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The bodies of four people were recovered from under the rubble at the site of an Iranian ballistic missile impact in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, rescue services said on April 6.
The Israeli Fire and Rescue Service and the Home Front Command said the bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble following “hours of intensive search-and-rescue operations”. Among those recovered include a man and woman in their 80s, a man in his 40s, and a 35-year-old woman. All four were initially reported missing after the strike, which took place a day earlier.
Four other people were injured in the attack, including an 82-year-old man who is in “a serious” condition, Israeli authorities said, after he was wounded by a “heavy object and the blast”.
According to investigations by the military and the police, the warhead from the ballistic missile — with an estimated several hundred kilograms of explosive material — did not explode upon impact.
The kinetic energy from the impact caused several floors of the residential building to collapse; however, there was no major damage to nearby homes.
The attack was among the deadliest missile strikes carried out by Iran since the start of the American-Israeli war against it more than a month ago.
Recent Iranian missile strikes were in general more accurate. On April 2, a strike damaged an Israeli drone factory in the city of Petah Tikva in central Israel. Later on April 4, another strike hit in the vicinity of the Israeli military’s Kirya headquarters in the city of Tel Aviv, also located in the center of the country.
Even a day after the deadly attack on Haifa, several waves of missiles were launched from Iran at Israel, including at least one armed with a cluster warhead.
Both the United States and Israel claimed that most of Iran’s missiles and drones were wiped out in the early days of the war. However, this was clearly untrue.
A recent American intelligence assessment even said that roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of suicide attack drones remain in the Islamic Republic’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by U.S. and Israeli strikes, according to CNN.
The recent strikes on Israel confirm this. They also show that the country’s multi-layered air defense system is no longer as effective as before.
Israel is likely running low on interceptors, and radar systems may be facing more technical problems than before as a result of around the hour operations. Even air defenses operators are likely fatigued after over a month of daily attacks from Iran.
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