One Israeli killed, at least 6 injured in ballistic missile strikes as Iran uses more cluster munitions on civilian areas

One Israeli was killed, and almost a dozen were wounded in Iranian ballistic missile attacks across Israel on Monday, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service.

In recent days, Iran has begun using cluster warheads on some of its ballistic missiles. While the cluster munitions do not have the same explosive power as the larger warheads used previously, they scatter damage over a broader area, and can present a greater threat as many of the clusters split before they can be shot down by air defenses.

The cluster munitions hit at least six sites in central Israel, according to reports in Israeli media, including Yehud, Holon, Or Yehuda, and Bat Yam. 

Footage shows two of the Iranian cluster bomb munitions' impacts in central Israel during the ballistic missile attack this morning.

A total of six cluster munition impact sites were reported across central Israel, killing one and seriously injuring two others. pic.twitter.com/8QEXYcuQXT

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 9, 2026

In Yehud, a construction worker was killed and another critically wounded by one of the cluster munitions. A third man was injured in the community of Or Yehuda. 

Emergency medical services were forced to declare the death of one of the construction workers after resuscitation efforts failed. According to Channel 12 News, the men were part of a Chinese construction crew working in the area. 

The death on Monday is the 11th victim of Iranian missile attacks on Israel since the start of the war on Feb. 28. 

In recent days, videos on social media showed Israeli overseers demonstrating proper evacuation procedures upon hearing the air raid sirens to groups of Chinese workers. Israeli companies have increasingly hired Chinese or other eastern Asian construction crews following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel.

Previously, many of the companies employed Palestinian workers from the Palestinian territories, however, their entry into Israel has seen stringent new limits since the start of the war.

Magen David Adom paramedic Liz Goral recounted, “Immediately after the sirens, we received reports at MDA about several scenes in central Israel and were dispatched to search them all.” 

Pictured is the Iranian terror regime’s strategy: targeting civilians.

Last night, the Iranian regime fired a cluster bomb at the Israeli city of Rishon Lezion—damaging multiple areas including a children’s playground. This is what we’re operating against. pic.twitter.com/YQZHCeHBTd

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 9, 2026

“One of the scenes in central Israel was at a construction site. It was a difficult scene. The two casualties were lying unconscious and suffering from severe shrapnel injuries to their bodies,” she said. “After performing resuscitation efforts, we had to pronounce the death of a man, approximately 40-years-old, and we evacuated the second casualty in serious condition by Mobile Intensive Care Unit to the hospital.” 

Earlier in the day, a woman in Rishon LeZion was wounded by rocks that were thrown into the air after cluster munitions hit outside her home. She was not inside her bomb shelter at the time of the attack. 

Home Front Command chief Maj.-Gen. Shai Klapper called on Israelis to obey the warnings and instructions from the military, after it was revealed that all the casualties from the Iranian missile strikes came as the victims were outside of bomb shelters at the time of the strikes.

Speaking outside one of the apartments hit in the cluster munitions attack, Klapper praised the Israeli public for its “steadfastness and resilience,” while urging them to “follow the Home Front Command’s instructions.” 

He noted that the family in that particular apartment was safe because they had entered the bomb shelter.