Iran launched around 180 missiles at Israel in response to the killings of Tehran-backed militant leaders, prompting alarm across the region and vows of retaliation.
Most of the missiles were intercepted by Israeli air defences or by allied air forces before they reached Israel.
Israeli medics reported two people were lightly injured by shrapnel in the country’s centre, while in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian was killed in Jericho “when pieces of a rocket fell from the sky and hit him”, the city’s governor Hussein Hamayel told AFP.
It was Iran’s second direct attack on Israel after a missile and drone attack in April in response to a deadly Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
They said the attack was in response to Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week as well as the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a Tehran bombing widely blamed on Israel.
