Overview
- Direct ballistic impacts in the southern towns tore open residential facades and gouged craters, with heavy damage reported across multiple apartment blocks.
- Magen David Adom reported 75–84 people injured in Arad with about 10 in serious condition, and 33 treated in Dimona including a 10-year-old boy listed as serious.
- Iranian state media said the strike near Dimona was a response to a reported attack on its Natanz nuclear facility earlier in the day.
- Suspected cluster‑munition warheads scattered shrapnel in central Israel, damaging a kindergarten in Rishon LeZion and leaving hazardous unexploded bomblets.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to keep striking Iran on all fronts following what he called a very difficult evening.