Daniel Estrin

None of us based in Israel were surprised.

I mean, there's been a ton of anticipation building here in recent weeks and days.

And yesterday, the U.S.

ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee,

sent an email to embassy staff saying, if you're thinking about getting out of the country today, as in Friday, will be, which should be the day.

So, you know, we were anticipating something, but the actual timing this, this morning was a surprise, but you know,

jumped into action immediately.

I think we've all been.

Yeah, I know.

Yeah.

I'm in my apartment in Tel Aviv.

And you just are kind of reflexively responding to these air raid sirens like we have in the last two and a half years.

You jump immediately to the safe room.

You close the metal

the kind of the metal plates that protect the windows, and you're in.

And that's how I have spent the last, I don't even know how many hours, the entire day, in and out.

first day of strikes was arranged around some of these things to so that they could go after i mean just being to that for a second uh... and israeli military official told us reporters that that actually yes uh... both the u s and israeli militaries were looking for the right moment to strike when senior iranian officials would be meeting so they found their moment and they

This official told us that the Israelis struck at three separate gatherings of senior officials simultaneously on Saturday morning.

And they said several central government figures in Iran were killed, were still not getting the identities.

We have heard that Khamenei, the supreme leader, was targeted and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu