内容摘要：after they invaded his home near Brecon, Powys, on Sunday - but said he has now counted more than 250 stings across his body.

after they invaded his home near Brecon, Powys, on Sunday - but said he has now counted more than 250 stings across his body.

There were 768,899 patient pathways on the list in March, a rise of nearly 6,400 on the month.The number of individual patients waiting for treatment is also a record - 599,100.

This accounts for those patients who are waiting for more than one treatment after being referred by their GP.There was also a rise in those patients waiting more than a year, although those waiting more than two years continue to fall.A Welsh government spokesperson said: “We will continue to focus on reducing waiting times and improving access to NHS care and services for people throughout Wales."

A&E waiting times improved over the month but the ambulance performance against the response time for life-threatening calls worsened over the month.Cancer waiting times - against the target for starting treatment within two months of suspicion - was the best monthly peformance for two years.

The figures show 60.5% of patients started treatment within the target of 62 days.

This remains below the 75% target, however.It also did not say exactly how many were intercepted, explaining that it wanted to avoid “giving Iran and Hezbollah information that will help them learn lessons”. The IDF claimed that 99% of the Iranian projectiles launched in April’s attack were intercepted.

Israel has a sophisticated system of air defences, the best-known of which is the Iron Dome. It is designed to intercept short-range rockets of the sort fired by Hamas and Hezbollah.While it was used to defend against some elements of Iran's last attack in April, other elements of the country's "layered" defence systems probably did the bulk of the work on Tuesday.

David’s Sling - a joint US-Israeli manufactured system - is used to intercept medium to long-range rockets, as well as ballistic and cruise missiles. And when it comes to long-range ballistic missiles, which fly outside the Earth’s atmosphere, Israel has the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 interceptors.The Pentagon said two US Navy destroyers deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean fired a dozen interceptors as part of the efforts to defend Israel, but that it was not known whether they took down any of the missiles.