Municipal teams carry out cleanup and debris removal operations after missile fragments from retaliatory strikes launched from Iran hit parts of Tel Aviv, Israel, causing damage to nearby buildings and vehicles.
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- Israel said 14 people were injured in a strike blamed on Iran.
- Attacks hit the area near the former US embassy in Tehran.
- Oil companies have been making more than €80 million a day in “war profits” in the European Union, said Greenpeace.
Israel’s emergency medical service said 14 people, including an 11-year-old girl, were wounded during a missile attack that the military blamed on Iran, and police said caused damage at several sites.
The military said it had “identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel” for the first time in about 20 hours, with air raid sirens activated across central Israel.
Another warning of incoming missile fire came less than an hour later, prompting alerts across large parts of northern and central Israel, according to the military’s Home Front Command.
“EMTs and paramedics are providing medical treatment and evacuating to hospitals 14 casualties,” the Magen David Adom emergency medical service said in a statement, including an 11-year-old girl in a serious condition with shrapnel injuries.
It said a 13-year-old boy and 36-year-old woman, also with shrapnel injuries, were in moderate condition and a further 11 casualties in “mild condition”.
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Sheba hospital in the Tel Aviv area said it was treating eight wounded people, including a child in “very critical condition”, and six other children.
Authorities did not specify the number of injuries at specific sites.
U.S. forces drop precision munitions on underground military targets deep inside Iran to further degrade the Iranian regime’s ability to project power in meaningful ways beyond its borders. pic.twitter.com/ciQRbE0KFM
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) April 1, 2026
However, police reported damage at several sites in central Israel, sharing an image of what appears to be missile debris on a road.
AFP images from the city of Bnei Brak, outside of Tel Aviv, showed first responders and residents carrying small children out of an apartment building that was hit.
AFP footage and images from downtown Tel Aviv showed first responders at another impact site and a small crater on the road near the French embassy.
Iran has claimed it targets military objectives.
Due to military censorship rules in place in Israel since the start of the current war, sensitive military sites are closed to the public and the press, while other impact sites in populated areas are generally closed off until they are cleared of missile debris and unexploded ordnance.
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Israeli media said cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and scatter bomblets across a wide area, were used in the latest attack.
Iran and Israel have previously accused each other of using cluster bombs.
Strikes early on Wednesday hit the area near the former US embassy in Tehran, damaging some of the building’s walls, an AFP journalist reported.
Other footage carried by Mehr news agency showed the aftermath of the strikes in central Tehran, with shops damaged, windows blown out, and debris scattered across the area near the building.
The wall of the former embassy, which was transformed into a museum known as the “Den of Spies”, appeared damaged in the footage.
A large plume of smoke rises over Tehran after explosions were reported in the city during the night in Iran.
A study commissioned by Greenpeace said on Wednesday that oil companies have been making more than €80 million ($92 million) a day in “war profits” in the European Union since the start of the war in the Middle East.
“If this level persists, the oil companies can expect additional operating profits of approximately €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) for the month of March alone,” the study said.
The study examined the difference between the price of crude oil and the price of fuel at the pump between January and February 2026, and the first three weeks of the war in March.
“The report shows that the rise in prices at the pump is far greater than that of underlying crude oil prices,” Greenpeace said in a statement.
A man fills up a car at a petrol station in front of a price board. Due to the war in Iran and the associated blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, fuel prices in Germany have risen significantly.
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The increase in margins was much greater for diesel fuel than for petrol.
“Compared with the pre-war months, the oil companies earned a daily excess profit of €75.3 million from the sale of diesel fuel to cars and trucks,” the report said.
“Petrol sales contributed €6.1 million per day.”
Margins were expanded predominantly in countries with high purchasing power such as the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Germany, the report said.
In Germany, excess profits were €23.8 million per day, followed by France, at €11.6 million per day.
“Greenpeace France is calling on European governments to introduce permanent additional taxes on the profits of oil and gas companies, the proceeds of which would be used to reduce energy bills and accelerate European energy independence,” the environmental group said.
A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai.
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Qatar said on Wednesday that a tanker leased to its state-owned energy company was struck by an Iranian missile in the Gulf country’s territorial waters.
“Qatar was targeted… by three cruise missiles launched from Iran,” the Gulf state’s defence ministry said in a statement.
Qatar’s military “intercepted two of the cruise missiles, while the third missile struck an oil tanker leased to QatarEnergy in Qatar’s territorial waters,” it said.
“Coordination was established with relevant authorities to evacuate the tanker, which had 21 crew members on board, without any human casualties,” the defence ministry added.