Eighty-six people were admitted to hospital with injuries overnight and on Sunday morning, according to Israel’s ministry of health, amid fresh Iranian strikes on the country.
Two people were moderately injured, 77 mildly injured and four were suffering from anxiety, while three others are still being assessed, the ministry said in an update Sunday.
Since the start of Iran’s strikes on Israel – which began in retaliation for Israel launching military action against Iran on June 13 – 2,835 Israelis have been admitted to hospital: 23 severely injured, 107 moderately, 2,555 mildly and 119 with anxiety.
Authorities also say they so far know of “about 20 individuals who were lightly injured” after a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv was struck by Iran, the city’s police spokesperson told CNN at the scene of the attack.
The missiles hit “a few buildings that are clumped together, residential buildings,” international spokesperson for the Israeli police Dean Elsdunne told CNN’s Nic Robertson in the Ramat Aviv neighborhood, adding that responders were still looking for missile fragments and searching through the rubble for anyone who might be trapped.
Responders are also awaiting calls from families who may have lost contact with loved ones living in the neighborhood, Elsdunne said.
The neighborhood that was attacked is near a shopping mall and a school, the spokesperson said.