Israeli safety forces survey the location that was struck by an Iranian missile in Dimona, southern Israel on March 22, 2026.
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Southern Israeli cities woke to widespread injury on Sunday after air defences didn’t intercept two Iranian missiles in a single day that injured scores of civilians in one of many worst assaults of the battle to this point on Israeli soil.
As daylight broke, the size of the injury in the desert city of Arad, the place one of many strikes hit a multi-story residence bloc, got here into clearer view, with total flooring blown open by the blast.
Iran-Israel battle updates on March 22, 2026
Uri Shacham, the chief of workers of Israel’s ambulance service, mentioned at the least eight buildings had been broken by the missile, which left a crater not removed from the residence blocks.
Footage verified by Reuters confirmed flames engulfing the highest flooring of an residence constructing shortly after the strike. Search and rescue groups moved from flooring to flooring inside the broken buildings. Israeli navy spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani mentioned each strikes had been carried out with typical ballistic missiles. He declined to remark when requested concerning the preliminary findings of a navy investigation into the failure to intercept the missiles.
Netanyahu says miracle nobody killed
Most Israelis obtain alerts on their cell phone when launches from Iran are recognized. An air raid siren sounds they usually then have a couple of minutes to go to secure rooms or public bomb shelters. “It’s a miracle that no-one was killed,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned on Sunday (March 22, 2026), standing in thecrater on the influence web site in Arad.
Pointing on the blown out partitions of the residence bloc after which on the enforced undamaged wall resulting in a shelter beneath floor, Netanyahu urged Israelis to not be complacent. Nobody would have been damage, he mentioned, had all sought shelter in time.
In Arad, 31 individuals, together with 18 youngsters, had been hospitalised, at the least 9 of them in severe situation, based on the hospital. Dozens extra had been frivolously injured. Israel mentioned Iran was concentrating on civilian inhabitants areas. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards mentioned they focused navy and security-related websites in retaliation for Israeli strikes towards Iranian websites.
Arad and Dimona, one other metropolis that was hit, are situated near Israel’s secretive nuclear reactor and a number of other navy bases, together with Nevatim Air Base, one of many nation’s largest.
In Dimona, 5 individuals had been hospitalised, together with a 12-year-old boy in severe situation, the hospital mentioned.
Since joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, Israel has come beneath day by day missile hearth from Iran. Not less than 20 civilians have been killed in Israel and the Palestinian territories, together with one Israeli killed in an assault by Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah on Sunday (March 22, 2026).
Not less than 15 individuals had been hospitalised on Sunday (March 22, 2026) in recent
Iranian assaults, based on emergency providers, together with a cluster munition that struck in Tel Aviv.
Israeli and U.S. strikes have killed at the least 1,300 individuals in Iran to this point, based on the Iranian authorities. The U.S.-based rights group HRANA, which tracks human rights violations in Iran, has recorded 3,320 individuals killed, together with 1,406 civilians and 1,167 navy personnel, with the rest not but decided. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the info.
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