Conflict Israel-Iran: List of key events, June 19, 2025 | News Israel-Iran Conflict

Here are the key events on the seventh day of the Israel-Iran conflict.

Here is where things are on Thursday June 19:

Struggle

• Israel struck dozens of sites in Iran, including Natanz and a nuclear reactor in heavy water, which was originally called Arak and is now called Khondab.

• A projectile drawn by Iran struck the Soroka hospital in Beersheba, in southern Israel – one of the main hospitals where Israeli troops are sent – leaving dozens injured.

• Irna, the news agency of the Islamic Republic, said on Telegram that the “main target” of the missile attack on Thursday “was the broad seat of the command (Israeli army) (IDF C4i) and the military intelligence camp in the Gav-Yam technological park”, not at the hospital.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tehran would pay a “heavy prize” for the strike.

• Israel says that he destroyed the headquarters of Iran’s internal security in Tehran, because more explosions are reported in the Iranian city of Karaj and at nearby Payam airport.
• Several explosions were heard on Jerusalem and such as Aviv while a new wave of Iranian missiles was targeting the country, which resulted in at least four impact sites.
• Bloomberg News, citing anonymous sources, reported that senior American officials “are preparing for the possibility of a strike on Iran in the coming days”. He said development is a sign that Washington “assembles the infrastructure to enter directly into a conflict with Tehran”.
• On Thursday, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists that President Donald Trump would decide whether the United States would join the Israeli-Iranian conflict in the “next two weeks”. Previously, Trump had refused to say if he had made a decision. “I can do it. I may not be. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do,” he said.
• Republican senator Lindsey Graham urges Trump to “enter” and attack the Ford-Fordow nuclear site of Iran, which is deeply dug in a mountain in the center of Iran.
• The Al Udeid air base outside Doha, Qatar – a major American military base in the Middle East – has seen many planes generally dispersed on its tarmac, reported the Associated Press.

• The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz threatened to eliminate the supreme Iranian chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Such a person is prohibited to exist,” he said in a statement quoted by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
• In an article on X, Khamenei said: “The very fact that American friends of the Zionist regime have entered the scene and say such things is a sign of the weakness and the incapacity of this diet.”
• Turkiye increased the security of its border with Iran when the Israeli-Iranian conflict continues, a source from the Turkish Defense Ministry told Reuters, adding that Ankara had not seen any irregular migration flows from Iran.

Victims and disruptions

• Israel said that at least 24 people were killed in Iranian attacks on Israel.
• Israel said more than 200 people were injured in the Iranian strike that hit Soroka hospital.
• At least 639 people were killed in Israeli attacks across Iran, according to the group based in Washington, human rights activists.
• Iran has not given regular death toll figures during intense attacks in Israel. His last update has taken stock of more than 240 people killed and 1,277 others injured.
• Iranian police announced Thursday that they had arrested 24 people accused of espionage for Israel, according to a statement made by the Tasnim news agency.
• The Irib State diffuser said that the Iranian authorities have extended the cancellation of takeoff and landing of national and international flights until 2 p.m. (10:30 am GMT).
• Thousands of people in Israel have become homeless due to attacks on Iranian reprisal missiles, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The Israeli Interior Ministry has classified 5,110 people as homeless, including 907 from Tel Aviv, according to the report.
• Watchdog Internet based in London, Netblocks, said that Iran had imposed a closure of the Internet on a national level for 24 hours.

Diplomacy

• The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, confirmed his intention to meet his British, French and German counterparts, as well as the first diplomat of the European Union, in Geneva on Friday, according to the IRNA news agency.
• Iranian human rights activists and winners of the Nobel Peace Prize Nargets Mohammadi and Shirin Ebadi urged war between Israel and Iran. “Stop war and choose dialogue rather than destruction,” they said in a statement on the Nobel Women’s Initiative website.
• When asked by a journalist from the Iranian Khamenei potential assassination by Israel or the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “I don’t even want to discuss this possibility. I don’t want to. “
• Putin also said that he thought that “peaceful solution could be found” in the conflict, as he called for parties to guarantee Iran’s interests to pursue “peaceful nuclear activities”, as well as to ensure “unconditional security of the Jewish state”.
• The head of the Rights of the United Nations, Volker Turk, urged the restraint of Iran and Israel, claiming that it is “appalling to see how civilians are treated as collateral damage in the conduct of hostilities”.
• The office of French president Emmanuel Macron said that Paris provided, as well as European partners, to suggest a negotiated solution to end the conflict between Iran and Israel.
• The director general of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, told Tel Aviv Tribune that the nuclear guard dog had no evidence showing that Iran is actively trying to build nuclear weapons.
• The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry accused the head of IAEA Grossi and his organization of being an accomplice of the current conflict, claiming that their “biased” report on Iran’s nuclear activities had been used as “pretext” for Israel to attack.
• The great Shiite chief of Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, warned that there will be “disastrous consequences on the region” if the “supreme religious and political leaders” of Iran are targeted. He called on the international community to “do everything possible to put an end to this unfair war and find a peaceful solution” on the nuclear program of Iran.

• Prime Minister Netanyahu said Thursday that the change or fall of the Iranian regime was not a goal, but could be a result. “The question of the change of the regime or the fall of this regime is above all a question for the Iranian people. There is no substitute for this. And that is why I have not presented it as an objective. This could be a result, but it is not declared or formal that we have,” he told the Israeli public broadcaster Kan.