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Israeli forces warned that “everyone is on fire” after Tehran launched a retaliatory strike on Friday following Israel’s attacks on Iranian forces and nuclear targets.
Iran confirmed local time had fired “hundreds of different ballistic missiles” at Israel on Friday evening.
“Some time ago, hundreds of different ballistic missiles were launched towards the occupying territories, and the operation of a decisive response to the Zionist regime’s savage attacks began,” IRNA, an official Iranian news agency, reported.
Teams from CNN in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were able to hear the massive explosion, and Tel Aviv video showed rockets and smoke rising incoming inside the city’s skyscrapers.
Seven people were “lightly and moderately injured” after an Iranian strike struck at the border between Iranian Aviv and Israel’s Ramat Gan city, according to head of Israel’s emergency services, Eli Bin.
Images and videos released by Magen David Adom, an affiliate of the Israeli Red Cross, showed civil defense workers investigating the façades of broken cars and collapsed buildings in Central Israel.
The Iranian barrage came after Israel launched two major attacks on Iran early in the morning of local time.
The Israeli attacks, accompanied by years of threat and growing speculation, were executed without the blessings of Israel’s closest ally, the United States. The Trump administration emphasized that Israel was acting unilaterally and that Washington was “not involved.”
Iran’s retaliation on Friday evening began as a briefing of a press conference with Israeli Defence Force (IDF) officials was underway.
IDF spokesman Effie Defrin was answering questions from journalists when it was announced on speakerphone. The briefing broadcast was then shorter.
The defense system has been activated, according to a statement from the Israeli Defence Force, which directed them to search for shelters.
This is a developing story and will be updated.