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Southern Israeli towns woke to wide harm connected Sunday aft aerial defences failed to intercept 2 Iranian missiles overnight that injured scores of civilians successful 1 of the worst attacks of the warfare truthful acold on Israeli soil.
As daylight broke, the standard of the harm successful the godforsaken municipality of Arad, wherever 1 of the strikes deed a multi-story flat bloc, came into clearer view, with full floors blown unfastened by the blast.
Iran-Israel warfare updates connected March 22, 2026
Uri Shacham, the main of unit of Israel’s ambulance service, said astatine slightest 8 buildings were damaged by the missile, which near a crater not acold from the flat blocks.
Footage verified by Reuters showed flames engulfing the apical level of an flat gathering shortly aft the strike. Search and rescue teams moved from level to level wrong the damaged buildings. Israeli subject spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said some strikes had been carried retired with accepted ballistic missiles. He declined to remark erstwhile asked astir the archetypal findings of a subject probe into the nonaccomplishment to intercept the missiles.
Netanyahu says occurrence nary 1 killed
Most Israelis person alerts on their mobile telephone erstwhile launches from Iran are identified. An aerial raid siren sounds and they past person a fewer minutes to spell to harmless rooms oregon nationalist weaponry shelters. “It is simply a occurrence that no-one was killed,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said connected Sunday (March 22, 2026), lasting successful thecrater astatine the interaction tract successful Arad.
Pointing astatine the blown retired walls of the flat bloc and past astatine the enforced undamaged partition starring to a structure beneath ground, Netanyahu urged Israelis not to beryllium complacent. No 1 would person been hurt, helium said, had each sought structure successful time.
In Arad, 31 people, including 18 children, were hospitalised, astatine slightest 9 of them successful superior condition, according to the hospital. Dozens much were lightly injured. Israel said Iran was targeting civilian colonisation areas. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they targeted subject and security-related sites successful retaliation for Israeli strikes against Iranian sites.
Arad and Dimona, different metropolis that was hit, are located adjacent to Israel’s secretive atomic reactor and respective subject bases, including Nevatim Air Base, 1 of the country’s largest.
In Dimona, 5 radical were hospitalised, including a 12-year-old lad successful serious condition, the infirmary said.
Since associated U.S.-Israeli strikes connected Iran connected February 28, Israel has travel nether daily rocket occurrence from Iran. At slightest 20 civilians person been killed successful Israel and the Palestinian territories, including 1 Israeli killed successful an attack by Iran-backed Lebanese radical Hezbollah connected Sunday (March 22, 2026).
At slightest 15 radical were hospitalised connected Sunday (March 22, 2026) successful fresh
Iranian attacks, according to exigency services, including a clump munition that struck successful Tel Aviv.
Israeli and U.S. strikes person killed astatine slightest 1,300 radical successful Iran truthful far, according to the Iranian government. The U.S.-based rights radical HRANA, which tracks quality rights violations successful Iran, has recorded 3,320 radical killed, including 1,406 civilians and 1,167 subject personnel, with the remainder not yet determined. Reuters could not independently verify the data.
