[Tee tiong huat]

What damage and casualties have been reported?
On Wednesday, IDF said several air force bases were damaged by missile attack, but no aircraft were damaged, “Only administrative buildings and peripheral components were hit,” quoted as saying, while adding “upcoming missions remain unaffected". IDF also reportedly said that damage to infrastructure and property in civilian areas was “only minor” and was likely to have been caused by shrapnel from intercepted missiles. Just north of Tel Aviv on Wed, close to Mossad’s HQ, a BBC correspondent found several badly damaged cars & pile of earth next to a road where missile impact was said to have caused a crater 8m - 10m deep.

Nearby municipality of Hod HaSharon also said about 100 houses were damaged by a missile explosion shrapnel, "was a very powerful impact with a huge risk of claiming human lives," the municipality said, & video released by IDF showed head of its Home Front Command visiting a school hit by a missile in the Gedera area, just to the east of Ashkelon, causing extensive damage to a classroom. Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service paramedics treated two people with light injuries from shrapnel in Tel Aviv area, as well as some people with minor injuries caused by falling as they moved to shelters.

1. However, Palestinian Civil Defence authority said a Palestinian was killed when he hit by a falling missile fragment in West Bank city of Jericho. CCTV footage showed rear half of a large, black missile plummeting directly on to a man as he walks along a road at night. It was not clear if the missile had been intercepted. New York Times identified him as Sameh al-Asali, a 37-year-old Palestinian. 
   
2. A worker from Gaza who had been sheltering in Jericho since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas last October.