Overview

• President Donald Trump ordered B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles to obliterate Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan nuclear facilities with bunker-buster bombs.
• Iran responded by firing two rapid volleys of 27 missiles each toward Israel, striking Ben Gurion Airport and other key sites and injuring at least 86 people.
• The Israel Defense Forces destroyed two Iranian F-5 fighter jets and eight ballistic missile launchers in central Iran to neutralize launch capabilities targeting Israeli territory.
• Air raids and missile strikes have damaged at least 240 residential buildings and displaced over 9,000 people in Israel since the conflict began.
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared “the war has begun” on social media, signaling Tehran’s shift toward more aggressive military measures.