Missile debris from Iran’s latest ballistic barrage struck two West Bank locations on Sunday, igniting a rooftop fire in al-Bireh, just meters from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s residence, according to Palestinian reports, and wounding three children near the village of Sa’ir, local officials and eyewitnesses said.
The Jerusalem Post hasn't been able to affirm the accuracy of the exact location.
Residents of al-Bireh, the twin city of Ramallah that forms the seat of the Palestinian Authority, reported “a huge boom” at roughly 11:20 a.m. Video posted by Ramallah-based outlets showed jagged metal from what security sources later identified as an Iranian Shahab-class missile embedded in a rooftop water tank while Civil Defence crews doused flames.
No casualties were recorded, but the blast zone lies only a short distance from Abbas’s compound. An Arabic-language X user claimed the fragments fell “right behind Abu Mazen’s house,” urging followers to “intensify your prayers so that next time it lands exactly [on target].”
About 90 minutes later, additional fragments—also believed to be from an Iranian missile intercepted high over central Israel—landed outside Sa’ir, eight kilometres northeast of Hebron. The Palestinian Red Crescent said three children, aged six, seven and twelve, were cut by flying glass when the impact shattered windows; all were listed in light-to-moderate condition at Hebron’s al-Ahli Hospital.
Hundreds of missiles at Israeli cities
Police sealed off both areas while bomb-disposal teams gathered evidence. Preliminary analysis points to wreckage from a Shahab-3 warhead destroyed by Israel’s Arrow-3 system as part of Operation Rising Lion (Am Kelavi), launched after Tehran fired hundreds of missiles at Israeli cities in response to Jerusalem’s earlier strikes on Iranian nuclear and military assets.
Although the Israel Defense Forces have not commented on Sunday’s incidents, defence officials note that falling debris is an unavoidable by-product of the intense interception campaign now entering its third day. Iran’s barrages, meant to avenge Israel’s pre-emptive strikes last week, have killed 13 Israelis and wounded nearly 400; fragments have also landed in Jordan, the northern Negev and now the West Bank—underscoring the widening scope of the Iran-Israel confrontation.
Civil Defense authorities urged West Bank residents to avoid touching suspicious metal and to call emergency services as rocket-alert sirens continued to sound across Israel late Sunday night.