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During the evening of Friday, 13 June 2025, a wave of alleged Iranian ballistic missiles struck near the area of Ze’ev Jabotinsky Street, in the Tel Aviv conurbation, killing a 74-year-old woman and injuring up to 63 civilians. Nine buildings were reportedly destroyed, and dozens of residential apartments were damaged.
Initially, at 9:10 p.m., Twitter/X user @Algemeiner reported seven “light and moderate” injuries as a result of an Iranian strike on the border of Tel-Aviv and Ramat Gan, referring to Eli Bin, the head of Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency services. Later, Twitter/X user @EliAfriatISR reported 21 injuries, while user @ariel_oseran reported that at least 63 civilians were injured, two of them critically. According to him, around 300 residents of Ramat Gan were evacuated.
According to the report filmed by Sam Mednick from Associated Press, 15 people were reportedly trapped inside a collapsed building late Friday in Ramat Gan as projectiles launched from Iran rained on central Israel throughout the day. The reporter showed a building that had been completely destroyed, where civilians were reportedly trapped. Their were no additional details about the consequences for those trapped.
The victim was named Eti Cohen Engel, a 74-year-old Israeli woman from Ramat Gan. She was trapped in the explosion near her residence and was severely injured. Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel reported that Eti was taken to the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, where she was operated on in an emergency, but succumbed to injuries on the morning of 14 June 2025. Family and hospital authorities confirmed the death in the latter part of the day.
Eti was a mother of four children, and her daughter Nurit Cohen Elshtein remembered her mother as a “smiling and beautiful woman, a good woman.” According to the post, Eti’s partner was severely injured and was sedated and on a ventilator at Tel Hashomer Hospital.
An image added to the post showed her as a smiling woman with mid-length red hair.
Eti Engel was referred to as a community darling by her family. In condolence messages online, friends referred to her as “a woman of boundless kindness and gentle strength.” Another message penned: “Eti was full of life, warmth, and grace. She brought people together, cared for neighbours, and was never hesitant about helping whoever was in need.”
The strike occurred in the midst of a mass retaliation campaign by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) against Israel, when Iranian forces fired more than 150 projectiles, including ballistic and cruise missiles, against cities in Israel. While most were shot down by Israel’s Air Defense Command, some of the missiles breached the Iron Dome and Arrow defense systems, and they hit commercial and residential sites in and around Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, and Rishon LeZion.
The blast in Ramat Gan did indiscriminate damage to nearby vehicles and buildings, breaking windows and starting fires the length of the street. Eyewitnesses quoted by Newsisrael13 and Channel 12 said the blast “shook the whole block,” with emergency sirens still wailing as ambulance crews were rushed to the area. One eyewitness, who was referred to simply as Shlomi, said: “The entire sky was orange in color. I saw the flank of the building opposite mine crumble in various sections. There were screams and panic all around. There was the whiff of smoke and dust. It was as if it were the end of the world.”
Video uploaded by journalists on X and verified by BBC Verify showed a direct damage point near the Twin Towers complex, with fallen façade, burned vehicles, and rescuers pulling out surviving individuals from rubble. Videos by Reuters and Associated Press showed rescue teams operating from searchlights, firemen extinguishing auxiliary fires, and Magen David Adom (MDA) medic units evacuating the injured on stretchers. Some civilians were injured by the blast wave and flying debris, with at least one woman critically injured, according to reports by MDA authorities.
Twitter/X user @Israel_Avia posted a video showing the moment the Iranian missiles hit the building.
Following the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consoled the families of the victims, stating that “Iran’s aggression shall not pass unchecked.”
The Iranian regime, meanwhile, called the deluge of missiles a “necessary deterrent measure” against the military actions of Israel and said that all of them hit “intelligence and strategic installations.” Iranian authorities, though, did not mention specific locations in which they launched attacks.
Local volunteers organized a small vigil in Ramat Gan’s city square that evening, holding signs that read “לא עוד חיים אזרחיים שנלקחו” (“No more civilian lives taken”).
The Times of Israel uploaded photographs of crash damage, a charred car park, damaged apartment balconies, and rescue personnel in search and rescue efforts. Residents converged the next morning to light candles and lay flowers around the closed-off block as a tribute to Eti Cohen Engel.
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention a residential building being struck in the Ramat Gan area (רמת גן, رمات غان) in Tel Aviv (תל אביב, تل أبيب). Analysing audio-visual material from sources, we have narrowed the location down to the following exact coordinates: 32.074902, 34.828249.

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