Israeli strikes on Iran killed at least 950 people, human rights group says

Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 950 people and wounded 3,450 others, a human rights group said on Monday, 23 June.

The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists offered the figures, which covers the entirety of Iran. It said of those dead, it identified 380 civilians and 253 security force personnel being killed.

Human rights activists, which also provided detailed casualty figures during the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, crosschecks local reports in the Islamic Republic against a network of sources it has developed in the country.

Iran has not been offering regular death tolls during the conflict and has minimised casualties in the past.

On Saturday, Iran's health ministry said some 400 Iranians had been killed and another 3,056 wounded in the Israeli strikes.

On 22 June, Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 865 people and wounded 3,396 others, said the human rights group.

The US struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into Israel's war aimed at destroying the country's nuclear programme in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe despite fears of a wider regional conflict.

Iranian state media quoted the country's National Nuclear Safety System Centre, which published a statement saying its radiation detectors had recorded no radioactive release after the strikes.