Welcome to jerusalem welcome tojerusalem as a new chapter is being written in the turbulent history of the middle east. After decades of shadow wars and covert operations, iran and israel, long time archenemies, are now in direct confrontation. In the early hours of the morning here, iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles over israeli territory. Israel, backed by its allies, said almost all of the projectiles were shot down. It says the attack was foiled. This morning israel is still on high alert and the Israeli Army Says it is weighing its response. Lets look at this video of the events throughout the night in jerusalem and across israel. Sirens. What you can hear is the air raid sirens injerusalem. What you can see is israels Air Defence System, the iron dome, in operation. Flashes in Thejerusalem Sky as drones and missiles are shot down. A coalition of israels allies, including the us and uk, helped shoot down some iranian drones and missiles before they reached israeli terr
Was in relatiation for an air strike two weeks ago on one of its consulates in damascus, widely thought to have been carried out by israel. Speaking on Iranian State tv, the armed forces Chief Of Staff warned israel of a larger attack on its territory should it retaliate against the overnight drone and missile attack. Lets bring you up to date with the latest. Lets take a look at how events unfolded. Sirens. What you can hear is the air raid sirens injerusalem. What you can see is israels Air Defence System, the iron dome, in Operation Flashes in thejerusalem sky as drones and missiles are shot down. A coalition of israels allies, including the us and uk has helped shoot down some iranian drones and missiles before they reached israeli territory. This is footage of that happening overjordan. Similarly, this video is from the Skies Over Damascus in syria. You can see objects being hit in the sky. And again, in the skies over iraq. More drones and missiles being intercepted as they trave
We will have the latest developments for you. We be live injerusalem a few moments. Firstly we will take a look at the latest. Have a listen and at this. Air raid sirens that is the sound of sirens over jerusalem. The explosions there as 300, around 300 drones and missiles launched towards israel. Israel says that 99 of them were taken out. Lets look at the skies overjordan. Israels allies helped, the us, uk and france helped shoot down objects of the sky. The skies over damascus, syria. Lets take a look at how israel defends itself. This is the iron dome in operation, you can see the missiles intercepted in the sky. The update from israel, no significant damage done, no deaths but a young girl was injured by falling they breed and is being treated in hospital. Lets take a look at the reaction in iran. These were scenes on the streets after it was announced that iran had taken this action. Iran says this is in retaliation for israels believed attack on its consulate two weeks ago. Look
It is mid day injerusalem. This time yesterday israel and countries in the region and far beyond watching and waiting to see what iran would do next. And now in the early hours of the morning, the world found out. Iran launched for the first time a direct attack against israel. This is an unprecedented moment and uncharted territory. Hundreds of drones and missiles were fired from iran into the skies above israel. Israel says it intercepted almost all of the projectiles. Backed by the us, uk, france and jordan. This morning israeli officials are saying the confrontation isnt over and are assessing their options. Irans military chief told state tv that as far as iran was concerned, a line had been drawn under the confrontation after its retaliatory strike. A strike conducted by iran after the date for the first attack on its embassy in the Syrian Capital Damascus which destroyed the consulate and also killed senior members of irans Islamic Revolutionary guard corps. Its warning israel t
Uk and france, saying it intercepted some flying objects while they were passing over its airspace. Welcome to the programme. We have plenty of International Reaction coming up to a overnight. First of all, take a look at what happened. Air raid sirens. These are the sirens overjerusalem and the Explosions In The Sky there over israel. Sum up 300 drones and missiles are fired towards israel. And the idf is saying that around 99 of them were taken out of the sky. Are notjust above israel, these pictures next are from jordan, allies helping here, the us, uk and france among those shooting ten objects over outside israel. Also syria and damascus, two similar scenes there. We have a look now at the iron dome, heading back to israel, the Defence Mechanism covering much of israel. Intercepted missiles were fired from the ground there leaving trails of towards those drones and missiles. The assessment of the damage from israel is very limited, no deaths, some infrastructure and military bases