"Emergency teams continued working in Arad after a missile struck a residential courtyard, injuring nearly 90 people, including 10 seriously, and leaving surrounding buildings severely damaged. Footage from Sunday shows shattered facades, debris scattered across the ground, and responders working to secure the area and assist residents. "A missile fell here in the centre of the courtyard. The entire missile penetrated into the ground. Most of its force went into the ground, and that is the great miracle that happened here," a local said. "If the missile had struck a building, the entire building would have collapsed, and both the blast and the shrapnel would have spread over hundreds of metres, causing massive destruction and dozens of fatalities," he persisted. He added that those injured were not in shelters at the time, while residents who had taken cover were unharmed. "All the residents here have shelters below, and those who went into the shelters were completely unharmed." Yehuda Morgenstern, Director-General of the Ministry of Construction and Housing, said engineers had been deployed to assess which buildings could be repaired and which may need to be demolished. He stressed that the ministry's role is to "classify the structures as quickly as possible in order to return residents to their homes wherever possible." Tensions in the Middle East escalated after a joint US-Israeli operation against Iranian targets started on February 28 amid diplomatic talks aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear and missile programmes. Tehran responded with strikes on Israel and US military positions in the region, with explosions reported across Gulf countries. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was confirmed dead on the first day, and his son Mojtaba Khamenei was later named as successor. Over 1,400 Iranians have been killed since then, and at least 18 Israeli deaths have been confirmed. The conflict also disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a route for about 20 percent of global oil, as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned it could be restricted to allies, driving a global surge in oil prices."