Eight killed, hundreds injured by Iranian ballistic missiles

National Post

6 hours ago

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.
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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.
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The Israel Defense Forces' Home Front Command is investigating the deaths of three victims—two women and a man in their 70s—who were killed in Petach Tikvah while sheltering in a protected space. An 80-year-old man was also found dead at the site of a missile strike in Bnei Brak.
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As of Monday morning, Magen David Adom teams had evacuated 87 people to hospitals—five in moderate condition and 81 in mild condition. Rescue operations and searches for additional casualties were ongoing at two of the four affected sites.
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According to an Israeli Health Ministry update on Monday morning, a total of 287 wounded individuals arrived at hospitals during the night. The ministry's numbers include information from both MDA and independent arrivals. As of Monday morning, one person was in serious condition, 13 were in moderate condition, 240 were in mild condition, 11 were suffering from anxiety and 25 patients were under medical evaluation with their condition not yet determined.
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Israel's Channel 12 News reported that the home of MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud) in Petach Tikvah was damaged by an Iranian missile.
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Several people were lightly wounded on Sunday night in the preceding Iranian missile attack.
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'Israel is in an existential war. Since 1948, I can't recall a war as vital, important and crucial as the one we are facing now,' Likud lawmaker Boaz Bismuth told JNS on Monday.
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'I am confident the Iranians have understood that we are not joking—our mission is to eliminate any nuclear or missile threat, both for this generation and the generations to come,' he added.
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Bismuth called on free nations, the Iranian people and those who support freedom and Israel to stand with them. The fight, he said, is for the safety of children everywhere, as the Iranian regime poses a significant threat to global security and stability—something regularly acknowledged by NATO countries at their parliamentary assembly, where he leads the Knesset delegation.