IDF probes failure to shoot down Iranian missile that hit Haifa building as search for missing 4 continues

By Emanuel Fabian

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5 April 2026, 11:46 pm

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

Home Front Command search and rescue forces work amid the rubble of a residential building struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, April 5, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

More than five hours after an Iranian ballistic missile struck Haifa, the IDF Home Front Command search and rescue forces continue to operate at the scene in search of four people presumed to be trapped under the rubble.

The military says the rescue forces are using “advanced rescue equipment and various technological means to locate the trapped individuals as quickly as possible.”

Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force is investigating the failure to shoot down the missile that struck the residential building. Attempts to intercept the missile were made, but air defenses failed to knock the projectile down, according to the military.