Operation Rising Lion - update
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Since June 13, 270 medium range ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones have been launched at Israel from Iran and 22 missile impact sites have been identified.
16.06.2025
Operation Rising Lion update (as of June 16, 2025, 10:15 Irael time)
Since June 13, 370 medium range ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones have been launched at Israel from Iran and 30 missile impact sites have been identified.
Casualties:
- 24 fatalities
- 592 people injured: 10 in serious condition, 36 in moderate condition and 546 with minor injuries.
Following is a list of Israeli civilians who were killed in the attacks. Additional names will be updated as details are released:
Overnight Sunday-Monday (15-16 June)
- Balina Ashkenazi, 94, of Bat Yam
- Efrat Saranga, 44, Bat Yam
Overnight Saturday-Sunday (14-15 June)
- Four people, including a 13-year-old girl, all members of the same family, were killed when s missile struck a building in the northern Israeli town of Tamra.
The four victims were identified as Manar Khatib, 45, and her two daughters - Shada, 20, and Hala, 13. The fourth victim was their relative Manal Khatib, 41, who was in their house at the time.
Overnight, Friday-Saturday (13-14 June)
- Israel Aloni, 73, of Rishon LeZion was one of three civilians killed in the Iranian barrage overnight on Friday nigh. He was in the basement of his home at the time of the strike. Severely wounded by shrapnel, he was transported to Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
- Yevgenia Blinder, 60, a resident of Petah Tikva, worked as a caregiver in the house next to Aloni's and was killed in the same rocket attack.
- In a separate incident on Friday night, Eti Cohen Engel, 74, of Ramat Gan, a mother of four daughters, was killed when an Iranian rocket struck her home.
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