Iran opens Red Sea front — Eilat targeted as Iranian missiles hit Israel from two directions

Iran targeted Eilat on Day 16 — Israel's southernmost city on the Red Sea coast — alongside an earlier barrage on central Israel (Holon/Tel Aviv). The dual-front targeting shows Iran deliberately applying pressure across the full geographic extent of Israel simultaneously. Eilat sits at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, adjacent to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It hosts Israel's southern naval base and is the terminus of the Eilat-Ashkelon oil pipeline — a strategic energy route that bypasses the Suez Canal. Targeting Eilat signals Iranian intent to threaten both Israel's civilian infrastructure and its naval and energy assets on the Red Sea. The Eilat missile was intercepted with no injuries. But the trajectory required a different ballistic path from the central Israel barrages — suggesting Iran maintains targeting capability and willingness to engage multiple Israeli military-geographic zones simultaneously. This is the third confirmed Iranian ballistic missile wave targeting Israel since midnight UTC on Day 16.