Loud blast heard in southern Israel after Iran missile attack

“Iran has the right to defend itself, and the peoples of the region and the free people of the world have the right to stand with the great leader and with Iran in one trench.” Hezbollah leader Sheikh Qassem said in a statement on Thursday.

"We in Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance are not neutral between Iran's legitimate rights and independence and the falsehood of America and its aggression, and with it the cancerous tumor of Israel and the arrogant powers."

Iran-backed Hezbollah has stayed out of the clash between its patron Iran and nemesis Israel after a conflict with the Jewish State last year left the group battered and its charismatic leader Hassan Nasrallah dead.

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Street placards depicting slain senior military commanders and a public funeral mourning personnel killed in air attacks marked the increasingly visible toll of an Israeli military campaign.

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Satellite images from before and after Israel's attack on the Arak heavy water facility, provided by Maxar Technologies, show that the unfinished facility has sustained damage.

No further details have yet been released about the extent of the damage.

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A post on US President Donald Trump's Truth Social account on Thursday misspelled the name of a potential target of an American airstrike, the Fordow nuclear facility - rendering it "Forgo".

Embedding video from a Fox News interview in which right-wing pundit Marc Thiessen praises Trump, the post incorrectly transliterates his pronunciation, writing: "You think he's afraid to take out Forgo? Of course not.”

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Israel hopes the United States will knock out Iran's underground nuclear site Fordow with its superior firepower but may try alone within days while military gains and global opinion allow, two Israeli security sources told Iran International.

The two sources still viewed joint action alongside the United States as the most likely scenario, within 48-72 hours at most.

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