Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday (local time) expressed his condolences to the family of Yaron and Ilana Moshe, the couple killed in an Iranian rocket attack in Tel Aviv today.
In a post on X, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, referring to Netanyahu, wrote: “My wife Sara and I, along with all the citizens of Israel, send our sincere condolences to the family of Yaron and Ilana Moshe, a married couple who were murdered by an Iranian missile attack in the center of the country.”
According to a report by the Times of Israel, the incident occurred in Ramat Gan, a city just outside Tel Aviv, on Tuesday evening when a couple in their 70s, apparently on their way to their fortified room, were hit by ballistic missile ammunition that destroyed their apartment and killed them. According to the local police chief, it appeared that the couple had not made it to the safe room in their apartment.
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Between midnight and 8 a.m., four missile launches in Israel caused injuries and property damage, the report said, adding that Tehran had fired cluster warheads at Tel Aviv since the start of the war in late February and scattered munitions in residential areas across the country.
A report in The New York Times, citing Israeli military officials and emergency workers, said the explosion was caused by a cluster bomb, a small rocket or grenade-like munition from a rocket warhead that disintegrates in mid-air.
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Iran fired a ballistic missile at Israel
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement on Wednesday that it had launched a major ballistic missile attack on Israel’s capital, marking an escalation of the war. The IRGC missile attack was in retaliation for the killing of Ali Larijani, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes.
According to an Al Jazeera report, falling shrapnel injured several people and caused significant property damage. This included damage to the Tel Aviv train station.
Since the US and Israel waged war against Tehran in late February, the Islamic Republic has lost several prominent figures, including the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Defense Minister Amir Nasirzadeh. Earlier today, Tehran confirmed that the Israeli military had killed Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib. On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed in a post on X that they had killed Gholamreza Soleimani, the commander of the Basij, a volunteer paramilitary force under the IRGC.
The number of victims of the conflict between the US, Israel and Iran
According to an AP report, the US-Israeli war in Iran has killed at least 1,300 people in Tehran and over 900 in Lebanon. Meanwhile, 14 people lost their lives in Israel. The US military said it had lost 13 service members and that over 200 were injured.
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Israel continues to attack Iran
One of the Israeli attacks targeted a judicial facility in southern Iran’s Larestan, killing and injuring several civilians and judicial staff. Another attack was onshore gas facilities that are connected to the South Pars offshore field.
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Several other attacks took place in western Iran, including one that killed seven people and injured 56 in the densely populated part of Dorud city, and another that killed four people in the rural part of Chegeni region, Tasnim News Agency added.
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