Israel says Iran has launched 100 drones as air raid sirens blare across country

Early Friday morning, section time, Israel launched dozens of strikes against Iran and declared a authorities of emergency, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz.

"Following the State of Israel's preemptive onslaught against Iran, a rocket and drone onslaught against the State of Israel and its civilian colonisation is expected successful the contiguous future," Katz said successful a statement.

Air raid sirens sounded successful Tel Aviv pursuing the announcement.

The U.S. did not supply immoderate assistance oregon person immoderate engagement successful the Israeli strike, a U.S. authoritative told ABC News.

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Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin says that "Iran launched astir 100 UAVs towards Israeli territory, which we are moving to intercept."

Israel says it is readying to usage its aerial defenses to intercept the drones.

The authorities of exigency means cipher is allowed to beryllium retired connected the streets and astir each businesses, including schools, offices and supermarkets, person besides been unopen arsenic the airspace implicit Israel is closed.

Iran confirms decease of general, respective apical scientists

Iran has confirmed the deaths of the apical wide of Iran's Revolutionary Guard arsenic good arsenic respective apical scientists, according to the wide unit of the equipped forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Hossein Salami, the IRGC commander-in-chief, has been confirmed to person been killed on with Gholamali Rashid, lawman main of the wide unit of the equipped forces of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, physicist and president of Islamic Azad University, and atomic idiosyncratic Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi, Iran said.

Ali Shamkhani, a subordinate of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran, was earnestly injured but is inactive alive, Iran said, and the presumption of Dr. Abdolhamid Minouchehr, the caput of atomic engineering astatine Iran's Shahid Beheshti University, is yet to beryllium confirmed.

Meanwhile, Iranian State TV is reporting that respective residential neighborhoods and flat complexes were deed and says that determination were casualties of civilians and children successful the attack. However, numbers person yet to beryllium confirmed.