Israel has carried out air strikes targeting security forces across Iran on the fifth day of the US-Israeli assault, as the death toll surpassed 1,000 and Iran launched more counterattacks and warned of the destruction of military and economic infrastructure across the Middle East.
Israeli attacks on Wednesday struck the country’s capital Tehran, the holy city of Qom, western Iran and across Iran’s central Isfahan province, according to the country’s Tasnim news agency. The attacks also damaged residential units, the agency added.
Israel said it hit buildings belonging to the Basij, a volunteer police paramilitary force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as targeting buildings associated with Iran’s internal security command.
The death toll since the US-Israeli assault began on Saturday has reached 1,045, Iranian state media reported.
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall said civilians are bearing the brunt of these attacks, and noted that the country is under fire from every direction.
“There is a continuous, sustained campaign across the country that is not sparing any region, city or area,” he said.
“But we know 300 children and adolescents have been hospitalised … with more than 6,000 [people] wounded,” he added.
Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said damage due to attacks was also visible at two buildings near the Isfahan nuclear site, but there has been no damage to facilities containing nuclear material and no risk of radiological release.–ALJAZEERA
