An Iranian cluster bomb hit central Israel on Tuesday, with nine people wounded by multiple impacts in Bnei Brak, according to first responders.

The attack came as the Israel Defense Forces said it struck a key Iranian explosives production facility in the area of Isfahan, and Iran accused the US and Israel of bombing its Bushehr nuclear site.

The wounded in Bnei Brak included a 23-year-old man in moderate condition and eight other people, among them six children and a woman in her eighties, who were lightly injured by a blast or shrapnel, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said.

“We went into the shelter and there was a boom like I’ve never heard in my life,” a resident who lives near one of the fall sites told Ynet. “We looked out the window… the road was full of shards and smoke. It was really scary. My ears were ringing.”

Other bomblets struck Petah Tikva, Givat Shmuel, and Rosh Haayin, causing damage but no physical injuries, rescue services said.

The attack was the 12th of 13 Iranian missile salvos fired at Israel on Tuesday. At least nine people, including two infants, were wounded across the country in earlier strikes throughout the day.

Later Iranian missiles overnight into Wednesday also triggered sirens in the southern city of Eilat and in the areas of Jerusalem and central Israel, with no direct injuries reported. The MDA said medics treated several people hurt while running to shelters or who were suffering from acute anxiety.

An Iranian missile attack on Bahrain also killed a Moroccan civilian contractor who was on “a routine mission” for the Emirati military, the United Arab Emirates defense ministry said Tuesday, adding that five other ministry personnel were also wounded.

Bahrain’s military had announced that a UAE army personnel was killed in its territory while helping Bahraini forces defend against Iranian attacks. It said UAE and Bahraini army personnel had also been injured without specifying how many.

Kuwait’s Civil Aviation Authority also said overnight that a drone had targeted a fuel tank at the Kuwait International Airport, causing a fire but no casualties.

Iran has fired missile and drone strikes across the region in response to the ongoing bombing campaign that the US and Israel launched on the Islamic Republic on February 28 in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

On Tuesday, Israeli Air Force jets dropped over 120 bombs on dozens of Iranian targets including ballistic missile launch sites, weapon production facilities and air defense systems, the IDF said.

Among the targets was Iran’s “main” explosives production facility, which was struck amid a wave of attacks in Isfahan against Iran’s “production industries,” according to the military.

The facility was used to manufacture explosives for various weapons, and had been targeted by the IDF during the 12-day Israel-Iran war in June, the military said, adding that Iran has since worked to restore the site.

Early Wednesday, the IDF announced a new wave of strikes in Tehran targeting Iranian regime infrastructure sites.

Meanwhile, Iran’s atomic energy organization accused the US and Israel on Tuesday of attacking its Bushehr nuclear power plant, saying a projectile had landed within its compound but caused no damage.

“The American-Zionist enemy has attacked the Bushehr nuclear power plant site again,” the organization said in a statement, adding that “a projectile hit inside the enclosure of the Bushehr power plant.”

“Initial reports indicate this incident did not cause any financial or technical damage, or human casualty, and the various areas of the power plant are unharmed,” the statement said.

The UN nuclear watchdog also said Iran had informed it that a “projectile hit the premises” of the Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday, without causing damage to the plant itself.

“IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reiterates call for maximum restraint to avoid nuclear safety risks during conflict,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a post on X.

During the June war, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin listed Bushehr as one of the nuclear sites that had been struck by Israel, but an IDF military official later said that it was a “mistake” for Defrin to say so and that Israel would neither confirm nor deny having struck Bushehr.

Iran says ‘non-hostile vessels’ OK in Strait of Hormuz

Also Tuesday, it was revealed that Iran told the United Nations Security Council and the International Maritime Organization that “non-hostile vessels” may transit the Strait of Hormuz if they coordinate with Iranian authorities.

The US-Israeli war against Iran has all but halted shipments of about one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas through the strait, causing oil supply disruption.

The note from Iran’s foreign ministry was sent to the 15-member Security Council and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday. It was then circulated on Tuesday among the 176 members of the London-based UN shipping agency responsible for regulating the safety and security of international shipping and preventing pollution.

“Non-hostile vessels, including those belonging to or associated with other States, may — provided that they neither participate in nor support acts of aggression against Iran and fully comply with the declared safety and security regulations — benefit from safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with the competent Iranian authorities,” it read.

Iran has “taken necessary and proportionate measures to prevent the aggressors and their supporters from exploiting the Strait of Hormuz to advance hostile operations against Iran,” the note read, adding vessels, equipment, and any assets belonging to the US or Israel, “as well as other participants in the aggression, do not qualify for innocent or non-hostile passage.”

The Financial Times first reported that the letter had been circulated among IMO member states on Tuesday.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

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