Israeli firefighters were searching for two missing people in the rubble of a residential building in the northern city of Haifa after it was struck by an Iranian missile that killed two others, authorities said on Monday (April 6, 2026).

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The direct hit on a seven-storey building tore through sections of the structure which has partially collapsed, the military and rescue services said.

AFP footage showed rescuers using flashlights to search through rubble and scattered concrete blocks.

The strike took place minutes after the military warned it had detected a new round of missiles fired from Iran at around 15:00 GMT.

Elad Edri, chief of staff of Israel’s Home Front Command, said that four people were missing.

“We have a major destruction site,” he said in a video statement.

Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services said later that two of the four people trapped under the rubble had been found dead.

The building was hit by a “direct impact of a missile”, a military spokesperson told AFP, confirming it was fired from Iran.

Israel’s emergency service, Magen David Adom, said four people were wounded in the strike, including a 10-month-old baby who suffered a head injury.

An 82-year-old man was also in a “serious condition”, MDA said. A hospital later said he was stable.

He was “wounded by a heavy object and the blast”, the MDA said, adding that the other three suffered shrapnel and blast injuries.

Dozens of Israeli security and members of rescue forces were deployed at the site of the strike, an AFP correspondent reported.

Images and footage published by MDA show smoke rising from the remains of a flattened building in a densely populated area, and stretchers laid on the road by rescuers for casualties.

MDA paramedic Shevach Rothenshtrych quoted residents saying that there were casualties trapped under the rubble on the lower floors, and the 82-year-old was rescued after first responders “managed to move large pieces of concrete with our hands”.

His colleague Tal Shustak said that when emergency calls were received, “we were dispatched in large forces to the scene and saw extensive destruction, including glass, smoke and concrete scattered across the ground”.

On Monday (April 6), the military detected fresh waves of missiles fired from Iran, and each time it said its “defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat”.

Iran has fired missiles daily at Israel since February 28, in retaliation to joint U.S.-Israeli attacks on the country that has killed several top Iranian leaders, including supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Since the start of the conflict, Israeli and U.S. airstrikes have attacked a number of Iran’s missile production sites and also nuclear facilities.

The latest round of Iranian missile fire caused explosions across Tel Aviv and damage in central Israel on Thursday (March 5, 2026), but there were no reported casualties and residents have been cleared to leave shelters.

Iran’s state broadcaster reported that Tehran had fired missiles “against targets in the heart of Tel Aviv,” after Israel’s military said it was working to intercept incoming Iranian fire.

Projectiles in central Israel

AFP journalists in Tel Aviv reported two near simultaneous waves of explosions reverberate across the city.

After the barrage, Israel’s emergency services, the Magen David Adom, said its teams had visited several impacted sites but reported no casualties.

Israeli police said it was “currently handling scenes involving fallen projectiles in central Israel,” adding that “damage has been caused,” but also reporting no injuries.

The military has released a statement clearing people “to leave protected spaces.”

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday (March 5, 2026) his country was prepared for any potential ground invasion, saying such a move would spell “disaster” for the Islamic republic’s foes.

“We are waiting for them,” Mr. Araghchi told U.S. broadcaster NBC News, as the United States and Israel kept up strikes on Iran. “We are confident that we can confront them and that would be a big disaster for them.”

A barrage of missiles launched from Iran killed at least eight people in the central Israel city of Bet Shemesh on Sunday (March 1, 2026), Israeli first responders said, updating an earlier toll.

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The Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said: “In the Beit Shemesh area, MDA EMTs and paramedics have pronounced the deaths of six casualties”, as well as 23 injuries, with police saying it was a direct hit on a building.

These fatalities bring the total death toll in Israel from the latest confrontation with arch foe Iran to seven.