Iran fires missiles at Israel in retaliation for strikes on nuclear sites
Explosions were heard over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as sirens sounded on Friday night across Israel following what the country's military spokesman said was the firing of missiles from Iran.
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Iran's state news agency IRNA said hundreds of ballistic missiles had been launched in retaliation for Israel's biggest ever attacks on Iran, blasting Iran's huge underground nuclear site at Natanz and wiping out its top military commanders.
'The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps … has executed its decisive and precise response against tens of targets, military centres and airbases of the usurping Zionist regime in the occupied territories,' the Guards said in a statement carried by state media.
The Israeli military said Iran had fired less than 100 missiles, most of which were either intercepted or fell short.
'A limited number of buildings were affected, some of them as a result of shrapnel from the interception operations,' the Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on social media.
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The US military had helped shoot down the Iranian missiles, two US officials said. One of the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that for now the US interceptions had been carried out by ground-based systems. The official said fighter aircraft and warships had not been used so far.
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