Herzog mourns victims of Iran missile strike: ‘A very sad and difficult morning’

President Isaac Herzog mourns the Israelis killed in Iranian missile strikes overnight, saying it was “a very sad and difficult morning.”

“Our sisters and brothers were murdered and injured last night by criminal Iranian attacks against the civilian population in Bat Yam, Tamra and other communities. Jews and Arabs, veteran citizens and new immigrants, including children and the elderly, women and men,” he says in a post on X.

“I share in the heavy mourning of the families and grieve the terrible loss. I pray for the recovery of the injured and to find the missing. We will mourn together. We will overcome together,” he says.

At least eight people were killed  and dozens wounded in a series of strikes that hit an apartment building in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv and at a home in the northern city of Tamra. Searches are ongoing for some 20 missing people in Bat Yam.