Iran has launched missiles targeting several regions in Israel on April 6, 2026, continuing a sustained ballistic missile campaign against Israeli territory that has now entered its sixth week since the war began on February 28. Monday’s attack is the latest in a pattern of Iranian missile salvoes that has included some of the largest barrages since the early days of the conflict, with Israel’s multi-layered air defense system working to intercept incoming projectiles while the human and physical toll on Israeli civilian areas continues to accumulate.
The Scale of Iran’s Missile Campaign Against Israel
Israeli broadcaster Kan 11 reported that 90, 65, 25, and then 20 missiles were launched at Israel from Iran on each of the first four days of the war. Although the number of missiles in each volley has decreased, the missiles themselves have increased in size and impact.
The Israeli Defense Forces have identified about 30 missiles that crossed from Iran into Israel since Wednesday, April 1. Three were cluster missiles, about ten fell in open areas, and the rest were intercepted.
Around 10 ballistic missiles were fired at central Israel in what was described as the largest Iranian salvo since the early days of the war. Iranian missile fire on Israel has slowed in the past two weeks to around 10 to 15 missiles a day, down from around 90 on the first day of the war.
The Cluster Munitions Concern
One of the most alarming developments in Iran’s missile campaign against Israel is the use of cluster munition warheads. Israeli Army Radio said that most of the missiles fired in the April 1 salvo were cluster munitions. Cluster bombs can be exceptionally dangerous for the public as small munitions that are released may not explode on impact and pose a serious danger for passersby.
The executive director of the Arms Control Association called the Iranian targeting of cluster munition warheads at residential neighbourhoods deliberate, saying that Iran appears to be launching them into relatively populated areas, probably with the goal of producing potential civilian harm. After the conflict, Amnesty International condemned Iran’s use of these munitions targeting residential areas as a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
Casualties and Damage So Far
Three people were wounded in two Iranian missile impacts in central Israel. A Ramat Gan apartment was damaged in an Iranian missile attack on Friday morning.
On April 2, an Iranian ballistic missile strike damaged an Israeli drone factory in Petah Tikva. On April 4, an Iranian missile strike hit in the vicinity of the IDF’s HaKirya headquarters in Tel Aviv.
A missile struck a building in Tel Aviv, killing one and injuring dozens. Despite having advance notice of the Iranian missile launch, the sirens in the area did not sound in time to allow the 90 seconds allocated to make it to a sheltered space. A missile attack in a residential area of Beit Shemesh, located 18 miles from Jerusalem, struck a shelter in a synagogue. Nine civilians were killed and dozens were injured in what was the incident with the largest casualty count since the start of the conflict.
Israel’s Air Defense — And Its Limits
Israel operates a multi-layered missile defense system. The Arrow system intercepts anti-ballistic missiles designed for long-range threats from Iran, David’s Sling handles drones and medium-range missiles, and Iron Dome covers shorter-range rockets.
Recent US intelligence assessments indicate that approximately half of Iran’s missile launchers remain intact despite five weeks of strikes by US and Israeli forces. CNN reported, citing security sources, that thousands of one-way attack drones also remain in Iran’s arsenal. One source told CNN that Iran is still poised to wreak absolute havoc across the region.
Iran’s Wider Regional Strikes Simultaneously
Monday’s attack on Israel is happening alongside Iran’s simultaneous strikes on Gulf states. Iran fired missiles at Israel and some Gulf nations, setting alight a refinery in Kuwait, while explosions could be heard around Tehran and the central Iranian city of Isfahan. Kuwait said an Iranian attack damaged a desalination plant. About 90 percent of drinking water in Kuwait comes from desalination. Desalination plants have become a major target in the war.
Iran launched 19 drones and four ballistic missiles targeting Bahrain on April 1. One or more of these targeted a company in Bahrain, following the IRGC’s threat that it would target US-linked information, communications, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology firms in retaliation for US and Israeli attacks.
The US Military Buildup in Response
The largest American aircraft carrier in service sailed out of Split, Croatia, and remains poised for full mission tasking in support of national objectives. The USS Abraham Lincoln remains in the Arabian Sea and the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier departed Norfolk heading to the Middle East. The Pentagon last month proposed $200 billion for the war effort and to backfill munitions and supplies.
The Ceasefire Signals
Amid the escalating strikes, diplomatic signals have been mixed. Iran’s former top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested Tehran could enrich uranium below 3.67 percent, the level set by the 2015 nuclear deal, in exchange for a ceasefire. While insisting Iran is clearly winning the war, Zarif wrote that Tehran should offer to place limits on its nuclear program and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for an end to all sanctions.
Trump has maintained that Iran must have no enrichment, and has said that if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz by April 6, the US will conduct extensive attacks on Iranian energy sites. That deadline is today. Iran has not reopened the Strait. What happens next is the question that every market, every government, and every Indian family with members in the Gulf is watching in real time.
Business Upturn will update this article as further details on Monday’s missile attack on Israel emerge.