Iranian residents sifted through debris and tried to recover their belongings after strikes hit an apartment building in Tehran on Monday (March 30).

Esmaeeli, whose first name was not given, recalled the attack as she walked through her brother's damaged home. She said her brother and his family were rescued from under the rubble by emergency teams and were being treated in hospital.

Despite the violence, Esmaeeli said she doesn't want the war to end now, "if they make a ceasefire, it’s like stepping on the blood of all our young people."

The Israeli military said it had carried out missile strikes targeting what it called military infrastructure in Tehran as well as infrastructure used by Iran-backed Hezbollah in Beirut, leaving black smoke hanging over the Lebanese capital.

The month-long war has spread across the region, killing thousands, causing the biggest disruption ever to energy supplies and hitting the global economy.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

TEHRAN, IRAN (MARCH 30, 2026) (WANA – No use BBC Persian. No use VOA Persian. No use Manoto. No use Iran International. No use Radio Farda.)

1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AND RESCUE TEAMS OUTSIDE DESTROYED BUILDING / RUBBLE

2. VARIOUS OF DESTROYED CARS AND BUILDINGS

3. ESMAEELI WALKING THROUGH THE DESTROYED SITE

4. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi), (NO FIRST NAME GIVEN) ESMAEELI, SISTER OF RESIDENTS WHOSE HOME WAS DESTROYED, SAYING:

"Here is my brother’s house. We ourselves live in the city of Rey. We got a call at 4 o'clock that my brother’s house had been hit. We came, and my brother was under the rubble in the bedroom. Until the rescue team pulled them out from under the rubble, they brought out his son and his wife. Everyone was here. Now they are in the hospital, being treated. "

5. ESMAEELI WALKING AMONG RUBBLE

6. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi), (NO FIRST NAME GIVEN) ESMAEELI, SISTER OF RESIDENTS WHOSE HOME WAS DESTROYED, SAYING:

"My brother was neither military, nor IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), nor a Basij (paramilitary militia) member. He was an ordinary person; an ordinary person whose house became like this. They hit a residential home at 3:30 in the morning. They hit a residential home at 3:30 in the morning? May God curse the one who says he doesn’t hit residential buildings; may God make his life miserable."

7. PEOPLE TRYING TO RECOVER BELONGINGS FROM THE RUBBLE

8. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi), (NO FIRST NAME GIVEN) ESMAEELI, SISTER OF RESIDENTS WHOSE HOME WAS DESTROYED, SAYING:

"The rubble is from my brother’s house. Thirty years of my brother’s hard work, and now it’s like this. For thirty years, he worked to collect these things, and now what has it become? It has become ruins. We’ve become Gaza. We’ve become Palestine. We have to collect supplies for my brother among the debris, if anything remains. "

9. PHOTOGRAPH OF A CHILD WHO WHO LIVED IN THIS HOUSE

10. RUINED HOUSE

11. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi), (NO FIRST NAME GIVEN) ESMAEELI, SISTER OF RESIDENTS WHOSE HOME WAS DESTROYED, SAYING:

"No! A ceasefire is Haram (forbidden). A ceasefire is Haram. If they make a ceasefire, it’s like stepping on the blood of all our young people, on the blood of 168 Minab students.”

12. PEOPLE TRYING TO RECOVER BELONGINGS FROM THE RUBBLE

13. RUINED REFRIGERATOR

14. WORKERS INSIDE RUINED HOUSE

15. EXTERIOR OF BUILDING

16. WOMAN STANDING INSIDE DAMAGED BUILDING