The
following articles report the Israeli government’s crimes using American weapons in
various parts of the Middle East, just in one
day:
Dave DeCamp
Iran’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday that 606 Iranians had been killed and 5,332 injured during Israel’s 12-day bombing of the country, while a US-based rights group put the number closer to 1,000.
Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zafarqandi said 107 were killed in the previous 24 hours as Israel dramatically ramped up its attacks on the country before a fragile ceasefire, which appears to be holding, went into effect. President Trump criticized Israel for ramping up the attacks after he announced the truce.
The breakdown of the casualties is unclear, but Zafarqandi said women and children were among the dead. He said Israel targeted military, nuclear, and residential sites, killing top military commanders, scientists, and ordinary civilians.
The Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI), which is based in Washington and is critical of the Islamic government in Tehran, said that as of Monday night, it has confirmed 974 fatalities using non-government sources. The dead include 387 civilians, 268 military personnel, and 319 who have yet to be classified.
The HRAI’s news agency said that over the past 11 days, it had recorded Israeli attacks on “infrastructure, military and civilian facilities, residential areas, and industrial zones across 26 provinces.”
Zafarqandi said that Iran hit back at Israel with 22 waves of ballistic missile attacks. According to the latest numbers from the Israeli government, the Iranian strikes killed 28 people, including civilians who were killed in residential buildings.
The
White House confirmed the assessment was real but claimed it was 'flat-out
wrong'
CNN reported on Tuesday that an
initial US intelligence assessment has found that the US bombing of three
Iranian nuclear sites didn’t destroy the core components of the sites and
likely set back the nuclear program by only a few months.
The assessment was prepared by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was based on a battle damage assessment from US Central Command, and it could change as the US gathers more intelligence. “So the (DIA) assessment is that the US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” a source told CNN.
The report also said that the US strikes didn’t destroy Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, and the centrifuges were largely “intact.” The assessment contradicts President Trump’s claims that the bombing of the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites “totally obliterated” the facilities.
A map of US Operation Midnight Hammer is displayed during a briefing at the Pentagon (DoD photo)The White House confirmed the
existence of the assessment but said it didn’t agree with the findings. “This
alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was
still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence
community,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration,” Leavitt added.
President Trump also responded to the report, writing on Truth Social, “FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!”
Iran is still assessing the damage done to its nuclear facilities but has vowed that it will continue its uranium enrichment program. According to The Cradle, Mohammed Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said that “plans for restarting [the facilities] have been prepared in advance.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that Iran still was not seeking nuclear weapons but wouldn’t give up its “legitimate rights,” referring to its civilian nuclear program. The US had no evidence that Iran decided to build a bomb before Israel launched its attacks, and Tehran made clear during previous negotiations that it was ready to reduce its uranium enrichment levels as part of a deal with the US.
Al Jazeera reported that Israel killed a total of 80 Palestinians in Gaza and put the death toll of aid seekers at 51. The AP report said that Israeli tanks, drones, and troops opened fire on hundreds of Palestinians in southern and central Gaza who were heading toward aid sites operated by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), which have become death traps.
The Israeli military acknowledged that its forces opened fire on crowds of aid seekers, claiming that it fired “warning shots” at people who approached forces in a “suspicious manner.” Based on the AP report, the IDF did not allege that the people were armed.
The assessment was prepared by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was based on a battle damage assessment from US Central Command, and it could change as the US gathers more intelligence. “So the (DIA) assessment is that the US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” a source told CNN.
The report also said that the US strikes didn’t destroy Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, and the centrifuges were largely “intact.” The assessment contradicts President Trump’s claims that the bombing of the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites “totally obliterated” the facilities.
A map of US Operation Midnight Hammer is displayed during a briefing at the Pentagon (DoD photo)
“The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration,” Leavitt added.
President Trump also responded to the report, writing on Truth Social, “FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!”
Iran is still assessing the damage done to its nuclear facilities but has vowed that it will continue its uranium enrichment program. According to The Cradle, Mohammed Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said that “plans for restarting [the facilities] have been prepared in advance.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that Iran still was not seeking nuclear weapons but wouldn’t give up its “legitimate rights,” referring to its civilian nuclear program. The US had no evidence that Iran decided to build a bomb before Israel launched its attacks, and Tehran made clear during previous negotiations that it was ready to reduce its uranium enrichment levels as part of a deal with the US.
The
Israeli military has killed 516 aid seekers since the end of May
The Israeli military killed at
least 44 desperate Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday in the latest massacre of
people seeking aid, The Associated Press reported, citing witnesses and
hospital officials.Al Jazeera reported that Israel killed a total of 80 Palestinians in Gaza and put the death toll of aid seekers at 51. The AP report said that Israeli tanks, drones, and troops opened fire on hundreds of Palestinians in southern and central Gaza who were heading toward aid sites operated by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), which have become death traps.
The Israeli military acknowledged that its forces opened fire on crowds of aid seekers, claiming that it fired “warning shots” at people who approached forces in a “suspicious manner.” Based on the AP report, the IDF did not allege that the people were armed.
Mourners
react during the funeral of Palestinians who were killed by Israeli fire while
trying to receive aid in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Health
Ministry, at Al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, June 24, 2025 REUTERS/Mahmoud
Issa
The killing of Palestinians
seeking aid has become a daily occurrence in Gaza. According to Gaza’s Health
Ministry, since the GHF began operating in the Strip at the end of May, at
least 516 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF while seeking aid, and
another 3,799 have been wounded.“The newly created, so-called ‘aid mechanism’ is an abomination that humiliates and degrades desperate people,” Phillipe Lazzarini, the head of the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, told reporters on Tuesday. “It is a death-trap, costing more lives than it saves.”
The latest aid massacres come as much of the world’s attention has been on the Israel-Iran war, which appears to be over for the time being after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire. In Gaza, Palestinians are asking when they will get a ceasefire.
“Whoever stopped the war between Iran and Israel is able to stop the war … in the Gaza Strip. Massacres every day, killing of children, killing the elderly, destruction of infrastructure, destruction of education, destruction of healthcare, destruction of everything we own in the Gaza Strip,” Khalil Moshbeh, a resident of Gaza, told Al Jazeera.
Abu Salman al-Bureim, another Palestinian in Gaza, called on the US and Qatar to work for a Gaza ceasefire. “We ask the West specifically to integrate us into this ceasefire so this crime and tragedy ends,” he said.
The US has continued to support Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza by providing bombs and other military equipment and by using its veto power at the UN Security Council.
Jason Ditz
An Israeli drone strike targeted a car near Kfar Dajal in the Nabatieh District of southern Lebanon today, killing the three people within, who were all members of the same family, according to local media reports.
Details are still emerging on the attack, but the Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed the attack and the death toll. The driver was reportedly a money changer in the area, which led to speculation he might have had dealing with Hezbollah. The other two slain were his sons.
It is notable that despite three people being killed in today’s attack, the IDF didn’t comment at all on the matter, even to offer a dubious claim they were top Hezbollah operatives, which is common practice in deadly drone strikes, even if Israel almost never follows up with evidence of the allegations.
Southern
Lebanon’s Nabatieh Governorate during the ceasefire ©MSF
This was the largest strike
reported on Tuesday. Late on Monday a large number of Israeli strikes were
reported across southern Lebanon, hitting buildings but not causing any
confirmed casualties.The IDF did comment on those Monday strikes, claiming everything they hit was a “weapon storage facility” and promising to continue to operate against any threats in Lebanon.
Israel fought a brief war with Hezbollah in late 2024, which ended in a ceasefire in November. Though the ceasefire has been presented as “holding,” Israel has been carrying out strikes on almost a daily basis against Lebanon. Hezbollah has so far not launched any retaliatory strikes.
Israeli troops continue to carry out cross-border raids into southwest Syrian villages, particularly in the Quneitra Governorate, as their invasion and occupation of that frontier near Golan continues.
Two ground raids were reported against two Quneitra villages on Monday, with a third raid Tuesday into al-Malaqa. The story is always the same, troops show up on the outskirts, smash up some farmland, then enter the village and start entering and searching civilian homes, confiscating weapons and anything else that suits their fancy. Computers and mobile phones are known targets, as are binoculars.
Reports also are that Israeli troops have been offering food handouts in the villages they raid, though reportedly the locals are mostly distrustful and refusing them. Israel invaded Syria in December after the ouster of the Assad government, and has been moving deeper in recent weeks into both Quneitra and Daraa Governorates.
Israeli drones are an increasingly common sight over SW Syria | Image is Creative Commons 3.0
Quneitra has another problem related to the Israeli invasion, drought. The area hasn’t been getting a lot of rain this year, and mostly is reliant on irrigation from dams that Israel has subsequently seized control over.
Moreover, Israel has sent bulldozers into northern Quneitra and leveled large swathes of forest around Jubata al-Khashab. Local growers have expressed concern that the exacerbation of the drought by Israeli actions, including the lack of water from the dam will drop their fruit yields more than 50% this year.
Ironically, as all this is ongoing Israel has confirmed “direct normalization talks” with the ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria. Israeli officials have suggested the military operations aren’t on the table for such negotiations, however, with Tzachi Hanegbi indicating that Israel wouldn’t withdraw from the Hermon area of Syria even in the event or normalization.
The Iraqi government has launched an investigation into the drone attacks that targeted several military bases in the country overnight.
“The attacks occurred between 2:15 am and 3:45 am (local time) and involved small, explosive-laden drones that struck two major sites: Al-Taji military camp north of Baghdad and Imam Ali Base in Dhi Qar province,” said the Commander-in-Chief of Iraq’s Armed Forces, Sabah al-Nomaan, on 24 June.
“These criminal and cowardly acts will not go unpunished. Our armed forces remain a steadfast shield, committed to protecting Iraq’s people, territory, and sovereignty,” Nomaan went on to say.
The first base to come under a drone attack early on Tuesday was Al-Taji in the Baghdad governorate, which is operated by both Iraqi troops and forces of the US-led military coalition in Iraq.
Video footage showed radar equipment in flames as a result of the strike.
Shortly after, drones reportedly attacked other sites in a seemingly coordinated fashion, including the vicinity of Baghdad airport – where US troops are known to be housed in the Victory Base Complex. The Balad site in Salah al-Din and Imam Ali Air Base near Nasiriyah in Dhi Qar were targeted as well. Some reports also claimed explosions were heard near the US Ain al-Asad base.
Radar equipment and fuel storage sites have been damaged by the drone attacks.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. A source close to Iraqi resistance factions, which have carried out many attacks on US military sites in recent years, denied their involvement while speaking to AFP.
Some media channels on Telegram signaled potential involvement from Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
The sudden drone attacks coincided with heavy Israeli attacks across Iran and its capital Tehran, and followed US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iranian forces.
The situation remains tense, as it is unclear whether the ceasefire will hold. Israeli attacks on Iran and Iranian missile launches have been reported since the unexpected truce was announced on Tuesday.
Trump accused both sides of violating the ceasefire on 24 June.
“Israel. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO, IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION! BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME NOW,” Trump said on social media, following Israeli threats to renew attacks on Tehran in response to post-ceasefire missile fire on Tuesday morning – which Iran denied.
Hebrew media reported that following the call, Israel carried out a symbolic and limited strike on a radar site north of Iran.
The ceasefire has now reportedly gone into effect.
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