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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-22T03:17:27.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIranian missile strikes on two southern Israeli towns wounded more than 100 people on Saturday, medics reported, after Israeli air defense systems failed to stop the incoming projectiles.\n\nThe two direct impacts ripped open the fronts of residential buildings and carved deep craters into the ground.\n\nMagen David Adom responders said 84 people were injured in the town of Arad, 10 of them seriously, hours after 33 were wounded in nearby Dimona.\n\nIranian state television said the missile strike on Dimona, which contains a nuclear facility, was a “response” to an earlier attack on its own nuclear site at Natanz.\n\nAFP footage from Arad showed rescue crews searching through rubble for injured people in a heavily damaged building.\n\nFire trucks with flashing lights were at the scene alongside dozens of emergency personnel.\n\nThe Israeli military said it would review the failed interception.\n\n“The air defense systems operated but did not intercept the missile. We will investigate the incident and learn from it,” military spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin wrote on X.\n\nThe local fire service said there was “extensive damage” in Arad, with three buildings affected and a fire ignited in one of them.\n\nMedic Riyad Abu Ajaj described “extensive destruction” at the strike site in a statement from the organization. “There was a lot of chaos at the scene,” he said.\n\nThe rescue efforts followed similar scenes in Dimona, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) to the southwest.\n\nAFPTV footage from the area showed a large crater gouged into the ground next to piles of debris and twisted metal.\n\nNearby buildings had windows shattered and facades badly damaged as emergency workers searched the site.\n\nMedics said they treated 33 people injured in the town, including a boy with shrapnel wounds who was in serious condition but conscious.\n\nDimona hosts a facility widely believed to hold the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal, although Israel has never acknowledged possessing nuclear weapons.\n\nIsrael has maintained a policy of ambiguity regarding its nuclear program, and the facility officially focuses on research.\n\nAfter the strikes in the south, Israel’s education ministry ordered all classes to move online, canceling in-person instruction in the few remaining areas that still had it.\n\nIran has launched repeated waves of missiles at Israel daily in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli attacks that began on Feb. 28.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue targeting Iran and its allies after what he described as a “very difficult evening.”",
  "title": "Iran missile strikes wound over 100 in two south Israel towns"
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