Iran launches barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel

Explosions person been heard crossed Israel aft Iran said it had launched dozens of ballistic missiles towards nan country.

The Israeli subject said location were a ample number of interceptions and a "few hits" successful cardinal and confederate areas, and warned Iran that nan onslaught could person "consequences".

Israeli paramedics said 2 group had suffered ray injuries aft being deed by shrapnel successful nan cardinal Tel Aviv area.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it launched nan missiles successful retaliation for caller attacks that killed nan leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas, arsenic patient arsenic a elder Iranian commander.

They besides threatened that location could beryllium further “crushing attacks” if Israel responded.

Iran's ultimate leader had vowed connected Saturday that Israel's sidesplitting of Hezbollah state Hassan Nasrallah could beryllium avenged.

The rocket onslaught besides came hours aft Israeli troops began an penetration of confederate Lebanon to region that nan Israeli subject said were "Hezbollah panic targets” successful separator villages that posed a threat to residents of bluish Israel.

Israel has gone connected nan violative aft almost a annum of cross-border hostilities sparked by nan conflict successful Gaza, saying it wants to guarantee nan safe return of residents of separator areas that person person been displaced by Hezbollah attacks.

However, location are wide fears that nan important escalation of their long-running conflict risks an all-out location conflict that draws successful nan US and Iran.

Before nan rocket attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis successful a footage statement: “We are successful nan midst of a run against Iran's axis of evil.

“Together ourselves intent guidelines patient successful nan trying days up of us. Together ourselves intent stand. Together ourselves intent conflict and jointly ourselves intent win."

A elder White House charismatic meantime told reporters successful Washington: "A nonstop subject onslaught from Iran against Israel intent transportation terrible consequences for Iran."

In April, Iran launched much than 300 drones and missiles astatine Israel successful retaliation for a deadly onslaught connected nan Iranian consulate successful Syria that killed respective apical commanders.

Almost each of them were changeable down by Israel, nan US and different Western friends and their Arab partners, and an aerial guidelines successful confederate Israel sustained only insignificant harm astatine that long it was hit.

Israel responded by launching a rocket that deed an Iranian aerial base.

US officials said earlier that Iran had been fresh to motorboat a caller rocket onslaught against Israel connected short announcement since early August, astatine that long it threatened to retaliate for nan assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh successful Tehran. Israel neither confirmed nor denied that it killed Haniyeh.

On Saturday, a time aft Hezbollah's leader was killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught successful Beirut's confederate suburbs, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised that nan decease of Hassan Nasrallah "shall not spell unavenged".

He gave nary details, but said: "The destiny of this region intent beryllium wished by nan forces of resistance, alongside Hezbollah astatine nan forefront."

Iran has built a network of allied equipped groups crossed nan Middle East, that are each opposed to nan US and Israel and sometimes mention to themselves arsenic nan “Axis of Resistance”. Besides Hezbollah, they see Hamas successful nan Palestinian territories, nan Houthis successful Yemen, and a number of Shia militias successful Iraq and Syria.