A second person has been confirmed dead after Iran fired suspected cluster munitions at central Israel on Sunday.
More than a dozen impact sites were recorded across the area, suggesting the use of such a missile, police said.
Authorities confirmed that five people were wounded in Petah Tikva, while a man in his forties was seriously injured in Tel Aviv, around six miles away.
A second strike then saw six more impacts in Yehud, Holon and Bat Yam.
On Monday, authorities confirmed that a Petah Tikva resident had died after suffering shrapnel wounds in the strikes.
The following day, local mayor Rami Greenberg announced that a second person had succumbed to their wounds at the Sheba Medical Centre.
Both men were residents of Peta Tikvah but were working on a construction site in Yehud at the time of the attack.
Cluster warheads contain dozens of smaller explosives, known as bomblets, which disperse across a wide area before impact.
This allows a single missile to cause damage in multiple locations.
However, the use of such weapons is controversial due to their indiscriminate nature.
More than 100 countries have prohibited the proliferation or use of cluster munitions since 2008 under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), but the US, Israel and Iran are not signatories.
Nonetheless, the use of such munitions on civilian targets or in populated areas is widely regarded as a violation of international law and, potentially, a war crime.
Commenting on the attacks, the IDF’s international spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, tweeted: “This is your reminder that the Iranian terrorist regime is still firing cluster bombs at Israeli civilians.
“This is also your reminder that intentionally attacking civilians is a war crime. By using cluster munitions, the Iranian terrorist regime is trying to maximise its chances to kill Israeli civilians.”
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