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Anxiety reigns in an unusually quiet Tel Aviv, as Israeli residents tell MEE it is 'very hard to live in this country'

Eliezer Reinhold lives in a suburb of Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva. Reinhold is the father-in-law of Florida State University’s Chabad of Tallahassee Rabbi, Schneur Oirechman. Reinhold visits Tallahassee several times a year, but is currently in Israel. He said the last few days have been long, and every night brings the chance for missile attacks.

The conflict between Israel and Iran has forced many countries in the Middle East to close their airspace, as Israeli jets and Iranian exploding drones and missiles fly over their night skies.

At least seven people were killed and more than 100 injured when an Iranian ballistic missile hit Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, overnight on Sunday, domestic media reported. Other reports put the death toll at six people. Israel's police said residential buildings took a "direct hit that caused extensive damage."

Onlookers gathered on Saturday at a central Tel Aviv residential building next door to Israel’s defense headquarters that was damaged after it took a hit from what appeared to be shrapnel from an overnight missile barrage from Iran.

Edited by Jacqueline Howard, with Hugo Bachega, Ione Wells, Sebastian Usher and Tom Bennett in Jerusalem and Lucy Williamson in Tel Aviv Israel Police say emergency services have had reports of a weapon hitting "one of the settlements" in the northern coastal port city of Haifa.

Israeli citizens were ordered to head to bomb shelters on Friday night amid retaliatory missile strikes from Iran.