BBC:
At least three Palestinian women have been killed and eight more injured after missile debris hit a beauty salon in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says.
The PRCS said shrapnel hit the site in the town of Beit Awwa, near Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said fragments reportedly landed on a metal caravan used as a salon as well as several other locations in the West Bank.
A Thai worker was also killed from shrapnel which hit a farming community in Israel, Israeli medics said.
The incidents happened on Wednesday night shortly after Israel’s military said it was “working to intercept” an Iranian missile attack.
Wafa identified those killed in the salon as Mais Ghazi Masalmeh, 17, Sahira Rizq Masalmeh, 50, and Amal Sobhi Abdel Karim Matawa’ Masalmeh, 36.
The PRCS said response teams, including at least five ambulances rushed to the scene and found “several casualties and injuries”.
The bodies of the three women were transported to a local hospital, along with other victims who sustained “critical and moderate” wounds, it said.
The PRCS had previously reported that four women were killed in the incident before revising the death toll to three.
It added that crews faced “significant difficulties” trying to reach the site due to the closure of iron gates leading to the area, which “had a direct and critical impact on the time available to save the injured victims”.
In Israel, the Thai worker was killed in Moshav Adanim, about 12 miles (20km) north-east of Tel Aviv. Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said “metal shrapnel was scattered across the scene”, where the man was found dead.
