Trump says damage to Iran's nuclear sites is 'far below ground level'

The director of the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, said Thursday there was "extensive" damage to the facility following an Iranian ballistic missile strike.

Speaking to journalists outside the hospital, Professor Shlomi Kodesh said the attack "hit one of our admission buildings. The surgical northern building was hit directly by a rocket."

"As a result of this hit, fire broke out in this building, several wards were completely demolished, and there was extensive damage across the entire hospital, with damage to buildings, structures, windows, ceilings across the medical center," Kodesh said.

Kodesh said the building that was hit had been evacuated "in the past few days" and the area the missile hit directly was empty. He said 40 people were injured across the hospital.

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule

President Donald Trump is scheduled on Thursday to receive an intelligence briefing at 11:30 a.m. ET in the Situation Room, according to the White House.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran will be "held accountable" after a ballistic missile hit Soroka hospital in Beersheba on Thursday.

"We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran," a statement posted by Netanyahu to X read.

Katz said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "will be held accountable for his crimes" and said he and Netanyahu had "instructed the IDF to increase the intensity of attacks" in Iran.

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Forty Israeli Air Force fighter jets targeted "dozens" of military targets overnight in Iran, including an inactive nuclear reactor in the area of Arak, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday.

The IDF said it struck the Arak heavy water reactor overnight after earlier issuing an evacuation order for the area surrounding the site.

"Construction of the reactor began in 1997 but was not completed due to international community intervention," the IDF said.

The air force said the strike hit the "structure that seals the reactor, which is a main component in the production of plutonium, thus preventing its ability to be used again for the production of nuclear weapons."

A "nuclear weapons development" site in the area of Natanz and other military production sites were also targeted, Israel said. Israel alleged that the Natanz site included "components and specialised equipment used to advance nuclear weapons development."