John Donison

I'm in front of an apartment block that has been completely flattened.

It's reduced to rubble, really, and that is where one of the Iranian ballistic missiles got through.

Most of them are being shot down by Israel's air defence system, but it's here that we had the first casualty in Israel of this war, a woman who we think was a Filipino care worker looking after someone in that building.

was killed and a number of other people have been injured and all morning the sirens have been going off here.

I've heard loud explosions overhead.

Just as we were driving to Tel Aviv, we saw a couple of Iranian missiles being shot down directly above our car.

So, you know, the Iranians have said this is going to be the most devastating operation in their history in retaliation and they do seem to be being true to their word.

Well, they do.

I mean, that's pretty obvious.

They have completely penetrated Iranian security.

They have agents on the ground there.

They have high-tech surveillance.

But what struck me about this assassination was that

You know, the Iranians had led us to believe that the Supreme Leader had been taken out of Tehran, he was in hiding.

But it actually wasn't that hard to find him because he was in his office, he was in his compound.

That's where he was killed in that initial wave of strikes.

But you're right, they took out dozens of other senior Iranian leaders.

They seem to know exactly their movements, where they're going, where they are.

And the truth is that...

The Israelis, backed by the United States, are just vastly superior to the Iranians in terms of military capabilities, but also in terms of intelligence.