Now to Israel vowing to respond after Iran the attack
over the weekend.
The Biden administration and other world leaders are urging restraint.
Matt Gutman is in Israel with the latest.
Good morning, Matt.
Hey, good morning, Michael. We are in southern Israel at
a military basin.
What you're seeing here is part of one of the
130 ballistic missiles fired by Iran at Israel.
You can see shrapnel here.
It was knocked out of the sky by one of
those Arrow anti missiles.
This is just a section of it.
Just the fuel tank up here would have been the
warhead 800 lbs of high explosives.
Official telling me they're anti shield worked perfectly,
but it was also a matter of luck that one
of these didn't hit a population center,
killing dozens and possibly triggering a regional war.
The Middle East on edge this morning with Iran vowing
a massive response to the slightest action from Israel.
As Israel vows to retaliate that reign of missiles,
Iran will face the consequences for its actions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convening his war cabinet for the
third consecutive day to discuss a response to that unprecedented
barrage of more than 300 missiles and drones early Sunday.
We saw a response multi layered multinational against that.
Would be Ring of Fire that Iran intended on and
during and putting on Israel.
We stopped that the coordinated response from AUS LED coalition
including Britain and France forwarding the attack the idea of
saying 99%
of those incoming threats intercepted an Israeli official telling ABC
News Iran actually increased the number of ballistic missiles it
would fire once it learned of the scope of the
US-led coalition against it. They knew that many were going
to be defeated but the aim was to get as
many of them through.
Israel's defenses as possible. And for the 12 minutes it
took for those missiles to arc from Iran to Israel,
American and Israeli officials unsure if their missile net would
hold.
It did. A senior Israeli Air Force official telling ABC
News multiple Middle Eastern countries provided Israel with an early
warning and Israel's Arrow aerial defense system taking down ballistic
missiles seen streaming over Jerusalem.
The idea of saying this new video shows Israeli troops
pulling one of those bus sized ballistic missiles out of
the Dead Sea.
President Biden saying the US is committed to the safety
of troops in the region and to Israel's security,
but the administration making it clear that the US will
not participate in any Israeli counter strike.
Iran says its attack avenged Israel strike earlier this month
that killed two top generals at a consulate complex in
Syria.
And Israeli officials tell me that the most likely Israeli
retaliation will be clandestine,
possibly a cyber attack or a targeted strike against an
Iranian official in Iran.
But those officials say that a key consideration will be
preserving this defensive coalition that the US built to protect
Israel.
Michael, all right, Matt, thank you so much for that.