Benjamin Netanyahu said it had been a “very difficult” night after two Iranian missile strikes on southern Israel injured more than 120 people, 11 of them seriously.
The first strike on Saturday night hit the city of Dimona, near the country’s nuclear research centre and heavy-water reactor. A few hours later, a second salvo struck the nearby town of Arad, heavily damaging several multistorey residential buildings.
“We are determined to continue striking our enemies on all fronts,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
The Israeli military said it was investigating why aerial defences missed the incoming projectiles. Authorities said the second strike used a heavier warhead.
The strikes — and Iran’s missile launch towards the UK’s base at Diego Garcia — came despite US President Donald Trump saying Iranian missile capability had been “Completely degrad[ed]”.
Senior Iranian officials said the failure to intercept the missiles launched at Israel signalled the “entry into a new phase” of war.
“Israel’s skies are defenceless,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, wrote on X.
Majid Mousavi, head of aerospace for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said Iran’s “new tactics and launch systems” would greatly shock the US and Israel.
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