Israel’s precision strike on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure may open a rare strategic window for the Trump administration.

Waves of deadly missile strikes were traded overnight between Iran and Israel as the long-running conflict between the two foes escalated.

US forces helped shoot down the projectiles.

Israel’s Channel 13 cites “initial reports” last Saturday that Iranian missiles have hit the northern coastal city of Haifa and neighbouring town of Tamra. Videos posted to social media, and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad, showed Iranian cruise missiles in the skies of northern Israel.

Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday that set off explosions in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Iranian state television, long controlled by hard-line supporters of the country’s theocracy, repeatedly aired footage of missile strikes on Tel Aviv throughout the morning.