‘This Is Why We’re Fighting Iran’: Israel Shares Video Of Strike On Children’s Center

Last Updated:June 20, 2025, 21:37 IST

IDF says Iran struck children’s center in south Israel and said this is why Israel is fighting Iran.

A still image captured from the video shared by IDF showing a creche in southern Israel moments before an offensive strike on it. (IMAGE: X)

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in a video released on Friday claimed that Iran struck a children’s center in southern Israel. The 24-second long video shows a creche-like setup with toys scattered around as a CCTV captures the surroundings. At the 3-second mark, the video shows dust and debris signalling the time the missile may have struck the site.

No children were visible during the time of the strike.

It is unclear if the children’s center was linked to the Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba which was targeted by Iran on Thursday.

The strike in the hospital caused extensive damage to the hospital’s entrance hall and several departments, including the ophthalmology unit on the third floor of the surgical building.

The explosion shattered windows, hurling glass across the hospital, brought ceilings crashing down, destroyed medical equipment and left corridors in disarray.

Officials at the hospital, including its director, said lives were likely saved because the part of the complex that was hit had been evacuated days earlier. Even so, dozens sustained injuries in the attack.

Soroka is the largest hospital in southern Israel and serves as a major treatment centre for both Israeli soldiers wounded in Gaza and Bedouin communities in the Negev Desert.

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site and blamed Iran directly for the attack.

“We will make the tyrants in Tehran pay a heavy price," Netanyahu said in a post on X.

Iranian officials, meanwhile, said the target was not the hospital itself, but a nearby Israeli command post and intelligence facility. “In this operation, the regime’s command and intelligence centre near a hospital was targeted with highly accurate and guided missiles," the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement.

Iran’s state news agency IRNA also reported that the missile barrage had been aimed at an Israeli military site located close to the medical facility.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) condemned the incident, calling attacks on medical infrastructure during the conflict “appalling".

Shankhyaneel Sarkar

Shankhyaneel Sarkar is a senior subeditor at News18. He covers international affairs, where he focuses on breaking news to in-depth analyses. He has over five years of experience during which he has covered sev...Read More

Shankhyaneel Sarkar is a senior subeditor at News18. He covers international affairs, where he focuses on breaking news to in-depth analyses. He has over five years of experience during which he has covered sev...

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