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At least seven people were killed and more than 100 injured when an Iranian ballistic missile hit Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, overnight on Sunday, domestic media reported. Other reports put the death toll at six people. Israel's police said residential buildings took a "direct hit that caused extensive damage."
Tel Aviv stocks erased morning losses and moved nearly 1% higher on Sunday in the first trading session since the start of a wave of missile strikes between Israel and Iran on Friday, as Israel and its economy attempt to remain as open as possible.
Carola Veit had planned to return to Hamburg early Friday morning after her four-day visit to Israel, but the Iran attacks and closure of Israeli airspace has changed those plans.
Onlookers gathered on Saturday at a central Tel Aviv residential building next door to Israel’s defense headquarters that was damaged after it took a hit from what appeared to be shrapnel from an overnight missile barrage from Iran.
Israel and Iran continue to exchange airstrikes strikes into the weekend, leaving multiple people dead outside Tel Aviv. NBC News' Matt Bradley reports from Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv, where a residential building was hit by a missile.
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Global News - Inquirer.net on MSNSirens and booms heard in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv – AFP journalistsAir raid sirens and booms rang out in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv early Sunday, AFP journalists said, as Israel and Iran exchanged fire for a third day. Israel’s military wrote in a post on X that millions of Israelis were “running for shelter as sirens sound” in dozens of cities and communities around the country.
Israeli citizens were ordered to head to bomb shelters on Friday night amid retaliatory missile strikes from Iran.
Video verified by CNN captures the dramatic moment a missile struck in vicinity of the Kirya, an area of Tel Aviv that’s home to an urban military base housing Israel’s Defense Forces.