FM Sa’ar delivers statement to the press at the site of the Iranian missile strike in Arad

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

FM Sa’ar: “None of these attacks have any military meaning or significance whatsoever. The only target, the only objective, is to hurt as many civilians as possible. So, this is clearly a war crime.”

Type: Press Releases

Topic: Terrorism

Publish Date: 22.03.2026

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa’ar today (Sunday, 22 March 2026) visited the site of the Iranian missile strike in Arad. Following are his remarks to the media:

You can see here, very clearly, the war crimes of the Iranian regime. You can see a totally civilian neighborhood, no military dimension, and the Iranian regime is solely and deliberately targeting civilians and civilian populations. Without any exception, from the beginning of this operation a bit more than three weeks ago, we didn’t have even one military casualty from the Iranian attacks. All the casualties from the Iranian attacks, without exception, are civilians.

So, from that simple fact you can understand the strategy. The strategy is to shoot on civilian populations in order to increase the number of civilian casualties. We had here actually a miracle – that seeing the destruction all around, the number of casualties was relatively low.

We had also yesterday, as you know, in Dimona, another attack. In both scenes we have children who were severely injured. Here we had a child who was literally thrown out of his bed on the third floor and found himself here. And of course, a few minutes ago, we had another attack on Tel Aviv.

None of these attacks have any military meaning or significance whatsoever. The only target, the only objective, is to hurt as many civilians as possible. So, this is clearly a war crime.