Overview
- Officials report more than 50 people wounded, with sections of the impact zone evacuated during safety and housing assessments.
- The ballistic missile hit a residential area on Sunday, destroying a synagogue and causing the public shelter beneath it to collapse.
- Victims identified include siblings Yaakov, Avigail and Sarah Biton; United Hatzalah volunteer Ronit Elimelech and her mother, Sara; Bruria and Yosef Cohen; Oren Katz; and 16‑year‑old Gavriel Revach.
- Funerals drew large crowds Monday, with the Biton children buried on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives as families began shiva in temporary lodging.
- United Hatzalah deployed EMTs, paramedics and psycho‑trauma teams, and Israeli authorities said warning systems worked but noted the catastrophic effect of a direct strike on a protected site.