Iran announced it had launched some 100 missiles and vowed further retaliation for Israel’s sweeping attacks on its infrastructure, which have killed 224 so far.

Tensions between the two foes also broke into direct conflict last year, with Iran firing hundreds of missiles and drones in its first ever direct attack on Israel in April 2024, in retaliation for an attack on its embassy compound in Damascus, which killed several senior Iranian military commanders.

The attack on a controversial aid group highlights the challenge for the U.S. and Israel to remake Gaza without Hamas

TEL AVIV — The booms from the night’s Iranian missile strike could be felt across the region, including in my home in Jaffa. In that moment, it felt — to this former Londoner’s ears — like a scene from the Blitz, when the Nazis pounded England with nightly bombs.

The attack comes after decades of mutual hostility and a long-running shadow war of covert strikes and sabotage.

Over the past year, Israel has openly clashed with Tehran, firing rocket salvos deep into Iran. After militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli communities in October 2023, Israel dismantled many of Iran’s allies, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, killing at least five people, while Israel claimed in the fourth day of the conflict that it had now achieved “aerial superiority” over Tehran and could fly over the Iranian capital with impunity.