TEL AVIV: Six people were wounded, some by shrapnel, at blast sites in central Israel on Sunday, according to first responders, after the military said it had detected a new wave of Iranian missiles.
A spokesperson for Magen David Adom emergency services said “medics and paramedics are providing medical treatment and evacuating” the wounded to hospitals.
A 40-year-old man was in a serious condition, while a 25-year-old man was moderately injured and a further three people were in mild condition, they said.
A spokesperson for the Ichilov hospital in Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv said one man wounded in the neck was receiving urgent treatment.
Earlier at least 10 explosions were heard over Tel Aviv by AFP journalists.
Israeli media showed images it said were from Tel Aviv of a blast hole in a street with a damaged car jutting out of it.
The Israeli military had warned prior to the blasts that it had “identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel.”
In a separate media briefing prior to the missile warning, military spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said that Iran’s “firepower has dropped dramatically all across the region, not only toward Israel.”
Iran has been firing missiles at Israel and countries across the region in response to a US-Israeli campaign that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Six wounded in Israel after Iran missile fire
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Six wounded in Israel after Iran missile fire
- Israeli military said it had detected a new wave of Iranian missiles
Iran’s new supreme leader ‘safe and sound’ despite war injury reports: president’s son
TEHRAN: Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is "safe and sound" despite reports of an injury during the war with Israel and the United States, said the son of the Iranian president on Wednesday.
"I heard news that Mr Mojtaba Khamenei had been injured. I have asked some friends who had connections. They told me that, thank God, he is safe and sound," said Yousef Pezeshkian, who is also a government adviser, in a post on his Telegram channel.
State television had called Khamenei a "wounded veteran of the Ramadan war" but never specified his injury.
The new supreme leader is the son and successor of the Islamic republic's longtime ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 which triggered a war across the Middle East.
The 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei, a discreet figure who has rarely appeared in public or spoken at official events, has yet to address the nation or issue a written statement since he was declared supreme leader on Sunday.
In a Wednesday report, the New York Times quoting three unnamed Iranian officials said that Khamenei "had suffered injuries, including to his legs, but that he was alert and sheltering at a highly secure location with limited communication".
