Sri Lanka, June 24 -- Israel's emergency services has said that four people have been killed after a missile struck a residential building in the southern Israel city of Beer Sheva.

The emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) said earlier a man around 40 years old, a woman about 30 years old and a man around 20 years old were critically wounded.

20 other people were being treated with light to moderate injuries, an MDA spokesperson said.

The Israel Defense Forces said it identified missiles launched from Iran toward Israel and instructed residents to enter bomb shelters.

Israel issued six alerts warning of separate waves of Iranian missiles overnight and into Tuesday morning local time, in the hours before a fragile ceasefire between...