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US-Israeli strike kills four family members in Arak — 3-day-old infant and 2-year-old sister among dead

·Arak, Iran

A US-Israeli airstrike hit a residential home in the city of Arak in central Iran, killing four family members: a 3-day-old infant, his 2-year-old sister, their mother, and their grandmother. The IRGC cited the killings via Iran's Press TV. Arak is an industrial city and the capital of Markazi Province in central Iran.

A US-Israeli airstrike struck a residential home in Arak, the capital of Iran's Markazi Province in central Iran, killing four members of a family. The dead included a three-day-old infant, his two-year-old sister, their mother, and their grandmother — four generations of a single household killed in a single strike. The incident was cited by Iran's IRGC through the English-language Press TV channel. Al Jazeera's Day 18 summary confirmed the report in its civilian casualties section. No military or industrial target in the immediate vicinity was specified at time of reporting. Arak is an industrial city home to Iran's IR-40 heavy water nuclear research reactor (now converted under the 2015 JCPOA) and multiple defense and petrochemical facilities. The strike on a residential home represents one of the most stark individual civilian casualty incidents of the 18-day conflict.
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Actor responses

IranSUPPORTINGSTATEMENT

IRGC and Iranian state media cited the killing of a 3-day-old infant, his 2-year-old sister, their mother and grandmother in a US-Israeli strike on their home in Arak as evidence of deliberate targeting of civilian residential areas. President Pezeshkian invoked the civilian deaths in defending Iran's right to self-defence.

United StatesNEUTRALRESPONSE

US officials did not immediately address the reported civilian deaths in Arak. CENTCOM stated it targets only military infrastructure and claimed Iranian state media regularly misattributes civilian casualties to US strikes.

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T1Al Jazeera — Day 18 key events (Arak family killed)90% reliability