Israel says Iran has launched 100 drones as air raid sirens blare across country
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Early on Friday, Israeli forces carried out numerous attacks on Iran, and a state of emergency was announced, as stated by Defense Minister Israel Katz.

“In the wake of Israel’s preventive strike against Iran, we anticipate an imminent missile and drone assault targeting Israel and its civilians,” Katz mentioned in an announcement.

Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv following the announcement.

The U.S. did not provide any assistance or have any involvement in the Israeli strike, a U.S. official told ABC News.

RELATED: Israel strikes dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear program: IDF

The spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, reported that “Iran has sent around 100 drones toward Israeli areas, which are currently being intercepted.”

Israel says it is planning to use its air defenses to intercept the drones.

The state of emergency means nobody is allowed to be out on the streets and almost all businesses, including schools, offices and supermarkets, have also been shut as the airspace over Israel is closed.

Iran confirms death of general, several top scientists

Iran has confirmed the deaths of the top general of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as well as several top scientists, according to the general staff of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Hossein Salami, the IRGC commander-in-chief, has been confirmed to have been killed along with Gholamali Rashid, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, physicist and president of Islamic Azad University, and nuclear scientist Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi, Iran said.

Ali Shamkhani, a member of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran, was seriously injured but is still alive, Iran said, and the status of Dr. Abdolhamid Minouchehr, the head of nuclear engineering at Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University, is yet to be confirmed.

Meanwhile, Iranian State TV is reporting that several residential neighborhoods and apartment complexes were hit and says that there were casualties of civilians and children in the attack. However, numbers have yet to be confirmed.

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