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Israeli socialite Hofit Golan has posted footage from her hotel balcony of rockets and explosions hitting Dubai‘s famous Palm Jumeirah hotel.
An Iranian missile hit Dubai’s famous hotel as Tehran launches widespread revenge attacks across the Middle East following US airstrikes.
Hofit, 40, is among the celebrities and influencers currently fearing for their safety in the UAE amid the Iranian missile strikes.
She wrote on Instagram: ‘After being debriefed from my flights as the skies closed above us. I came home to see the Palm filling up with smoke!
‘I can see rockets and explosions from my balcony! reports of other explosions being heard all over the city. Please stay safe, everyone’, she urged.
Love Island star Laura Anderson, 36, reassured her followers that her and daughter Bonnie, two, ‘are fine’ after touching down in Dubai in the early hours of Saturday.
She shared: ‘Horrendous situation. Bonnie and I are fine.’
Fellow Love Islander Arabella Chi is also in the proximity of the explosions.
Petra Ecclestone and her husband Sam Palmer, who recently moved to Dubai with their children, are also stuck in the UAE.
Sam took to social media following the strikes and wrote: ‘Everyone in UAE watching the news now’.
In a separate post, he said: ‘Forget the war. The Americans have now ruined my golf trip… Just when I was looking forward to a week of golf in Marbella. THIS HAPPENS’.
Meanwhile, the daughter of Baroness Karren Brady, influencer Sophia Pesch, said expressed her fears following the sound of the bomb exploding.
She wrote: ‘I never imagined I’d experience the sound of a bomb exploding. So scary omg. Stay safe guys.’
Israeli socialite Hofit Golan has posted footage from her hotel balcony of rockets and explosions hitting Dubai’s famous Palm Jumeirah hotel
An Iranian missile hit Dubai’s famous Palm Jumeirah hotel as Tehran launches widespread revenge attacks across the Middle East following US airstrikes
Hofit (pictured at Cannes Film Festival in 2024) is among the celebrities and influencers currently fearing for their safety in the UAE amid the Iranian missile strikes
Jamie Laing has also sent his ‘thoughts and prayers’ to his wife Sophie Habboo‘s sister Georgia, who is currently on holiday in Dubai with her baby daughter and husband Tom Berry.
Ahead of Jamie and Sophie’s appearance at the 2026 BRIT Awards, he wrote: ‘Thoughts and prayers to friends, families and people in the Middle East’.
Missiles fired by Tehran have struck US military bases in Qatar and have also rained down on Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Bahrain and Israel.
Videos posted on social media show Dubai’s iconic Palm Jumeirah ablaze after it was hit by a suspected Iranian missile or missile debris.
Meanwhile, Israeli media is now reporting there are ‘growing indications’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed when his Tehran compound was razed to the ground in a strike.
Officials had earlier reported that the strikes had caused ‘very significant harm’ to the leadership of the Iranian regime and its military commanders.
Khamenei has not been heard from since the US and Israel launched their dual attack on Iran on Saturday morning.