Sri Lanka, March 1 -- One person has been killed and 32 injured in Iranian strikes on Kuwait, the country's health ministry said Sunday.

All of the 32 injured are foreign nationals, according to Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, a spokesperson for the ministry.

He said that those wounded sustained chest, head and abdominal injuries among others, and that 15 patients had been transferred to Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital.

Meanwhile, eight people were killed in a direct missile hit on a residential building near Jerusalem, Israel's emergency response service said on Sunday afternoon.

It marks the deadliest incident in Israel since Iran began retaliating with ballistic missile launches to a wave of joint US-Israel strikes on Saturday morning.

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