Israeli childcare center bombed, dozens of military sites targeted as war with Iran rages on

An Israeli childcare center was obliterated by a ballistic missile and dozens of Iranian military targets were bombed Friday — as Israel and Iran continued to pummel each other with strikes a week into their war.Disturbing surveillance video showed an Iranian “cluster rocket” wiping out the daycare facility in Beersheba in southern Israel early on Friday, officials said.“The building sustained significant damage.

Miraculously, no children or staff were present — the attack occurred just after closing time on Friday,” the Colel Chabad Daycare Center acknowledged after the strike.Hours later, sirens started sounding across other parts of the Jewish state as missile impacts were reported in Tel Aviv, the Negev and Haifa, Israel’s military said.

In the port city of Haifa, one hospital said it received 19 wounded people from the site of an Iranian missile blast.Two people had serious-to-moderate injuries and the rest were lightly hurt, the hospital said.Israel’s paramedic service, Magen David Adom — or MDA, said a 16-year-old boy was in serious condition after suffering shrapnel wounds to his upper body and a 54-year-old man was in moderate condition after a shrapnel injury to his legs.

The service didn’t specify which strikes the two had been wounded in.Still, about 20 missiles were fired in the latest Iranian strikes, an Israeli military official said.The missile and drone attacks used long-range and ultra-heavy missiles against military sites, defense industries and command and control centers, Fars news agency reported, citing an Iranian military spokesman.Israel, for its part, said it conducted airstrikes in Iran on Friday with more than 60 aircraft hitting industrial sites to manufacture missiles.At least five people were injured when Israel hit a five-story building in Tehran that housed a bakery and a hairdresser’s, Fars reported.The military also struck the headquarters of Iran’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, whi...