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Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, has told Iran that if it keeps firing missiles at his country, Tehran will burn.
Both sides carried out more airstrikes overnight following Israel's intensive aerial assaults on Iranian nuclear facilities and missile bases yesterday.
In retaliation, Iran fired ballistic missiles which have hit parts of Israel overnight, with blasts heard in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem.
The Israeli Air Force says it is continuing to attack targets inside Iran.
Let's talk live to the BBC's Sebastian Usher, who's in Jerusalem.
Tell us about what targets were hit.
There were casualties, weren't there, Sebastian?
There were casualties.
Three people in Israel have so far died of wounds that they sustained as these salvos of missiles were coming over.
I mean, what is... unclear is that where there has been impact whether that is a one of these missiles actually hitting the ground or its fragments coming down from the interception that's happened in the sky.
I mean the worst of it is has been in the center of Israel that's where two people were killed in one of the incidents.
We've also heard from the IDF that seven soldiers were lightly wounded in that area too and I mean there are slightly different figures given.
The official figure that I was seeing earlier was around 34 people in all having been injured but I've seen a slightly higher figure on that saying up to 80.
uh, injured in the strikes.
And I think some of the scenes that have now been broadcast in daylight showing, uh, rubble-strewn streets, some houses with the roofs caved in, um, have been quite sobering for Israelis who, you know, as, as you all know, have pretty strong confidence in this extraordinary air defense system that they have.
Now, it does seem to have worked pretty much as it should, but it's not foolproof.