Ground report: Power station reduced to rubble in Israel's Ashdod after missile strike

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A newly surfaced video captures the moment an Iranian missile struck a power station in Ashdod, Israel, causing significant damage and severely reducing its operational capacity. Power outages have been reported in the area, and residents have been evacuated as a safety precaution.

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00:00back to the very breaking news that we were bringing to you earlier that is the power station

00:05in Ashdod that's been hit Iranian missile demolishes Israel power station Israel power

00:11station has been completely reduced to rubble as we understand there's a massive power outage

00:17in southern Israel another footage that's been accessed on your very screens shows just the

00:25moment when this hit took place the Iranian missile hitting the very power station it has captured

00:32that on camera after being hit by an Iranian missile how the power station completely turned

00:38into rubble you can even see the remains of that rubble coming in and hitting the screens of the

00:44scar where the camera was which has captured the very hit and this remember viewers is in Ashdod

00:50this is another footage from the crash site and let me quickly cut across to Shivani Sharma who

00:56is currently coming in live from this very crash site from Ashdod Shivani do help us understand

01:03what are you picking up from the ground right now where you are see I'm right now present at Ashdod at

01:10the very site which has been hit by this Iranian missile if I can show you the visual through this

01:17this area this is how the area looks like there are forces who are now in restoration and this

01:24is a big power station in Ashdod in the southern side of Israel which has been hit now and the impact

01:31of the missile has been quite big because of the intensity of this missile if you can see the visuals

01:37out here the pictures if we can show here to our viewers this is India today exclusive from the spot

01:44where the missile has hit Ashdod in Israel this happens to be a port city which was hit and this

01:52is the area which is under a periphery of 400 to 500 meters of this whole location you can see that how

02:01the people who were present here they were now vaccinated they were brought outside they were in

02:06in this area and the power station has been hit there is a report of power outage in this whole

02:14location and this is very important to understand that this has been the strategy of Iran to hit the

02:20important sites across Israel so the biggest attack so far in last 11 days has been the Ashdod

02:27center attack where the power station has been took and you see this is just right next to the highway

02:34here in Israel where this attack has happened so the security forces are at the spot they are trying

02:41to clear the situation they are trying to locate for any kind of explosives that have remained unexploded

02:49at this attack so this is how this is going on in this area in Israel after this big attack happened in Ashdod

02:57and we are the exclusive on India today of this particular attack in Israel this happens to be one

03:05of the high-intensity bombing that has happened in Israel on Ashdod which happens to be a major power

03:12station and after this attack there are reports of power outages in Israel around this area so this is

03:19how this is one more major attack that has happened in Israel in Ashdod absolutely Shivani and I think

03:26you've pointed out a very crucial crucial thing here which is the fact that this is another port city

03:32that's been hit there are let's tell our viewers this there are three main port cities in Israel before

03:37this we had already seen an attack on Haifa and now this is I would say the second port city in Israel a

03:43crucial one that's being hit that is Ashdod suddenly see this is how this attack has happened the impact of

03:52this attack is very much evident on this particular electric port or the sign board out here and you

03:58see the signs of damage if I can show our viewers what it looks like this is how the missile has fallen

04:07here and this is how there are impacts on ground in this particular location in Ashdod where the

04:14restoration work is going on this is how you see the power grid looks like and this was a deliberate

04:22attempt of Iran a target which was selected of a very important area in Ashdod where which happens to be

04:30the power hubs in Israel so this is the port city of Israel where multiple refineries are there multiple

04:38power plants are there multiple projects that are important and crucial projects of Israel which are

04:44present so this is one big attack that has taken place in Israel in last 11 days and there can be

04:52there can be more attacks from Iran in Israel as the caution is high the alert is high the IDF has been

05:00alerting the people and the sirens have been going on so this is Ashdod attack site where we are showing

05:07the exclusive pictures to our viewers on India today of this big flow in Israel that is coming from Iran

05:14absolutely Shivani and the Israel electric company has come out to now report of the power outage which we

05:20are both mentioning off at this given point can you give us an idea of the extent to which this power

05:26outage can you know the fallout it's had over southern Israel because if just if you could tell us about

05:33the areas which it has affected more clearly as I was telling you that this is Ashdod area which is

05:40the southern Israeli port city on the western side and you see that the whole city of Ashdod is now facing

05:49power issues after this attack the restoration work is going on because you know Israel wants to keep its

05:55citizens safe in the time of crisis because more such attacks might be impending so to keep people

06:02alert power is important to keep people safe power is extremely important at this point in time so this is the

06:09restoration work that is going on here in this power station but certainly the whole city has been

06:15impacted because this seems to be a very big power station you see the kind of infrastructure out here

06:21in this Ashdod power station so you can imagine how important it is for this whole area's power supply

06:29so this is a big center in Israel which has been hit now with the impact of an Iranian missile certainly a big

06:37big attack and what we are being told that this is the biggest attack in last 11 days because the air raids

06:43went on for the maximum period of time during this attack was being done right Shivani so you know we

06:50were discussing earlier about how Iran has promised and vowed of retaliation would you say this marks

06:58probably the beginning of that in terms of attacks since we are seeing this to be one of the biggest

07:03attacks that's taken place in the last 11 days ever since the Israeli non-escalation began

07:07certainly see what what we are seeing and witnessing from ground is that the attacks that have been

07:13coming in from Iran have become quite aggressive especially in last two days the reason being

07:20why because the United States has hit directly inside Iran on the nuclear sites so this is a retaliatory

07:27attempt and a more aggressive one a kind of messaging that Iran is now trying to give that you know i'm not

07:34going to bow down i'll hit with more force and that's what we are seeing on ground because everybody was

07:40expecting that after the United States of America has hit there can be some changes in the attitude of

07:48Iran but now what we are saying is that there is no change rather the attacks have become more aggressive

07:54and more forceful and we see that out here this is the kind of restoration that goes on in Ashton

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