A Thai agricultural worker was killed in an Iranian missile attack in northwestern Tel Aviv, medics said on Thursday, marking the first Thai national killed in the ongoing Middle East conflict.
Israel’s Magen David Adom said the man, described as a foreign worker, died after being struck by shrapnel in Moshav Adanim, about 20 kilometres northeast of Tel Aviv and close to the West Bank.
A medic, Idan Shina, said “metal shrapnel was scattered across the scene,” and the victim was found with severe shrapnel injuries.
Israeli media identified the victim as a Thai national working in agriculture.
The death brings the toll in Israel from Iranian attacks during the war to 15, according to Israeli authorities.
Elsewhere, falling missile fragments also caused casualties in the West Bank. In the town of Beit Awa near Hebron, three Palestinian women were killed when shrapnel struck a hair salon late Wednesday, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
The victims included a 17-year-old girl, Mays Ghazi Masalmeh, reported the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. At least eight others were injured, one critically.
Images from the scene showed a makeshift salon inside a metal caravan with its roof punctured and blood-stained furnishings, after missile fragments landed across multiple areas in the West Bank.
- 'Unprovoked' -
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 settlements in the West Bank.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had launched missiles and drones at targets across Isrrael, according to a statement carried by Iranian news agencies Fars and ISNA.
Israeli 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 top Emirati diplomat "strongly condemned the unprovoked and terrorist Iranian missile attack targeting the West Bank, which resulted in several civilian casualties", official news agency WAM said.
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.
