The video shows footage of an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel on March 1, 2026, where cluster warheads reportedly split into up to 80 submunitions, a capability IDF officials described as unprecedented for maximizing civilian area coverage.
Iran’s missile program, originating in the 1980s, has advanced indigenously, bolstered by over 233,000 annual engineering graduates—third globally—enabling self-reliant innovations despite sanctions and assassinations.
The attacks involving these advanced cluster-capable missiles have primarily targeted central Israel, with confirmed impacts and damage in:
- Petah Tikva (a major city east of Tel Aviv, hit by a missile with fragmentation/cluster elements, causing shrapnel damage across residential areas but no direct fatalities reported in that specific strike).
- Tel Aviv area and suburbs (multiple barrages triggered sirens nationwide, with penetrations and damage to buildings/apartments).
- Beit Shemesh (west of Jerusalem; one of the worst incidents involved a direct or near-direct hit killing around 9 people and injuring dozens, with cluster submunitions noted in some waves).
- Broader central Israel regions, including areas near Jerusalem suburbs, Ramat Gan (near Tel Aviv), and scattered impacts from shrapnel/submunitions.
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