Iran fires 7 more missile salvos at Israel, attacks Gulf; IDF launches ‘extensive’ strikes

Iran fired seven missile salvos at Israel overnight Saturday and into Sunday wounding at least eight people and kept up its attacks on countries across the Gulf as the Israel Defense Forces launched a new wave of “extensive” strikes targeting Iranian regime infrastructure in the country’s west.

An Iranian missile rained cluster bomb munitions across a swath of central Israel wounding four people.

In Bnei Brak, a man in his 60s was moderately hurt after a suspected cluster bomb munition struck an apartment building. In Ramat Gan, a man in his 70s was lightly hurt by a blast following another impact, and two women, aged 46 and 18, were lightly hurt in Petah Tikvah, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.

Two people were lightly injured in an earlier attack shortly before noon. The pair, two men in their 50s, were hurt in central Israel, MDA said, after a missile carrying a cluster bomb warhead spread submunitions across the area. Damage and fires were caused at multiple sites in central Israel by the cluster munitions, according to rescue services.

And in the early morning, two people were lightly injured in Holon, in central Israel. MDA said a man in his 80s received medical treatment at the scene for light injuries caused by glass shards, and a woman, also in her 80s, was being treated for symptoms of smoke inhalation.

Sunday’s Iranian missile launches targeted central and southern Israel sending millions repeatedly running for shelters. Northern Israel, meanwhile, has been under continual rocket and drone fire from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which joined the fighting on March 2 to support its sponsor, Iran.

Footage published by the police showed one of the cluster bomb munitions from an Iranian ballistic missile striking central Israel.

Footage published by the police shows one of the cluster bomb munitions from an Iranian ballistic missile striking central Israel. pic.twitter.com/qvnWIXlr4v

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Iran has launched multiple ballistic missiles at Israel carrying cluster bomb warheads during the ongoing conflict, indiscriminately spreading small bombs in wide areas of the country.

On Sunday morning, the Health Ministry reported that over the past 24 hours, 108 injured people had been taken to hospitals as a result of the conflict with Iran. Of those, two were in moderate condition and 96 were in good condition. Nine people have been treated for anxiety. Some were injured running to shelters and the number includes soldiers.

The war, now in its third week, showed few signs of slowing. US President Donald Trump rebuffed efforts to start negotiations on an end to the fighting and threatened further strikes on a key Iranian hub for exporting oil.

And after Iran’s supreme leader was killed on the first day of US-Israeli strikes on February 28, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened to kill Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“If this child-killing criminal is alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force,” said the Guards on their website, Sepah News, on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Iran’s army said on Sunday it had targeted a police unit and a satellite communications center in Israel with drone strikes.

In a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency, the army said “it has targeted the security centers and police headquarters of the Zionist terrorist regime, including the regime’s special police unit called ‘Lahav 433’ and the ‘Gilat Defense’ satellite communications center with powerful drone attacks.”

There were no reports of any drone impacts in Israel.

The Israeli Air Force, meanwhile, said it had launched a new wave of “extensive” airstrikes in western Iran. The military said the strikes targeted Iranian regime infrastructure sites.

Saudi Arabia says 10 Iranian drones destroyed over Riyadh

The fighting continued to envelop the Gulf nations neighboring Iran. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates reported fresh Iranian missile attacks on Sunday, while Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said its systems intercepted and destroyed 10 drones over the capital, Riyadh, and the kingdom’s eastern region.

Bahrain said that since the beginning of the war, its air defenses have intercepted 125 missiles and 211 drones. The small island nation — home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet — has been among the most affected by Iranian strikes, which have hit ports, a hotel, a refinery and a water desalination plant. At least person has been killed in the strikes.

In the wake of the strikes across the region, the US State Department said it ordered non-emergency government employees and the family members of government employees to leave Oman, citing safety risks. And following an overnight missile attack on the US embassy in Baghdad, the embassy said US citizens should leave Iraq immediately.

“US citizens choosing to remain in Iraq are strongly encouraged to reconsider in light of the significant threat posed by Iran-aligned terrorist militia groups,” the embassy said.

Although its missiles have hit civilian areas, Iran’s foreign minister denied on Sunday that Iran has targeted civilian or residential areas in the Middle East. He said Tehran is ready to form a committee with its neighbors to investigate the responsibility for such strikes.

Gulf countries have called upon Iran to cease its attacks on their territories, which have not only sustained strikes on US military bases but also damage to energy facilities and residential areas.

Abbas Araghchi’s Telegram channel quoted him as saying in an interview with the Al-Araby al-Jadeed website that Tehran was in communication with various Gulf capitals and would welcome any initiative that could guarantee a complete end to the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Araghchi also told his French counterpart that countries must refrain from any action that could escalate the conflict in the Middle East. The comment came after Trump called upon various states, including France, to deploy vessels to help secure shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been blocked by Iran.

Iran arrests 20 for allegedly cooperating with Israel

The war began more than a month after an Iranian government crackdown on mass anti-regime protests killed thousands, with activist groups saying the true toll is in the tens of thousands. Israel and the United States have repeatedly hoped for regime change as a result of the war,

Iran appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, as his successor last week. It has vowed to continue combating anti-government activity in the country.

The country’s Tasnim news agency reported that 20 people were arrested in northwestern Iran for allegedly attempting to cooperate with Israel, citing a statement by the West Azerbaijan province’s prosecutor’s office.

They stand accused of sending location details on Iran’s military and security assets to Israel. Iran frequently arrests people and accuses them of spying without providing evidence.

Israel has launched a new phase of its assault on Iran, targeting security checkpoints based on tip-offs from informants on the ground, a source briefed on Israel’s military strategy told Reuters last week.