Smoke billows over Tel Aviv after Iran fires missiles.
The smoke towered over the city’s skyscrapers as blasts echoed across the city, the journalist said.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday that Israel‘s deadly attacks on his country will “bring it to ruin”, vowing retaliation.
“The armed forces of the Islamic republic will inflict heavy blows upon this malevolent enemy,” Khamenei said in a televised speech, adding that the consequences of the Israeli attack “will bring it to ruin”.
Meanwhile, Iranian state media said the country’s forces downed two Israeli fighter jets.
“At least two Israeli fighter jets were shot down in Iranian skies,” the official IRNA news agency reported, without elaborating.
More sirens sound across Israel after Iranian missiles
Israel’s Home Front Command application used to warn the public of incoming projectiles said that sirens sounded across the country.
Speaking on Israel’s Channel 12, Eli Bin, the spokesman for the Magen David Adom rescue service, said that seven people were lightly injured in central Israel. Images on Channel 12 showed what appeared to be a building hit by a missile.
Israel’s military on Friday also said it identified missiles fired from Iran towards Israel, and ordered all citizens to head to shelters.
“A short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel,” it said in a statement, adding the public should enter protected shelters “and remain there until further notice”.
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