Overview
- Officials confirmed nine fatalities and dozens injured, with victims identified to include three teenage siblings.
- The IDF and Home Front Command opened inquiries into the failed interception and the performance of a certified public shelter struck at a synagogue.
- Search-and-rescue teams, medics and an IDF helicopter evacuated casualties as hospitals declared mass-casualty responses and moved critical care underground.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site, offered government assistance for rebuilding and framed ongoing operations as targeting Iran's threat.
- The strike formed part of broader hostilities that also saw attacks and interceptions across Gulf states and intensified exchanges on the Lebanon front.