🔶 Batiam municipality demanded to receive compensation of 65 million dollars from Iran.
The municipality of Batiam, a coastal city in the Tel Aviv district, filed a legal complaint against the Republic of Salami to the District Court in Tel Aviv, demanding to receive 208 million shekels equal to 65.29 million dollars, for the damages caused to this city during the attacks of Iran in June 2025.
On June 15 last year, an Iranian missile hit a residential building in Batiam, killing 9 civilians and injuring nearly 200 people. This ground attack was the deadliest ground attack during the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israeli prisoners.
Among the 9 victims, there were five Ukrainian citizens who immigrated to Israel in 2022 for cancer treatment in a 7-year-old girl named Anastasia Borik. Anastasia was killed along with her mother, grandmother and two of her relatives in this ground attack. Bela Ashkenazi, a Holocaust survivor, was among the other four victims. Last week, Batiam Mayor Tsvika Brut attempted to submit court documents related to the lawsuit to an Iranian government diplomat in New York.
In this context, Wynet Media reported that the planning and preparation of this operation took 4 months, during which time observers followed the movements of the Iranian delegation. Wynette reported that Israeli and American officials were also involved in this operation.