Explosions reported, alarm sounds in Jerusalem following Iranian missile warnings

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Blasts were heard and air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem on Sunday, AFP journalists said, after the Israeli military warned of incoming missile fire from Iran.

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The army issued several alerts saying it had identified that “missiles were launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel”.

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Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service said after the first warning that there were no immediate reports of casualties.

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Israel’s military said personnel were attending “impact sites” in central Israel, with local media showing images of light damage by a road in the city of Holon near Tel Aviv.

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The latest alerts come after Iranian missiles struck two towns in southern Israel on Saturday evening.

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The Soroka medical centre said it had received and treated 175 people, and 10 were in serious condition, including at least one child.

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The blasts in the towns of Dimona and Arad tore open residential buildings and gouged craters in the ground.

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Iranian state TV said the strike in Dimona, which houses a nuclear facility, was in response to an earlier strike on its own Natanz nuclear site.

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The Israeli military said it was investigating how air defence systems had failed to intercept the incoming missiles.

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