What should have normally been a quiet spring weekend in Israel was shattered Saturday as Iranian missiles with cluster bomb warheads rained down on densely packed cities, striking homes, cars, and apartment blocks in the heart of the country.

More than a dozen impact sites were reported across central Israel after Iran launched several missile salvos, scattering destruction across Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva and Rosh Ha’ayin.

With most people in shelters, there were no fatalities, and only six people were lightly injured. In many cases, residents said, the outcome could have been far worse.

In a residential neighborhood of Ramat Gan, just down the street from a preschool and community garden, one cluster munition tore through an apartment building — punching directly into a bedroom and leaving it exposed to the open air.

With no bomb shelter on the premises, a resident said it was a fortunate coincidence that the building was empty at the time.

By Sunday morning, the entrance was sealed off by the Home Front Command, as the structure was deemed unsafe to enter. Residents lingered outside, trying to understand how, or if, they would be able to retrieve what remained of their belongings.

One resident, who had spent the weekend in Jerusalem with family, said she only learned that her house had been destroyed when relatives living nearby called to tell her the news. By then, there was nothing to do but return to a home she barely........

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