The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) hit military targets throughout Iran during the early morning hours on Saturday in retaliation for Iran launching more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israel at the start of the month.
The IDF said in a statement that the strikes were now over and that its objectives were achieved. Israel did not hit Iranian oil or nuclear facilities.
More than 100 combat aircraft, launched from inside Israel, were used during the strikes, according to The New York Times.
Iranian media said several members of the military were killed during the strikes on 20 different locations, which concluded around 6 a.m.
The IDF said that the fighter jets “struck missile manufacturing facilities used to produce the missiles that Iran fired at the State of Israel over the last year.”
“Simultaneously, the IDF struck surface-to-air missile arrays and additional Iranian aerial…
