June 23, 2025Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeJune 23, 2025Updates'Spit in the face': Families of Oct. 7 victims reject MK's claim that the massacres were beneficialThe October Council, an organization that calls for a state commission of inquiry into October 7 and includes around 1,500 relatives of its victims, condemned the ultra-Orthodox party Shas' chairman, Arye Deri. Dery told Channel 14 News on Sunday night that the October 7 massacres saved the Jewish people. "We express deep shock at Deri's statements that attempt to cultivate a false and degrading narrative, as if the heavy price paid in the massacre was 'worth it,'" the organization said. "There is no military or political achievement that removes responsibility for the neglect, the failure, and the most terrible massacre that Israel has ever known. The attempt to forget, whitewash, or rewrite history and create an alternative narrative is a spit in the face of the bereaved families, the kidnapped and the survivors."Police and Shin Bet arrest suspected spy in Haifa, they say The police and Shin Bet announced that a Haifa resident was arrested last month on suspicion of spying for Iran. The suspect, Dimitri Cohen, 28, allegedly followed Israeli citizens, took photos of their surroundings, and transmitted the photos to his Iranian operator. Cohen used an operational phone to maintain contact with his operator, and received about $500 in cryptocurrency per mission, collecting thousands of dollars in the process. The prosecutor's office is expected to file an indictment against him in the coming days. A security source said, "This is the latest in a list of cases of terrorists recruiting Israelis for missions that harm state security."Defense chief announces ‘unprecedented’ IDF attacks on Iran's 'repressive regime'Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a statement claiming credit for strikes on Iranian "regime targets," including Tehran's Evin prison. "The IDF is now attacking regime targets and repressive authorities in the heart of Tehran with unprecedented force," the statement read.The targets, according to Katz, included "the Basij headquarters, Evin prison for political prisoners and opponents of the regime, the 'Israel Destruction' clock in Palestine Square, the Revolutionary Guards' internal security headquarters, the ideology headquarters, and other regime targets." The IDF later confirmed that fighter jets had "struck command centers and assets belonging to the Internal Security Forces and the IRGC in Tehran.""As part of the strike, the headquarters of the Basij [were] targeted," the army's statement read. "The Basij is one of the IRGC's central armed bases of power. Alongside its other fuctions, it is also responsible for enforcing the Islamic law and reporting civilians who violate it to the regime authorities.""Additionally, the Alborz Corps, responsible for the security of several cities in the Tehran District from various threats and for maintaining the regime's stability, was struck, along with the Intelligence and General Security Police under the Internal Security Forces, which also forms part of [the regime's] military forces," it continued.U.K. police ban Palestine Action protest outside parliamentBritish police have banned campaign group Palestine Action from protesting outside parliament on Monday, a rare move that comes after two of its members broke into a military base last week and as the government considers banning the organisation.The group said in response that it had changed the location of its protest on Monday to Trafalgar Square, which lies just outside the police exclusion zone.The pro-Palestinian organisation is among groups that have regularly targeted defence firms and other companies in Britain linked to Israel since the start of the conflict in Gaza.June 23, 2025IDF struck Tehran jail holding political prisoners and other 'symbols of oppression,' military officials sayAn Israeli strike on an Iranian prison, in Tehran on Monday.Israeli defense officials told Haaretz that Israel's air force launched strikes on Revolutionary Guards' infrastructure, specifically targeting sites considered "symbols of oppression of the Iranian regime." The targets included a Tehran jail holding political prisoners, the headquarters of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and internal security organizations, including the country's so-called Chastity Guards.Iranian state television shared what appeared to be black-and-white-surveillance footage of the strike at the notorious Evin prison. Evin prison is known for holding dual nationals and Westerners, often used by Iran as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West.Evin also has specialized units for political prisoners and those with Western ties, run by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The facility is the target of both U.S. and European Union sanctions.Report: IDF bombed TV studios and a Tehran prison holding political prisonersIsrael attacked Evin Prison in Tehran, which holds political dissidents, Al Jazeera reported. The strike targeted the prison gate, which was knocked down. Television studios in the city were bombed, according to Iranian reports. Live broadcasts stopped, and the channel began broadcasting state propaganda instead.June 23, 2025IDF says it struck Iran's Fordow nuclear facilityThe IDF said it struck Iran's central Fordow nuclear facility on Monday around noon, to "to obstruct access routes" to the site.Earlier Monday, an Israeli defense source and a local Iranian official reported that Israeli strikes had targeted Fordow, with the former noting the aim was to prevent any transfer of materials in or out of the site. Fordow had also been the recent target of a substantial American strike, which the UN nuclear watchdog estimated caused "very significant damage."UN nuclear watchdog: U.S. likely inflicted 'very significant damage' on Iran's Fordow nuclear siteThe head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday that "very heavy damage" is expected at Iran's underground facility at Fordow after a U.S. airstrike there this weekend with sophisticated bunker-buster bombs.Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, made the statement in Vienna. "Given the explosive payload utilized and the extreme vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very significant damage is expected to have occurred," Grossi said.He added that "at this time, no one, including the IAEA, is in a position to have fully assessed the underground damage at Fordow."In the NewsIsrael Police, in Reversal, to Assist IDF Arrest Haredi Draft DodgersSuspect Arrested After Arab Israeli Council Head, Deputy Shot Outside Event HallOrthodox Rabbi at U.S. Christian Prayer Rally: 'Antisemitism Is un-American'Huge Fireball in the Israeli Sky? 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