Israelis awake to consecutive missile warnings amid Iranian strikes
William Christou
As daybreak broke in Israel and Iran, confusion reigned as as to whether the 2 international locations had been nonetheless at conflict. Israelis, who fell asleep to the information {that a} ceasefire had been agreed to, woke as much as 4 consecutive missile warnings, heading backwards and forwards to the shelters as a missile hit a residential constructing in Be’er Sheva, killing three, based on the Israel fireplace and rescue centre.
Iran skilled a few of its most intense Israeli bombings but in a single day, with one social media customers in Tehran writing “the bombardment tonight in Tehran was extraordinarily intense. For a full hour the explosions wouldn’t cease. We’re a totally defenseless folks.”
It was unclear whether or not the assaults had been merely rising pains of a ceasefire, or if hostilities had been to proceed. US President Donald Trump had introduced the ceasefire a little bit after midnight on Tuesday, however neither Israeli nor Iranian officers have stated they agreed to it.
The timetable of the ceasefire was additionally obscure. In response to Trump’s announcement by way of social media, Iran was to cease firing on Tuesday morning, after which 6 hours later Israel was to cease firing on Iran after which 24 hours later, the conflict could be formally declared over.
Iran’s overseas minister Abbas Aragchi stated there was “no settlement on any ceasefire” in a put up on X, however stated that if Israel stopped bombing Israel by 4 am Tehran time, that it will additionally stop firing. Later, Iranian state TV stated {that a} ceasefire was coming into impact, which it described as a being “imposed on the enemy.”
However, by Tuesday morning each Iranian and Israeli bombings had been persevering with, with no signal of a ceasefire on the bottom.
Folks collect in a underground shelter in Tel Aviv on June 24, 2025, after sirens sounded in a number of areas throughout the nation after missiles had been fired from Iran. {Photograph}: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
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President Trump says ceasefire ‘now in impact’
President Trump has once more taken to his social media platform, Reality Social, to proclaim that the ceasefire is dwell.
“THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT,” he wrote, “PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!”
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A brand new replace from Israel’s emergency providers, Magen David Adom, which is now reporting that 4 Israelis had been killed in Iranian strikes this morning.
Following the missile fireplace in the direction of Israel:
As of 07:45, on the southern Israel web site:
4 fatalities
2 reasonably injured
20 minor accidents and anxiousness.
MDA groups are persevering with search and rescue operations.
Updates to observe pic.twitter.com/u5FJPWoveu
— Magen David Adom (@Mdais) June 24, 2025Share
Interim abstract
It’s been a complicated few hours amid an absence of readability concerning the state of a ceasefire introduced by US president Trump.
In case you are simply getting in control, here’s a useful abstract of what we all know, and don’t know, to this point.
US president Donald Trump has introduced in a social media put up that Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire. “On the idea that every thing works because it ought to, which it would, I want to congratulate each International locations, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Braveness, and Intelligence to finish, what ought to be known as, “THE 12 DAY WAR,” Trump wrote on his platform, Reality Social. “It is a Conflict that would have gone on for years, and destroyed your entire Center East, but it surely didn’t, and by no means will!” Trump later informed NBC the ceasefire was “limitless” and would final “endlessly”.
Trump brokered the ceasefire by way of talks with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday whereas his staff, together with vice-president JD Vance, held talks with Tehran, a senior White Home official informed Reuters. The official, offering particulars of the ceasefire on situation of anonymity, stated Israel agreed to it as long as Iran doesn’t launch recent assaults.
After the ceasefire was announcement by Trump, Israel’s Defence Forces issued an evacuation warning for a number of elements of the Iranian capital, forward of a deliberate Israeli strike. On social media, some customers reported huge explosions in Tehran, which they stated was probably the most intense since Israel first began bombing Iran 12 days in the past.
Iran launched a number of salvoes of ballistic missiles at Israel early on Tuesday, with not less than one of many missiles straight hitting a residential constructing in Be’er Sheva, killing three and wounding eight extra, emergency providers stated.
The launches got here after 4am Tehran time, the time that Iranian overseas minister Abbas Araghchi stated it will finish its assaults if Israel stopped its bombings. Earlier he stated that if Israeli strikes ceased Iran had “no intention to proceed our response afterwards”. At 4.30am GMT Iranian state media introduced {that a} ceasefire was now in impact.
Qatar’s prime minister reportedly secured Iran’s settlement to the US ceasefire proposal in name with Tehran, an official briefed on the matter informed Reuters.
Trump’s declaration comes after Iran introduced it had launched a missile assault on a US base within the Gulf state of Qatar, in what it stated was retaliation for US participation in Israel’s bombing marketing campaign towards Iran the day earlier than.
Qatar’s overseas ministry stated that “Qatar’s air defences efficiently thwarted the assault and intercepted the Iranian missiles” and there had been no casualties. Iran reportedly supplied advance warning of the assault.
Trump on the weekend launched an unprecedented assault on three nuclear websites in Iran, together with Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow. Codenamed ‘midnight Hammer,’ the assault deployed American B-2 bombers, and so-called bunker buster bombs.
Trump was fast to say that US strikes on Iran’s nuclear services had “utterly and completely obliterated” them, it stays unclear how a lot bodily harm has been performed or what the longer-term impression is perhaps on Iran’s nuclear programme.
US bombing in all probability brought on “very important” harm to the underground areas of Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment plant dug right into a mountain, although nobody can but inform the extent, UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi stated on Monday. “Given the explosive payload utilised and the intense vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very important harm is predicted to have occurred,” Grossi stated in a press release.
The feedback observe a gathering by the nationwide safety committee of Iran’s parliament, which permitted the overall define of a invoice meant to totally droop Tehran’s cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog. In response to the invoice, putting in surveillance cameras, permitting inspections, and submitting stories to the IAEA could be suspended so long as the safety of nuclear services is just not assured.
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Deadline Trump introduced for Iran to start ceasing fireplace towards Israel passes
Iranian state tv reported on Tuesday {that a} ceasefire had begun in its conflict with Israel, whilst Israel warned the general public of a brand new missile barrage launched from Iran, the Related Press stories.
It wasn’t instantly potential to reconcile the messages from Iran and Israel on the twelfth day of their conflict. Iranian state tv introduced the ceasefire in a graphic on display screen, not instantly acknowledging the brand new missile barrage coming after the deadline set by President Donald Trump in his earlier ceasefire announcement.
A collection of Iranian barrages earlier than the ceasefire deadline killed three folks and injured not less than eight others in Israel, rescuers stated.
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Iran’s Press TV says {that a} ceasefire has begun following 4 waves of Iranian assaults on Israeli-occupied territories, Reuters stories.
Nonetheless, there may be nonetheless quite a lot of confusion concerning the timing of the ceasefire that Trump introduced, and the extent to which Israel and Iran have agreed to it.
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Photographs are rising of the harm in Israel attributable to Iranian strikes.
A residential web site is broken, following a missile assault from Iran on Israel, amid the Israel-Iran battle in Be’er Sheva, Israel 24 June, 2025. {Photograph}: Amir Cohen/Reuters
Emergency personnel work at an impacted residential web site.
Emergency personnel work at an impacted residential web site, following a missile assault from Iran on Israel, amid the Israel-Iran battle in Be’er Sheva, Israel 24 June, 2025. {Photograph}: Amir Cohen/ReutersShare
It now seems that Iran has launched a sixth consecutive barrage of missiles at Israel.
The IDF has stated that “missiles had been launched from Iran in the direction of Israeli territory a short while in the past. Protection techniques are working to intercept the menace”.
Traces of missiles are seen as Iran launches missile strike on Israel seen from Hebron, West Financial institution on June 24, 2025. {Photograph}: Mamoun Wazwaz/Anadolu/by way of Getty ImagesShare
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At the same time as Israel stories recent missile launches from Iran, Donald Trump has posted once more on social media, saying the ceasefire “deal” couldn’t have been made with out “the expertise and braveness of our nice B-2 pilots”.
He recommended their “hit” had “introduced everybody collectively” in a “sure and really ironic means”. It was unclear precisely what he meant. The put up on his Reality Social platform learn:
We couldn’t have made in the present day’s “deal” with out the expertise and braveness of our nice B-2 pilots, and all of these related to that operation. In a sure and really ironic means, that excellent “hit,” late within the night, introduced everybody collectively, and the deal was made!!!
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The Israeli navy says it has recognized extra missile launches from Iran – that might make it the fifth wave of missiles to focus on Israel this morning.
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Instances of Israel correspondent Emanuel Fabian has posted footage displaying the second the Iranian ballistic missile hit an condominium constructing in Beersheba:
Footage posted to social media reveals the second of the Iranian ballistic missile strike on an condominium constructing in Beersheba this morning. pic.twitter.com/rTsmwe4cN7
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) June 24, 2025
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