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.

Qatar’s state oil giant QatarEnergy said ​on Wednesday (March 18, 2026) that “extensive damage” has been caused ‌after the Ras Laffan Industrial City was ​subjected to missile attacks, shortly ⁠after the country’s Interior Ministry reported a fire resulting from an Iranian attack on the area.

“Emergency ‌response teams were deployed immediately to contain the resulting fires,” the ‌world’s second-largest LNG exporter said in a ‌statement. ⁠No casualties were reported and all ⁠personnel were accounted for, it said.

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Qatar condemned in a statement the attack saying that it represents a “direct ​threat” to its ‌national security. Iran insists on targeting Qatar and its neighbouring countries in an “irresponsible approach,” the Qatari foreign ministry added.

Qatar’s ‌Interior Ministry earlier said that civil ​defence personnel were dealing with a fire in the Ras Laffan ⁠area after an Iranian attack. The Ministry said that the fire in Ras Laffan area ‌was preliminarily brought under control, with no injuries reported.

Ras Laffan, located 80 km north of Doha, is an energy-industry hub and hosts several international companies.

Iran earlier issued an evacuation warning for several ‌oil facilities across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, ​including the Ras Laffan Refinery, saying they would be targeted by strikes “in the ⁠coming hours,” Iranian state media reported.

Qatar’s Ras ⁠Laffan LNG installations are being evacuated, a source with knowledge of ‌the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, following Iran’s threat to attack Gulf energy ​facilities.