Three Palestinian women killed during Iranian missile attack in West Bank

Women killed, 13 injured when debris from a missile, or possibly a cluster bomblet, hit a beauty salon near Hebron.

Three Palestinian women were killed when debris or possibly a munition from an Iranian missile fell on a women’s hair salon in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent and news reports.

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) official news agency Wafa said the three women were killed when the salon in the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, was hit late on Wednesday by fragments of an Iranian missile.

Thirteen others were wounded in the incident, including one person who was reported to be in critical condition, according to reports.

Wafa said the missile fragments, often the result of being shot out of the sky by Israeli air defences, hit the salon and that debris had fallen over other locations in the Hebron governorate.

Rory Challands, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Amman, Jordan, said Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank have suffered injuries and property damage resulting from previous Iranian air attacks, but no deaths.