Gaza Genocide28 June, 20263 min read
Iran Fires Missiles Into Kfar Qasim, Injuring Six Near Tel Aviv
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Missiles fired from Iran hit near Tel Aviv's Kafr Qasim. Six people injured, described as minor injuries.
Iran strikes near Tel Aviv
Israeli emergency services tallied at least six people slightly injured after one or more Iranian missiles hit Kfar Qasim, east of Tel Aviv, with the Magen David Adom (MDA) reporting that the victims were "slightly affected" and evacuated to hospitals in the center of the country. Le Tribunal du Net said the morning of Thursday, March 26, followed a lull of about fourteen hours and that several volleys of missiles fired from Iran targeted Israel, with Kafr Qasim hit and Israeli rescue services reporting six people with minor injuries. The Times of Israel, as relayed by Le Tribunal du Net, said seven volleys of ballistic missiles were launched in a few hours at Israel, forcing millions to repeatedly seek shelter in the center and north of the country.
Le Tribunal du Net also reported that at least part of the missiles fired that day carried submunition warheads, and it described overturned cars, damaged houses, and a large crater in early morning footage. In parallel, Al-Manar TV Lebanon framed a separate incident in central ‘Israel’ as a car blast in Holon, reporting that a settler was seriously injured and left unconscious, and that it occurred hours after a settler was killed and his young son moderately wounded in Jaffa.
Gaza war backdrop, but
While the sources provided here focus on strikes near Tel Aviv and on violence in Arab Israeli communities, they also situate the incidents within an escalation involving Iran, with Le Tribunal du Net describing the Kafr Qasim episode as part of a broader sequence rather than an isolated incident. Le Tribunal du Net reported that Reuters spoke of the apparent fall of debris from Iranian missiles onto the area, while the mayor of Kafr Qasim, cited by AFP, spoke of submunitions tied to a dispersal warhead. In the same framing of ongoing escalation, Le Tribunal du Net said the Israeli military detected several successive waves of Iranian fire in the morning and that The Times of Israel reported an interception rate of 92% for those aimed at populated areas or key infrastructure.
The Times of Israel’s account of Sunday’s violence in Jaffa and Holon described five people killed within hours, including a car bombing in Jaffa that wounded a six-year-old boy and a second car explosion hours later in Holon that killed a man of about 30. Haaretz added a separate tally of deaths in Israel since the start of 2026, saying three other people were fatally shot in central Israel’s Taibeh and Kalansua, bringing the total number of people killed in Israel since the start of 2026 to 166.
Aftermath and wider toll
Le Tribunal du Net said rescue crews treated six people for minor injuries on the spot in Kafr Qasim and that other residents were treated for shock according to initial assessments relayed by media outlets from Iran. The Times of Israel described how the Jaffa car bombing killed a man in his 40s and injured his six-year-old son, with the boy being moderately injured and treated at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon after suffering burns to his face. In Holon, first responders said a man of about 30 was killed in a car explosion, and police said the incident was an organized crime killing that may be linked to a shooting last week in Jaffa.
The Times of Israel also reported that the community’s toll this year reached at least 141, according to a watchdog, and that the violence began overnight when one person was killed and another seriously injured by gunfire in Taibe. Haaretz, meanwhile, reported that a 38-year-old man was killed Sunday morning and a six-year-old moderately wounded in a car explosion in central Jaffa, while three other people were fatally shot in Taibeh and Kalansua, contributing to its count of 166 killed since the start of 2026.