The Israeli Air Force has released the first visuals of its airstrikes on Iran, posting a video on X showing what it described as military targets, including missile launchers, being hit.
In the text accompanying the video, the Israeli Air Force said hundreds of targets were struck in western Iran.
The Israel Defense Forces said it was continuing to strike military targets in Iran on Saturday, including missile launchers in the west of the country.
The army struck "hundreds of Iranian military targets, including missile launchers in western Iran", it said in a statement, adding that it was also "identifying and intercepting threats fired from Iran toward the State of Israel".
תיעודים ראשונים ממבצע "שאגת הארי":צה"ל במבצע תקיפות רחב היקף בו הותקפו מאות מטרות במערב איראן במסגרת מבצע "שאגת הארי", חיל-האוויר תקף מאות מטרות צבאיות, בהן משגרים של משטר הטרור האיראני במערב איראן. במקביל לתקיפות חיל האוויר באיראן, מערך ההגנה האווירית פועל ליירט איומים… pic.twitter.com/FgnoFIJMXm — Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) February 28, 2026
An Israeli security source said the strikes would continue for "as long as we need", after the US and Israel began targeting military and ballistic missile sites in the Islamic republic on Saturday.
"We will continue our operations right now, as long as we need to, to ensure that the Iranian regime cannot restore those capabilities to the region and the broader international stability," the source told journalists, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The developments mark a sharp escalation in tensions in the region, with Israel indicating that its military campaign is ongoing and focused on degrading Iran’s missile capabilities.
The attacks came after US President Donald Trump expressed frustration at Iran's stance in negotiations over its nuclear and missile programmes.
Trump said Washington's goal was "eliminating imminent threats" from Iran, and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation was to remove an "existential threat".
"The United States' military began major combat operations in Iran," Trump said in a video message posted on his social media site while he spent the weekend at his Florida golf club.
"We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated. We're going to annihilate their navy," Trump said, warning of possible US casualties.
He offered Iranian forces including the Revolutionary Guards "immunity" should they surrender, or "certain death" if not, and told Iranians the "hour of your freedom is at hand", urging them to rise up and "take over your government".
Israel's Netanyahu echoed this call, telling Iranians that the time had come to "cast off the yoke of tyranny".
The Israeli army warned Iranians in or around military infrastructure across Iran to evacuate after announcing it was conducting a "broad strike" on multiple military targets.
Iran again vowed to "respond decisively to the aggressors", and the Guards announced they had targeted the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain as well as targets in Israel.
"The IRGC's missiles and drones have struck the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and other American bases in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as military and security centres in the heart of the occupied territories, with severe blows," the Guards said.
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