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A missile strike from Iran killed four people in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, as a renewed wave of attacks stretched into another day of escalating war.
Rescue teams recovered the final two bodies from the rubble of a damaged building on Monday, Israel’s emergency service reported, bringing the death toll from the strike to four.
The missile struck a residential building directly, leaving parts of the structure collapsed and trapping victims beneath debris.
Authorities confirmed that all those believed to be missing had now been located.
The victims were identified as two people in their 80s—a man and a woman—along with a man in his 40s and a 35-year-old woman. Earlier reports had indicated that four people were injured in the strike, one of them seriously, while search operations pressed on through the wreckage.
Israeli officials have opened an investigation after the missile bypassed air defenses and struck the city, with interception efforts failing despite systems being activated.
The Israeli military reported fresh missile launches from Iran on Monday, noting that defense systems were again deployed to intercept incoming threats.
Shortly after the detection, sirens sounded across central Israel, including Tel Aviv and surrounding cities, as incoming missiles approached.
Israel’s emergency service reported that missile fragments struck 27 locations in the central region. In Ramat Gan, two people were wounded, one moderately and the other lightly. Local media reported that rescue teams were dispatched to the affected sites.
Iran has carried out daily strikes since Feb. 28, framing them as retaliation for joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes that targeted its territory and killed senior figures, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Those earlier strikes focused on Iran’s missile infrastructure and nuclear facilities, widening the scope of the war and setting off the current exchange of fire.
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