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Missiles hit hospitals, homes and families: Inside Israel’s terrifying Iranian bombardment
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CENTRAL ISRAEL – At least six people were seriously wounded Thursday morning when an Iranian ballistic missile struck Be’ersheba’s Soroka Medical Center, part of a broader barrage that also scored direct hits on Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Holon.
«We are hitting nuclear targets and missile targets precisely, and they are hitting the pediatric ward of the hospital. That says it all,» said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while surveying the damage at the hospital.
The attacks on Israel have left many homeless and lucky to be alive. Ariel Levin-Waldman is one such person. He was at his in-laws’ home in Rishon LeZion, where he and his family had been staying for several months during renovations to their own house—when an Iranian missile struck the residential neighborhood. The attack killed two people and injured dozens; a third victim died during an earlier wave of Iranian strikes.
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Smoke rises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Be’er Sheva, Israel, Thursday, Jun. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
«At around 5 a.m., I got the same missile alert everyone in the country gets,» Levin-Waldman told Fox News Digital. «I grabbed my phone, ran downstairs with my wife and kids, and we made it to the shelter. My mother-in-law joined us.»
Then the missile hit the building.
«There was a flash of light, and everything went dark. We were choking, struggling to breathe,» Levin-Waldman said. Realizing help might not arrive in time, he continued, «I couldn’t wait to be rescued. We were suffocating, and I was afraid we’d be buried alive.»
Levin-Waldman tried to survey the damage inside the shelter, but the thick cloud of dust made it nearly impossible to see. All he could make out was that his arms and legs were still intact. The floor had become uneven, and the walls were damaged from the force of the blast.
It was at that moment he realized the explosion had propelled a book cabinet across the shelter, hitting his mother-in-law in the head.
Rescue personnel work at an impact site following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Rishon LeZion, Israel, Jun. 14, 2025. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
«She was bleeding heavily, and I realized she had been calling out ‘save us’ in Hebrew, but her voice was faint,» he recalled. «I managed to lift the cabinet off my mother-in-law, and when I did, I saw a potential escape route. I cleared the way so my wife, Tali, and our two-and-a-half-year-old, Renana, could get through. I had Ayala, my seven-week-old baby, on my shoulders as I made the opening. It was just enough to get them out.»
As they emerged, firefighters guided them to safety onto the street. In front of Levin-Waldman stood a wall of rubble where his car had once been, and his feet were cut by glass from the explosion.
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Unable to climb over the debris with his younger child on his shoulders, he handed her to a paramedic. Once he climbed over himself, he looked around—only to realize Ayala was no longer in sight.
«Here I was, covered in dust and blood, almost naked, wandering the street screaming, ‘Where is my child?» he recalled. Some people thought the worst. It took about 30 minutes to find her.»
Ariel Levin-Waldman’s baby Ayala carried by a police officer taking her to safety right after the house they lived in Rishon LeZion was hit by an Iranian missile attack. (Photo courtesy: Dvir Mor )
Only 20 hours after Levin-Waldman survived the attack, another Iranian missile struck a building across from the hotel where he was staying in Rehovot. «The blast shattered the windows, and the entire building shook. We had a whole floor of people from our neighborhood traumatized, reliving the experience,» he told Fox News Digital.
«The hardest part is confronting how fragile we are and how close we came to disaster,» he said.
Since the conflict began on June 13, Iranian missile attacks have killed 24 Israelis and wounded over 800.
The missiles do not discriminate—neither between men and women, children and the elderly, nor between Jew and Arab. That reality was tragically underscored over the weekend when four women were killed by a ballistic missile that scored a direct hit on their home in the predominantly Arab town of Tamra, just north of Haifa.
These terror missiles also make no distinction between the political left and right.
Large windows are shown shattered after what was believed to be a drone attack Thursday night. (Trey Yingst)
Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid dodged a tragedy on Monday when his son’s house in Tel Aviv suffered damage from the aftershock of a direct missile impact that left many residents of the central metropolis homeless.
«My one-year-old granddaughter’s bed was covered in glass from an explosion caused by an Iranian missile. It is horrific to think what would have happened if she had been in bed,» Lapid told Fox News Digital.
«This is the enemy we are facing—a regime dedicated to our destruction and aiming to kill as many innocent children as possible. We have to remove the nuclear threat and the missile threat—for the safety of Israel and the world,» he added.
Coalition lawmaker Hanoch Mildwisky, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party, lives across the street from a building in Petah Tikva–located 6.5 miles east of Tel Aviv–which sustained damage in an Iranian attack that killed four people.
«There were dislodged windows and cracks in the walls,» Mildwisky told Fox News Digital. «In the building that was hit, there were unfortunately casualties. It was a very large missile, carrying nearly a ton of explosives, so the blast was massive and caused significant damage even hundreds of meters away from the impact site.»
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Zaka volunteer Jamal Waraki pulling Israelis out of the rubble in the aftermath of Iran’s missile attacks. (ZAKA )
Mildwisky emphasized that Iran must not be allowed to possess atomic bombs or the capability to develop them—particularly given the regime’s repeated declarations of intent to destroy the Jewish state.
As long as the threat remains, he said, Israel will be forced to continue its military operations.
Jamal Waraki, a Muslim volunteer with the ZAKA emergency service, had just completed a rescue mission—pulling an 80-year-old man from the rubble—when he returned home at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday to find his own house destroyed.
«That night, there was a missile impact in Rehovot. We tended to the building that had sustained a direct hit. Once we finished, I went home and discovered that my place too had been struck,» Jamal told Fox News Digital.
Thankfully, no one was home at the time. Jamal’s family had been staying with his mother-in-law in Eilat, where they still are. While awaiting the finalization of new housing arrangements, Jamal has been sleeping in his car.
The building in Lihi Griner’s complex which was hit by an Iranian missile attack. (Lihi Griner )
Lihi Griner is well known in Israel due to her appearance in the local spinoff of the Big Brother reality TV show. She was in her safe room with her husband and three children when the Iranian missile struck Petah Tikva, in the same neighborhood as lawmaker Mildwisky. Griner resides in a complex with four residential buildings, one of which was directly hit.
«There was a huge boom,» she told Fox News Digital. «The kids were shocked, they started to cry, and we kept telling ourselves that there was an impact, but we’re alive. It was surreal. I couldn’t believe it happened to me.»
After receiving the all-clear to leave the safe room, she opened the door and found everything was completely destroyed. «Our windows were blown out of the walls, the doors were broken in half, the walls were damaged with big cracks, and all the balconies in the front of the building were demolished,» said Griner.
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Initially, residents were sent to a school across the street, where authorities offered hotel options at no cost. Soldiers later escorted Griner’s family back to their apartment so they could retrieve their belongings. While the residence is now safe, they can’t sleep there due to the lack of windows.
«I live day by day. I’m just happy we’re alive. It gives us time to figure out what comes next,» Griner said.
For Levin-Waldman, what came next was an unexpected phone call from the Rishon Lezion municipality on Wednesday. To his relief, another member of the family had been found alive and unharmed four days after the attack: their dog, Zvika.
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Donald Trump habló con la presidenta interina de Venezuela y dijo que todo «anda muy bien»
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunció que mantuvo este miércoles «una larga conversación» con la presidenta interina de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, y que todo «anda muy bien» con ese país.
«Tuvimos una larga llamada, discutimos un montón de cosas, creo que todo anda muy bien con Venezuela», declaró Trump a periodistas en el Despacho Oval.
Rodríguez es «una persona formidable», añadió Trump, que prevé recibir a la líder opositora, María Corina Machado, el jueves en la Casa Blanca.
Poco después, en un mensaje en su red Truth Social, Trump dijo que abordaron diversos temas y que se están logrando «avances extraordinarios» en asuntos como petróleo, minerales, comercio y seguridad nacional.
A primera hora de la tarde, Delcy Rodríguez, que hasta la caída de Nicolás Maduro era su vicepresidenta, había afirmado que se iniciaba «un nuevo momento político» en Venezuela, y prometiera que continuará el proceso de excarcelaciones.
El líder republicano evitó una respuesta clara cuando le preguntaron sobre las posibles resistencias del «número dos» del gobierno venezolano, en alusión al poderoso ministro de Interior, Diosdado Cabello, a colaborar con Washington.
«Yo conozco a la número uno», respondió Trump a la pregunta. «Acabamos justo de tener una conversación hoy. Es alguien con quien trabajamos muy bien. (El secretario de Estado) Marco Rubio negocia con ella» añadió.
Trump dijo que controla los asuntos venezolanos tras la operación militar que derrocó al presidente Nicolás Maduro el 3 de enero.
Trump afirma que Estados Unidos mantiene una tutela sobre el gobierno venezolano y ha anunciado acuerdos para recibir millones de barriles de petróleo venezolano.
Poco después, Delcy Rodríguez confirmó su conversación con Donald Trump, para abordar una «agenda de trabajo bilateral» y los «asuntos pendientes» entre ambos gobiernos. «El día de hoy sostuve una larga, productiva y cortés conversación telefónica con el Presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, desarrollada en un marco de respeto mutuo», dijo Rodríguez en un breve mensaje en Telegram.
En una breve declaración a la prensa este miércoles, Rodríguez anunció en Caracas que Venezuela «se abre a un nuevo momento político».
Rodríguez había informado más temprano que en los últimos días han sido liberados 406 presos políticos en el país y que el proceso de exarcelación «se mantiene abierto».
Sostuve una larga y cortés conversación telefónica con el Presidente de los EEUU, Donald Trump, desarrollada en un marco de respeto mutuo, en la que abordamos una agenda de trabajo bilateral en beneficio de nuestros pueblos, así como asuntos pendientes entre nuestros gobiernos. pic.twitter.com/TPxQMo4mn0
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En tanto, Delcy Rodríguez, convocó este miércoles a la unión de los trabajadores del país y reiteró su compromiso con la liberación del mandatario Nicolás Maduro, que permanece detenido en Nueva York.
«Que sea toda Venezuela unida que busque un horizonte y que ese horizonte sea la paz social, sea la paz económica, que en cada familia trabajadora de Venezuela, bueno, amanezca la esperanza y esa esperanza de que los tendremos de vuelta», declaró Rodríguez durante una llamada telefónica con uno de los dirigentes que encabezaba una manifestación de trabajadores chavistas en Caracas y que fue redifundida en los altavoces instalados en la concentración.
La líder chavista confió también en la posibilidad de construir una patria que «permita la felicidad, el futuro de nuestros hijos y de nuestras hijas».
Se trata de las primeras palabras en medio de una movilización de la mandataria encargada, que no ha aparecido públicamente en este tipo de actos que convoca a diario el chavismo para pedir la libertad de Maduro y su esposa, Cilia Flores.
La presidenta encargada dijo a los trabajadores que cuentan con su lealtad y su compromiso e insistió en que tienen que «cumplir» el objetivo de regresar a Maduro, quien ya ha comparecido en tribunales en Nueva York acusado cuatro presuntos cargos federales, entre ellos conspiración de narcoterrorismo y conspiración para la importación de cocaína.
El ataque militar de Estados Unidos dejó al menos 100 muertos entre civiles y militares, según informó el ministro de Interior y Justicia, Diosdado Cabello.
Rodríguez, quien ejercía como vicepresidenta de Maduro, fue juramentada como presidenta encargada dos días después de la captura de Maduro ante la Asamblea Nacional (AN, Parlamento), luego de que fuera convocada por el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ).
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The House of Representatives passed a roughly $80 billion spending package on Wednesday evening, taking a significant step toward averting a government shutdown at the end of this month.
The package combines two of Congress’ 12 annual appropriations bills in what’s called a «minibus.» It covers funding for the State Department and related national security, as well as federal financial services and general government operations.
Glaring questions still remain, however, over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as progressives threaten to withhold support from any such bill unless it’s paired with significant reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The push comes from the left in response to an ICE agent shooting 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen who was driving her car when it made physical contact with a law enforcement official who then fatally shot her.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks at a press conference with other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on funding for and efforts to reform the Department of Homeland Security, in Washington, Jan. 13, 2026. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Partisan divisions have erupted over the narrative, with GOP officials like DHS Secretary Kristi Noem saying the agent acted in self-defense, while Democrats on Capitol Hill have called for criminal investigations.
DHS funding was initially expected to be part of this minibus, but House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., told reporters earlier this week that he would like to see the bill as part of the final package that’s also expected to include funding for the Department of War, Department of Transportation, Department of Labor, Education Department and Health and Human Services, among others.
But the top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told reporters on Tuesday that she wanted to see DHS funding as a separate bill.
«It’s got to be by itself,» DeLauro said. «It’s got to be separate.»
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Meanwhile, the Congressional Progressive Caucus is formally threatening to oppose any DHS funding that does not change immigration enforcement policy, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., announced.
«Our caucus members will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices. We cannot, and we should not continue to fund agencies that operate with impunity,» she told reporters.
House Speaker Mike Johnson in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Dec. 2, 2025 (Yuri Gripas/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But the bill that passed on Wednesday did so with wide bipartisan support, as expected.
All federal spending bills in the wake of last year’s government shutdown are a product of bipartisan discussions between the House and Senate.
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The recent package totals just over $76 billion in federal funds, and is now headed to the Senate for its approval before getting to President Donald Trump’s desk.
The State Department and national security bill includes $850 million for an «America First Opportunity Fund,» aimed at giving the Secretary of State funding to respond to potential unforeseen circumstances.
Both Republicans and Democrats touted different victories in the legislation, with a summary by House Appropriations Committee Republicans stating that the bill supports «President Trump’s America First foreign policy by eliminating wasteful spending on DEI or woke programming, climate change mandates, and divisive gender ideologies.»
Democrats said the bill «supports women globally» by «protecting funding for bilateral family planning and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)» and pointed to $6.8 billion for a new account «that supports the activities previously funded under Development Assistance.»
The bill also provides millions in security assistance for Israel and Taiwan, among other global partners across the world.
The latter bill provides just over $13 billion for the U.S. Treasury for the remainder of fiscal year 2026, while also including a provision that stops the IRS «from targeting individuals or groups for exercising their First Amendment rights or ideological beliefs,» according to Republicans.
It also provides $872 million for the Executive Office of the President and $9.69 billion in discretionary funding for the Federal Judiciary.
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Meanwhile, across the Capitol, the Senate is expected to vote on and pass the previous three-bill funding package on Thursday before leaving Washington, D.C., for a weeklong recess.
Neither side appears willing to thrust the government into another shutdown, with Senate Democrats in particular viewing the package as an opportunity to fund several of their priorities. But, there is a growing consensus that a short-term funding patch will be needed to allow lawmakers to finish work on the thornier DHS bill.
«Homeland is obviously the hardest one, and it’s possible that, if we can’t get agreement, that there could be some sort of CR that funds some of these bills into next year,» Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said.
Still, bipartisan funding talks are still happening — a stark departure from the last government funding deadline in October. But lawmakers in the upper chamber won’t be able to tackle the two-bill package until they return toward the end of the month.
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EXCLUSIVE: France’s ambassador to the United Nations said Paris has strongly condemned Iran’s violent crackdown on nationwide protests, as the French government weighs possible satellite communications support to help Iranians circumvent a near-total internet blackout.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Jerome Bonnafont described what he said was an escalation in repression by Iranian authorities and outlined France’s response, including sanctions and diplomatic pressure.
«We have condemned very, very strongly, at the highest level, the repression against the popular movement in Iran,» Bonnafont said. «This time it seems to me that the repression is even more violent than it used to be.»
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Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive for a summit at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 22, 2025. (Ludovic MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)
His remarks come as France’s foreign minister confirmed Paris is studying the possible transfer of satellite terminals operated by Eutelsat to Iran, following a sweeping internet shutdown imposed by Iranian authorities during the unrest, and as the G7 issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s violent crackdown on nationwide protests.
The foreign ministers of France, the United States and other G7 nations warned they were prepared to impose additional restrictive measures if Iran continues to violate international human rights obligations.
Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
Earlier Tuesday, Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, urged France to support designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization at the EU level during a call with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot.
Asked whether France would back such a move, Bonnafont did not address the IRGC designation directly, instead emphasizing existing sanctions and international pressure.
«There are sanctions against the police of the regime. And there are sanctions also against several individuals, more than 200 people in Iran for these reasons,» he said.
«What we have to do is to condemn and to address the right message to the people in Iran and to the regime, so that the regime stops with this massive repression.»
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NATO leaders pose in this shot taken in June. (Claudia Greco/Reuters)
NATO and Europe’s defense responsibility
Bonnafont also addressed repeated calls from President Donald Trump for European allies to shoulder more of NATO’s defense burden, arguing that Europe is already moving in that direction.
«There is a will by the Europeans to take the full responsibility of the protection of its own continent,» he said.
He stressed that the approach reflects a long-standing French position. «It is a very old theme for the French governments that there has to be within NATO an autonomous, self-capable entity for European defense,» Bonnafont said, referring to France’s long-standing advocacy for European strategic autonomy, a position repeatedly emphasized by President Emmanuel Macron.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France’s President Emmanuel Macron meet at Lancaster House in London, March 2, 2025. (Justin Tallis/Pool via Reuters)
Ukraine as a test case
Bonnafont pointed to Europe’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine as evidence that European governments are prepared to act collectively when core security interests are threatened.
«Ukraine has been attacked by Russia four years ago. Now it has been invaded by Russia, and it has decided to resist and to fight for its independence, its territorial integrity, its sovereignty,» he said.
He described European backing for Kyiv as both unified and extensive. «And Europeans are going in support of Ukraine. And what we are doing in terms of financial support is massive. What we are doing in terms of political support is unanimous,» Bonnafont said.
According to the ambassador, France and the United Kingdom are working to organize what he described as a «coalition of volunteers» to provide Ukraine with long-term security guarantees once negotiations with Russia become possible.
«When Ukraine enters into discussion with Russia, and when Russia accepts to enter into discussion with Ukraine, and when the elements of a peace, sustainable peace, are put on paper, Ukraine can have security guarantees,» he said.
Bonnafont also pointed to France’s domestic budget decisions as evidence that Europe is backing rhetoric with resources. «There is presently the negotiation of the next budget for France for 2026,» he said. «It includes a strong increase in our defense budget, and it is the only budget that is going to be increased in our whole budget this year.»
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The Security Council meets at United Nations headquarters on June 13, 2025, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
UN reform and budget cuts
Beyond NATO and Europe’s defense posture, Bonnafont said France is pushing for institutional reform at the United Nations, where member states recently approved significant budget reductions. «The institution has to reform. It always has to reform,» he said.
«We decided by consensus with the American government and all the others a budget which presents a reduction of 20% of manpower and a reduction of 15% of the funds allocated to the U.N.,» Bonnafont added. «Give me another example of a public structure that is capable of such an effort in such a short time,» he said.
Despite the cuts, he defended the U.N.’s relevance. «Yes, we are serious about reform. Yes, we want it to be streamlined,» Bonnafont said. «But yes, we need the U.N. for the world.»
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A Palestinian boy walks near an UNRWA school sheltering displaced people that was hit in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City, July 5, 2025. (Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)
UNRWA dispute and U.S. funding cuts
Asked about the U.S. decision to halt funding for several U.N. agencies, including UNRWA, Bonnafont defended the agencies, saying, «Organizations are more efficient when they are universal,» adding that participation remains a sovereign decision for the United States.
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