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After an Israeli strike killed Iranian security chief Ali Larijani, Iran launched a wave of missiles towards Israel and unleashed cluster warheads over Tel Aviv.
Israel reported not less than two salvoes of incoming fire yesterday, and the country’s medical service said two people were killed in Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said the force launched the Khorramshahr-4 and Qadr multiple-warhead missiles to avenge Larijani’s killing.
Footage filmed by The Associated Press showed not less than one missile releasing cluster munitions over Israel.
Cluster bombs – or cluster munitions – are a kind of weapon which works by dispersing large numbers of tiny bomblets from a rocket, missile or artillery shell.
These bomblets scatter in mid-flight over a large area. Over 100 countries have banned using these cluster bombs, largely due to the unpredictable and hard-to-track nature of their damage.
Larijani, a former parliamentary speaker, was a senior policy adviser to the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on strategy in nuclear talks with the Trump administration.
The US Treasury sanctioned him in January for his role in coordinating Iran’s violent suppression of nationwide protests.
The US embassy in Baghdad also got here under fire for the second day in a row early on Wednesday, two Iraqi security officials said.
Further details weren’t immediately available, but pro-Iran militia groups have been usually attacking American targets in Iraq for the reason that start of the war.
On Tuesday, a drone crashed contained in the Baghdad embassy compound.
Israel flattened an apartment constructing in central Beirut about an hour after issuing an evacuation notice. It was the fourth time the constructing had been targeted, but three strikes last week didn’t bring it down.
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