This photo taken on March 8, 2026 shows a site of an Iranian strike in Tel Aviv, Israel. Altogether five people were injured by Iranian missile fire in Israel on Sunday, according to Israel's national emergency service MDA and media reports. A 40-year-old man was seriously wounded in Tel Aviv as a result of a missile fired from Iran toward central Israel, MDA reported. Israel's Channel 12 News reported that it was a cluster missile, parts of which hit 21 locations in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. As a result of the hits, a 25-year-old man was also moderately injured, and three others were lightly injured, MDA added. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)
JERUSALEM, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli military said on Sunday that two soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon, marking the first acknowledgment of military casualties by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since its Feb. 28 attacks on Iran.
Israel's state-owned Kan TV News reported that the two IDF soldiers were inside a D9 engineering vehicle operating near a defense post along the border in Lebanese territory when Hezbollah militants fired an anti-tank missile or mortar shell at them.
Meanwhile, altogether five people were injured by Iranian missile fire in Israel on Sunday, according to the country's national emergency service MDA and media reports.
A 40-year-old man was seriously wounded in Tel Aviv as a result of a missile fired from Iran toward central Israel, MDA reported.
Israel's Channel 12 News reported that it was a cluster missile, parts of which hit 21 locations in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. As a result of the hits, a 25-year-old man was also moderately injured, and three others were lightly injured, MDA added.
The development came amid heightened regional tensions following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran starting on Feb. 28, to which Iran responded with missile and drone attacks on Israel and U.S. assets across the Middle East. ■
First responders work at the site of an Iranian strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 8, 2026.
Altogether five people were injured by Iranian missile fire in Israel on Sunday, according to Israel's national emergency service MDA and media reports.
A 40-year-old man was seriously wounded in Tel Aviv as a result of a missile fired from Iran toward central Israel, MDA reported.
Israel's Channel 12 News reported that it was a cluster missile, parts of which hit 21 locations in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. As a result of the hits, a 25-year-old man was also moderately injured, and three others were lightly injured, MDA added. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)
First responders work at the site of an Iranian strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 8, 2026.
Altogether five people were injured by Iranian missile fire in Israel on Sunday, according to Israel's national emergency service MDA and media reports.
A 40-year-old man was seriously wounded in Tel Aviv as a result of a missile fired from Iran toward central Israel, MDA reported.
Israel's Channel 12 News reported that it was a cluster missile, parts of which hit 21 locations in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. As a result of the hits, a 25-year-old man was also moderately injured, and three others were lightly injured, MDA added. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)
A first responder works at the site of an Iranian strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 8, 2026.
Altogether five people were injured by Iranian missile fire in Israel on Sunday, according to Israel's national emergency service MDA and media reports.
A 40-year-old man was seriously wounded in Tel Aviv as a result of a missile fired from Iran toward central Israel, MDA reported.
Israel's Channel 12 News reported that it was a cluster missile, parts of which hit 21 locations in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. As a result of the hits, a 25-year-old man was also moderately injured, and three others were lightly injured, MDA added. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)
A first responder works at the site of an Iranian strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 8, 2026.
Altogether five people were injured by Iranian missile fire in Israel on Sunday, according to Israel's national emergency service MDA and media reports.
A 40-year-old man was seriously wounded in Tel Aviv as a result of a missile fired from Iran toward central Israel, MDA reported.
Israel's Channel 12 News reported that it was a cluster missile, parts of which hit 21 locations in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. As a result of the hits, a 25-year-old man was also moderately injured, and three others were lightly injured, MDA added. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)
