Trey Yinkst

Remember, the Israelis have a tiered missile defense system.

They have at the lowest level the Iron Dome.

Then they have David Sling and the Arrow 2 and 3 systems.

Now, the Trump administration was aware that the Iranians would launch a counterattack.

They provided the Israelis with additional air defense, including the Patriot and THAAD systems.

But still, this is not a perfect layered defense.

It is difficult to shoot down some of these hypersonic missiles.

And you can hear those explosions behind me.

Remember, the northern city of Haifa was also taking fire at the same time.

And so when the Iranians save their missiles and launch all at the same time, it's an effort to overwhelm the air defense systems in this country.

And I'm just looking at my phone here, and there are just alerts coming in.

I'm going to just have my cameraman zoom in here, and you can just see all of these missile alerts throughout the entirety –

of the country.

And this, again, just shows you how many rockets and missiles are coming in.

So it's a real issue.

These are very expensive missile interceptors.

And while the Israelis don't have an unlimited amount, we know that the Americans were helping them in advance in preparation for this conflict.

It's why you saw so many of those C-17s travel over the Atlantic, some of them landing here in Tel Aviv before this war began.

But again, it is challenging to shoot down this incoming fire when the Iranians launch the missiles in the way that they are launching them right now.

There was a seven-hour lull in the launches.