Hundreds of missiles launched at Israel as Iran vows retaliation

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says Tehran’s effect to Israel’s onslaught volition not not beryllium ‘half measured’.

Iran has launched hundreds of ballistic missiles towards Israel successful retaliation for a large onslaught connected Tehran’s atomic sites.

Explosions were heard implicit Tel Aviv and Jerusalem arsenic sirens sounded crossed Israel connected Friday night. This follows an unprecedented onslaught by Israel successful the aboriginal hours of Friday, which targeted Iranian atomic sites, elder subject commanders and scientists.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Israel’s strikes had “initiated a war” and it would not beryllium allowed to bash “hit and run” attacks without consequences.

“The Zionist authorities [Israel] volition not stay unscathed from the consequences of its crime. The Iranian federation indispensable beryllium guaranteed that our effect volition not beryllium half-measured,” Khamenei said successful a statement.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Iran “carried retired its crushing and precise effect against dozens of targets, subject centres and airbases” successful Israel astatine the bid of Supreme Leader Khamenei.

Three abstracted waves of attacks were launched astatine Israel connected Friday night, Iranian authorities quality bureau IRNA said.

At slightest 1 projectile impacted cardinal Tel Aviv, said Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Amman, Jordan.

A modern flat artifact was deed successful cardinal Tel Aviv, and according to unrecorded footage from the scene, fires raged wrong immoderate of the apartments, with fume billowing from the building.

Another residential building, adjacent to the flat block, besides appeared to person suffered important damage, with windows blown and pieces of twisted metallic hanging from its exterior.

Israeli paper Haaretz, citing exigency services, said 15 radical person been wounded successful cardinal Israel, with 1 successful mean condition.

The Israeli nationalist has been instructed to stay successful shelters.

Israel’s attacks connected Iran killed respective apical Iranian generals and scientists, including the equipped forces main of staff, Major-General Mohammed Bagheri, and the IRGC chief, Hossein Salami.

However, Major-General Mohammed Pakpour was swiftly promoted to regenerate Salami.

In a missive to Khamenei work retired connected authorities television, Pakpour promised that “the gates of hellhole volition unfastened to the child-killing regime”, referring to Israel.

During Israel’s astonishment onslaught successful the aboriginal hours of Friday, its subject said it had struck much than 200 targets crossed Iran.

Before Iran’s retaliatory strikes, Israeli subject spokesperson Brigadier-General Effie Defrin told journalists that Israel’s service was “continuing to strike”.

“Iran has the quality to importantly harm the Israeli location front”, Defrin told a televised quality league that was chopped abbreviated owed to what the service said was an incoming attack.

The service besides urged citizens to instrumentality adjacent to “protected spaces” and debar nationalist gatherings amid a imaginable Iranian onslaught connected Israel.

In a connection earlier connected Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said helium expected “several waves of Iranian attacks”.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies