Women look out from a window to watch the funeral procession of one of the three Palestinian women killed in Iranian missile attacks, in Beit Awa town near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on March 19, 2026.
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Iranian missile attacks have killed three Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank and a foreign worker in central Israel, medics said on Thursday (March 19, 2026).
Falling shrapnel struck a hair salon in the West Bank town of Beit Awa near Hebron late on Wednesday (March 18, 2026), killing the three women, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, marking the first Palestinian deaths from Iranian attacks in the ongoing Middle East war.
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The victims include 17-year-old Mays Ghazi Masalmeh, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
The Red Crescent said at least eight others were wounded, including one woman in critical condition.
Wafa reported that the salon had been set up in a metal caravan next to a house.
AFP images showed civil defence workers inside the caravan, whose roof appeared to be punctured by the falling munition. A rug and bed sheets were covered in blood.
The news agency said missile fragments landed in multiple locations across the West Bank, including within the city of Hebron, after Israelâs military reported another round of Iranian missile launches.
A short while later, Israeli medics said Iranian missile fire had killed a man in central Israel, bringing the death toll in Israel from attacks during the ongoing war to 15.
Israelâs Magen David Adom medical emergency service described the victim as a âforeign workerâ, with Israeli media reports saying he was a Thai national working in agriculture.
Published â March 19, 2026 10:16 pm IST
