Iranian missile warhead falls less than a kilometer from Temple Mount, al-Aqsa Mosque

The warhead of an Iranian missile hit a site just several dozen meters from the Old City of Jerusalem, and just several hundred meters from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, during the course of Saturday, police announced on Sunday.

According to police, an explosion was heard and smoke was seen rising from a site just west of the Old City on Saturday morning, shortly after the beginning of the latest armed conflict with Iran.

The impact site appears to have been the Sultan’s Pool outdoor events venue, which lies just a few dozen meters to the west of the Old City and just under a kilometer west of the Temple Mount, as the crow flies.

Police and sappers conducted searches of the area and found the warhead from an Iranian ballistic missile, along with “incendiary and explosive materials” scattered nearby, the police said.

The warhead was then neutralized by sappers from the police’s Jerusalem District.

From video footage sent by the police, it appears that the missile did not strike the site directly, but may instead have first been intercepted by Israel’s missile defense systems, with fragments from the projectile then falling to earth…