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Two people in Israel have been lightly hurt as a result of an Iranian cluster bomb impact in the central city of Kfar Qasim, the Times of Israel is quoting medics as saying.

The Magen David Adom emergency service said it treated a man and a woman – both aged 55 – who were hurt from a blast after a bomblet hit a building there, the report said.