Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we are once again devoting quite a bit of today's programme,
but not all, to the war between Israel and Iran, now in its seventh day.
And in a moment, we'll be hearing a perspective that we haven't had in that time,
the views of a senior Iranian government minister who's in Tehran.
But first to the latest developments in the conflict, because overnight and into the morning,
there was a series of strikes by Iranian missiles that managed to evade Israel's defensive systems.
The emergency services there said at least 89 people have been injured overall.
One of the buildings hit was a hospital in the southern city of Beersheba.
Shlomi Kodesh is head of the Soroka Medical Center.
The people we have left in the hospital are elderly people,
cancer patients, people who need urgent medical care.
They cannot go home.
And these people were targeted directly to be killed by a missile attack.
There is no other explanation for this, and it's shocking that such a thing would take place.
Well, Iran said it was targeting a military base nearby, not the hospital itself.
However, following that attack,
Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Iran's supreme leader,