Tel Aviv / Jerusalem — A fresh wave of Iranian missile fire has rocked central Israel, with IDF officials now warning that several incoming rockets carried cluster warheads, scattering deadly bomblets from the Tel Aviv coastline all the way up the highway corridor toward Jerusalem.

Sirens wailed nonstop as residents sprinted for shelters; moments later, multiple explosions rippled across suburbs and key junctions linking the two cities. Emergency crews arriving at impact sites found not one crater, but dozens of small blast marks peppering streets, parks and parking lots — a signature, they say, of cluster munitions. Parents dragged children away from glittering metal fragments as bomb squads shouted for people to stay back, fearing unexploded submunitions hidden in grass and rubble.

The IRGC is hailing the barrage as a “measured counter‑strike” against intensified IDF operations inside Iran, boasting that its missiles “pierced Zionist defenses and paralyzed transport arteries.” Israeli officials counter that most projectiles were intercepted, but admit “a limited number” slipped through and are now causing “complex contamination of urban areas” with unexploded ordnance.

Human‑rights groups and UN officials are demanding urgent access, warning that if cluster weapons were used, civilians will keep dying for days or weeks from bomblets triggered by curious children or routine cleanup work.

From beachside neighborhoods in Tel Aviv to hillside suburbs outside Jerusalem, the images are chilling: empty highways, flashing police tape, loudspeakers warning people not to touch anything metallic on the ground — and a population suddenly aware that even after the sirens stop, the danger underfoot may have only just begun.