Some mentioned this needing its own thread separate from the Israeli/ Hamas thread. Makes sense, so here it is.
Early reports out of Israel concerning the launce of around 150 missiles directly from Iran. Huge change as Iran has typically used proxies for missile launches. Israel claimed to intercept 99% as far as initial estimates go. There are videos showing missile impacts but many have been proven to be footage from other incidents, so I am not posting videos till more confirmation has been had. Craziest things to me I have seen so far is reports of Jorden, Saudi Arabia, and another country I forget, was assisting in shooting down some of these drones/missiles. Iran claims their actions are finished and say the matter of retaliation is done. Israel is says "Not so fast my friend!", with some predicting earlier in the week, that Iranian enrichment (Nuclear) sites being targeted.
From an Israeli about one hour ago... "tonight feels like a big nothing burger. The civilians all had all-nighters (Israeli workweek is Sunday-Thursday, so that's unfortunate) but it doesn't seem like anything major was hit. We all kept waiting for something and relatively nothing happened.
The IDF has said that a military base has minor damage and I believe it is probably minor because I have heard nothing.
Two sirens went off in the north about 15 minute ago (4:16am) and its been relatively calm.
For comparison, I woke up to pure chaos on the 7th. The first thing I heard was that a kibbutz in the south had been entirely massacred and it just kept coming in. I feel like if Iran had actually hit something, I would have heard something by now.
One thing to keep in mind is that Hamas has terrible aim, I wouldn't be shocked if Iran does, too, even with better weapons. We tend to not intercept projectiles that land in uninhabited areas for financial reasons, so any videos you're seeing very well may be of missiles landing in empty fields or parts of the desert.
Most of the sirens I got alerts for were in the East, near the border with West Bank and Jordan (general Masada through Be'er Sheva area).
I hope that helps.
ETA: Three sirens (and likely more after I hit "save") are going off in the North. They may not be done. 4:46am. I still stand by what I said unless anything major changes. I should clarify that it is a "nothing burger" in terms of what I'm seeing on social media and even in this subreddit. A lot of people seem to think there were a lot of really bad impacts or something, but in reality, we're all kinda looking around at each other like "that's it?"
I wish I had words to describe the pure chaos I experienced on the 7th, because a lot of people seem to have been expecting that level of social chaos, but the atmosphere tonight is even calmer than your average run-of-the-mill Hamas quassam attack.
Otherwise, I agree. I'm a big Iron Dome fan girl and every time I've heard its booms, I've never taken it for granted. One of my ex's was a Dome battery operator as well, I'm very appreciative of it.
I know tonight was the Arrow and not the Dome, but same concept."
Early reports out of Israel concerning the launce of around 150 missiles directly from Iran. Huge change as Iran has typically used proxies for missile launches. Israel claimed to intercept 99% as far as initial estimates go. There are videos showing missile impacts but many have been proven to be footage from other incidents, so I am not posting videos till more confirmation has been had. Craziest things to me I have seen so far is reports of Jorden, Saudi Arabia, and another country I forget, was assisting in shooting down some of these drones/missiles. Iran claims their actions are finished and say the matter of retaliation is done. Israel is says "Not so fast my friend!", with some predicting earlier in the week, that Iranian enrichment (Nuclear) sites being targeted.
From an Israeli about one hour ago... "tonight feels like a big nothing burger. The civilians all had all-nighters (Israeli workweek is Sunday-Thursday, so that's unfortunate) but it doesn't seem like anything major was hit. We all kept waiting for something and relatively nothing happened.
The IDF has said that a military base has minor damage and I believe it is probably minor because I have heard nothing.
Two sirens went off in the north about 15 minute ago (4:16am) and its been relatively calm.
For comparison, I woke up to pure chaos on the 7th. The first thing I heard was that a kibbutz in the south had been entirely massacred and it just kept coming in. I feel like if Iran had actually hit something, I would have heard something by now.
One thing to keep in mind is that Hamas has terrible aim, I wouldn't be shocked if Iran does, too, even with better weapons. We tend to not intercept projectiles that land in uninhabited areas for financial reasons, so any videos you're seeing very well may be of missiles landing in empty fields or parts of the desert.
Most of the sirens I got alerts for were in the East, near the border with West Bank and Jordan (general Masada through Be'er Sheva area).
I hope that helps.
ETA: Three sirens (and likely more after I hit "save") are going off in the North. They may not be done. 4:46am. I still stand by what I said unless anything major changes. I should clarify that it is a "nothing burger" in terms of what I'm seeing on social media and even in this subreddit. A lot of people seem to think there were a lot of really bad impacts or something, but in reality, we're all kinda looking around at each other like "that's it?"
I wish I had words to describe the pure chaos I experienced on the 7th, because a lot of people seem to have been expecting that level of social chaos, but the atmosphere tonight is even calmer than your average run-of-the-mill Hamas quassam attack.
Otherwise, I agree. I'm a big Iron Dome fan girl and every time I've heard its booms, I've never taken it for granted. One of my ex's was a Dome battery operator as well, I'm very appreciative of it.
I know tonight was the Arrow and not the Dome, but same concept."
