Israel continued its military campaign against Iran overnight Saturday, striking key missile infrastructure, as Tehran launched repeated salvos of ballistic missiles at Israel and issued new threats against European countries that might join the war.
As the war entered its second week, the Israel Defense Forces said that more than 80 air force fighter jets carried out a wave of strikes overnight on several Iranian military sites in Tehran and central Iran, dropping around 230 bombs on the targets.
Among the targets was a subterranean site “for the storage and production of ballistic missiles, from which hundreds of soldiers from the armed forces of the Iranian terror regime operated,” the IDF said.
The military said the site “contained bunkers and military headquarters of regime elements.”
Additionally, the IDF said it struck another missile storage site, which included bunkers and launch infrastructure, as well as Imam Hossein University, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military academy, which the IDF says “served as an emergency asset and an assembly complex for the IRGC,” including during the war.
As the war entered a new phase, the military said it was ramping up strikes on Iran’s weapon production facilities across the country, including those used to manufacture missiles and launchers.
Earlier, footage posted to social media showed strikes and large fires at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, after the Israeli military said it was carrying out an “extensive” wave of strikes against regime targets in Iran’s capital.
Iran launches missiles at Israel
Even as Israeli strikes intensified inside Iran, Tehran continued firing missiles toward Israel overnight and into Saturday morning.
Frequent launches throughout the night triggered sirens in Jerusalem, Beersheba and northern Israel, repeatedly sending millions of people scrambling for bomb shelters.
At around 6:20 a.m., the IDF said it detected the fifth launch of ballistic missiles from Iran since midnight, triggering sirens in Tel Aviv and other parts of central Israel.
While the attacks came every few hours, there were a relatively small number of missiles in each salvo and most were intercepted. Medics said there were no reports of injuries following the attacks, and there were no reports of missile impacts.
Short warnings
On Friday evening, several Iranian missile barrages prompted sirens across central Israel, though the advance warning time before the alarms sounded was shorter than in previous attacks.
A review of Home Front Command alerts showed that at 7:16 p.m., an early warning was issued for central Israel, with sirens sounding three minutes later at 7:19 p.m. Another alert at 8:40 p.m. was followed by sirens just one minute later, and a third warning at 9:54 p.m. preceded sirens by about two minutes.
Earlier attacks during the war had typically provided civilians four to eight minutes of preparation time
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