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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

ToI Staff

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi attends an extraordinary Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on June 23, 2025. (Joe Klamar / AFP)
June 23, 2025, 3:09 pm
IAEA chief expects ‘very significant damage’ at Iran’s Fordo site, demands access
Rafael Grossi says no one in a position to assess damage from US attacks; says accounting for Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium necessary to end conflict, bring peace
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli teams work to assess the damage and clear the rubble in Bnei Brak after a local school suffered a direct missile strike by Iran, June 16, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
June 23, 2025, 12:44 pm
Education Ministry shuts 80 ultra-Orthodox schools flouting war closure orders
Schools stayed open despite IDF Home Front Command shuttering all education facilities amid missile danger from Iran; ministry orders them closed, halts their funding
By Rossella Tercatin, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Mahmoud Khalil, center, reacts as he is greeted upon arriving at Newark International Airport, in Newark, New Jersey, June 21, 2025. (Seth Wenig/AP)
June 23, 2025, 10:01 am
Mahmoud Khalil resumes anti-Israel activism, appears at NYC rally
Former Columbia University student, facing deportation efforts, participates in protest slamming US strikes on Iran, days after being released from detention
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A woman is arrested by Israel Police outside the home of Economy Minister Nir Barkat, amid a small protest for the release of hostages held captive in Gaza, on June 22, 2025. (Screen capture via Nir Hasson on X)
June 23, 2025, 7:54 am
Police arrest 2 women at small hostage protest near minister’s home, strip search them
In Tel Aviv, vigilante rapper The Shadow leads group of civilian volunteers detaining foreign journalists for allegedly filming missile impact sites; police let foreigners go
By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon speaks during a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting in New York on June 22, 2025. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
June 23, 2025, 6:59 am
‘Where were you when Iran raced toward bomb?’ At UN, Israel blasts critics of US attack
Envoy Danon tells Security Council member-states they were ‘silent’ and ‘complicit’ in Iran’s nuclear weapons program; many countries tell Iran to return to talks to resolve crisis
By Agencies and ToI Staff
President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn upon arriving at the White House, June 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
June 23, 2025, 6:27 am
‘MIGA!’: Trump floats Tehran regime change as Iran’s proxies said prepping to hit US bases
US warns its citizens of ‘heightened threat,’ urges caution; Iranian official says US forces in Mideast ‘legitimate targets’; no injuries as one missile fired at Israel overnight
By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on June 22, 2025 using handout satellite images released by Maxar Technologies shows Iran's Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), northeast of the city of Qom on on June 19, 2025 (top), and Iran's Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), northeast of the city of Qom, after US strikes on the site June 22, 2025 (bottom). (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)
June 23, 2025, 5:29 am
Satellite images indicate severe damage to Fordo in US strikes, but doubts remain
6 holes seen punched into mountain above Iran’s deep nuclear plant, after series of bunker-busting bombs dropped; experts worry that nuclear material was moved prior to the attack
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A video purports to show an Israeli strike in Tehran on June 23, 2025 (Video screenshot)
June 23, 2025, 1:42 am
Israel says strikes in Tehran hit Basij HQ, Evin Prison, ‘Destruction of Israel’ clock
IDF believes many IRGC troops killed * Airstrikes hit access roads to Fordo * Israel said to convey message to Iran it is looking to end war within days
By ToI Staff
An Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jet prepares to take off for strikes in Iran, in a handout photo published June 22, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 22, 2025, 11:59 pm
Israel presses airstrikes across Iran as US attacks bring battle to ‘turning point’
Air Force chief details surprise raid on site over 2,000 kilometers away, where long-range missiles were stored; Tehran governor says Israel has hit ‘over 200’ sites in capital
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
This handout satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies, and taken on June 22, 2025, shows Iran's Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), northeast of the city of Qom, after US strikes on the site. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)
June 22, 2025, 9:00 pm
Extent of damage to Fordo, whereabouts of uranium unclear after nuke sites hit
IAEA chief says major destruction seen at Isfahan and Natanz, but not possible to assess at subterranean Fordo; Rubio claims enriched material was not moved away – analysts disagree
By AFP and ToI Staff
Protesters carry Iranian national flags and a poster of Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while chanting anti-US and -Israel slogans after the attacks on nuclear sites in Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
June 22, 2025, 7:25 pm
Iran, Russia set to hold talks as Tehran fumes at US over strikes
Islamic Republic and allies condemn American military action, schedule UN Security Council meeting, as world awaits possible retaliation; Hezbollah says it won’t get involved
By AFP, Reuters, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls on reporters for questions during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, June 22, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)
June 22, 2025, 5:55 pm
Hegseth says US strikes ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear ambitions; now Iran should negotiate
US attack was ‘intentionally limited’ to nuclear targets and not aimed at regime change, says Pentagon chief; top general assesses damage at 3 sites hit as ‘extremely severe’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Left to right: Ofra Keidar, Jonathan Samerano, and Staff Sgt. Shay Levinson (Courtesy)
June 22, 2025, 2:35 pm
IDF recovers bodies of three slain hostages from Gaza in military operation
Families say they’re comforted by retrieval of bodies of Ofra Keidar, Jonathan Samerano, and Staff Sgt. Shay Levinson, murdered and abducted by Hamas in Oct. 7 onslaught
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 22, 2025, 1:54 pm
All gatherings banned as military ramps up restrictions after US strikes on Iran
IDF’s Home Front Command increases wartime precautions across country; airspace to reopen for repatriation of stranded Israelis following temporary closure
By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Sharon Wrobel
Israeli Air Force F-15I and F-35I fighter jets fly alongside a US B-52 bomber during a drill on March 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 22, 2025, 12:50 pm
US, Israeli militaries jointly drilled Iran strike during Biden administration – report
Last March, the Israeli Air Force held a joint exercise with the US Air Force, in what was seen at the time as a message to Tehran
By ToI Staff
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