JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the impact sites in Arad and Dimona, where Iranian ballistic missiles directly struck last night. At the site in Arad, he remarked that “A miracle happened here—no one was killed. But we do not want to rely only on miracles. There were a full 10 minutes from the warning until the missile hit. If everyone had entered protected spaces during that time, into the shelters that exist beneath every home here, no one would have been injured.”

According to him, “We already have experience. We know that since the beginning of the war we have lost 15 precious civilians. Our hearts ache for each and every one of them. But only in the first strike in Beit Shemesh did a missile penetrate an old shelter at one location and injure two people. All the others who were in shelters were unharmed. That means that if you are in shelters, you are protected. Therefore, I say: the entire nation is a front, the entire home front is a front. In this struggle we are winning, we are crushing the enemy, and our hand is still extended.”

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Netanyahu at site of Arad missile attack

95 people were evacuated to hospital in the wake of the Arad strike, 10 of them in serious condition, but there were no fatalities as the missile struck between buildings. Local residents said that the result would have been catastrophic if one of the buildings had been directly hit.