JERUSALEM, March 18 (Reuters) – Three Palestinian women were killed in an Iranian missile attack in the occupied West Bank late on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, in the first deadly Iranian strike there — and the first to kill Palestinians — since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
The missiles struck a hair salon in the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported. A fourth Palestinian was seriously wounded.
The Israeli military said it understood the strike was caused by a cluster munition, a warhead that splits into tiny bomblets that scatter into a disparate area.
At least 14 people have been killed in Israel since Israel and the U.S. launched attacks on Iran at the end of February.
(Reporting by Pesha Magid, Ali Sawafta and Roleen Tafakji; Editing by Chris Reese and Howard Goller)
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