Nadene Goldfoot
On Tuesday, March 31, 2026 Israel continues to strike Iranian military production and defense industry targets. Israel has set crippling Iran’s defense industry, not only its missile launch capability but also the factories, infrastructure and command networks that sustain it, as one of its central war aims.
The IDF said that all critical and essential pre-war Iran targets will have been destroyed by Wednesday, April 1st, first night of Passover.
Iran continues to fire around 10 missiles a day at Israel. They are the Qiam missiles. The Qiam 1 (Uprising-1") is a short-range ballistic missile designed and built by Iran. It was developed from the Iranian Shahab-2, a licensed copy of the North Korean Hwasong-6, all of which are versions of the Soviet Scud-C missile. The Qiam 1 entered service in 2010, with a range of 800 km (500 mi) and 100 m (330 ft) (CEP) accuracy.
Houthi forces in Yemen have unveiled two Scud-based mobile short-range ballistic missiles: the Burkan 1 and Burkan 2-H. On 4 November 2017, Saudi Arabia claimed to have intercepted a Burkan 2-H over its capital, Riyadh, with a MIM-104 Patriot. It reportedly was aimed at King Khalid International Airport. According to the US State Department, the missile was actually a Qiam.
There have also been reports of previous attempts by Iran to send missiles to Yemen.
From Ido Efradi of Reuters:
Five Israelis lightly wounded in earlier missile barrage from Iran, Houthis and Hezbollah
A total of five Israelis were lightly wounded in separate impact sites, after Iran, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen launched missiles around the same time earlier Thursday. Three people were wounded in two Iranian missile impacts in central Israel. Two men were wounded, probably by missile shrapnel, following a Hezbollah (Lebanon) missile barrage, in northern Israel.
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