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Bureau: Jerusalem
An F-15E from the 494th Fighter Squadron was shot down over southwestern Iran on Friday; the pilot was rescued but the weapons systems officer remains missing behind enemy lines.
US-Israeli strikes hit six petrochemical plants in Mahshahr and destroyed the Shalamcheh border terminal, turning Khuzestan province into the war's economic front line.
Iranian ballistic missiles scattered cluster bomblets across residential Tel Aviv on Saturday, injuring four civilians in a weapon type Human Rights Watch calls a potential war crime.
A projectile hit the Bushehr nuclear plant perimeter on Saturday morning, killing one guard and damaging an auxiliary building in what Iran says is the fourth attack on the site since March 17.
Iraq shut the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran after a US-Israeli airstrike on the Iranian side killed an Iraqi traveler and destroyed the passport building.
Iran's IRGC claimed an F-35 stealth kill, but wreckage photos show the red tail flash of the 494th Fighter Squadron's F-15E — and the misidentification is itself proof the debris is real.
The IRGC launched Wave 93 of Operation True Promise 4 on Friday, striking Israeli targets in western Galilee and Haifa with a mix of solid-fuel missiles and attack drones.
An A-10 Warthog providing close air support for the F-15E rescue mission was hit by Iranian fire, and the pilot flew the damaged jet to Kuwaiti airspace before ejecting safely.
Two HH-60G Pave Hawks conducting search and rescue for a downed F-15E crew in western Iran were struck by small arms fire; at least one crew member was wounded, and one airman remains missing.
Iran's Health Ministry reports 2,076 killed and over 26,500 wounded since U.S. and Israeli strikes began February 28, while independent tracker HRANA counts 3,531 dead including 1,607 civilians.