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I'm Anna Foster live in Tel Aviv tonight where Israel has called the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a turning point in its war with Iran.

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Israel has carried out fresh strikes in the last few hours on the capital Tehran, as well as on Iran's defense and ballistic missile capabilities.

Now in response, Iran has launched missile barriers, barrages again, lots of them in the last few hours back here towards Israel.

We know at least 10 people have been killed in strikes on residential buildings here in Tel Aviv and in Bet Shemesh, which is about 30 kilometers away from Jerusalem.

The Israeli army says that they are mobilizing now nearly 100,000 reservists for this military operation.

Amid that action, the US is now reporting that three service members have also been killed in action.

There have been further strikes from Iran reported in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, Qatar's capital Doha, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Airlines are continuing to cancel and divert flights that are serving the Middle East.

That disruption has of course had a knock on effect on other long haul travel.

Airlines are continuing to cancel and divert those flights as we know, across the Middle East.

As we're seeing this disruption really have effect across the globe.

It has been a momentous and a significant 24 hours in the region.

Our World News correspondent Joe Inwood has the latest.

Even Amidst the heaviest U.S. airstrike seen in decades, they came out in huge numbers.

Regime supporters on the streets of Tehran mourning the death of the man who had been Iran's supreme leader longer than many will have been alive.

This was the compound of ali Hamanai, the 86 year old cleric, utterly destroyed.

He may have been frail here in one of his last public appearances, but

he was the embodiment of the Islamic Republic, the central figure in this repressive regime, but

But in the early hours of this morning, this announcement on state tv, Imam Hammenei drank the sweet pure draught of martyr and joined the Supreme Heavenly Kingdom, the newsreader says.

But not everyone in this country mourned his death.

As the news spread, this was the capital Tehran here, the western city of Shiraz.

Protesters, many of whom will have lost friends or family in January's brutal suppression of dissent, that they held him responsible for.

Whether opponents or supporters of the regime, few would doubt the significance of Ali Khamenei's death.

A three person council will run the country for now one of its members gave a defiant message to State tv.

In the first phase, Iranian missiles were fired towards Israel and it was painful.

Today, even more painful, Iranian missiles are heading towards them.

The Americans must know that they have stabbed the heart of the Iranian nation, therefore their hearts will be stabbed.

Knowing exactly what's happening on the ground in Iran is difficult.

There is an almost total communications blackout.

Yesterday, State TV claimed that a school in the south of the country was hit, reportedly killing more than 100 people, including children.

The children are buried beneath the rubble and they were all civilians.

In Tehran, Day two of these attacks and they show little sign of letting up.

As well as Ali Khamenei, the US and Israel have killed a number of Iran's top military leaders.

It is undoubtedly a severe blow to the regime, but will not yet be a fatal one.