Daniel Estrin

I've been tape recording them from my balcony.

The air raid siren goes quiet, and then you hear this.

boom outside the window.

That's Israel's air defense system intercepting incoming missiles.

And you can see the trail of smoke in the sky over Tel Aviv.

Right now I'm in a safe room, a protected sheltered room.

And the airport in Israel has been closed to all flights, public shelters,

are open across the country, cafes are closed, so the streets are quiet, but in between air raid sirens, I was out on the street and I met a woman walking her dog, Racheli Aharoni, and she says she doesn't have a protected room in her apartment.

So a lot of uncertainty and apprehension you hear there.

And she says she just doesn't really know what to make of the decision to strike Iran because she said the people in charge, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she called them crazy people.

Netanyahu put out a video saying Iran was trying to rebuild its missile and nuclear capacities since the Israeli war on Iran last June, which the U.S.

also took part in.

And he said if Iran was not stopped now, they would become immune to attack.

And he said Iran was trying to buy time with talks with the U.S.

over its nuclear program.

He called that a futile and deceptive negotiation.

And he said that Israel would not stand by while, quote, the shadow of annihilation hangs over Israel.

So he said the ultimate goal was to help Iranians topple their own government.

Here's a bit of what Netanyahu said.

So he's saying there in Hebrew, now Iranians have the chance to take their destiny into their own hands.