‘99% Intercepted’: CNN’s Clarissa Ward Reports That ‘A Number’ Of Iranian Missiles Slipped Through Israel’s Iron Dome

CNN’s Clarissa Ward reported from Tel Aviv that Israel’s Iron Dome defense system deflected 99% of the missiles and drones fired by Iran and its proxies during a five-hour attack Saturday night.

Iran announced it was retaliating for the April 1 strike on an Iranian consulate building in Syria that killed a senior Iranian military officer.

“President Biden has urged Israel not to escalate further, but one Israeli official telling CNN that they will respond, it’s simply a matter of the scale and scope of what that response will be,” Ward said, continuing:

This after…300 cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, drones fired towards Israel last night, 99% of them intercepted. But tellingly, the IDF has said that a number — they won’t give the specific number — of ballistic missiles did make impact at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel. That is where those F35 fighter jets are based. Iran has said that that is the base they believe was used to launch the April 1st attack against the consulate building in Damascus.

So, the question now becomes, what does Israel do next? On the streets the feeling is relative calm, a high degree of anticipation. Israel has reopened its airspace…that we’re seeing that a number of flights are being canceled, a number of airlines choosing not to fly in and out, some even canceling flights across the region, and Iran has said that it will cancel all flights civilian aircraft in an out of the country, at least until Monday. So heightened state of alert here.

White House Spokesman John Kirby told CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier that an Israeli-Arab girl was reportedly killed when shrapnel struck her village.

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