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Israel's Soroka hospital in Beer Sheba and seven sites in the center of the country were hit during a ballistic missile attack from Iran on Thursday morning.

Axar.az informs, citing Ynet, following the missile strike on Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, there is a suspicion of a leak of hazardous materials on an upper floor of the building. The police have begun evacuating and removing people from the area.

Following the attack, Magen David Adom reported that a 60-year-old man was seriously injured and 22 people were lightly injured.

Two people were found at the scene of the strike in Holon with serious injuries and were evacuated to the hospital. Two additional people with moderate and light injuries were also evacuated to the hospital. Heavy damage was also caused at the direct hit site in Ramat Gan, where 12 people were lightly injured.

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Iran fired a barrage of some 30 ballistic missiles early Thursday, scoring a direct hit on Israel’s main southern hospital, the Soroka Medical Center, and two other impacts in the central cities of Holon and Ramat Gan that wounded dozens of people, including six in serious condition.

The Magen David Adom emergency service said that a man, 80, and two women, both in their 70s, were among six people seriously hurt. Two people were moderately injured, and at least 42 others suffered light injuries from shock waves and shrapnel at the various impact sites. In addition, 18 people were lightly injured as they scrambled to bomb shelters when sirens went off.