Four people still unaccounted for, feared trapped, hours after missile strike on Haifa residential building

By Emanuel Fabian

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5 April 2026, 10:05 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Israeli security forces and rescue teams work amid the rubble of a residential building struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Four people are still unaccounted for and believed to be trapped under the rubble at the site of an Iranian ballistic missile impact in Haifa, Israel Police Commissioner Danny Levy tells reporters at the scene.

“We are focusing all efforts on the four family members who are supposed to be here, using all means at our disposal,” he says.

Levy also says that the warhead of the ballistic missile that struck the residential building may not have exploded upon impact, “and therefore we evacuated several buildings, so that in the unlikely case that the missile explodes, nobody will be hurt.”

“Our sappers are handling the case,” he adds.