A shocking video has surfaced, showing the panic that followed an Iranian missile striking Soroka Medical Center—the biggest hospital in southern Israel—on June 19, 2025. The direct hit tore through the building and wounded dozens, jolting Israel’s doctors and everyday citizens alike and leaving them to wonder how far a war can go when hospitals become targets.
Missile Barrage: The Attack on Soroka Hospital
Before dawn on Thursday, Iran fired about twenty ballistic missiles at Israel, the seventh straight day of fighting. One missile found its mark in Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, a 1,000-bed facility for nearly one million people in the south. Cellphone video from inside showed glass exploding, sirens sounding, and staff racing to move patients out of harm’s way. Thick black smoke curled into the sky as rescuers fought the panic, treating the injured and pushing back the quickly growing chaos.
Immediate Impact: Injuries, Evacuations, and Emergency Response
A missile hit Soroka Medical Center, hurting many people as flying glass and loose metal flew through the air. Within minutes, staff moved the badly injured into trauma rooms and shut the doors to everyone else, pleading with locals not to come unless their lives depended on it. Hospital leaders later said that moving the most fragile patients to safer floors before the blast probably kept them alive, a warning the Ministry of Health had issued earlier. Ambulance crews from Magen David Adom also praised the quick clear-out, saying it limited the disaster to what could have been much worse.
Political Fallout: Condemnation and Calls for Accountability
Israeli leaders rushed to blame the strike, calling it a planned assault on civilians and medical workers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to make Iran pay and warned, The tyrants in Tehran will face the full price. The health minister branded the strike a war crime, stressing that non-military hospitals should never be targets.
Broader Escalation: Retaliatory Strikes and Regional Tensions
That hospital strike was only one piece of a larger fight; at the same time, Israeli warplanes bombed key Iranian sites, including the Arak heavy-water plant. Both countries have since targeted supply hubs and command posts, and observers now fear these exchanges will kill more civilians and spread far beyond Gaza. Footage of the ruined hospital spreads online every minute, pressuring world leaders to pull back before the crisis becomes an open regional war.
