Israeli police say five people have been killed in a strike in central Israel. The country’s Magen David Adom rescue service had earlier put the death toll from Sunday’s strike at four, and a spokesperson said searches are ongoing for additional victims.

Iran has launched dozens of rockets at Israel since the United States and Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran on Saturday. Earlier, an explosion rocked Iran’s capital as Israel said it would carry out “non-stop strikes” against its leaders and military.

Iran, meanwhile, fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states in retaliation for the killing of its supreme leader in the surprise US and Israeli attack that launched the widening war.

The blasts in Tehran — whose target was not immediately clear — sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky.

It happened in the area of the national police headquarters and Iranian state television, as well as Tehran’s Revolutionary Court and a Defence Ministry building.

In Israel, loud explosions caused by missile impacts or interceptions could be heard in Tel Aviv.

A post on X by the Israeli Defence Force said: “The Iranian Regime directly fired missiles toward the civilian neighbourhood of Beit Shemesh, killing innocent civilians.

“The Iranian regime purposely targets civilian targets while we precisely target terror targets.

“This is who we’re operating against—a regime who uses civilian casualties as their war tactic.”

One eyewitness told the Israeli news channel Yediotnews25: ““This was a direct injury within a public shelter. They went down to the shelter and the missile hit it. I think the numbers of the dead are much higher than the advertising so far, the greater part of the dead are children.”

A missile launched by Iran yesterday struck near the Old City of Jerusalem, and just a few hundred meters from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.