A moment. It is now 9 00. You are watching Sunday Morning with trevor phillips. Revor phi United States. Iran says the attack has concluded that israel remains on high alert. No one was killed in there was almost no damage. It is deescalation and is really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken to President Joe Biden who will call a meeting of g7 leaders later. In the glast hour, the secreta told this program that the United Kingdom military jets were sent to the region overnight but the government here wants to see deescalation. Lets get the latest now again from the region. Our correspondent is live in jerusalem for us. Alastair, the israeli war cabinet is going to meet today. What will be in front of that group . And what do you think they will be saying to each other . R . Reporter they will be doing a situational assessment. Firstly they will be looking ate what they know about the attacks last night. What did iran use to throw at israel and not just iran, we know that the a
the exception of what we are hearing from iranian state media, one of the state run media agencies in iran is saying that there were a number of explosions in the isfahan region. now, of course that is where iran has a nuclear facility, an important nuclear facility. but, again, according to iranian state media, they are saying that that is not where this explosions occurred, there is some reporting that may have been, there may have been some sort of targeting of an iranian air base and that region. instead there are some reporting on social media and again with the iranian state media. that is pretty much all that we know here tonight u.s. officials and israeli officials are not commenting. i will say, as we have been reporting on this back-and- forth, you mentioned the april 1st attack in damascus that killed a number of senior iranian officials that was carried out by the israelis,
israel vowed that it would respond to iran s attack on saturday after iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles at israel, which was retaliation for an israeli strike on and iranian consular building in damascus, syria, earlier this month. at this hour, prime minister benjamin netanyahu s office has declined to comment. joining us now is nbc news pentagon and national security correspondent, courtney kube the pick you had this news very early, courtney, in terms of what was happening. it is less clear than what happened on th saturday where we knew that there were waves and waves of drones followed by missiles in e the air, directed at iran. what has happened tonight as far as we know? as it is interesting, we actually had a much better sense of what was happening with the iranian italian tory strikes against israel over the weekend and we have really gotten the sense of what is happening here tonight. but what we know so far, allie, is that israel did carry out an operation in iran
using a lot over these last few hours which is the fear of escalation. this has been at the heart of the concern for president biden and his senior team since october 7th, about what that initial attack by hamas into israel would lead to in terms of not just israel and palestine and hamas and gaza but also the wider region and now there is another term to think about at this moment, though, allie, which is acceleration. it was, on april 1st, we saw that strike in damascus, on the iranian diplomatic compound. it took a full 12 days for iran to respond to that in the form of that drone and missile attack we saw over the weekend which was largely and successfully repelled. the cia director saying it was a spectacular failure pick will now we are only five days removed from that response where it does appear now that israel has responded. so what the white house will be doing at this stage is doing, pulling out every lever they