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An Iranian rocket onslaught deed Israel’s Oil Refineries successful the bluish larboard metropolis of Haifa but did not origin “significant damage”, Israel’s Energy Ministry said on Thursday (March 19, 2026).
Energy Minister Eli Cohen said power was concisely disrupted, with energy restored to astir of those who were affected.
Iran-Israel war updates connected March 19, 2026
“The harm to the powerfulness grid successful the northbound is localized and not significant,” Mr. Cohen said. “Also, successful the barrage towards the north, determination was nary important damage to Israeli infrastructure sites.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted refineries successful Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, and successful Ashdod, successful the country’s south, “along with a scope of information targets and subject support centres of the Zionist regime”, which it said “were deed by pinpoint missiles”.
There was nary contiguous connection connected whether the Ashdod refinery was hit.
Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection said debris from a rocket that was intercepted fell successful Haifa and was being examined arsenic a hazardous materials incident.
Israel Electric Corp said a powerfulness enactment successful the Haifa country was deed by shrapnel, causing a little outage, but that energy was restored to each customers wrong astir 45 minutes.
Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services said debris fell successful 2 locations astatine Oil Refineries and caused a occurrence that disconnected proviso sources but determination were nary casualties.
“Full power has been achieved implicit the impact incidental astatine the Haifa refineries,” it said aft examining the tract for hazardous materials. “Tests carried retired by monitoring teams recovered nary abnormal aerial values and determination is nary information to the public.”
Last June, Oil Refineries successful Haifa was deed by an Iranian missile, which killed 3 radical and halted operations.
