Israel’s military said multiple waves of Iranian missiles were fired at Israel and that air defences were deployed to intercept them, with Israel announcing “wide-scale” strikes on Tehran and Hezbollah, reports AFP.

Iranian media had reported that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards carried out a joint missile operation against Israel with Tehran’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah.

Israel said that it was in turn carrying out “wide-scale” strikes on Tehran and a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s capital.