Daylight reveals extensive damage in southern Israel after Iranian missile strike

Iranian missile strikes on Arad and Dimona leave widespread damage to residential areas and injure dozens, including children, as tensions rise near Israel’s military sites.

Reuters

22 March 2026 at 08:33:10

Daylight reveals extensive damage in southern Israel after Iranian missile strike

A drone view shows a crater in a residential neighborhood, following a night of Iranian missile strikes which injured dozens of Israelis, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Arad, southern Israel March 22, 2026.

Dedi Hayun/Reuters

Daylight revealed widespread damage to residential buildings in Arad, southern Israel, on Sunday (March 22), after the city was hit by an Iranian missile strike.

An excavator moved rubble next to ravaged buildings and a bus with a shattered windscreen.

Late on Saturday (March 21), Iranian missiles hit the southern Israeli cities of Dimona and Arad, injuring dozens of people, including children, in separate strikes. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said in a statement early Sunday that they targeted "military installations" and security centres in southern Israel.

Israel’s secretive nuclear reactor is about 13 km (8 miles) southeast of Dimona. Both cities lie near several military sites, including Nevatim Air Base, one of the country's largest.

-Production: Dedi Hayun, Yogendran Sandiran/Reuters