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Israel claims to have carried out strikes on Iran’s largest petrochemical complex, while the chief of intelligence of the Revolutionary Guards was reportedly eliminated in Tehran on Monday. Meanwhile, Iran continues to bombard Israel: a barrage of missiles was fired, one of which destroyed a residential building in Haifa and killed at least four people.
It’s 7 a.m. on Monday, April 6th in central Israel. A submunition from an Iranian missile explodes, captured by a surveillance camera. The driver gets up a bit disoriented, slightly injured. In another car, there was no one. And in a building in Ramat Gan, in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, all residents were in shelters. This Monday, about thirty points of impact were caused by missile submunitions or debris falling after interception. Six times, sirens blared across the country to warn of missile waves from Iran, but the anti-aircraft defense system made them explode in the air.
But on Sunday, a ballistic missile hit a residential area in Haifa, the largest city in northern Israel. A six-story building was gutted. On Monday, rescue teams retrieved the last two bodies: a family of four killed in the strike, the second deadliest since the war began.
Raised with a crane, the missile’s warhead contains 450 kilograms of explosives. Surprisingly, the charge did not detonate. But the anti-aircraft defense system is not foolproof. “There is a success rate of about 90%, but there are 10% that get through,” says General Yossi Kuperwasser from the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.
“Many observers today wonder, after 38 days of war, if Israel still has enough anti-missile missiles to counter Iranian attacks. According to the Ministry of Defense, the answer is yes, and the minister added: the military campaign can still continue,” comments Arnauld Miguet from France Télévisions Middle East.
Sources:
– The Figaro: Israel announces accelerated production of missile interceptors
– Times of Israel: Four bodies found in the rubble of a residential building in Haifa hit by an Iranian missile (link in English)
– The Figaro: Israel: a building destroyed in Haifa by an Iranian missile, several injured including a baby
– Wikipedia: Yossi Kuperwasser
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