Iran launches missile attacks on Israel, killing 2, injuring more than 20 others

Iran and Israel targeted each other with missiles and air strikes in the early hours of Saturday, after Israel launched its largest-ever air offensive against its longtime enemy in an attempt to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.

Air raid sirens were heard across Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, forcing residents to rush to shelters as successive waves of Iranian missiles spread across the sky and Israeli interceptors scrambled to intercept them.

Two people are reported dead and more than 20 others injured after an Iranian missile hit south of Tel Aviv, Israel's emergency services said.

A large number of paramedics were sent to the scene, where they found extensive damage and a number of people trapped under the rubble.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Saturday that the Iranian leadership had crossed a red line by shooting civilians and that it would “pay a heavy price for this.”
A rocket fired from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthi militia killed five Palestinians, including three children, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

In Iran, several explosions were heard overnight in the capital Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

The Fars news agency said two missiles hit Tehran's Mehrabad airport, and Iranian media reported flames there. Near key Iranian leadership locations, the airport houses an air force base with fighter jets and transport planes.

Iran's UN envoy, Amir Saeid Iravani, said 78 people, including senior military officials, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Iran and more than 320 others were injured, most of them civilians.

Tehran launched a wave of airstrikes on Saturday after two airstrikes on Friday evening, Fars reported. One of the waves of airstrikes targeted Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial hub, before dawn on Saturday, with explosions heard as far away as Jerusalem, witnesses said.

These were in response to Israel's strikes on Iran early Friday against commanders, nuclear scientists, military targets and nuclear sites. Iran denies that its uranium enrichment activities are part of a secret weapons program.

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