A cell phone video available to the AFP news agency is said to show the impact of a rocket in the center of Dimona – just a few kilometers from the Dimona nuclear facility. Officially dubbed a nuclear power research center, it is widely believed that the facility in the Negev Desert is also used to produce nuclear weapons.

Israeli military spokesman: Destruction “catastrophic”

Israeli military spokesman Nadav Shoschani confirmed this in an interview with journalists. The destruction was “catastrophic” and more than a hundred people were injured, dozens of them seriously.

The spokesman emphasized that these were not new types of missiles from Iran, but rather ballistic missiles that have been used repeatedly since the beginning of the war. Other rockets of this type have previously been intercepted by missile defense.

Iran has fired more than 400 rockets at Israel since the war began

“I’ve gotten a lot of questions about how the Iranians fired a special missile that they said couldn’t be stopped or something like that,” the military spokesman said. “These are just Iran’s attempts to spread fear and project an image of victory.”

Since the start of the war, Iran has fired more than 400 ballistic missiles at Israel. Around 92 percent of the projectiles were intercepted by Israel’s missile defense system. In the period of just over three weeks, there were four direct impacts in Israeli cities – in Tel Aviv, Beit Shemesh, Arad and Dimona. There are also impacts from rocket debris or cluster munition bombs. In the Iranian missile attacks in Israel There have only been civilian casualties so far, the spokesman said.