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2026-03-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF planning 3 more weeks of operations to systematically degrade Iran’s defense industry as Irans fires 7 missile salvos incl cluster bombs
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[IsraelTimes] Officials say military operating ahead of schedule, but still has thousands more targets to hit; IDF claims to see declining morale among Iranian soldiers
“We have thousands of targets ahead," IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin told CNN
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on Sunday. "We are ready, in coordination with our US allies, with plans through at least the Jewish holiday of Passover, about three weeks from now. And we have deeper plans for even three weeks beyond that."
Following Israel’s decapitation strikes that opened the war on February 28, killing Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
and more than 40 top Iranian officials, and subsequent strikes on ballistic missile launchers and air defense systems, the IDF is now focusing its efforts on destroying Iran’s military industry, according to the officials.
The officials said that the current campaign against Iran is different from the 12-day war in June 2025, and far more extensive.
During the previous war, Israel sought to counter the "existential threat" of Iran imminently developing a nuclear weapon, as well as its ramped-up production of ballistic missiles. The current war has given the IDF an opportunity to not only remove the "existential Iranian threat" to Israel, but also Iran’s "strategic threat" on the Jewish state "for the foreseeable future," the officials said.
Therefore, the IDF is seeking to systematically degrade Iran’s entire defense industry, including its ballistic missile capabilities, in addition to its nuclear program.
The defense industry of Iran is extensive, with numerous military bodies and private companies manufacturing weapon systems — or components — including ballistic missiles, air defenses, naval weapons, cyber capabilities, and even spy satellites.
Israel has targeted Iran’s military industry in the past, including in October 2024 when the Israeli Air Force bombed planetary mixers used to make solid fuel used in long-range ballistic missiles. During the 12-day war in June 2025, Israel again struck various sites used by Iran to build ballistic missiles, air defense systems, and other weapons.
Now, the officials said, the IDF would not spare a single facility used by Iran to develop weapons, along the entire production chain. So far, during the ongoing war, Israel has hit over 1,700 assets of Iran’s military industry, and it has many hundreds more on its list.
This includes the larger firms that are part of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — which manufacture Iran’s ballistic missiles and other weapons — as well as smaller companies that develop various components.
The officials said that these strikes have caused significant damage to Iran’s ballistic missile production industry, and as a result, it currently does not have the ability to manufacture any new missiles.
Israel has also been targeting Iran’s nuclear program, striking numerous targets related to the development of atomic weapons, including research and development sites and companies building various components.
Meanwhile,
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the officials said, strikes in Iran continue to also focus on "centers of power," including headquarters and command centers of the regime’s protest repression forces — the internal security forces and Basij paramilitary force.
The IDF has estimated that between 4,000 and 5,000 Iranian soldiers have been killed in Israeli strikes, along with tens of thousands more maimed, many of them members of the internal security forces and Basij.
The military has also identified declining morale among Iranian soldiers, refusal to serve in some cases, and desertion, according to the officials.
This phenomenon has mainly taken place in Iran’s ballistic missile array, according to the officials, who said that strikes against manned command centers and replacement headquarters have led to a drastic reduction in missile fire toward Israel in recent days.
The IAF has also continued to "hunt down" Iran’s missile launchers, reporting that it destroyed dozens in recent days, including some armed for attacks on Israel.
So far, the military has claimed to have destroyed or disabled around 70 percent of Iran’s estimated 500 ballistic missile launchers, though it is believed to be relatively simple for Iran to build new launchers, as it did following the June 2025 war.
Strikes also continue against Iran’s air defense systems. Within 24 hours of the war, the IDF reported achieving aerial superiority in parts of Iran, which enabled large-scale strikes in Tehran and other areas with a lower risk to Israeli fighter jet pilots.
The military officials said that the IAF now has air supremacy in most of Iran’s airspace, after taking out more than 100 air defense systems and around 120 detection systems.
The officials also said the IDF would continue to operate against the Quds Force, the extraterritorial arm of the IRGC, both in Iran and in Leb
 ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
Israel launched its campaign against Iran, alongside the US, to degrade the Iranian regime’s military capabilities, distance threats posed by Iran, and "create the conditions" for the Iranian people to topple the regime, the military and other Israeli leaders have said.
Iran fires 7 more missile salvos at Israel, attacks Gulf; IDF launches ‘extensive’ strikes
[IsraelTimes] At least eight injured in missile attacks as cluster munitions cause widespread damage; IRGC threatens to ‘pursue and kill’ Netanyahu; US orders evacuations from Oman, Iraq
Iran fired seven missile salvos at Israel overnight Saturday and into Sunday wounding at least eight people and kept up its attacks on countries across the Gulf as the Israel Defense Forces launched a new wave of “extensive” strikes targeting Iranian regime infrastructure in the country’s west.
An Iranian missile rained cluster bomb munitions across a swath of central Israel wounding four people.
In Bnei Brak, a man in his 60s was moderately hurt after a suspected cluster bomb munition struck an apartment building. In Ramat Gan, a man in his 70s was lightly hurt by a blast following another impact, and two women, aged 46 and 18, were lightly hurt in Petah Tikvah, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.
Two people were lightly injured in an earlier attack shortly before noon. The pair, two men in their 50s, were hurt in central Israel, MDA said, after a missile carrying a cluster bomb warhead spread submunitions across the area. Damage and fires were caused at multiple sites in central Israel by the cluster munitions, according to rescue services.
And in the early morning, two people were lightly injured in Holon, in central Israel. MDA said a man in his 80s received medical treatment at the scene for light injuries caused by glass shards, and a woman, also in her 80s, was being treated for symptoms of smoke inhalation.
Sunday’s Iranian missile launches targeted central and southern Israel sending millions repeatedly running for shelters. Northern Israel, meanwhile, has been under continual rocket and drone fire from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which joined the fighting on March 2 to support its sponsor, Iran.
Footage published by the police showed one of the cluster bomb munitions from an Iranian ballistic missile striking central Israel. Iran has launched multiple ballistic missiles at Israel carrying cluster bomb warheads during the ongoing conflict, indiscriminately spreading small bombs in wide areas of the country.
On Sunday morning, the Health Ministry reported that over the past 24 hours, 108 injured people had been taken to hospitals as a result of the conflict with Iran. Of those, two were in moderate condition and 96 were in good condition. Nine people have been treated for anxiety. Some were injured running to shelters and the number includes soldiers.
Meanwhile, Iran’s army said on Sunday it had targeted a police unit and a satellite communications center in Israel with drone strikes. In a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency, the army said “it has targeted the security centers and police headquarters of the Zionist terrorist regime, including the regime’s special police unit called ‘Lahav 433’ and the ‘Gilat Defense’ satellite communications center with powerful drone attacks.”
There were no reports of any drone impacts in Israel.
The Israeli Air Force, meanwhile, said it had launched a new wave of “extensive” airstrikes in western Iran. The military said the strikes targeted Iranian regime infrastructure sites.
IDF says no shortage of interceptors, after report claimed stockpile ‘critically low’
[IsraelTimes] In late-night vote, government approves extra funds for defense procurement, hours after US site reports that Israel informed Washington it was running out of ballistic interceptors
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