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India Today’s Shivani Sharma reports from the ground at Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, southern Israel, which was hit by an Iranian ballistic missile on the morning of April 19. The surgical ward of this 1,000-bed hospital suffered severe damage, with around 80 people injured

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00:00Where once bustling cityscapes now lie in ruins, reduced to rubble, ash and silence. Take a look.
00:11I'm right now in the Soroka hospital that was hit by Iranian ballistic missile on 19th morning.
00:18And you can see the impact of this hit at this building.
00:22This was the surgical ward of this 1,000 bedded hospital in southern Israel, in Barshava.
00:29And this is how the rubble is on the ground.
00:32There was severe damage to the building.
00:34Around 80 people got injured, though there was no casualty reported.
00:39It was 7 a.m. in the morning when in the surgical ward of this hospital, this Iranian ballistic missile,
00:45this was a high intensity missile that was fired on this hospital.
00:50You can see outside the rubble of the building.
00:53This is the surgical ward.
00:54And in the morning when this attack happened, people were having their breakfast in this canteen area.
01:00You can see how the breakfast was being laid.
01:04And these pictures are quite explanatory in the impact of the missile that was hit by Iran on Israel.
01:14You can see how these utensils are broken.
01:17The whole building was shaken by the missile.
01:21And this is the attack where 80 people got injured.
01:25They were sent to other hospitals for their treatment.
01:29And now you see Prime Minister, the President, they all visited here.
01:33They have seen the kind of devastation, the measure of impact of this Iranian missile.
01:37And Israel has been reiterating that it is sticking to the military targets inside Iran.
01:42But Iran is hitting the civilians inside Israel, including the health infrastructure.
01:49So one of the major attacks so far in nine-day conflict that have come to Israel from Iran is the Soroko hospital attack.
01:56And you can see the kind of devastation out here, the impact of the missile that has hit this hospital.
02:02I'll keep getting you more pictures.
02:04And India Today is getting you these exclusive ground reports from Israel.
02:09Shivani Sharma from Berseva for India Today.
02:12There are damages on these buildings, the skyscrapers out there.
02:18They have been the windows, the glasses are broken.
02:22And here in this part also, which you can see behind me, here also there are signs of damage.
02:32And this side, you see, this is how the building is damaged.
02:38So this whole area, this road that leads to this particular building, this building, of course, has been completely evacuated.
02:47And the forces have surrounded this whole area.
02:51No movements allowed.
02:53Entry is restricted closer.
02:54But certainly there are multiple places in Israel which have been hit by the Iranian missiles.
03:02So the forces have been, though, giving alerts when any kind of projectile is seen as a threat coming towards Israel.
03:14But still, there are certain buildings which have been hit.
03:17And today also we've been hearing that there have been damages close to Haifa in Seba area.
03:24And yesterday, one hospital was also hit in Israel.
03:28So as it continues, there are signs of damage and buildings being affected.
03:36Their impact is quite close in this whole area.
03:40I'll keep getting you more pictures, more signs and more impact of this conflict from the war zone.
03:48This is Shivani Sharma for India Today from Tel Aviv.

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