Iran on Tuesday denied it launched missiles at Israel in the “last few hours”, after Israel accused it of doing so following US resident Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
The general staff of the Iranian army “denied the launch of missiles from Iran to the occupied territories (Israel) in the last few hours”, state television reported.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz had earlier said Israel would “respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire” after the military reported incoming Iranian missiles.
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Here are some photos coming to us through the wires of Iranian strikes on Beersheba in southern Israel on Tuesday:
A car is damaged at an impacted residential site, after a missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Beersheba, Israel on Tuesday, 24 June 2025. Photograph: Amir Cohen/ReutersIsraeli police officers work at the site of a missile strike on a residential area in Beersheba on Tuesday. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPAIsraelis inspect the damage inside their house at the site of a missile strike on a residential area in Beersheba on Tuesday. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPAIsraeli rescue teams work at the site of a missile strike on a residential area in Beersheba on Tuesday. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA
Iran accuses Israel of conducting strikes after ceasefire
Israel struck Iran in three stages up until 9am local time (05:30 GMT) on Tuesday, the spokesperson of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya central military headquarters said, according to state TV, Reuters reports.
Iranian state TV earlier said a ceasefire would take place in Iran from 7:30am local time on Tuesday, with the country’s armed forces accusing Israel of launching strikes after this time.
Iran’s supreme national security council, its top security body, earlier said its armed forces were prepared to “decisively respond” to renewed attacks.
Iran denies launch of missiles after ceasefire
Iran on Tuesday denied it launched missiles at Israel in the “last few hours”, after Israel accused it of doing so following US resident Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
The general staff of the Iranian army “denied the launch of missiles from Iran to the occupied territories (Israel) in the last few hours”, state television reported.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz had earlier said Israel would “respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire” after the military reported incoming Iranian missiles.
Parts of the administrative building of Evinprison in the Iranian capital were damaged in Monday’s Israeli strike, judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Tuesday on state TV, adding people had been killed and injured, according to Reuters.
Jahangir said:
Following the damage, some administrative and judicial coworkers … as well as inmates and members of their family were injured.
We had martyrs as well but the number is not yet defined.
Deaths of those waiting for aid in Gaza Strip rises to 25
The Associated Press (AP) reports that the number of people killed by Israeli fire while waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza has risen to 25, according to Palestinian witnesses and hospitals (see 7:25 BST post)
The military said it was reviewing reports of casualties from Israeli fire after a group of people approached troops in an area adjunct to the east-west Netzarim corridor, which bisects Gaza.
The Awda hospital in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, which received the victims, said the Palestinians were waiting for the trucks on the Salah al-Din road south of Wadi Gaza.
Witnesses told the AP that Israeli forces opened fire as people were advancing eastward to be close to the approaching trucks.
“It was a massacre,” said Ahmed Halawa. He said tanks and drones fired at people, “even as we were fleeing. Many people were either martyred or wounded.”
Hossam Abu Shahada, another witness, said drones were flying over the area, watching the crowds first, then there was gunfire from tanks and drones as people were moving eastward.
He described a “chaotic and bloody” scene as people were attempting to escape.
He said he saw at least three people lying on the ground motionless and many others wounded as he fled the site.
The Awda hospital said another 146 Palestinians were wounded. Among them were 62 in critical condition, who were transferred to other hospitals in central Gaza, it said.
In the central town of Deir al-Balah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said it received the bodies of six people who were killed in the same incident.
The military says it has fired warning shots at people it said approached its forces in a suspicious manner.
Here is a video of sirens being heard in the north of Israel over Haifa after the Israeli military reported that two missiles were fired from Iran mid-morning on Tuesday.
Sirens heard over northern Israel hours after ceasefire agreement – video
The missiles were launched 2.5 hours after the start of the ceasefire, the army said.
An Israeli military official said the missiles had been intercepted. In response, Israel said it would ‘respond forcefully’ to the ceasefire violation and is expected to attack Tehran.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday a recently established, US-backed system for aid distribution in the Gaza Strip was “an abomination”, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
Philippe Lazzarini said at a press conference in Berlin:
The newly created so-called aid mechanism is an abomination that humiliates and degrades desperate people. It is a death trap costing more lives than it saves.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Tuesday that he had written to Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi to propose a meeting and urged cooperation after a ceasefire between Iran and Israel was announced.
Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in a post on X that Iran resuming cooperation with the agency could lead to a “diplomatic solution to the long-standing controversy over Tehran’s nuclear program”.
‘Weaponisation’ of food in Gaza constitutes a war crime, UN says
The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that the “weaponisation” of food for civilians in Gaza constitutes a war crime, in its strongest remarks yet on a new model of aid distribution run by an Israeli-backed organisation, Reuters reports.
Referring to a series of deadly shootings near distribution sites of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters at a Geneva press briefing:
Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food.
The weaponisation of food for civilians, in addition to restricting or preventing their access to life-sustaining services, constitutes a war crime and, under certain circumstances, may constitute elements of other crimes under international law.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed 21 people waiting for aid near a distribution site in the centre of the Palestinian territory on Tuesday. About 150 people were reported wounded.
News about a missile attack by Iran on Israel after the ceasefire between the two countries took effect is “denied”, Iranian media reported through Reuters, quoting state TV.
Israeli military said earlier it detected missile launches from Iran to which Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said Israel would respond “forcefully”.
Katz said the military had now been instructed to carry out high-intensity operations against targets in Tehran.
