Iranian state and military-aligned media report a massive early-morning missile attack on Israel, forcing nearly six million people into shelters as sirens and explosions echoed across Tel Aviv and northern cities.
A continued wave of Iranian missile strikes targeted Israel in the early hours of Thursday morning, further escalating the regional war that ignited following the severe March 16 United States and Israeli airstrikes on Iranian infrastructure. According to the pro-government channel حامیان پزشکیان and the prominent Iranian news outlet آخرین خبر, the incoming barrage triggered sirens in Tel Aviv and 118 other locations across the occupied territories. Both outlets reported that an estimated 5,806,000 occupiers were forced to take cover in shelters around 4:00 AM Tel Aviv time.
State-run media amplified reports of widespread impacts and disruption. The official state news agency خبرگزاری ایرنا, which actively maintains an anti-Israel editorial posture, stated that heavy explosions and warning sirens were prevalent in Tel Aviv and central occupied Palestine. Citing the Zionist regime's Home Front Command, IRNA noted that warning sirens also sounded across northern regions including Acre, Haifa, Tiberias, and the Galilee.
Multiple Iranian networks, including the official military کانال اخبار سپاه پاسداران 🏴, highlighted reports from an Al Jazeera correspondent confirming that the sounds of explosions were heard throughout the greater Tel Aviv metropolitan area as a direct result of the Iranian missile attack. Furthermore, آخرین خبر shared images showing the impact sites of Iranian missile shrapnel within the occupied territories, while IRNA referenced reports from Zionist media acknowledging that shrapnel had struck an uninhabited area in northern occupied Palestine.
The source channels uniformly utilize state-approved, anti-Israel terminology (e.g., occupiers, Zionist regime, occupied territories). This loaded language has been preserved in the English translation without sanitizing or adding quotation marks, adhering strictly to the translation fidelity instructions to convey the original narrative framing.