Iran made good its threats to attack Israel Saturday night by launching a wave of drones and missiles attacks from its territory.
Most of the projectiles were destroyed by the Israel military as it worked to minimize causality in the first-ever direct attack on Israel by Iran. Israel last week attacked the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria killing a number of people.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari first confirmed at 11 p.m. that the attack, anticipated for several days, had begun. He later said Iran also fired missiles at Israel, while “numerous” fighter jets were in the sky countering Tehran’s attacks.
Sirens began sounding in southern Israeli communities around 1:42 a.m., before extending to large swathes of the country. Loud booms sounded across north and south, as well as in Jerusalem and many towns in the northern West Bank.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed launching dozens of drones and missiles against specific targets in Israel, Iranian state media quoted a statement by the elite force as saying. The state-run IRNA news agency quoted an anonymous official saying that ballistic missiles were launched as part of the attack.
Hagari said that in total, Iran launched more than 200 projectiles at Israel, including dozens of ballistic missiles
