Iran and Israel trade attacks as conflict enters fourth day – live updates

Iran and Israel trade attacks as conflict enters fourth day – live updates | Israel

Death toll from Iranian reportedly rises to eight

Israeli army radio says the death toll from Iranian attacks on Sunday night has risen to eight, Reuters reports.

Key events

Russia remains ready to act as a mediator in the conflict between Israel and Iran, and Moscow’s previous proposals to store Iranian uranium in Russia remain on the table, the Kremlin said on Monday, AFP reports.

Russia’s previous proposals to resolve the conflict are still on the table, but the outbreak of hostilities has complicated the situation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, AFP reports.

Israeli strike on Iran’s west damages hospital – media reports

Iranian media said that a hospital in the country’s west has been seriously damaged after an Israeli strike in the area on Monday, AFP reports citing the Tasnim news agency.

The semi-official Fars news agency carried a video of the hospital showing shattered glass, collapsed ceilings, and extensive damage in patient rooms.

We have more from Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog (see earlier post).

Grossi said on Monday there was “no indication of a physical attack” on the underground section of Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site following Israeli strikes that destroyed the plant’s above-ground section.

“There has been no indication of a physical attack on the underground cascade hall containing part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant and the main Fuel Enrichment Plant,” Grossi said in a statement to an extraordinary board session.

“However, the loss of power to the cascade hall may have damaged the centrifuges there,” he added.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi at an exceptional meeting of the agency’s Board of Governors. Photograph: Elisabeth Mandl/Reuters

Israel’s military says it has destroyed “one-third” of Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launchers, AFP reports.

“More than 50 fighter jets and aircraft carried out strikes and destroyed over 120 surface-to-surface missile launchers. This amounts to one-third of the surface-to-surface missile launchers possessed by the Iranian regime,” military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a televised statement.

Israel has “no intention” of deliberately harming the residents of Tehran, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said, walking back earlier comments he had made on Monday, Reuters reports.

In a statement, Katz said:

I wish to clarify the obvious: there is no intention to physically harm the residents of Tehran as the murderous dictator does to the residents of Israel.

The residents of Tehran will have to pay the price of dictatorship and evacuate their homes from areas where it will be necessary to attack regime targets and security infrastructures in Tehran.

Israeli military spokesperson: ‘We have achieved aerial superiority over Iran’

An Israeli military spokesperson has said Israel has “achieved aerial superiority over Iran”, AFP reports.

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi provided an update on Monday on the situation at Iran’s nuclear facilities after Israel launched military strikes and said there was no sign of further damage at the Natanz or Fordow enrichment sites.

In a statement to his agency’s board of governors, he said:

The (International Atomic Energy) Agency is and will remain present in Iran. Safeguards inspections in Iran will continue as soon as safety conditions allow, as is required under Iran’s NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) safeguards obligations.

Iran urges IAEA to condemn Israeli strikes on nuclear sites at urgent meeting

Iran has urged the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency to condemn Israeli attacks on nuclear sites in the Islamic republic during an emergency meeting on Monday, AFP reports.

“We expect the (IAEA) Board of Governors and the Director General to take a firm position in condemning this act (attacking nuclear facilities) and holding the regime (Israel) accountable,” said foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei during a weekly press briefing.

Iranian media has reported a new Israeli strike on western Iran on Monday, AFP reports.

“The Zionist regime has brutally attacked the fire department building at the Musiyan municipality” in the western province of Ilam, the Tasnim news agency reported, publishing a video of smoke rising from the site.

Here are some images coming to us over the wires:

Israeli emergency teams work at the scene where Iranian missiles hit a Jewish orthodox girls school, in Bnei Brak, central Israel. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

A man stands near a damaged Jewish orthodox girls’ school after Iranian missiles hit Bnei Brak, central Israel, 16 June 2025. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

Israeli medical personnel gather at the scene where Iranian missiles hit a building in Tel Aviv, Israel, 16 June 2025. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA

Remaining aid boat activists deported, says Israel

Israel said on Monday that it deported the last three remaining activists from an aid flotilla that attempted to reach the war-torn Gaza Strip last week, AFP reports.

“The last three participants remaining from the “Selfie Yacht” (flotilla) were transferred this morning to Jordan via the Allenby Crossing,” the foreign ministry said in a statement, adding they included one Dutch and two French nationals.

Poland is ready to start evacuating around 200 of its citizens who were on visits to Israel via Jordan’s capital Amman, a deputy foreign minister said on Monday, Reuters reports.

“We assume we will be ready in the next few dozen hours, [the evacuation] will concern those who are stuck as tourists and those staying for a short stay,” Henryka Moscicka-Dendys told reporters.

Tehran remains opposed to weapons of mass destruction – Iran foreign ministry

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that the Iranian parliament is preparing a bill to leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), adding that Tehran remains opposed to the development of weapons of mass destruction, Reuters reports.