📹 Tel Aviv residents report that the Iron Dome has been activated and intercepting threats above the city, successfully shooting down numerous targets

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📹 Palestinians in Gaza cheer upon seeing Iranian missiles flying towards Israel, according to a social media video

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📹 Iranian missiles spotted over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

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❗️Iran fired more than 200 missiles into southern and central Israel, according to Israeli media reports

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📹 Numerous Iranian missile impacts recorded in a video circulating Palestinian social media channels

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❗️Iran’s missile attack on Israel was ordered by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameni, according to Reuters

US President Biden orders US troops to help Israel fend off Iran’s missile attack.

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⚡️ Second wave of Iranian missile attack on Israel has begun, Iranian ILNA news agency reported

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❗️Iran’s Fars News claims that 80% of missiles in Iran’s first wave attack hit their targets, citing unnamed informed sources

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📹 Palestinians celebrate Iranian missile attacks against Israel

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📹 Residents of Negev Desert in southern Israel film Iranian missile impacts

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📹 More footage of Iranian missiles hitting Israel’s Negev Desert

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❗️Israel is not anticipating a second wave of attacks from Iran, so residents can safely leave their shelters, an Israeli army spokesman said

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📹 Iranian missiles reportedly strike an Israeli offshore gas platform near the coastal city of Ashkelon, according to a video circulating social media

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❗️Israel has reopened its airspace following the wave of rocket attacks from Iran, Israel Hayom reports

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❗️US troops illegally stationed in Syria’s Homs province attempted to intercept Iranian missiles heading to Israel — Sputnik’s correspondent

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❗️Iranian media claims that the missile attack destroyed 20 Israeli fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets and a “large number” of Israeli tanks in the Gaza Strip

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📹 CNN admits that Israel’s Mossad headquarters is located in a densely populated area

Israel has previously justified attacks on residential areas of Gaza and Beirut by claiming that it was targeting nearby Hamas and Hezbollah military assets.

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What is known about Iran's missile attack on Israel?

Iran fired some 400 ballistic missiles into southern and central Israel, according to Jerusalem post.

In an official statement Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stated that the attack is a response to Israel's killing of chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Brig. Gen. Abbas Nilforoshan, an IRGC commander.

The IRGC warned that if Israel responds to the attack, it would be followed by more destructive strikes. The strike itself was ordered by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameni, according to Reuters.

▪️Siren’s sound was heard in all Israeli cities: Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Haifa, Beersheba, West Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip after rockets were launched from Iran towards Israel.

▪️Israel closed its air space amid the Iranian retaliation strike, Iraq and Jordan also shut their airspaces, according to the Israeli media.

▪️A second wave of Iranian missile attack on Israel followed the first one, Iranian ILNA news agency reported.

❗️Aftermath

▪️Two people were lightly wounded by shrapnel in Tel Aviv in the wake of the missile strike, Israeli medics reported.

▪️Iran’s Fars News claimed that 80% of missiles in Iran’s first wave attack hit their targets, citing unnamed informed sources.

▪️Iranian missiles hit gas platforms in Israel's Ashkelon, according to Iranian news agency Tasnim.

❗️Reactions

▪️President Joe Biden directed the US military to provide assistance to the Israeli defense forces amid the Iranian attack.

▪️IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Israel would respond to the Iranian missile attack: "We have plans, and we will act in the time and place that we choose."

▪️Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stated President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris are leading the world to brink of WWIII.

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📹 Iranians gather in the streets to celebrate missile attack on Israel

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❗️Iran warned the US through diplomatic channels about its plans for a missile attack on Israel shortly beforehand, Reuters reported

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