Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen says ‘no significant damage’ reported after Iranian assault on Haifa oil refinery.
Published On 19 Mar 2026
Israel says an oil refinery within the northern metropolis of Haifa has been struck in an Iranian missile assault, however no “significant” injury was reported, as Tehran continues to retaliate throughout the area for strikes on its energy infrastructure.
In a press release on Thursday, Energy Minister Eli Cohen mentioned energy was briefly disrupted because of the assault on the Oil Refineries Ltd facility earlier than being restored for many clients.
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“The damage to the power grid in the north is localised and not significant,” Cohen mentioned.
“Also, in the barrage towards the north, there was no significant damage to Israeli infrastructure sites.”
Iran has carried out a wave of missile and drone strikes throughout the Middle East since Israel and the United States launched a war against the country late final month.
This week, Tehran focused a number of oil and fuel services within the Gulf area in response to an Israeli assault on its South Pars offshore gasfield on Wednesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi mentioned on Thursday that his nation would present “ZERO restraint” if its infrastructure is struck once more, because the Israeli assault on the South Pars gasfield continued to spur condemnation.
Reporting from the Iranian capital Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem mentioned the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed that it fired in direction of Haifa and Ashdod, a metropolis in southern Israel.
“The Iranians are saying that this is in retaliation for the attacks on the South Pars facility,” Hashem mentioned.
It was not instantly clear whether or not the Ashdod facility was hit.
Separately on Thursday, Israel’s rescue service mentioned 4 folks have been wounded in a rocket assault in Kiryat Shmona, a city in northern Israel, close to the border with Lebanon.
Medics mentioned they handled a 60-year-old man in severe situation with shrapnel accidents; a 68-year-old lady with a head harm and two males of their 20s with shrapnel wounds.
In addition to its assaults on Iran, the Israeli navy has launched an intensified aerial and floor assault on Lebanon since early March, killing more than 1,000 people.
The Israeli assaults in Lebanon started after Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launched rockets into northern Israel in response to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, the primary day of the US-Israeli struggle on Iran.
Hezbollah has fired a sequence of missile barrages into northern Israel in response to the Israeli navy’s lethal assaults throughout Lebanon.
