Iran launched a series of missile barrages toward northern Israel early Thursday, marking six attacks since midnight and triggering sirens across wide areas of the north.
Air raid alerts sounded in the Golan Heights, the Upper and Lower Galilee, the valleys, the Krayot and the Haifa area following the launches, according to IDF.
Iranian cluster missile
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Impacts were reported in open areas in the north after what officials described as a limited barrage. Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said no casualties had been reported, though teams treated several people who were injured while rushing to shelters.
The military had earlier identified launches from Iran toward northern Israel and issued warnings for multiple communities across the Golan Heights, where sirens were expected to sound.
The latest attacks come amid a broader escalation between Israel and Iran, with repeated overnight barrages targeting both northern and central areas of the country.
The repeated warnings came after a tense night of fire in northern Israel, with residents in border towns rushing to shelters again and again as incoming launches set off successive rounds of alerts across the region.
Magen David Adom said medics and paramedics found the man, about 30, with severe shrapnel wounds and no signs of life, and pronounced him dead at the scene. In a separate strike, an Iranian cluster munition hit a home in Jaljulia, damaging the building but causing no casualties.
Missile debris also struck an eight-story residential building in Tel Aviv. Searches at the scene found one person suffering from minor smoke inhalation. A resident told ynet that people had only just reached the shelter when a powerful blast was heard, and later emerged to find shattered glass, damaged cars and a hole on the seventh floor.
Israeli defense officials offered assistance in handling the scene, but Palestinian authorities said they had brought the area under control. The missile had been launched toward southern Israel at about 10 p.m., when sirens sounded across communities in the Judean foothills, the northern Negev and areas near the Gaza border.
The Palestinian Authority condemned the Iranian missile fire toward Gulf states, saying the “brutal aggression threatens the security and stability of the region.” Hamas did not issue a similar condemnation. The four women killed in Beit Awwa were not the first Palestinian victims of Iranian fire during the war. A day earlier, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry announced that a Palestinian woman was killed by an Iranian missile while driving in the United Arab Emirates.
Earlier Wednesday, sirens also sounded near Gaza border communities and across northern and central Israel following launches from Lebanon. Alerts were activated in the Upper Galilee, including Metula, Manara, Kfar Yuval and Dovev, as well as in Kiryat Shmona and nearby communities. Additional sirens were heard in the Sharon region and parts of the Shephelah.
Separately, the IDF said it killed Hassan Ali Marwan in Beirut overnight, identifying him as commander of Hezbollah’s Imam Hussein Division. According to the military, Marwan had taken over the role six days earlier after his predecessor was killed and had been responsible for coordinating with senior Hezbollah figures and Iran’s Quds Force, as well as overseeing missile, drone and rocket launches toward Israel and IDF forces operating in southern Lebanon.
First published: 06:31, 03.19.26