The Israel Defense Forces announced on the 19th (local time) that Iran fired a ballistic missile equipped with cluster munitions at Israel.
According to reports from CNN and The Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces' Domestic Front Command stated that at least one of the Iranian ballistic missiles that fell in central Israel that morning used cluster munitions.
Cluster munitions are weapons that contain hundreds of small bombs in one shell. They are criticized as inhumane weapons due to the indiscriminate risk of mass destruction they pose.
The Israel Defense Forces analyzed that the cluster munitions used by Iran separated into about 20 small bombs at an altitude of approximately 7 km above ground, scattering over a radius of about 8 km. One of these small bombs is reported to have fallen on a residential area in the Azoor region near Tel Aviv.
CNN reported, "The Israel Defense Forces warned that the munitions could be scattered over a wide area with dozens of them, posing a risk of explosion upon contact."
Tal Inbar, former director of the Israel Fisher Aerospace Strategy Research Institute, stated through social media that "this is the first time such a type of munitions has fallen on Israel."