India, June 20 -- Israel and Iran traded missile strikes on Thursday with both the countries inflicting heavy damage on each other. In one of the biggest escalations of the conflict so far, Iran launched a barrage of missiles that hit southern Israel's largest hospital, however, Iran said that the strikes were meant for the country's military infrastructure. The strikes injured hundreds of people across Israel. Parallelly, Israel struck the Arak heavy water reactor, one of Iran's key nuclear sites, hours after issuing an evacuation order.

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Iran's relentless strikes on Israel came after being asked to surrender, a call that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei firmly rejected. After...