JERUSALEM :
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.
“He arrived yesterday in critical condition with a neck injury. The medical team at Ichilov fought to save his life, and he underwent a long surgery. Thankfully, he is now stabilising,” a spokesperson for the hospital told PTI.
The Indian Embassy in Tel Aviv is monitoring the situation and visited the hospital to check on his well-being, officials said.
It is also in touch with Indian nationals in Israel regularly amid the ongoing hostilities in the
region, they said.
Israel says 1 killed in Iranian missile attack; war death toll rises to 11: ISRAEL said on Monday that an Iranian missile attack killed a man, raising the country’s death toll in the war to 11.
This marked the first death from missiles in Israel in a week.
A man was killed in central Israel in a missile strike, the first such death in Israel in a week, and a woman was wounded. Israel said it struck the Iranian city of Isfahan, hitting command centres for the Revolutionary Guard and its volunteer Basij force, as well as a rocket engine production facility and missile launch sites. There was no immediate confirmation from Iran.
Israel launches new strikes on Lebanon: Smoke billowed over Beirut after Israel carried out airstrikes on its southern suburbs on Monday.
Ahead of the strikes, the Israeli army said it would operate against targets associated with the Hezbollah-linked financial institution al-Qard Al-Hasan - which Israel said finances the militant group - and repeated its warning to residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs to flee. The war has killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, at least 397 in Lebanon and 11 in Israel, according to officials.