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Hospitals in central Israel reported Thursday that six people are in serious condition following the morning’s missile barrage.

Two patients are being treated at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, while four others are at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.

Part of an Iranian missile fell along a roadside near the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank on Thursday, June 20, following a series of missile launches by the Islamic Republic targeting multiple areas across Israel earlier in the day.

Among the targets hit was a hospital in the southern city of Beersheba.

China’s foreign ministry said Thursday it has maintained communication with Iran, Israel, and Oman amid the ongoing conflict, and called on all parties to de-escalate tensions as soon as possible.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will attend a special session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul on Saturday, a Turkish foreign ministry source told Reuters, as the conflict with Israel escalates.

The 51st OIC Council of Foreign Ministers is expected to focus on Israel’s latest attacks, including Thursday’s strike on Iran’s Khondab nuclear site in Arak.

Israel said the targeted heavy-water reactor could produce weapons-grade plutonium. Turkey has condemned the attacks as illegal and backed Iran’s right to defend itself.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Mohammad Karami as the new commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ ground forces, state media reported Thursday.

Karami previously led the Quds Headquarters of the IRGC Ground Forces in southeastern Iran.