Another death in Israel as Iran launches first missiles after Khamenei's son takes charge

DUBAI — Israel said a man was killed in an Iranian missile attack, raising the country’s death toll from the war to 11. Iran fired missiles at Israel and Gulf nations early Monday after the Islamic republic named Mojtaba Khamenei its new leader to succeed his late father despite threats by the United States and Israel to target him next. Several blasts rocked central Israel on Monday, seriously injuring at least two people, emergency services said, shortly after the military reported it had detected new missiles launched from Iran. Paramedics were “searching a number of scenes and treating two unconscious males in serious condition,” the Magen David Adom emergency service said in a statement. The military said there were reports of several impact sites from the missiles. “Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” the military had earlier said. An Indian national in Israel was injured after shrapnel from an Iranian missile struck him in the neck, officials said on Monday. The man, who was injured on Sunday, underwent surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and is now in stable condition, the Press Trust of India reported. Iran fired its first missiles toward Israel on Monday after the appointment of the Islamic republic’s new supreme leader, state broadcaster IRIB said. “Iran fires first wave of missiles under Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei toward occupied territories,” IRIB said on its Telegram channel. Nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war, Iranian clerics picked the country’s third supreme leader since the 1979 Revolution. Apart from Israel, Iran also sent waves of missiles and drones to its Gulf neighbors. The Qatari Defense Minsitry said early Monday that its forces intercepted a new missile attack. AFP reported loud explosions in Doha as the attack unfolded. The latest attack comes only hours after the the Qatari ministry announced the interception of six ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles launched by Iran toward Qatar, with no casualties reported. The ministry added that four ballistic missiles fell harmlessly in uninhabited areas or within Qatari territorial waters. Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense said its forces were dealing with aerial threats from Iran. Fire broke out at an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), after an attack in Fujairah, one of the UAE’s seven emirates, said the authorities. Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry also said the Kingdom’s air defenses on Monday have shot down at least three ballistic missiles and four drones that have entered the Kingdom’s airspace at past midnight. Iran’s health ministry said Sunday that at least 1,200 civilians had been killed and around 10,000 wounded. — Agencies