Iran launched its eighth ballistic missile attack against Israel on Sunday, targeting the northern region with no reported injuries or direct impacts. The Israeli military tracked the incoming projectiles, triggering sirens across the north, but air defenses appeared to neutralize the threat effectively.

This latest wave came amid a barrage of earlier strikes on Sunday morning and late Saturday night. Iranian missiles struck buildings in the southern town of Arad, wounding at least 88 people, including 10 seriously, and a five-year-old child among them. Rescue teams from Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah treated victims, evacuating many to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. No one remained trapped under rubble after searches concluded.

Additional impacts occurred in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area across six sites, injuring several people, one seriously and three moderately. Missile fragments hit the Ayalon Highway and other locations, with 15 wounded in central Israel overall, including from shock. Separately, Hezbollah fired a rocket that directly hit a vehicle in the northern community of Misgav Am, killing one Israeli civilian, Ofer Moskowitz.

Strikes also targeted Dimona near Israel's Negev Nuclear Research Center and Arad again late Saturday, injuring around 175 people in total from those incidents, with at least 10 in serious condition. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed the attacks were in response to Israeli strikes on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility earlier in the day and Bushehr the previous week. Iranian state media asserted hits on military sites, though Israel reported no such successes.

Israel's multilayered defenses, including Iron Dome, David's Sling, Arrow 3, and U.S. THAAD, intercepted over 90% of the roughly 400 ballistic missiles Iran has fired at Israel since the war began on February 28. The conflict erupted after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets following failed negotiations. Since then, at least 19 Israelis have been killed and 4,292 injured from Iranian barrages, many involving cluster munitions.

Israel and the U.S. continued counterstrikes on Sunday, hitting over 200 Iranian and Lebanese sites, including missile launchers and air defenses in Tehran and coastal facilities. President Trump issued an ultimatum, threatening to destroy Iranian power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Monday night, citing Revolutionary Guard control over the energy infrastructure. Iran vowed retaliation against U.S. and Israeli energy assets in response.

The war entered its 23rd day with Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar intercepting Iranian drones and missiles aimed at their territories, including U.S. bases. Casualties in Iran exceed 1,500 dead, according to Tehran's health ministry. Israeli officials described the lack of fatalities in recent strikes as a miracle, vowing to target IRGC commanders.