US EditionMissile shrapnel falls in Jerusalem's Old City holy sites, police say
Missile debris damaged roofs and a vehicle at multiple holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City with no injuries, Israeli police said during investigations of Iranian missile attacks.
- On Monday, Israeli police found missile and interceptor fragments in Jerusalem's Old City following intercepts over the city during a missile salvo.
- During the recent missile salvo fired from Iran toward Jerusalem, several intercepts occurred over the city, police said, with fragments found in the Old City.
- First responders inspected a cylinder about one metre in diameter protruding from the roof of a three-story residential building, while AFP journalists saw missile debris on a residential roof.
- Damage hit sacred sites, and missile fragments damaged the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, falling near the Temple Mount, Armenian Patriarchate and Jewish Quarter; no injuries or deaths were reported.
- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar told the Greek Orthodox Patriarch on Tuesday that Iran is deliberately targeting civilians and holy sites, expressing solidarity with church officials and accusing Tehran of firing on 'religious buildings of all faiths.
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