This is an unholy special update, hours after Israel unleashes a series of airstrikes

on Iran's nuclear facilities. It's been talked about for decades. It's finally here. I'm

Jonathan Friedland in London. And I'm Unite Levy in Tel Aviv.

So you'll need a very, very long night and stretching into a long day for you. I mean,

we're going to get into all of the implications and conversations about this with a real expert

on all this, but just on the ground and where you are, just talk us through

it. Israelis were all woken at 3 a.m. by sirens that were not because missiles were heading

towards the country, but because the state was warning Israelis and saying, listen, something is

happening. What was happening was that at 2.30 a.m.

About half an hour before that, dozens of Israeli planes were making their way towards Iran in an

attack that Iran hadn't seen before, and Israel hadn't perpetrated before. This is a large-scale

operation targeting specifically top officials in the security echelon in Iran,

nuclear scientists, also nuclear sites and military sites, but particularly it looks, Jonathan,

like the sophisticated Israeli decision to say, look, if we are doing this alone, we can't

obviously go into the depth of the nuclear sites in a way that we could have if the United States was joining us hand in hand.

But what we can do is target the brains of the operation.

So that is what happened from 3 a.m. Israelis, I don't think, slept a wink since following this very, very closely.

The attacks going on and on for a very long time from the Israeli side.

And at this point that we're talking now, it's 5 p.m. in Israel, 10 a.m. in Washington,

Israel awaiting an Iranian response.

There were 100 drones launched towards Israel, but they were intercepted.

This is just the beginning.

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