Israeli firefighters worked for hours to free people trapped in a high-rise building in Tel Aviv on Friday.
Resident Chen Gabizon told AFP he ran to an underground shelter after receiving an alert.
“After a few minutes, we just heard a very big explosion, everything was shaking, smoke, dust, everything was all over the place,” he said.
Jordan’s civil aviation authority said it had reopened its airspace on Saturday, a day after suspending it as Israel and Iran traded fire.
“Jordan has reopened its airspace starting 7.30am (5.30am BST),” Haitham Misto, the chairman of the Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission, said in a statement.
Iran ‘undecided’ on continuing nuclear talks with US
Iran has yet to decide whether to join a sixth round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman on Sunday, state media reported, as Israel and Iran traded fire for a second day.
“It is still unclear what decision we will make for Sunday,” Esmaeil Baqaei, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, told the official IRNA news agency on Saturday.
How Israel attacked Iran: from masked men in the desert to devastation
The scene was set for “operation rising lion” long before the strikes on Iran began in the early hours of Friday. The Mossad commando fighter cells smuggled into the heart of Iran helped to position precision weapons in open areas adjacent to surface-to-air missile systems, and high-tech equipment enabled Israel to establish a secret base for launching attack drones near Tehran.
What followed was the biggest attack on Iranian territory for almost 40 years. Read the full reconstruction of events here.
Two deputy commanders among dead, says Iran
Two deputy commanders at the Iranian armed forces’ general staff were killed in Israeli attacks, Iranian state media reported on Saturday.
It was unclear when the two commanders were killed but their deaths were announced on Saturday.
Israel’s attacks on Iran since Friday have killed at least 78 people, including senior military officials, in what are Israel’s biggest attacks ever against Iran.
• Hossein Salami obituary: chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Iran says slight damage to nuclear facility but no contamination risk
Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility sustained limited damage following recent attacks, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Saturday, citing a spokesman for the country’s atomic energy organisation.
Fordow fuel enrichment plant, northeast of Qom
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“There has been limited damage to some areas at the Fordow enrichment site,” Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for the state atomic energy agency, said. “We had already moved a significant part of the equipment and materials out, and there was no extensive damage and there are no contamination concerns.”
Death toll in Israel rises to three
The Beilinson Hospital in Tel Aviv has said that a woman was killed in an Iranian missile strike, bringing the total number of fatalities to three.
At least one missile is known to have got through Israel’s Iron Dome defence system
The hospital also treated seven people who were wounded in the strike early on Saturday. Israel’s fire and rescue services said a projectile hit a building in the city.
Israel’s paramedic service, Magen David Adom, said an Iranian missile struck near homes in central Israel early Saturday morning, killing two people and injuring 19 others. Four homes were severely damaged.
Dozens of defence targets hit around Tehran
The Israeli military said on Saturday it that had targeted Iran’s “defence arrays” with a wave of strikes in the Tehran area overnight.
Tehran suffered severe damage in Israel’s first round of attacks. It said it struck dozens more targets on Friday night
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“Overnight, the IAF struck dozens of targets, including surface-to-air missile infrastructure, as part of the effort to damage the Iranian regime’s aerial defence capabilities in the area of Tehran,” the military said. “For the first time since the beginning of the war, over 1,500km from Israeli territory, the IAF (Israeli military) struck defence arrays in the area of Tehran.”
Talks with US on nuclear programme ‘meaningless’
Iran said on Friday that dialogue with the US over Tehran’s nuclear programme is “meaningless” after Israel’s biggest-ever military strike against its longstanding enemy, accusing Washington of supporting the attack.
“The other side (the US) acted in a way that makes dialogue meaningless. You cannot claim to negotiate and at the same time divide work by allowing the Zionist regime [Israel’] to target Iran’s territory,” Esmaeil Baghaei, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Retaliation will be ‘painful and regrettable’
Iran’s strikes against Israel will continue, Iran’s Fars news agency reported on Saturday, citing senior Iranian military officials.
“This confrontation will not end with last night’s limited actions and Iran’s strikes will continue, and this action will be very painful and regrettable for the aggressors,” Fars cited an unnamed official as saying, citing senior military officials.
Israelis rush to shelters as Iran strikes back
Iran and Israel targeted each other with airstrikes early on Saturday after Israel launched its biggest-ever offensive against its longtime foe, in a bid to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.
An explosion illuminates the skyline of Tel Aviv early on Saturday
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Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the country’s two largest cities, before dawn, sending residents rushing into shelters. The military said its air defence systems were operating, seeking to intercept Iranian missiles.
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