25 missiles were launched from Iran into Israel in the latest barrage, causing extensive damage in several locations. • One of the missiles launched at Beersheba carried a fragmentation warhead – 26 small missiles split from the warhead, causing extensive destruction. • An eyewitness who was near the scene of the fall in Haifa described: "The whole earth shook, everything started flying in the air – glass, papers, pieces of concrete." N12 Reporters | N12 | Published 06/20/25 18:02 54,553 Print A barrage of about 25 missiles was launched into Israel earlier today (Friday) and caused widespread damage and casualties in several locations, including Haifa, Beersheba and Gush Dan. Rescue organizations reported a 51-year-old woman from Karmiel who went into cardiac arrest at the time of the alarm and was later pronounced dead. In Haifa – 23 people were injured, 3 of them in serious condition. One of the missiles launched at Beersheba carried a fragmentation munition – 26 small missiles that split from the warhead caused great damage and destruction within a radius of hundreds of meters. The scene of the fall in Haifa At around 4:00 PM, reports were received at the Magen David Adom 101 emergency hotline about injuries as a result of a missile falling in the city area. Medical teams that were dispatched to the scene provided treatment and evacuated 23 injured people to hospitals, 3 of whom were seriously injured, a 16-year-old boy with shrapnel in his upper body and 2 men aged 54 and 40 with shrapnel injuries in their lower limbs and 20 in light condition. The scene of the fall in Haifa | Photo: Reuters Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav told Channel 12 at the scene of the fall in the city: "The war is more powerful, there are more powerful weapons, and the Iranians know how to aim. Strategic places are being hit, unfortunately." Shlomi, an eyewitness who was near the scene of the fall in the city, told of the moment of impact: "We heard a kind of whistle and then a crazy boom. The whole earth shook. Everything started flying in the air – glass, sheets of paper, pieces of concrete. It was like an earthquake with fire." Lior, a taxi driver who was also near the scene of the fall in Haifa, described: "I was in a car really close to the building, and suddenly everything was painted white. Dust, smoke, fire. I can't believe it got here." The scene of the fall in Haifa In the last barrage launched at Be'er Sheva, one of the missiles carried a fragmentation warhead – 26 small missiles split from the warhead and caused extensive damage within a radius of hundreds of meters. A camera placed in the courtyard of a kindergarten in the city recorded the moment the missile hit. The site of the Iranian missile fall in Be'er Sheva | Photo: Flash 90 Destruction scenes and fragments of interceptors were also recorded in the communities near Be'er Sheva as a result of attempts to intercept the barrage launched towards the city. Destruction in Beit Ba'Omer as a result of falling fragments of interceptors | Photo: Mo'etzat Omer Missile fragment near Tel Sheva | Photo: According to Article 27 A Did you find a grammatical error?

25 טילים שוגרו מאיראן לשטח הארץ במטח האחרון וגרמו לנזק רב בכמה מוקדי נפילה • אחד הטילים ששוגר לבאר שבע נשא חימוש מתפצל – 26 טילים קטנים התפצלו מראש הנפץ וגרמו להרס גדול • עד ראייה שהיה סמוך לזירת הנפילה בחיפה תיאר: "כל האדמה רעדה, הכול התחיל לעוף באוויר – זכוכיות, דפים, חלקי בטון" כתבי N12 | N12 | פורסם 20/06/25 18:02  54,553 הדפסה מטח של כ-25 טילים שוגר לשטח הארץ מוקדם יותר היום (שישי) וגרם לזנק רב ונפגעים בכמה מוקדים, בהם חיפה, באר שבע וגוש דן. ארגוני ההצלה דיווחו על אישה בת 51 מכרמיאל שלקתה בדום לב בזמן האזעקה ומותה נקבע מאוחר יותר. בחיפה – 23 בני אדם נפצעו, מתוכם 3 במצב קשה. אחד הטילים ששוגר לבאר שבע נשא חימוש מתפצל – 26 טילים קטנים שהתפצלו מתוך ראש הנפץ גרמו לנזק והרס גדול ברדיוס של מאות מטרים. זירת הנפילה בחיפה סמוך לשעה 16:00 התקבלו דיווחים במוקד החירום 101 של מגן דוד אדום על פצועים כתוצאה מנפילת טיל במרחב העיר. צוותי רפואה שהוקפצו לזירה העניקו טיפול ופינו לבתי החולים 23 פצועים מתוכם 3 קשה, נער בן 16 עם רסיס בפלג גופו העליון ו-2 גברים בני 54 ו-40 עם פציעה מרסיס בגפיים התחתונות ו-20 במצב קל. זירת הנפילה בחיפה | צילום: reuters ראש עריית חיפה יונה יהב לחדשות 12 בזירת הנפילה בעיר: "המלחמה יותר עוצמתית, יש נשק יותר עוצמתי, והאיראנים יודעים לכוון. מקומות אסטרטגיים נפגעים לדאבוני". שלומי, עד ראייה שהיה סמוך לזירת הנפילה בעיר סיפר על רגע הפגיעה: "שמענו מין שריקה כזאת ואז בום מטורף. כל האדמה רעדה. הכול התחיל לעוף באוויר – זכוכיות, דפים, חלקי בטון. זה היה כמו רעידת אדמה עם אש". ליאור, נהג מונית שהיה גם הוא סמוך לזירת הנפילה בחיפה תיאר: "הייתי באוטו ממש קרוב לבניין, ופתאום הכול נצבע בלבן. אבק, עשן, אש. לא מאמין שזה הגיע לפה". זירת הנפילה בחיפה במטח האחרון ששוגר לבאר שבע, אחד הטילים נשא חימוש מתפצל – 26 טילים קטנים התפצלו מראש הנפץ והסבו נזק גדול ברדיוס של מאות מטרים. מצלמה שהוצבה בחצר של גן ילדים בעיר תיעדה את רגע פגיעת הטיל. אתר נפילת הטיל האיראני בבאר שבע | צילום: פלאש 90 גם ביישובים הסמוכים לבאר שבע תועדו זירות הרס, ושברי מיירטים כתוצאה מניסיונות היירוט של המטח ששוגר לעבר העיר. הרס בבית בעומר כתוצאה מנפילת שבריי יירוט | צילום: מועצת עומר רסיס טיל סמוך לתל שבע | צילום: לפי סעיף 27 א' מצאתם טעות לשון?

June 20, 2025, 2:51 p.m. ETJune 20, 2025 Rawan Sheikh AhmadReporting from Haifa, Israel One of the buildings affected by the shockwave of an Iranian missile strike in Haifa, Israel, on Friday was the Ottoman-era al-Jarina Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Haifa. Omar Hussein, 24, the mosque’s muezzin and deputy imam, said in an interview that his father was injured and transferred to the hospital after the missile struck nearby. He said that the mosque lacks a proper shelter, raising concerns for the safety of worshipers. “It’s a significant mosque that serves Muslims in the city and nearby towns,” he said, expressing sadness over the damage and the war, adding he hoped it would end soon. Video CreditCredit...Rawan Sheikh Ahmad for The New York Times June 20, 2025, 2:37 p.m. ETJune 20, 2025 Adam RasgonReporting from Jerusalem The Church of Our Lady and the House of Grace, a halfway house associated with the church, were damaged by an explosive blast caused by an Iranian missile slamming into downtown Haifa, Israel, on Friday afternoon, according to Jamal Shehade, the director of the halfway house. Though Shehade described the damages as not being severe, he said colored glass windows in the church were shattered by the blast. The church building, he said in an interview, was erected in 1862, and some of the windows were about 100 years old.

Magen David Adom Press Release: 3 Seriously Injured, 20 Mildly Injured in Missile Strike in Northern Israel | 51-Year-Old Woman Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Siren and Pronounced Dead After Resuscitation Efforts Today, at around 16:00, reports were received at Magen David Adom’s 101 Emergency Dispatch Center about injuries resulting from a missile strike in northern Israel. Large numbers of Magen David Adom forces were immediately dispatched to the scene using ambulances, Mobile Intensive Care Units, and MDA responders on medicycles. They provided life-saving medical treatment and evacuated 23 injured individuals to hospitals—3 in serious condition, including a 16-year-old boy with shrapnel wounds to his upper body, and two men aged 54 and 40 with shrapnel injuries to their lower limbs. An additional 20 people were mildly injured. During the siren, a 51-year-old woman collapsed in a shelter in Karmiel, suffered a heart attack, and despite intensive resuscitation efforts by MDA teams, was pronounced dead. MDA Paramedic Ahmad Zidan said: "I was at home, and as soon as I received the alert from Home Front Command, I entered the protected space with my family. A few minutes later, we heard a very loud noise and felt a blast wave. When I exited the shelter, I saw that the windows in my house were shattered, and there was a lot of broken glass. I reported the incident to MDA’s 101 dispatch center and headed to the scene, which was only a few dozen meters from me, with the Mobile Intensive Care Unit I'm assigned to as an MDA first responder. I saw heavy smoke and massive destruction in the building near the parking area that was hit by the rocket. A teenage boy around 16 and a man in his 50s were walking nearby, both suffering from severe shrapnel and blast injuries. I began providing medical treatment, and when additional MDA forces arrived, I urgently evacuated the two seriously injured victims to the hospital." MDA EMT Ariel Danilovsky said: "When I arrived at the street, I saw extensive damage to a building whose adjacent parking area was hit by the rocket, as well as damage to nearby buildings. Several injured people were in the street, conscious and suffering from bleeding shrapnel wounds and bodily injuries. Alongside other MDA teams, we provided them with medical care and evacuated them to hospitals. Large MDA forces remain at the scene and are working with rescue teams to ensure there are no further casualties and to provide medical care as needed." MDA Paramedic Assad Joe Haddad said: "After receiving the report of the rocket impact, we responded with large forces, including ambulances, Mobile Intensive Care Units, and rapid response vehicles. We saw extensive destruction along the street where the rocket hit and in nearby streets. There was significant commotion. I joined MDA responders treating a 40-year-old man who was conscious but suffering from severe shrapnel and blast injuries. We quickly provided life-saving medical care and evacuated him in an MDA Mobile Intensive Care Unit to the hospital in serious condition." Zaki Heller MDA Spokesperson

By Emanuel Fabian You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page 20 June 2025, 4:08 pm Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent Two people are seriously wounded in the ballistic missile impact in Haifa, medics say. Magen David Adom says it treated a total of 17 people, including a man in his 40s and a 16-year-old boy in serious condition, who were hit by shrapnel, and a 54-year-old in moderate condition. Another 14 were lightly hurt, MDA says. They were taken to a hospital. You appreciate our journalism We’re really pleased that you’ve read 7 Times of Israel articles in the past month. You clearly find our careful reporting valuable, in a time when facts are often distorted and news coverage often lacks context. Your support is essential to continue our work. We want to continue delivering the professional journalism you value, even as the demands on our newsroom have grown dramatically since October 7. So today, please consider joining our reader support group, The Times of Israel Community. For as little as $6 a month you'll become our partners while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members. Thank you,David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel Join Our Community Join Our Community Already a member? Sign in to stop seeing this If you’d like to comment, join The Times of Israel Community.

Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel on Friday afternoon, setting off alarms across the country and sending some 10 million people running to bomb shelters. One woman had a heart attack and died in a shelter in the northern city of Karmiel, while a missile impacted in Haifa, wounding at least 23 people, three of them seriously. The three seriously wounded in Haifa included a 16-year-old boy who sustained shrapnel wounds to his upper body, and two men, aged 54 and 40, who sustained wounds to their lower bodies, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. The other 20 wounded sustained light injuries, MDA said, adding that all the wounded were taken to hospitals. The woman who died in Karmiel was identified as Yelena Sadowski, 51. Sadowski collapsed while running to the shelter amid the missile sirens. Medics who arrived at the scene were forced to declare her dead. Haifa mayor Yona Yahav told reporters at the scene that the barrage hit “two strategic areas” in the city, without elaborating. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the missile barrage hit the Al-Jarina Mosque in Haifa’s Wadi Nisnas neighborhood. “The missile attack injured Muslim clerics who were in the mosque,” wrote Sa’ar, adding footage from the scene. “The Iranian regime is targeting Muslim, Christian and Jewish civilians, as well as civilian sites. These are war crimes.” The Israel Defense Forces estimated that the attack included some 25 missiles. Shockwaves from the missile knocked out stained glass windows and caused infrastructure damage at the Al Jarina Grand Mosque, built in 1775 and extended in 1901. The low, thick-walled stone building near Haifa’s port usually attracts up to 200 people for Friday prayers, but just 15 turned up because of a Home Front prohibition on large gatherings, according to Wakf representative Khalid Dagash. He said prayers had ended by the time the missile fell and nobody was left in the building. Israeli security forces and firefighters work at the site after a missile launched from Iran struck in Haifa, Israel, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner) One person whose identity he didn’t know was lightly injured outside, he said. The building was undergoing renovation, said Dagash, adding that he feared government compensation would not be enough to repair the damage. Windows were also blown out at the even older Masjid Al-Saghir, built in 1761. No other damage was visible from the cordon outside. Cluster bomb on a daycare center Footage from Beersheba showed Iran likely targeted the city with a cluster bomb. Videos and photos showed several impacts of small munitions at multiple locations in the southern city, indicating that a ballistic missile carrying a cluster bomb warhead was used in the attack. One of the small munitions hit a daycare. Two homes in Beersheba also sustained damage, but no one was hurt, police and medics said. One of the impacts caused significant damage to the Colel Chabad Daycare Center in Beersheba, the organization said. “Miraculously, no children or staff were physically harmed, as the strike occurred Friday afternoon outside the center’s regular operating time. However, the destruction of classrooms and play areas has deeply impacted dozens of local families who rely on the center for stability, safety and childcare,” Colel Chabad said. A daycare struck by an Iranian missile in Beersheba on June 20, 2025. (Colel Chabad) Israel’s fire service said it was putting out a fire that broke out at an impact site in Beersheba. The apparent targeting of Beersheba with a cluster bomb came after the IDF Home Front Command on Thursday confirmed that Iran had launched at least one ballistic missile carrying a cluster bomb warhead at central Israel. According to the military, the missile’s warhead opened up while descending, at an altitude of around 7 kilometers (4.3 miles), spreading about 20 smaller munitions with roughly 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds) of explosives, in a radius of some 8 kilometers (5 miles). Neither Israel nor Iran is a signatory to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, which bans the weapons. Missile fragments were also reported in central Israel. No injuries were caused. New shelters The Israeli government on Friday approved a Defense Ministry and Home Front Command plan to renovate 500 public bomb shelters and deploy 1,000 mobile roadside shelters across the country, with an estimated cost of 100 million NIS. “In light of the security situation, the government approved via a phone vote a plan to accelerate home front defense,” the Defense Ministry said. The ministry said the 500 public shelters that will be refurbished are mostly in central Israel, which has been repeatedly targeted by Iran in the past week. The 1,000 roadside shelters will be placed “in sensitive areas nationwide,” it added. Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Haifa, June 20, 2025. (Flash90) Despite the holdup, several locales in the Gush Dan area have already received portable shelters from the Home Front Command, including Bnei Brak and Ramat Hasharon. Iran has launched over 470 ballistic missiles and around 1,000 drones at Israel since the IDF commenced operations against the Islamic Republic last Friday. So far, Iran’s missile attacks have killed 24 people and wounded thousands in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals. Some of the missiles have hit apartment buildings, a university and a hospital, causing heavy damage. 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The Iranian regime launched a missile attack on Haifa and struck the Al-Jarina Mosque in the Wadi Nisnas neighborhood. The missile attack injured Muslim clerics who were in the mosque. The Iranian regime is targeting Muslim, Christian, and Jewish civilians, as well as civilian sites. These are war crimes. Noted.

Scary footage of the impact in Haifa

The latest Iranian ballistic missile attack hit a mosque in Haifa.

(haipo) – Itay Mason, 16, from Netanya, was seriously injured while on his way to Kiryat Ata with his father. Itay was hit by an Iranian missile on Friday, June 20.6.25, XNUMX. Luckily for Itay, Dalia Farihat, an MDA paramedic who happened to be on the scene, came to his aid and with great resourcefulness gave him life-saving treatment. In the meantime, Ahmed Zadian, an MDA paramedic, was also rushed to the scene and, with his bravery, arrived at the scene quickly and assisted in providing treatment and evacuating Itay and his father to the hospital. The miracle of the seriously injured man from the missile strike in Haifa, whose life was saved thanks to the resourcefulness of an MDA medic and the bravery of an MDA paramedic From MDA was delivered: On Friday about a week ago (20.6.25), the father of Itay Mason, 16, to pick him up back at his home in Kiryat Ata after he had been staying with his mother's partner in Tirat Carmel. While driving in Haifa, they received a phone alert about missile launches from Iran. Itay's father stopped the car on the side of the road when the alarm sounded. They got away from the car, ran towards a protected area in an underground parking lot, but the Iranian missile fell near them both and they were seriously injured by shrapnel and impact. Shortly before the missile hit, an emergency medical paramedic finished her morning shift at the MDA call center. Dalia Farihat And on her way home, the alarm also caught her on the same road, a few hundred meters from Itay and his father. Luckily, Dalia was not hurt. She realized that the scene of the fall was very close to her and within a few seconds and with great resourcefulness, she reached Itay and his father and began to provide them with critical medical treatment, which included stopping the bleeding. "The alarm also caught me on the road and because I didn't have a protected space, I lay down on the sidewalk and protected myself according to the instructions of the Home Front Command," Dalia said. She added: "Itay's father immediately noticed significant bleeding and saved his life when he used his shirt to stop the bleeding and when I arrived, I changed him." At the same time, a few hundred meters away, the home of an MDA paramedic Ahmed Zidane who was in a protected area with his family was seriously injured by the missile strike. "I was at home and immediately after receiving the alert from the Home Front Command, I entered a protected area with my family. A few minutes later, we heard a very loud noise and felt the impact. When I left the protected area, I saw that the windows in my house had broken and a lot of glass had shattered," Ahmed recalled. "I reported the fall to MDA's 101 hotline, I scanned the area to make sure there were no casualties in need of medical attention near my house, while at the same time, the MDA hotline rushed me in the intensive care unit that was on standby with me, to the scene where I and my father were. I joined Dalia and together we provided them with life-saving medical treatment and urgently evacuated them to the hospital in critical condition." Over the weekend, when Ahmed and Dalia arrived at Itay's house after being released from the hospital, he hugged them and moved them when he thanked them and said, "You are heroes."

BREAKING: ISRAELI PROPAGANDA EXPOSED. Al-Jarina Mosque in Haifa was not hit nor targeted by Iran. As shown and explained in the footage the mosque sustained slight damage as a result of the shockwave coming from the blast of the missile that was targeting an Israeli facility [Ministry of interior & Sail Tower ]. Israel deliberately places military facilities in extremely close proximity to civilian areas. Israel tried to use this strike and portray as if the mosque itself was hit and to try portray itself as a “state” that “cares about places of worship” while the reality is exactly the opposite. Just last week, Israel confiscated loudspeakers and shut down mosques under the pretext of noise disturbance. This is the same Israel that carries out massive excavations beneath & near the blessed Al-Aqsa and provides full cover for settler incursions, including by its own government ministers. And even more astonishing, this is the same Israel that destroyed mosques in Gaza in plain sight, with its own soldiers’ cameras documenting the destruction and Quran burnings—footage that the Israeli Defense Ministry proudly released as an achievement. Translation: @revisionisti

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The Iranian regime just struck Al-Jerina Mosque in Haifa, one of Israel’s most diverse cities. Watch:

Amro Hossein is the muezzin of Al-Jarina Mosque in Haifa. This afternoon, an Iranian missile struck the mosque and wounded his father. The regime is trying to shatter the peaceful coexistence of a city where Jews and Arabs live side by side in harmony. They will not succeed.

Iran struck the Al-Jarina Mosque in Haifa during the latest missile barrage, while senior Muslim religious figures were present at the time.

MAJOR BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Iranian ballistic missile damages the oldest and the second oldest mosques in the Israeli port city of Haifa. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said that the attack had injured the Muslim clerics who were in the Al Jarina Mosque at the time. An Iranian missile strike, which hit Haifa on Friday afternoon, damaged the city's oldest and second-oldest mosques as it struck Haifa's downtown. The strike damaged the Masjid Al-Saghir, built in 1761 by Zahir al-Umar, and the Al Jarina Grand Mosque of Haifa, built in 1775 but enlarged by the Ottoman Empire in 1901. President Isaac Herzog took to X to condemn the "outrageous attack" on "a city that stands as a symbol of coexistence between Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Circassians, and Bahá’ís." "They try to kill Israelis of all faiths—Muslims included. We will defend all Israelis. All faiths included," he said. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar accused the Iranian regime of targeting the historic mosques and the Wadi Nisnas neighborhood. He informed the public that the attack had injured the Muslim clerics who were in Al Jarina Mosque at the time. "The Iranian regime is targeting Muslim, Christian, and Jewish civilians, as well as civilian sites. These are war crimes," Sa'ar said. The two mosques represent some of the oldest buildings in Haifa and date back to the founding of the modern city by the Ottoman governor of the Galilee, Zahir al-Umar, who is responsible for the rebuilding and fortifying multiple modern cities across the Galilee, including Haifa, Acre, Nazareth, Tiberias, and numerous smaller villages in the region. Later on Friday, Sa'ar arrived at the scene of the damage to the mosque and gave a statement to foreign press. “We see here once again the results of the Iranian strategy. The Iranian regime is deliberately targeting civilian population centers. Therefore, you can see that a pure civilian area was hit here. Specifically, in that case, a mosque," Sa'ar said. "It's a war crime. This is clear, because according to international law, you cannot target civilian population centers. But it is also a mistake because the root of it is a lack of understanding of the Israeli society. The Israeli society is strong. It strongly supports our operation in Iran. They all want to remove the double existential threat - the nuclear threat and the missile threat. Therefore, we will continue our operation and will not stop for even one minute before we will achieve our goals," he concluded.

The Al-Jarina Mosque in Haifa’s Wadi Nisnas neighborhood was struck by an Iranian missile, injuring Muslim clerics and worshippers at prayer. This outrageous attack took place in Haifa—a city that stands as a symbol of coexistence between Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Circassians, and Bahá’ís. They try to kill Israelis of all faiths—Muslims included. We will defend all Israelis. All faiths included.

During the rocket fire on Haifa, the Al-Jarina Mosque in Wadi Nisnas was hit, and one of its clercis was injured.

The Iranian regime continues its strategy of deliberately targeting civilian population centers. This time a mosque was also hit. This is both a war crime and a huge mistake. The Israeli people are strong and support our operation in Iran. At the mosque that was hit by the Iranian missile attack in Haifa >>