50 Iranian missiles pass through Iron Dome, Israel suffers highest casualties since its founding

50 Iranian missiles pass through Iron Dome, Israel suffers highest casualties since its founding

Iran fired 200 missiles, 50 of which failed to be shot down, causing Israel's highest casualties since its founding 

Iran's Fars News Agency reported on the 15th that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used a new precision-guided medium-range ballistic missile, the Haj Qassem, in a retaliatory attack against Israel.
The agency said that the Haj Qassem ballistic missile is solid fuel, has a range of 1,200 km, has a maximum speed of Mach 12, and when it hits the target, it reaches Mach 5, and was launched from central Iran.

Reuters reported that “Iran’s latest attack began shortly after 11 p.m. on the 12th, when air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem and Haifa, sending about a million people into bunkers,” and that “At about 2:30 a.m. (Saturday the 13th), the Israeli military warned of another missile barrage and urged residents to seek shelter.” “Explosions echoed across Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, missiles streaked across the sky, interceptor rockets were fired in response, and the military lifted the stay-at-home order nearly an hour after the warning was issued,” the report said.
Reuters reported that ambulance authorities said at least seven people, including a 10-year-old boy and a woman in her 20s, were killed overnight, and more than 140 people were injured in multiple attacks.
The Yomiuri reported that “Iran’s retaliatory attacks on Israel from the night of the 13th to the morning of the 14th, including a rocket launcher, struck commercial centers “Three people were killed and more than 70 injured in Tel Aviv, the worst damage to the region since the founding of Israel in 1948,” the Tel Aviv-based newspaper reported on the 14th, adding that “the collapse of the ‘myth of safety’ due to the armored missile defense system was significant, and residents could see the damage they had suffered at the scene of the piled up debris.”
On the 14th, a local reporter for Yomiuri in Tel Aviv wrote, “Debris and broken glass, as if a major earthquake had passed,” along with a photo of a building destroyed by an Iranian missile attack in Ramat Gan, central Israel.
On the corner of a mansion with a garden in Richon Letziyon, a southern suburb of Tel Aviv where he was covering the story, dozens of houses had been hit by Iranian missiles on the 14th, with walls collapsed, roofs blown off, and debris and broken glass scattered across a nearby road as if a major earthquake had passed.
The article said, “Israel has the world’s most advanced missile defense system and is The military said, "We have protected our citizens from attacks, but according to the military, we failed to intercept about 50 of the approximately 200 missiles launched from Iran, or about a quarter," and "Tel Aviv and its surrounding areas are high-tech industrial centers, but a building near the military headquarters in the city center was also attacked by missiles."
The Iranian missile landed in a residential area in Ramat Gan, an eastern suburb of Tel Aviv, at around 9:30 p.m. on the 13th, and the house that was hit collapsed and the residents died.
The reporter reported, "The windows of the surrounding apartment buildings and stores were all broken."
The Yomiuri reporter wrote, "Eli Bahar, a 40-year-old company employee who lives nearby, heard the explosion as soon as he entered the bunker with his wife and two-and-a-half-year-old and six-month-old children," and "The child cried for a moment in fear."
Bahar, whom he interviewed, told Yomiuri, "As long as Israel continues to attack, Israel will retaliate, and what Israel needs now is peace and "I don't see it," he said, and Yomiuri reported, "Bahar continued to criticize the Netanyahu government for its hard-line stance."
Alex Stolbol, a 60-year-old bank employee, was found in the basement of his home around 5 a.m. on the 14th. He was sleeping at home with his wife when he jumped up at the sound of the explosion and the sound of glass breaking.
The missile hit his neighbor's house. Two residents were killed, and the roof of Stolbol's house collapsed. The explosion blew him away, and the living room wall collapsed.
Stalbol, who survived, told the Yomiuri that he was "lucky to be alive with his wife."
The Yomiuri reporter reported that "despite the threat of retaliatory strikes, he expressed some understanding of the Israeli attack on Iran, saying, "If we don't attack Iran now, we will have nuclear weapons."

A palpable tension settled over an eerily quiet Tel Aviv on Saturday as residents anticipated another missile launch from Iran, which is under heavy Israeli military fire, the AP reported. "The Iranian retaliatory strikes on Friday, mostly drones shot down by Israeli defenses and missiles, killed at least three people and wounded dozens in the Tel Aviv area," it said.

Israeli media reported that at least 35 people were missing after the airstrikes in the city of Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv.

Reuters reported “An emergency services spokesman said an Iranian missile hit an eight-story building and many people were rescued but there were deaths,” the statement said, adding that it was unclear how many buildings were hit overnight.
Responding to Iran’s announcement, Reuters said that “at least nine people have been killed and more than 300 wounded in Israel since Iran launched its retaliatory strikes on the 13th.”
Iran said of its own casualties that 78 people were killed on the first day of the Israeli operation, and that more were killed on the second day, including 60 when missiles flattened a 14-story apartment complex in Tehran.

A New York Times reporter visited the scene of the Iranian missile strikes in Tel Aviv and its suburbs on Saturday night and Saturday morning and reported under the title, “‘I was afraid of dying’: Iranian missiles rain down on Tel Aviv.” The article, with the subtitle “At least three killed, dozens wounded as Iranian missiles rain down over Tel Aviv and Israeli rockets try to intercept them,” reported, “On Saturday afternoon, the empty streets of central Tel Aviv were filled with a chorus of shattered cars and alarms blaring from buildings. A huge hole had been ripped in one high-rise building by an Iranian missile strike the night before, and windows had been blown out in surrounding blocks.” 

The New York Times reported that “Israeli authorities have identified 17 impact points across the country after Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel from Saturday evening into Friday morning,” and that “the airstrikes were retaliation for the attacks on Israel that day, and authorities said three Israeli civilians were killed and more than 170 others, including seven soldiers, were wounded.”

It was not immediately clear whether the damage and deaths were caused by the missiles themselves, the interceptors dispatched to shoot them down, or the deaths of those killed by falling debris from the two missiles, the New York Times reported. “The Israeli military said the missiles and interceptors struck Israeli areas, but did not provide details.”