Iran's New Attack on Israel: Missiles, Casualties and Warnings of 'Nuclear Holocaust'

Iran announced that he had "successfully" shot Israel with dozens of missiles hitting several cities across the country, promising even more "devastating" attacks on key Israeli targets.

"The new wave of missile attacks by the Revolutionary Guards allowed them to successfully and effectively hit targets" in Israel, said a statement from the Islamic Republic's ideological army, which boasted of the successful operation carried out "despite the full support of the United States and Western powers."

The Garda vowed to continue "successful and even more devastating operations against key targets" in Israel, while paying tribute to Mohammad Bagheri, Hossein Salami and Amirali Hadjizadeh, three of Iran's top military officers who were killed on Friday at the start of Israeli airstrikes on Iran.

Damaged US Embassy building in Tel Aviv

At least 19 people have been killed in Israel since Friday, including four killed in Iranian rocket attacks overnight, Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service said.

At the same time, Iran's Ministry of Health announced that Israeli strikes across Iran have killed 224 people since Friday.

The "New York Times" reports that the building of the branch of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv was also damaged in the Iranian attack. There were no injuries on that occasion. "The Times" writes that the Iranians also hit the largest oil refinery in Israel. Firefighters are trying to put out the fire that broke out after the attack and are rescuing people trapped there.

Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, but also in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu: We had to act

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he launched airstrikes against Iran to prevent a "nuclear holocaust".

"We had to act. It was the last hour, and we acted. To save ourselves, but also to protect the world from this incendiary regime. We cannot allow the most dangerous regime in the world to have the most dangerous weapons in the world. We will not have another nuclear Holocaust. We already had it, in the previous century," Netanyahu said.

He said his government had intelligence that Iran was "months away from developing an initial nuclear weapon."

"The intelligence that we received and shared with the United States of America was absolutely clear - that they are working on a secret plan to turn uranium into a weapon, that they are moving very quickly, that they will reach the test device, and possibly the initial one, within a few months, and certainly less than a year. This is something that we could not possibly accept," Netanyahu said.