Smoke rises after an Iranian missile attack, Tel Aviv, Israel, February 28, 2026. OHAD ZWIGENBERG / AP
First responders said Iranian missile fire killed a woman in Tel Aviv on Saturday, February 28, the first confirmed fatality in Israel since attacks began earlier in the day.
"Paramedics have confirmed the death of a woman in her 40s" who had severe injuries, Israel's emergency service Magen David Adom said, after an Iranian missile hit "the Tel Aviv city center," according to a senior officer in a video shared by the army.
It was the first confirmed death since Iran began launching missiles at Israel in response to a wave of US-Israeli attacks against the Islamic republic early Saturday.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) images from Tel Aviv showed firefighters and police forces at the site of the impact, on a street flanked by residential buildings whose facades were destroyed by blasts. Firemen extinguished the flames from fires that broke out in the surrounding area while first responders evacuated the injured. The Israeli emergency medical service said its teams had taken 20 injured people to hospital.
