed to stopping it and I think we can achieve it.”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned on Monday of more strikes against Israel, which it said would be more powerful and destructive than previous ones.

In a post on his Truth Social site, President Trump repeated his call for Iran and Israel to make a deal, but later told reporters that they ” just have to fight it out.”

Israeli military spokesman Brig. The general said that the Air Force had achieved “full aerial superiority” over Tehran on Monday. He stated that a third of the Iranian missile system had been destroyed.

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Mr. Ostovar believes that Iran could emerge from this conflict with a bomb. Iran has no deterrence left and there is a real need for a nuclear weapon.

Many Iranians who already abhorred their theocratic and authoritarian rulers blame them for the sharp escalation of the conflict. As the civilian death toll rises, however, some may come to soften toward their leaders, or at least harden their attitudes toward Israel, Ms. Geranmayeh said. Patriotic posts are starting to spread on Iranian social media.

The Strait of Hormuz is controlled by Iran and it could still use drones, torpedoes or limpet mines. But that would likely have limited effect on the conflict and might risk drawing in the United States.

The US military says Iran has 3000 missiles, but it’s still not certain if all of them have the range to hit Israel. Analysts said that Iran will deplete its stockpile more quickly than it can manufacture because it must shoot so many at a time to penetrate Israeli air defenses.

Israel is using that freedom of movement to go after Iranian missile launchers as well as the production facilities that would allow Iran to replenish its missile stocks, Mr. Hinz said.

Iran tried a different approach because it was lacking in military might of Israel or the United States. For years, its strategy for self-protection rested on the idea that the combination of its armed partners in the region and its own missile capabilities would be enough to deter attacks on Iranian soil.

Israeli intelligence managed to penetrate Iran so thoroughly that Israel was able to launch drone attacks on Iranian targets from inside Iran on Friday and to kill some of the most senior figures in the military’s chain of command.

But that portrayal has come into question since war erupted between Israel and Hamas in October 2023, soon drawing in the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and then Iran itself. Iran has been through a lot over the last year and a half.

Hezbollah was located right on Israel’s northern border with rockets. In Iraq, Iranian-backed militant groups were in position to target American military installations there. Iran could threaten US bases in the Middle East. And Tehran could launch a barrage of long-range missiles and drones into Israel that would potentially overwhelm Israeli air defenses and shatter the country’s sense of security.

According to an Iran expert at the European Council of Foreign Relations, Iran showed that it was outgunned and outsmarted by Israel.

Those humiliations accelerated on Friday with the start of an Israeli campaign that has gone after targets across Iran, crippled its air defenses and killed several of its top military commanders and a number of prominent nuclear scientists. The new round of conflict has killed hundreds of people in Iran and at least 24 in Israel.

Several senior commanders from the Iranian embassy in Syria died in an air strike last year. The assassination three months later of one of Iran’s top militant partners while he was visiting Tehran. In October and April of the year, Israeli strikes on Iranian air defenses. Iran’s allies around the Middle East include Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah and President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

Iran is often seen as a most dangerous state because it has a growing nuclear program that threatens Israel and the United States as well as other countries.