Iran missile fire kills 3 Palestinians in West Bank

• Falling missile shrapnel—reported by some sources as cluster munitions—struck a makeshift hair salon in a metal caravan in Beit Awa (near Hebron), killing three Palestinian women and wounding eight others.
• A separate strike in central ‘Israel’ killed a Thai agricultural worker in Moshav Adanim, bringing the reported death toll in ‘Israel’ from the conflict to 15 as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards continue to target the region with waves of ballistic missiles.

Iranian missile attacks have killed three Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank and a foreign worker in central ‘Israel’, medics said Thursday.

Falling shrapnel struck a hair salon in the West Bank town of Beit Awa near Hebron late Wednesday, killing the three women, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, marking the first Palestinian deaths from Iranian attacks in the ongoing Middle East war.

The victims include 17-year-old Mays Ghazi Masalmeh, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

The Red Crescent said at least eight others were wounded, including one woman in critical condition.

Wafa reported that the salon had been set up in a metal caravan next to a house.

Images showed civil defence workers inside the caravan, whose roof appeared to be punctured by the falling munition. A rug and bed sheets were covered in blood.

The news agency said missile fragments landed in multiple locations across the West Bank, including within the city of Hebron, after ‘Israel's’ military reported another round of Iranian missile launches.

A short while later, ‘Israeli’ medics said Iranian missile fire had killed a man in central ‘Israel’, bringing the death toll in ‘Israel’ from attacks during the ongoing war to 15.

Hebrew media reports said he was a Thai national working in agriculture.

Thailand's foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday the death of a Thai agricultural worker, citing information from ‘Israeli’ officials.

The ‘Israeli’ military earlier said it had identified a round of missile fire from Iran, which it was "operating to intercept".

Since that attack, the military reported several more waves of Iranian attacks, triggering air raid alerts across parts of central and northern ‘Israel’ as well as in ‘Israeli’ settlements in the West Bank.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had launched missiles and drones at targets across ‘Israel’, according to a statement carried by Iranian news agencies Fars and ISNA.

Hebrew media said some of the overnight barrages saw the use of cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and scatter bomblets across a wide area.

Iran and ‘Israel’ have previously accused each other of using cluster bombs.

Palestinian vice president Hussein al-Sheikh received a phone call from the United Arab Emirates' foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to condemn the deadly Iranian missile attack, according to UAE state media.

The UAE itself has suffered numerous Iranian attacks since the war began on February 28, when the United States and ‘Israel’ launched a massive wave of strikes on Iran.