Top updates: Iran’s Arak reactor, Israeli hospital hit in latest strikes

The Israeli military announced on Thursday that it targeted the Arak nuclear reactor in Iran overnight and struck what it claimed was a nuclear weapons development site in the Natanz area.

The Arak facility is a partially built heavy-water research reactor, also known as Khondab.

Iranian media reported on Thursday morning that air defences were activated near the Khondab nuclear facility, after two projectiles hit an area close to it.

This came against the backdrop of the conflict between Israel and Iran entering its seventh day on Thursday.

Here is more on this and other top updates:

• Forty Israeli Air Force jets struck dozens of military targets in Tehran and other areas of Iran, deploying more than 100 munitions, the Israel Defense Force said in a press release. “As part of the strikes and as part of the broad effort to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon, the nuclear reactor…in Arak…was targeted,” the defence forces added. It further said that the strikes targeted the reactor’s core seal, which is a key component in plutonium production to prevent it from being used for nuclear weapons development.
• The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran confirmed the attack in Arak, Al Jazeera reported. “In continued violation of international laws that explicitly prohibit attacks on nuclear facilities, the Zionist enemy launched an assault this morning...

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