Iran’s military denied on Tuesday (June 24, 2025) that it fired missiles at Israel hours after a ceasefire was supposed to start, Iranian state tv reported.
The report quoted the final employees of Iran’s armed forces, which incorporates its common military and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, as making the denial.
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Israel reported missile fireplace some two and a half hours after the ceasefire started. Israeli officers have ordered a strike on Iran in response, although there’s no speedy report of an assault there.
Earlier, a tentative truce faltered as Israel mentioned Iran had launched missiles into its airspace greater than two hours after a ceasefire went into impact and vowed to retaliate.
Explosions boomed and sirens sounded throughout northern Israel midmorning on Tuesday, after each Israel and Iran on Tuesday accepted the ceasefire plan to finish the 12-day warfare roiling the Middle East.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz referred to as the missiles a violation of the ceasefire and instructed Israel’s military to renew “the intense operations to attack Tehran and to destroy targets of the regime and terror infrastructure.”
The shaky settlement was introduced early Tuesday morning after Tehran launched a retaliatory restricted missile assault on a U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday.
Between U.S. President Donald Trump’s publish and the beginning of the ceasefire, Israel launched a blitz of airstrikes focusing on websites throughout Iran earlier than daybreak and Iran replied with an onslaught of missiles that killed at least 4 individuals in Israel early Tuesday morning.
Israel mentioned it had intercepted the midmorning barrage of missiles that got here hours into the truce.
“Tehran will tremble” Israel’s Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich wrote on X after the missiles had been launched.
The midmorning barrage of missiles got here after regional leaders, together with in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, welcomed Trump’s announcement of the ceasefire.
“THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!” he wrote on his social media platform Tuesday morning.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned Israel had agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with Iran in coordination with Trump, pledging to reply to any subsequent violation. He mentioned he had advised Israel’s safety cupboard that the nation had achieved all of its warfare targets, together with eradicating the specter of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile applications. Israel additionally broken Iran’s military management and several other authorities websites and achieved management over Tehran’s skies, Netanyahu mentioned.
Iranian officers didn’t remark both after Trump introduced the ceasefire or Israel claimed it had intercepted extra missiles hours after it supposedly went into impact. Hours earlier, Iran’s prime diplomat had mentioned the nation was ready to halt airstrikes.
“As of now, there is NO ‘agreement’ on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in a publish on X. “However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards.”
Araghchi added: “The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”
The shaky ceasefire adopted a day of hostilities spreading additional throughout the area.
Iran launched a restricted missile assault Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for earlier American bombing of its nuclear websites. The U.S. was warned by Iran upfront, and there have been no casualties. Israel’s military mentioned Iran launched 20 missiles towards Israel earlier than the ceasefire started on Tuesday morning. Police mentioned they broken at least three densely packed residential buildings within the metropolis of Beersheba.
First responders mentioned they retrieved 4 our bodies from one constructing and had been looking for extra. Earlier, the Fire and Rescue service mentioned 5 our bodies had been discovered earlier than revising the quantity downward.
At least 20 individuals had been injured.
Outside, the shells of burned out automobiles littered the streets. Broken glass and rubble lined the world. Hundreds of emergency employees gathered to seek for anybody else trapped within the buildings.
Police mentioned some individuals had been injured even whereas inside their flats’ bolstered protected rooms, which are supposed to face up to rockets and shrapnel however not direct hits from ballistic missiles.
Drones attacked military bases in Iraq in a single day, together with some housing U.S. troops, the Iraqi military and a US military official mentioned Tuesday.
No casualties had been reported and no group claimed accountability for the assaults in Iraq. Some Iran-backed Iraqi militias had beforehand threatened to focus on U.S. bases if the U.S. attacked Iran.
Iraqi military spokesperson Sabah Al-Naaman in an announcement referred to as the assaults a “treacherous and cowardly act of aggression” and mentioned they’d broken radar methods at Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, and at Imam Ali Base in Dhi Qar province. Iraqi forces shot down drones at different places, he mentioned.
A senior U.S. military official, who spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of he was not approved to remark publicly, mentioned U.S. forces had shot down drones attacking Ain al-Assad within the desert in western Iraq and at a base subsequent to the Baghdad airport, whereas one other one crashed.
Trump promised final evening’s ceasefire would carry an “official end” to what he at the time coined the “12 Day War” forward of Israel’s promise to renew operations on Tuesday.
Trump had communicated straight with Netanyahu to safe the ceasefire, based on a senior White House official who insisted on anonymity to debate the Monday talks. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and particular envoy Steve Witkoff communicated with the Iranians by means of direct and oblique channels.
The White House has maintained that the Saturday bombing helped get the Israelis to comply with the ceasefire and that the Qatari authorities helped to dealer the deal.
It’s unclear what position Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s chief, performed within the talks. He mentioned earlier on social media that he wouldn’t give up.
Israel’s Airports Authority mentioned Iran’s barrage pressured them to shut the nation’s airspace to emergency flights for a number of hours.
Some flights had been pressured to circle over the Mediterranean Sea, based on Israeli media.
Israel’s airports have been closed because the warfare with Iran started, however a handful of emergency flights began arriving and departing over the previous few days.
By early Tuesday, Qatar Airways resumed its flights after Qatar shut down its airspace over the Iranian assault on Al Udeid Air Base. Flight-tracking knowledge confirmed industrial plane once more flying in Qatari airspace, signaling Doha believed the menace on the energy-rich nation had handed.
In Israel, at least 28 individuals have been killed and greater than 1,000 wounded within the warfare. Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 974 individuals and wounded 3,458 others, based on the Washington-based group Human Rights Activists.
The group, which has offered detailed casualty figures from Iranian unrest such because the protests surrounding the dying of Mahsa Amini in 2022, mentioned of these killed, it recognized 387 civilians and 268 safety pressure personnel.
The U.S. has evacuated some 250 American residents and their speedy members of the family from Israel by authorities, military and constitution flights that started over the weekend, a State Department official mentioned.
There are roughly 700,000 American residents, most of them twin U.S.-Israeli residents, believed to be in Israel.
