Dimona
\nIsrael\u2019s health ministry says 180 people were injured – some seriously – in Iranian missile strikes on two southern Israeli towns close to a nuclear facility.
\nThe ministry says 116 people were injured in Arad and another 64 in Dimona, after ballistic missiles hit the towns on Saturday evening.
\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it is not aware of any damage to the nuclear research facility located about 13km (eight miles) outside Dimona.
\nIranian state TV earlier said the strikes were in response to an attack on Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility on Saturday.
\nOn Sunday, at least seven people were injured in an Iranian missile attack on Tel Aviv, emergency services say.
\nThe Israeli Air Force says Tehran has fired 400 missiles at Israel since the US-Israeli attack on Iran on 28 February. Of these, 92% were intercepted, it adds.
\nIn Arad, local residents said the blasts they heard on Saturday were terrifying. The missile badly damaged several buildings, leaving a deep crater.
\nNaram Zaid, a paramedic in the town, told BBC News she had seen a \u201clot of children with head and chest injuries\u201d after being crushed by objects inside a damaged building.
\n\u201cI was trying to reassure a 10-year-old girl with head injuries, with blood on her face from broken glass,\u201d she added.
\n\u201cShe was refusing to get into the ambulance as her parents were still inside the building, and we waited for her parents to be evacuated from the destroyed apartment block and then we sent them all to hospital.\u201d
\nThe outside walls of two residential apartment buildings were gouged out by the impact.
\nCrowds of dark-suited men stood staring at the damage in this Ultra-Orthodox town in the Negev desert.
\nThe nearby town of Dimona experienced a similar missile strike.
\nAmong the many injured there was a 10-year-old boy. Medics described his condition as serious.
\n\u201cIn both Dimona and Arad, interceptors were launched that failed to hit the threats, resulting in two direct hits by ballistic missiles with warheads weighing hundreds of kilograms,\u201d Israeli firefighters said.
\nAhmadiel Ben Yehuda lives a two-minute walk from the street where the missile hit in Dimona and says he was on the steps to the bomb shelter when it struck.
\n\u201cThere is damage to all the houses in our community – many collapsed ceilings and windows blow in – including in my own house.\u201d
\nBen Yehuda says he went to visit the street where the missile landed and \u201cthe entire area is just devastated, including a kindergarten\u201d. He knows several people whose apartments were completely destroyed.
\n\u201cI felt horror. I just can\u2019t believe the power of what a missile can do to concrete, to see the devastation is hard to comprehend.\u201d
\nBoth Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog visited the impacted sites on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dimona Israel\u2019s health ministry says 180 people were injured – some seriously – in Iranian missile strikes on two southern Israeli towns close to a nuclear facility. The ministry says 116 people were injured in Arad and another 64 in Dimona, after ballistic missiles hit the towns on Saturday evening. The International Atomic Energy Agency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-537879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n