"A residential building in Ramat Gan, in central Israel, was struck by a reported cluster submunition on Wednesday. Footage from the scene shows a heavily damaged apartment inside a residential building, with debris scattered across the floor and parts of the structure torn apart as emergency workers inspect the site. "This is considered minor damage to a building when only a single apartment is destroyed," said Dvir Indig from Israel’s Home Front Command. However, he cautioned that even relatively small blasts can be deadly if residents are not in protected areas. "It can also cost human lives, as unfortunately happened in an incident I visited last night. The elderly couple was in the living room and not in the safe room, and a blast like that can be lethal," he noted. Police spokesman Din Elsdunne indicated that initial assessments pointed to a submunition, possibly from a cluster missile, as the cause of the damage in Ramat Gan. "You can see the result of one of these sites where a submunition from, apparently, according to the initial assessment of a cluster missile, took a hit to this house," he said. He added that civilians that lived in this apartment were not home at the time and nobody was injured. Elsdunne noted the site was one of several being handled by police and bomb disposal teams. "This is just one of numerous sites that we've responded to so far in the last few hours, and it's still very dangerous," he warned. "A lot of times we've seen that the submunitions don't actually explode upon impact, and we have to have our bomb disposal units come and neutralise them," Elsdunne concluded. Yesterday, Iranian missile fragments struck multiple locations in Israel following a barrage launched from Iran, killing at least two people and injuring several others. The US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28. Tehran responded with strikes on Israel and US assets in the region. The conflict soon widened, with Israel and Hezbollah trading strikes and explosions reported in many Gulf States. The escalating conflict has sent global energy prices soaring and led to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which handles 20 per cent of global oil traffic."