Iranian Cluster Missiles Strike Sharon Region and West Bank

On the night of March 18–19, Iran launched a cluster missile barrage against central Israel that struck two distinct geographic zones. In the Sharon Plain, cluster sub-munitions killed a 30-year-old foreign worker at Moshav Adanim — the first confirmed foreign worker fatality from Iranian fire in the war. Further east, cluster munitions landed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian women — the first Palestinian civilian deaths in occupied territory from Iranian fire since the conflict began on February 28. The dual-target pattern reflects the wide dispersal radius of cluster munitions, which scatter hundreds of sub-munitions over areas several hundred meters in diameter. Israeli police and explosive-ordnance teams deployed to multiple shrapnel sites across the Sharon region. The West Bank deaths generated significant diplomatic pressure on Tehran from Arab governments and Palestinian leadership, who condemned Iran for killing Palestinian civilians.

Key facts

• •First foreign worker killed by Iranian fire in the war — 30-year-old at Moshav Adanim, Sharon region
• •Three Palestinian women killed in West Bank — first Iranian strike deaths in occupied Palestinian territory
• •Cluster munitions scatter sub-munitions over wide area — IDF found shrapnel at multiple Sharon sites
• •Dual-zone impact: coastal Sharon Plain (central Israel) and occupied West Bank hit in the same barrage
• •Iran has faced diplomatic criticism from Arab states and Palestinian leadership over the West Bank deaths