Eight killed, hundreds injured by Iranian ballistic missiles
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Eight people were killed and nearly 300 wounded in the early hours of Monday by an Iranian ballistic missile barrage on Israeli civilian population centers in the central and northern regions of the country.
The impacts were spread across four locations. Four of the deaths took place in the greater Tel Aviv area — four in Petach Tikvah and one in Bnei Brak.
Three people who were initially reported as being trapped in Haifa were later declared dead, while a 30-year-old woman is hospitalized in serious condition.
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