4 people lightly hurt, buildings mangled as Iranian missile attack hits Tel Aviv |
Iran fired several missile salvos across Israel overnight Monday and into Tuesday morning, after an 11-hour lull in which Israel said it stuck the security headquarters of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran.
A man who stepped on a missile fragment following an attack on northern Israel was lightly wounded and being treated for his wounds, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said past midnight. Damage was also caused to a home in the Haifa suburb of Nesher by a cluster munition from the attack.
Several other strikes throughout the night set off sirens in parts of southern, northern and central Israel, without any injuries reported.
In recent days, Iran’s strikes on Israel has slowed to roughly 10 missiles a day from 90, and the IDF estimated Monday that it had destroyed or disabled about 330 of Iran’s estimated 470 ballistic missile launchers.
More than half of the launchers were destroyed in strikes, while the others are considered to be inoperable after the air force struck entrances to subterranean facilities that house them, according to the military, which vowed to keep hunting down the roughly 150 remaining launchers.
Iran also kept up attacks on the Gulf.
In Kuwait, power lines were hit from air defense shrapnel, causing partial electricity outages in several hours. Missile alert sirens sounded in Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said it had destroyed 19 Iranian drones targeting its oil-rich Eastern Province.
The attacks came as US President Donald Trump announced his administration was engaged in talks to end the war that the US and Israel launched on the Islamic Republic on February 28 in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Soon after Trump’s announcement, the IDF said it launched a new wave of strikes targeting Iranian regime infrastructure sites in Tehran.
The military later said the Israeli Air Force struck the IRGC’s “main security headquarters.” According to the IDF, the site was embedded within “civilian infrastructure” and was used to “synchronize regional units responsible for enforcing regime order and internal security,” including the Basij paramilitary force. Steps were taken to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, the military said.
Overnight into Monday, dozens of Air Force jets dropped over 100 bombs on Iranian military bases and weapons production sites during a wave of airstrikes in Tehran, the IDF said.
According to the IDF, the sites included: A base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force that oversaw “operational and intelligence activity”; an IRGC air defense headquarters; an IRGC ground forces headquarters; an intelligence headquarters of the IRGC Quds Force; a naval cruise missile production site belonging to the Iranian defense ministry; and several more facilities involved in the production and research of weapons, including in the fields of electronics, ballistic missiles, and warheads.
Draft Security Council resolution calls to open Hormuz by ‘all necessary means’
The UN Security Council is negotiating on a draft resolution introduced by Bahrain to authorize states to use “all necessary means” to ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, diplomatic sources said Monday.
The draft text, seen by AFP, also demands that Iran “immediately cease all attacks against merchant and commercial vessels and any attempt to impede lawful transit passage or freedom of navigation” in and around the Strait.
Just a trickle of cargo ships and tankers, most of them Iranian, have made it through the Strait since Iran effectively blocked it in response to the US-Israeli bombing campaign. Normally, about a fifth of global crude oil and liquefied natural gas pass through the Strait. The virtual stoppage has sent prices soaring.
The UN Security Council draft resolution proposes allowing member states “to use all necessary means” — including within the territorial waters of littoral states within or bordering the Strait — “to secure transit passage and to repress, neutralize and deter attempts to close, obstruct or otherwise interfere with international navigation” there.
The draft also threatens targeted sanctions against those who “undermine navigational rights and freedoms” in the Strait.
The resolution text could be modified during the negotiations among member states in the 15-member council, the UN’s highest decision-making body.
Its chances of approval by the council, where the five permanent members have veto power, remain unclear.
Bahrain, acting on behalf of the Gulf states, was behind a resolution adopted by the council in mid-March that demanded the “immediate cessation” of Iranian attacks against the Gulf states and Jordan.
Meanwhile, two tankers bound for India sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.
The two India-flagged tankers were carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used mostly for cooking in India. They loaded at anchorages in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, LSEG ship-tracking data showed.
The Pine Gas, which loaded in UAE waters, sailed through the strait followed by the Jag Vasant carrying LPG from Kuwait, ship-tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform showed.
India’s Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, confirmed that the two tankers, carrying more than 92,000 tons of LPG, had sailed through Hormuz and were expected to reach ports in India between March 26-28.
Hundreds of vessels have dropped anchor in and outside of the Gulf, cutting off food and other vital imports and energy exports, mostly to Asia and Europe, and some 20,000 seafarers remain stranded inside the Gulf, according to the UN’s shipping agency.
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