Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the bombing campaign aimed to end the threats from Tehran’s nuclear program and ballistic missiles. He did not give a timetable for stopping the strikes.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for the end of the country's wars with Iran and Hamas, saying it's time to "turn inside Israel"

Israel’s military said it was preparing for the possibility of a lengthy war, and announced it struck an Iranian nuclear research facility overnight and killed three senior Iranian