The Tel Aviv apartment of Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid’s son sustained light damage in an overnight Iranian missile barrage on Sunday, the Yesh Atid Party leader revealed on Monday afternoon.
“This is my granddaughter’s bedroom—she’s 13 months old. This is the glass, which fell where her head usually rests,” the opposition leader said in a video recording from the scene released by his office.
“They weren’t here at night, thank God. I call on everyone: Follow the Home Front Command instructions, go to the protected spaces. Don’t take risks. The girl could have died if she would have been here.”
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Eight people were killed and nearly 300 wounded in the early hours of Monday by Iranian ballistic missiles targeting Israeli population centers in the central and northern parts of the country.
Four of the deaths took place in the greater Tel Aviv area—four in Petach Tikvah and one in Bnei Brak. Three people who were initially reported as being trapped in Haifa were declared dead, while a 30-year-old woman was rescued and hospitalized in serious condition.
Israel’s Channel 12 News broadcaster reported that the Petach Tikvah home of Likud Party lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky sustained damage.
The Yesh Atid Party led the Zionist opposition factions in the Knesset on Monday afternoon in helping to defeat a motion of no-confidence in the government submitted by the Arab Hadash, Ta’al and Ra’am factions.
The Knesset plenary session showed unity among more than 100 of the parliament’s 120 lawmakers amid the war with Iran.
