Iran launched a fresh wave of ballistic missile attacks on Israel on Sunday, killing at least nine people and injuring 27 others in a strike on Beit Shemesh, a city west of Jerusalem, as the conflict triggered by Saturday’s US-Israeli assault on Iranian territory showed no sign of abating.
Eleven people were reported missing following the strike, which the Israel Defense Forces said destroyed a building entirely and killed civilians. Sirens blared across central and southern Israel as air-raid alerts prompted the deployment of air-defence systems to intercept incoming projectiles, the IDF said.
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Tehran described the missile fire as a direct retaliation for what it called “aggression” by the United States and Israel, whose coordinated air campaign on Saturday killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, armed forces chief of staff Abdolrahim Mousavi, and several senior Revolutionary Guard commanders, decapitating Iran’s military and political leadership in a single operation.
The hostilities have now spread beyond the Israel-Iran axis. Iranian strikes have also targeted Gulf Arab states and US military bases across the broader Middle East, widening the geographic footprint of a conflict that began less than 48 hours ago and is already reshaping the region’s strategic landscape.
