And overwhelm israels air defences with multiple waves of drones and missiles. But israels advanced defence system destroyed most of them in the air , destroyed most of them in the air, with the help of its western allies. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has more. So how is israel able to defend itself with the help of its allies . First, they knew about the attack. It was telegraphed in advance, but the scale was significant with more than 300 weapons fired, including more than 170 armed drones, 30 Cruise Missiles and 120 Ballistic Missiles, which can travel twice the speed of sound. Most of those were fired from iran itself, the first time irans directly attacked israel from its own territory. But the us says some were also launched from iraq, syria and yemen. Iran has demonstrated that it has an appetite for risk, but it doesnt have an appetite for too much risk. It wanted to impose a cost on the other side without necessarily triggering a broader escalation and an all out
Us Officials Say President Joe Biden told israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, to think very carefully about his response after israel vowed to exact a price from iran, at a time of its choosing. The Un Security Council convened an Emergency Session on sunday to discuss the crisis. Opening the meeting, the uns secretary general, antonio guterres, told diplomats, its vital to avoid any action that could lead to Major Military confrontations on multiple fronts in the middle east. Adding, civilians are already bearing the brunt and paying the highest price. But israels ambassador rejected the call for the violence to stop saying, this attack crossed every red line and israel reserves the legal right to retaliate. He said it was vital to israels future to respond to the attack. We are not a frog in boiling water, he said, we are a nation of lions. But irans ambassador defended his nations actions have a listen. This concluded action was necessary and proportionate. It was precise a