In a press conference, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said that the army also attacked a centrifuge manufacturing site and additional sites for manufacturing missiles in the vicinity of the Iranian capital.

Fighter jets are circling over launch and storage sites for surface-to-surface missiles in western Iran and are prepared to attack operatives who approach, he said. “Our message to them is clear – if you try to return and restore your capabilities, you will be attacked,” he warned.

The IDF spokesman emphasized that despite the limited barrages, “one must not become complacent.” He said, “The Iranian regime still has significant capabilities.”

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Israel’s Magen David Adom said there were no immediate reports of injuries, Xinhua news agency reported.The country’s state-owned Kan TV news reported that three missiles were fired from Iran, one of which was intercepted by the military and the other two fell in open fields. Fragments of a missile fell in Safed, sparking fire.

The missile attack came as Iran and Israel were trading aerial attacks following Israel’s surprise and deadly airstrikes on Friday on Iran.

Earlier Iran launched pre-dawn missile attack on Israel , killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, Israeli officials said, as the four-day conflict triggered by an Israeli surprise assault intensified.

The missile barrage set off air raid sirens across Israel. Plumes of black smoke rose above Haifa, a major coastal city in northern Israel, and eyewitnesses reported multiple explosions in the north and central regions of the country.

Local authorities confirmed fatalities in several locations. Four people were killed when a missile struck a residential building in Petah Tikva, a city east of Tel Aviv, according to Mayor Rami Greenberg. He stated that hundreds of residents from the damaged building and three adjacent structures were evacuated. Photos from the scene showed multi-story buildings with significant blast damage and scattered rubble.

(IANS)

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), in a new phase of the ongoing Operation True Promise III, launched a massive barrage of ballistic missiles and drones at the occupied Palestinian territories late on Monday.

The large-scale retaliatory operation, which was launched on Friday night, is being carried out under the code name “Ya Ali ibn Abi Talib.”

Israeli media reported that sirens sounded across the northern, central, and southern regions of the occupied territories after Iran began the ninth phase of its retaliatory operation.

It came barely hours after the Israeli regime struck a building of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in northern Iran, widely condemned as a horrific war crime.

According to sources, this phase of Operation True Promise III is expected to be longer and more intense than the previous eight phases, which began Friday night following the Israeli military’s unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

That aggression led to the assassination of several high-ranking Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists, and civilians, including women and children.

After receiving heavy blows in the previous eight phases of the operation, the Israeli regime authorities have banned the live broadcast of the Iranian operation, according to reports.

Settlers have been banned from sharing or publishing images or videos related to the Iranian retaliation to avoid further embarrassment for the regime’s embattled military.

However, some images that leaked through social media showed panic-stricken settlers hiding in underground shelters as the missiles and drones rained down on the occupied land.

Some reports said traffic cameras had been turned off across the occupied territories.

In a significant development during this phase of Operation True Promise III, which received significant coverage on social media platforms, an Israeli interceptor missile malfunctioned and tumbled down even before Iranian missiles had reached Tel Aviv.

In a statement after this phase of the operation was launched, the IRGC spokesperson said it will continue until dawn with an uninterrupted barrage of missiles and drones.

He said this phase of True Promise III is hybrid in nature, involving both missiles and drones.

The spokesperson further informed that in the past 72 hours, the IRGC aerospace division has, without a break, targeted 545 sites belonging to the Israeli regime with offensive drones across the occupied territories, and added that the operation will continue.

On Sunday, Iran’s armed forces had issued a stern warning to settlers in the occupied territories, advising them to evacuate immediately for their own safety.

Colonel Reza Sayyad, spokesperson for Iran’s Armed Forces Communications Center, warned settlers that remaining in the area would place their lives in grave danger, as Iran prepares for a “crushing” retaliation to recent Israeli military aggression.

“Leave the occupied territories. Leaving this occupied land is the only way to preserve your lives,” Colonel Sayyad said, slamming the “Zionist regime” for criminal aggression.

The operation comes in the wake of Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran that started on Friday morning and has resulted in the assassinations of many high-ranking Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists, and civilians, including children and women.

Among the martyrs are Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces; IRGC commander-in-chief Hossein Salami; Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the IRGC aerospace division; senior IRGC commander General Gholam Ali Rashid; and head of the IRGC’s Intelligence Organization, Brigadier General Mohammad Kazemi.

Nuclear scientists Dr. Fereydoon Abbasi, Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, and Dr. Abdolhamid Minoucher were also martyred in separate attacks.

Before the operation was launched on Friday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said the Zionist regime made a “big mistake, a grave error” by targeting civilian areas across Iran and warned that the consequences will “ruin them.”

“The Iranian nation will not overlook the blood of its precious martyrs and will not ignore the aggression against its sky,” he declared in a televised message.