An Iranian missile strike on an Israeli village wounded 11 people, medics said, as the Middle East conflict entered its second month.

ESHTA’OL: A direct Iranian missile strike on a village in central Israel on Saturday wounded 11 people and left a massive crater, medics said.

The attack hit a residential area in Eshtaol, near Beit Shemesh, where nine people were killed by an Iranian missile in the early days of the war.

Several buildings were badly damaged in the latest strike, with metal wreckage and concrete debris scattered around.

The blast also wrecked several cars and gouged a large crater at the impact site.

Rescue workers and security forces operated near a house whose roof tiles had been completely blown away.

It was a “direct hit by an Iranian missile,” Ohad Moyal, a commander from the military’s Home Front Command, told an AFP correspondent at the site.

“Lots of buildings were hit,” he added.

The military also confirmed to AFP that the strike was caused by an Iranian missile.

Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani posted a video clip of the site on X.

“A family home in Eshtaol — destroyed by an Iranian missile,” he wrote.

The Middle East has been engulfed in war since February 28, triggered by joint US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Iran has since responded with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel and several countries in the region.

 The Sun Malaysia