Fifteen people were injured on Sunday, one of them seriously, when an Iranian ballistic missile dropped cluster munitions in central Israel, paramedics said, in the Islamic Republic’s fourth ballistic missile attack since midnight.
The missile spread bomblets over a wide area in Tel Aviv and nearby cities.
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center-Ichilov said seven people who were injured in the attack were brought to the hospital, four of them in moderate condition.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the most serious injuries it treated were sustained by a 53-year-old man.
Damage was caused to several homes and roads by the impacts.
The first missile attack of the day — around 7 a.m., following an eight-hour lull — was also assessed to have contained a cluster bomb warhead. A bomblet impact damaged a road, but there were no reports of direct injuries from the attack.
Four additional attacks — two targeting central Israel, and two targeting southern Israel — set off sirens and sent hundreds of thousands of people to bomb shelters, but did not result in any reported damage or direct injuries.
36 still hospitalized from impacts in south on Saturday
Sunday’s salvos, six total by 2 p.m., came after two direct hits the previous evening in the cities of Dimona and Arad in the south injured hundreds of people and sent dozens to the hospital.
As of Sunday morning, five people wounded in the Dimona impact were still hospitalized, including a 12-year-old boy in serious condition who underwent surgery, and a man in his 20s in moderate condition, Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center said.
From the strike in Arad, 31 people remained hospitalized at Soroka, including 18 children.
Two of the people lightly wounded in the strikes were taken to Sheba Medical Center and were continuing their treatment there, the hospital said.
A total of 4,564 people have been taken to hospitals since the start of the war with Iran, as a result of the conflict, according to the Health Ministry.
The ministry did not give a breakdown of the causes of injuries, many of which were sustained by people trying to reach shelters rather than as a direct result of missile fire.
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