[IsraelTimes] State media claims 170 women and children among dead in 12-day war, in which Iranian missiles killed 28 in Israel
Iran raised the official death toll from its war with Israel on Monday, with regime-controlled media reporting that 935 people were killed in the country during the 12-day conflict.
The state-run IRNA news agency did not give a breakdown between military and civilian casualties, but said of the 935 people, 38 were children and 132 were women, quoting judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir. Its previous report last week said 627 people had been killed.
Jahangir also said 79 people were killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison for political dissidents. The previous casualty figure for the Evin strike was 71.
Israel began its sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program on June 13 with the aim of preventing the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear weapons and amassing long-range weapons.
Iran retaliated to Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel. The attacks killed 28 people, all but one of them civilians, and wounded over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals. In all, there were 36 missile impacts and one drone strike in populated areas, causing damage to 2,305 homes in 240 buildings, along with two universities and a hospital, and leaving over 13,000 Israelis displaced.
A ceasefire between the two countries went into effect on June 24, shortly after the United States joined the campaign with a strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment centers, including the underground facility at Fordo.
The US-based Human Rights Activists, which focuses on Iran, said over the weekend that 1,190 people had been killed, according to data collected by the agency’s network of medical and local volunteers. Of those, it said 436 were civilians, 435 military and 319 have not yet been identified.
The group has consistently reported higher casualties than the official reports from Iran. 
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