The Iranian Revolutionary Guards say that Israeli forces have suffered more than 680 deaths and injuries by the fourth day of the ongoing conflict involving Iran, the United States, and Israel.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that the Revolutionary Guards, in their 17th statement on the operation they call “Al-Wa’d al-Sadiq 4” (The True Promise 4), said their aerospace forces carried out a significant missile and drone strike on central and northern occupied territories during the sixteenth wave of the operation.

The statement indicated that Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel’s General Staff of the Army and the Ministry of War in Hakirya, strategic infrastructure in Bnei Barak, military targets in Petah Tikva northeast of Tel Aviv, and a military centre in the Western Galilee, achieving precise hits there. 

According to intelligence and field reports cited by the Revolutionary Guards, Israeli casualties have risen to over 680 killed or wounded by the fourth day of fighting.

In a related development, Tasnim reported that Iran’s air defence forces shot down another US F-15 aircraft.

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