Air raid sirens sounded repeatedly across northern Israel on Monday, from the Carmel to the Golan Heights, while a separate alert was activated in Jerusalem, as part of what appeared to be a limited barrage fired from Iran.
Launches were identified toward Jerusalem, the Shephelah and the Ashkelon area. One missile aimed at Jerusalem was intercepted, while other projectiles fell in open areas.
Sirens also sounded in Beit Shean, the Lower Galilee, Wadi Ara, the Dead Sea area and parts of Judea and Samaria.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it had received no reports of injuries from the latest launches, apart from one person suffering shock. Home Front Command later said residents in areas where alerts sounded and advance warnings were issued could leave protected spaces.
The latest wave came after earlier Iranian fire triggered alerts across central Israel, the Sharon region, the Shephelah, Lachish, communities near the Gaza border and parts of Judea and Samaria, with impacts later reported in Rishon Lezion, Shoham and Lod.
Interception debris found in Rishon Lezion after Iranian missile attack
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Iranian missile debris crashes in Lod, central Israel
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Iranian missile fragments cause extensive damage in the backyard of a Shoham home
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The earlier barrage likely included an internationally banned cluster munition missile, according to preliminary reports. In Rishon Lezion, officials reported at least seven impact sites, including one where a car was hit. In Shoham, an impact was identified in the yard of a home. Footage from the scenes showed an overturned car, damage along a sidewalk and heavy damage in a private yard.
First responders later said a woman in her 30s was lightly injured while inside a reinforced safe room during a missile impact in Rishon Lezion. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said she was taken to Shamir Medical Center in Be’er Yaakov.
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Overturned car in Rishon Lezion after Iranian cluster missile hit
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“We arrived at a scene of destruction, smoke and shattered glass,” MDA emergency medic Sheldon Levin said. “During extensive searches, we found a woman who had been inside the safe room with her dog when the missile struck. She was suffering from shock and only light injuries.”
Levin said her condition underscored the importance of entering a protected space when sirens sound. “There is enormous importance to staying in a protected area when an alert is heard, and I do not want to imagine what would have happened if she had not been in the safe room,” he said. “The Home Front Command’s instructions must be followed.”
Home Front Command later told residents in the affected areas who had been instructed to take shelter that they could leave protected spaces.
Earlier, alerts warning of rocket and missile fire were activated in the western Galilee communities of Even Menachem, Shomera and Zarit. The latest alerts near the Lebanon border came about four hours after sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona and a string of nearby communities in the Galilee Panhandle.
Separately, the IDF said the air force destroyed an aircraft used by Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.
“The aircraft was used by Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Iranian terror regime, additional senior officials and Iranian military personnel to advance military procurement and to manage coordination with axis countries through both domestic and international flights,” the military said.
The military said destroying the aircraft would hurt the Iranian leadership’s ability to coordinate with allied countries, build military power and rehabilitate its capabilities, calling it another strategic asset removed from Iran.
First published: 10:26, 03.16.26