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<\/p>\nBy Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, Jeremy Diamond, Nechirvan Mando and Aileen Graef, CNN<\/p>\n
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\nFile photo of Rocket trails are seen in the sky amid a fresh barrage of Iranian missile attacks above the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on 3 March, 2026.
\nPhoto: JACK GUEZ\/AFP\n<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said it detected incoming ballistic missiles from Iran for what appears to be the first time since early April.<\/p>\n
The military sent alerts warning of incoming fire to residents of northern Israel on on Sunday night (local time).<\/p>\n
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they intercepted two incoming missiles. A short time later, the IDF warned of “additional barrages” launched toward the State of Israel.<\/p>\n
An Israeli source told CNN that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was convening a security consultation in response.<\/p>\n
Last week, Iran threatened to attack Israel directly if Israel struck Beirut. Earlier on Sunday, Israel struck the Lebanese capital in response to Hezbollah fire that targeted northern Israel.<\/p>\n
Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei said on X that there would be a “decisive and painful response” to the attack on the Dahiyeh neighborhood of Beirut, considered a Hezbollah stronghold.<\/p>\n
Moments before the IDF issued the alert of incoming Iranian missile, the military had warned of “potential fire toward the State of Israel in the coming hours.”<\/p>\n
Israel vows to retaliate, Iran warns of ‘more crushing’ attacks<\/p>\n
Israel will deliver a “powerful” response to Iranian ballistic missile fire, two Israeli sources told CNN on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said it intercepted all Iranian ballistic missiles “thus far” following at least three barrages fired toward Israel. One of the sources said at least 10 ballistic missiles had been intercepted.<\/p>\n
The IDF said in a statement that it is “currently identifying and intercepting threats.”<\/p>\n
Iran warned of “more crushing” attacks against Israel if what it called the “Zionist army” kept attacking southern Lebanon and Beirut, according to Iran’s state-run Press TV.<\/p>\n
Iran accused Israel of acting “with the green light and support of criminal America” and said that it had “crossed all red lines” in the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
“The Zionist army must stop its attacks on southern Lebanon and Dahiyeh,” Iran’s military said, according to Press TV, which referenced a neighborhood in the Lebanese capital of Beirut that is considered a Hezbollah stronghold.<\/p>\n
“If it expands its attacks on that region or responds to Iran’s action, it will face even more crushing and regret-inducing blows, and devastating attacks will be launched.”<\/p>\n
‘Get back to the table’, Trump tells Iran<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump said Iran needs to “get back to the table and make a deal” in the wake of the missile attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n
“It’s certainly not going to help negotiations,” Trump told Fox News.<\/p>\n
“We’re very close. I would say an agreement would be signed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of this coming week. And now this takes place,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You’ve shot your missiles, that’s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal,” he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the president told Axios’ Barak Ravid that he was going to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tell him not to attack Iran in response.<\/p>\n
Trump also told Fox News that he was “not happy about” Israel’s strikes on Beirut on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Israel to close schools<\/p>\n
Israel’s government announced late on Sunday that schools would be closed across the country on Monday after the Israeli military intercepted incoming ballistic missiles from Iran.<\/p>\n
Israel’s Home Front Command also instructed people to remain near shelters and to obey any further instructions with the possibility of a severe escalation between Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n
– CNN live coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, Jeremy Diamond, Nechirvan Mando and Aileen Graef, CNN File photo of Rocket trails…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-466000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}