Syrian state television presenter Safaa Ahmed reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike against Damascus

Confirmed^

It’s begun

Sorry, the map is showing air raid alerts across Israel as Iran began its missile attack

No impacts yet, just confirmation of launches

Iran is expected to carry out several waves of launches over the next several hours

Yeah this looks significantly larger than what we saw in April

Impacts in Tel Aviv

Me thinks Israel’s first targets in their response will be Iranian nuclear program infrastructure

All the footage you are seeing is from the first wave, which appears to have targeted Tel Aviv and military bases in the Negev.

More waves are expected

Still waiting on confirmation as to what was actually hit, as well as the extent of damage

April was more so a show of force than a committed attack, similar to the attack against US forces in Iraq after Soleimani was killed. Iran has the capability to conduct precise strikes, meaning they can hit a base, but purposely not hit anything that would cause escalation. This could be same case, but we will have to wait and see.

The way I saw April was like this:

- Israel kills IRGC leadership

- Iran responds with missile
and drone attack that essentially had zero impact against Israeli operational capabilities. The attack was a grand show and could be presented as a successful retaliatory attack.

- Israel responds by striking ADA systems in Iran, which did not have any impact on Iran military capabilities. For Israel, this could be presented as a successful response to Iran’s attack. Iran swept it under the rug as if nothing happened, thus preventing near term escalation.

Could we see a repeat? Does nothing ever happen?

No indication of continued strikes

So far no indication of extensive damage, only one casualty reported (Palestinian man was crushed by a falling rocket booster in the West Bank)

I’m guessing the attack lasted for 30 minutes at most. Latency in media photos and video hitting social media always makes events seem longer than they actually are.

Was going over footage from tonight and caught what appears to be a rare exoatmospheric interception of an Iranian ballistic missile, likely from an Israeli Arrow 3 hypersonic ABM.

It still appears that the only confirmed fatality from tonight’s Iranian missile attack was a Palestinian pedestrian who was crushed by a missile booster in the West Bank.

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