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Iran launched a renewed missile attack across central Israel earlier today, 3 Paleo women killed near Hebron by Iranian cluster bomb
2026-03-19

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Iran launched a renewed missile attack across central Israel earlier today.

Multiple residential buildings were hit as a result of the strike. Although many missiles were "intercepted", their cluster sub-munitions still struck targets on the ground.

According to Israeli media, at least three people were reported to have been “lightly injured.”
Splinters and stubbed toes do not win a war, guys.

Courtesy of Lord Garth:
Three Palestinian Women killed near Hebron by Iran Cluster Bomb Missile
[MSN-Jpost] Three Palestinian women were killed in an Iranian missile attack in the West Bank late on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, in the first deadly Iranian strike there, and the first to kill Palestinians, since the start of the US-Israeli war with Iran.

The missiles struck a hair salon in the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency WAFA reported. Thirteen were wounded, one of them seriously.

The Israeli military said it understood the strike was caused by a cluster munition, a warhead that splits into tiny bomblets that scatter into a disparate area.

Most Israelis have access to bomb shelters that protect them from cluster munitions and falling debris, but virtually no such shelters exist for Palestinians in the West Bank.

Many Palestinians rely on either the sound of sirens from Jewish settlements or neighboring cities in Israel to alert them to rocket volleys.

At least 15 people have been killed in Israel since Israel and the US launched attacks on Iran at the end of February.
The Times of Israel adds:
Iranian ballistic missile strikes Wednesday night killed a man in central Israel and at least three women in the southern West Bank, first responders said.

The man, a 30-year-old foreign worker, sustained critical injuries from shrapnel in Moshav Adanim and was declared dead a short while later, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. He was not immediately named.

Police and medics said they were responding to reports of impacts in central Israel, as footage showed the ballistic missile launched by Iran carried a cluster bomb.

In the Hebron-area village of Beit Awwa, roughly an hour before, an apparent cluster munition killed at least three people. WAFA the Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency, identified them as Sahira, Amal and Mais Masalma, ages 50, 36 and 17, respectively. It was not immediately clear how they were related.

Another cluster munition hit the Israeli community of Neta, just over the Green Line from Beit Awwa, damaging a home but causing no injuries, according to rescue services.

Earlier Wednesday, a 44-year-old man and two children aged 13 and 12 in central Israel’s Petah Tivka were lightly maimed in another Iranian ballistic missile attack, medics said. Several cluster munition impact sites were reported in central Israel, one of which caused damage to a home.

Three other Iranian missile attacks since Wednesday morning also set off sirens in the areas of Haifa, the Galilee, the Golan and near southern Israel’s Eilat, without any injures reported.

About half the ballistic missiles launched by Iran at Israel in the current war have carried cluster bomb warheads, according to the IDF. A couple in their 70s were killed early Wednesday by a cluster munition that hit their home in central Israel’s Ramat Gan. Iran acknowledged firing cluster munitions, saying it was to avenge Israel’s killing of Iranian security chief Ali Larijani earlier this week.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.

Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!...

Iran-backed Hezbollah also attacked Israel on Wednesday, including launching rockets at the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
border area — some 200 kilometers (124 miles) from Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
— apparently for the first time since the Iran-backed terror group renewed its attacks on Israel earlier this month.

The long-range projectiles struck open areas, according to the military. No injuries were reported.

During the attack, sirens also sounded in nearby Ashkelon as well as in northern Israel’s Kiryat Shmona, where the rocket caused damage but no injures, according to rescue services.

Minutes earlier, Hezbollah launched a small number of projectiles at central Israel and the Galilee. Sirens had sounded in Tayibe, Qalansawe, Kfar Saba and other nearby towns northeast of Tel Aviv, as well as in several communities in the Galilee. No injuries were reported.

The projectiles were either intercepted or landed in open areas, according to the IDF.

Sirens also sounded earlier Wednesday warning of a Hezbollah drone attack in the Galilee Panhandle and Golan Heights, with no injuries or damage reported.
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