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Israel kills three Iranian military commanders and strikes nuclear site in Isfahan

Israeli forces said they also hit missile storage and launch infrastructure in Central Iran

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Israel said it had killed three commanders from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and struck a nuclear site in Isfahan on the ninth day of the war between Israel and Iran, Agence France-Presse reports, BTA reports.

The midnight strike killed Saeed Izadi, a commander from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who coordinated the Corps' actions with “Hamas“, against whom Israel is also at war in the Gaza Strip. Two other commanders were also killed today: Amnipour Judaki, who had commanded hundreds of drone attacks against Israel, and Behnam Shahriari, who was responsible for transferring weapons from Iran to its proxies in the Middle East.

Israeli forces said they also struck missile storage and launch facilities in central Iran and military infrastructure in southwestern Iran.

In Iran, local media reported a midnight attack on the Isfahan nuclear facility in central Iran that they said caused no damage. However, the International Atomic Energy Agency said a workshop for manufacturing centrifuges used to enrich uranium was hit in the latest wave of Israeli strikes on the Isfahan nuclear facility. However, there was no nuclear material in the facilities and therefore the attack did not have any radiation consequences, said IAEA chief Rafael Grossi.

Several loud explosions also rocked Ahvaz in southwestern Iran today, where the Israeli army announced it was striking military infrastructure.

In Qom, in central Iran, a teenager died after an Israeli strike hit a residential building, according to IRNA.

Four Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fighters were killed in a strike on Tabriz, in northwestern Iran, according to ISNA.

In Israel, a fire broke out on the roof of an apartment building in central Israel after debris from an intercepted Iranian missile fell, according to local media.

In Beit Shean, in northern Israel, rescue teams checked residential building damaged by Iranian drone, but no casualties.

Since the beginning of the Israeli strikes on Iran and the retaliatory Iranian missile attacks on Israel from the Israeli side, 25 people have been killed, Israeli authorities report. According to Iranian health authorities, the number of victims on the Iranian side has already exceeded 400, and the number of injured is over 3,000. The American non-governmental organization "Human Rights Activists News Agency" reported at least 657 killed and 2,000 injured in Iran, including civilians and military personnel, notes Agence France-Presse.