Iran hit Israel with seven missiles, including some equipped with cluster bombs, early on Thursday — leaving at least nine people injured in the latest strike to make it through the Jewish state’s air defences.
Seven salvos of ballistic missiles were detected over Israel and the West Bank on Thursday morning, with the second rocket hitting the central city of Kafr Qasim and wounding five people, The Times of Israel reported.
Wild video of the impact shows people and animals fleeing the streets seconds before the bomb hits a parked vehicle, sending the car flying in a violent flip that litters shrapnel and debris everywhere.
Similar images emerged elsewhere in the city, where a bomb landed right in front of a parked vehicle, damaging the car as it sent concrete soaring into the sky, the New York Postreports.
Another bomb landed in Ganei Tikva, destroying several cars and causing a large fire that covered the road in black smoke.
Two people were wounded in Tel Aviv after a ballistic missile carrying cluster munitions dropped bomblets over a wide area, with images showing a destroyed storefront in the city.
Cluster bomblets were also reported hitting a shopping centre in Haifa and elsewhere in northern Israel, where the shrapnel from the explosion left a person injured, officials said.
The bombs additionally hit two homes in the illegal West Bank settlements, with the residents spared after taking shelter in their safe rooms, according to the Samaria Regional Council.
Iran has fired more than 400 ballistic missiles at the Jewish state since the start of the war, with the Israel Defense Forces maintaining that its interception rate is still 92 per cent for attacks on populated areas and key infrastructure.
Despite the interceptions, at least eight missiles have hit highly populated areas during the war, causing extensive damage and killing at least 15 people and leaving hundreds more wounded.
Israel, meanwhile, continues its heavy bombardment campaign on Iran, with its air force dropping more than 13,000 bombs on the Islamic regime since the war began.
The IDF estimates that some 5,000 Iranian soldiers have been killed following strikes on Iran’s air defence and missile systems, weapons production sites, nuclear facilities, and military headquarters.
The US has additionally hit more than 10,000 targets inside Iran aimed at hindering the Islamic republic’s ability to fire attacks outside its borders, Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper said on Wednesday.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.
