Iran has fired missiles into Israel in response to the Israeli army’s marketing campaign towards Tehran’s ally Hezbollah.
Explosions might be heard in Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley after Israelis sought shelter in bomb shelters as scores of missiles rained down.
Sky Information has correspondents reporting from Israel and the Lebanese capital Beirut throughout this vital escalation within the battle.
Right here’s what they witnessed.
Individuals attempting ‘take some cowl’
“We’re speaking most likely in extra of fifty, 60, 70 missiles,” stated Center East correspondent Alistair Bunkall as he gazed up on the sky from Tel Aviv.
He defined that there was a “enormous quantity of exercise within the air above us” and it was laborious to differentiate between an incoming missile and one launched by Israel to intercept.
Bunkall stated the Iranian missiles have been heading in the direction of central Tel Aviv.
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Bunkall says tonight’s strikes seems to be a part of a “far bigger assault than April” – when Iran fired weapons at Israel after the Israeli army attacked the Iranian embassy in Syria.
Iran seems to have fired ballistic missiles this time, which take 10 to 12 minutes to achieve Israel.
Again in April it was drones – a lot slower and simpler to intercept.
“Lots of people” are out within the open air in the intervening time, Bunkall stated tonight.
Some determined to attempt to proceed their journeys residence, he added, whereas others have tried to “get to the aspect of the street and take some cowl, whether or not that’s below a bridge or in a lay-by someplace”.
‘We noticed them intercept’
Iron Dome rockets have been seen going as much as intercept missiles, stated our safety and defence editor Deborah Haynes, who’s in northern Israel close to the border with Lebanon.
“We noticed the Iranian missiles streaking throughout the sky, we noticed the intercepts after which we noticed the explosions when the intercepts have been profitable,” Haynes stated.
“It’s an extremely troublesome operation to attempt to intercept ballistic missiles anyway, not to mention some 200 of them,” she added.
Haynes additionally stated she heard “small arms fireplace” close by in the course of the missile assault.
“Whereas these strikes from Iran are being launched in the direction of Israel, Israeli forces have launched their restricted group operation into Lebanon,” she stated.
‘An extremely harmful second’
Sirens have been going off in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as our lead world presenter Yalda Hakim reported from Beirut in Lebanon.
She stated “thuds and bangs have been blaring throughout” Israel.
Hakim added that she had been chatting with some Israeli individuals who informed her they’d been “taking shelter in bunkers in the intervening time, that they’re listening to some interceptions, however they’re additionally unclear about what projectiles have managed to get by way of”.
“That is an extremely harmful second for Israel, for this area,” she stated. “An extremely tense, scary second for the residents of Israel as we wait and see what injury has really been performed.”