Fire erupt at the impact site following an Iranian missile strike in Dimona. Photo courtesy of Quds news.
Dimona is a city in southern Israel that hosts the country’s main nuclear facility, widely believed to produce plutonium for an undeclared nuclear weapons programme (estimated 80–400 warheads).
The Israeli ambulance service said the number of injured had risen to 39, up from 20 reported earlier.
Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 reported that there were around 12 missile landing sites across Dimona. Air raid sirens sounded repeatedly, with Israeli news outlet Haaretz reporting that alarms were triggered multiple times, including at least five times in the area as missiles were launched toward southern Israel and the Dead Sea region.
Iranian state television said the strike on Dimona was carried out in response to the US-Israeli attack on the Natanz nuclear facility, one of Iran’s main nuclear sites.
Earlier in the day, the US and Israel struck the nuclear facility located nearly 220 kilometres (135 miles) southeast of Tehran.
Natanz, Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility, was also hit earlier in the conflict, with satellite images showing damage to several buildings.
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