US President Donald Trump announced that American forces carried out “very successful” strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, adding that all US aircraft have now exited Iranian airspace.This conflict has aggravated Humanitarian crisis being faced as a result of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Trump described the strikes as a “spectacular military success,” saying, “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” He emphasized that the objective was to destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and stop the nuclear threat posed by the regime.
In his address to the nation, Trump stated, “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.” He warned that if Iran does not make peace, future attacks will be far greater and easier, saying, “There are many targets left. Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal, but if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill.”
Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to worsen, with at least 26 people, including aid seekers, killed in the latest Israeli attacks. The attacks come as desperate Palestinians under Israeli blockade continue to wait at food distribution points amid an ongoing hunger crisis.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, in the last 48 hours, 202 people have been killed and 1,037 wounded by Israeli attacks across Gaza. Since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023, at least 55,908 people have been killed, and 131,138 have been wounded in Israeli attacks.
Israeli attacks on aid distribution sites in Gaza have ramped up, with thousands of Palestinians gathering daily in the hope of receiving food rations following a two-month Israeli blockade of aid deliveries.
Omar al-Hobi, a displaced Palestinian in Khan Younis, described walking to these sites as entering the “point of death,” saying, “The tank is in front of us, the machinegun is in front of us, and the quadcopter is above us, and there are soldiers on the ground with snipers.
Anyone who moves before the time is shot, and the moment the tank retreats, we start running.” Israel claims its attacks at the aid sites have been to control crowds, but witnesses and humanitarian groups have reported that many shootings took place unprovoked, resulting in hundreds of casualties.