Iranian missiles are slicing through the evening sky over Tel Aviv as Tehran responds to the killing of Hezbollah leader and terrorist mastermind Hassan Nasrallah. Some reports on Israeli television put the number of missiles at 100, while the head of emergency medical organisation Magen David Adom has told Channel 12 that the number is in the hundreds.
Videos uploaded to social media show some ballistics being intercepted. The attack has coincided with a shooting incident in nearby Jaffa, where two terrorists are reported to have murdered eight and injured a further seven. It is not clear whether the two incidents are linked.
Iran will want to avoid a hot war with Israel
The next few hours will give us a better picture of the true scale of this operation. As it stands, a few hundred missiles is a payload that looks impressive on TV but isn’t about to bring Israel to its knees.
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