Sharing the first visuals of the strikes on Iran, the Israeli Air Force has posted a video on X, showing military targets, including missile launchers, being hit
In the text posted with the video, the Israeli Air Force said hundreds of targets were struck in western Iran.
"In parallel to the Air Force strikes in Iran, the air defence array is operating to intercept threats launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel," the air force wrote.
After threatening to do so for months, Israel and the US launched attacks on Iran on Saturday, hitting targets in several areas, including the capital, Tehran.
Some of the first strikes hit areas around the offices of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had reportedly already been moved to a secure location.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported that at least 40 people, including school children, were killed in an Israeli-US strike on a girls' school in Minab in Southern Iran's Hormozgan province. Minab is home to a base of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
In its counterattack, Iran said it had targeted the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. Iranian missiles also targeted Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. At least two people were killed in the UAE attack.
Trump said Washington's goal was "eliminating imminent threats" from Iran, and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation was to remove an "existential threat".
"We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated. We're going to annihilate their navy," Trump said.
He also offered Iranian forces, including the Revolutionary Guards "immunity" should they surrender, or "certain death" if not, and told Iranians the "hour of your freedom is at hand", urging them to rise up and "take over your government".
(With inputs from AFP)
