Fire Occurs Near Israel's Microsoft Office After Iran's Missile Intercepted Military

JAKARTA - The fire was reported in Beer Sheva, Israel, after the military intercepted Iranian missiles. Emergency services in Israel immediately moved to the scene.

Fires were seen burning roads in the southern city, close to the tech park that houses Microsoft's office, according to a video released by Israeli emergency service agency Magen David Adom.

Israeli police received reports of a fall in ammunition in the country's Southern District in an open area. It was reported that the damage to buildings but there were no reports of casualties.

On Thursday, June 19, a major hospital in Beer Sheva, Soroka Medical Center, was damaged by an Iranian attack.

Beer Sheva is in the Negev desert where Israel's Nevatim airbase is.

Previously, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it was targeting Israeli intelligence and command centers near the hospital. In the latest attack, Soroka Hospital, Be'er-Sheva, Israel suffered damage due to the impact of missile projectiles.

"In this operation, the regime's army command and intelligence center (Israel) was subjected to high precision and in targeted attacks near hospitals," the IRGC was quoted as saying by CNN, Thursday, June 19.

The statement did not mention the name of the command center suspected of being the target, nor the hospital or the location.

Israel previously said the Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Beer Sheva was targeted directly on Thursday morning.

The IRGC said its attack used a combination of suicide drones and strategic missiles.

"We have previously warned that the entire sky of the occupied territory has no defenses and there will be no safe place," the IRGC said, referring to Israel.

Meanwhile, Israel's Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed the Israeli military to step up attacks on strategic targets in Iran.

The order was in response to Iran's attacks with its latest ballistic missile wave to a number of Israeli cities on Thursday.

"The Iran's coward dictator hid deep in his fortified bunker and launched intentional attacks on a number of hospitals and residential buildings in Israel," Katz said in a statement shared by the Ministry of Defense, referring to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. , June 19.

"This is the most serious form of war crime and Khamenei will be held accountable for his crimes," Katz continued.

"The Prime Minister and I have instructed the IDF to step up attacks on strategic targets in Iran and against government locations in Tehran, to eliminate threats facing the State of Israel and destabilize the Ayatollah regime," he said.