Hello, im alex marquardt. Welcome to the cnn newsroom. We are following Breaking News. Iran has launched an attack act against israel. If youre just joining us dozens of iranian drones are now bound for israel as well as Cruise Missiles, according to the israeli news media yeah, this of course, leaving the entire middle east and beyond very much on edge is forces are planning to intercept as many of those aircraft and missiles as possible. The United States has said they will help with those interceptions at best they can at this hour. However, we do not yet know what the results of these attacks may be just moments ago, the white house said that this attack is expected to unfold over the next few hours. It is just past midnight in israel, we have got reporters and analysts all over the map as we try practice news including mj lee at the white house, Jeremy Diamond in jerusalem, clarissa ward, and tel aviv and ben wedeman in beirut. I want to get straight to our ben wedeman who is in l
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