Name: Israelis spend sleepless nights in shelters as Iran counterattacks continue
Uploaded: 2026-03-12T23:02:02.000Z
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Israel has come under a barrage of missile attacks by Iran, triggering warning sirens in parts of the country.

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Air defense systems were activated in central and northern areas of Israel overnight.

Israeli media report all missiles fired from Iran were intercepted.

Nita Ibrahim is live for us from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

So as he mentioned there, NIDA sirens sounding in Tel Aviv, Haifa, in Jerusalem, and

cabinet ministers, we understand, were forced into bunkers during a security meeting.

There is no doubt that the threat is still persistent.

In the past 24 hours, Israel Hayom, an Israeli newspaper says that the number of rockets being fired from Iran into Israel has increased because we've been reporting a decrease in the number of the Iranian fired missiles since the beginning of the war.

We are talking about six rounds of missiles that have been fired from Iran from last night until this morning.

That's not to mention the rockets that are being fired and drones that are being fired from Hezbollah into Israel.

The millions of Israelis have had to go to shelters overnight.

It was a sleepless night for many of them as the attacks were targeting the central area of Israel as well as the northern area.

This is something that is triggering many Israelis, particularly that we're talking about a situation where Israel, the siren time or the time before the siren hits and the time between, sorry, the time between the siren hits and the rocket arrives is very minimal.

And it might be because there is a jeopardy in the radar systems in the region that is not allowing Israel to detect the launch of missiles ahead of time.

And this also reminds us that because Israel has been saying that they have targeted at least 80% of Iran's ability or Iran's missiles launchers, what we have been seeing in the past 24 hours, where the estimate is that 20 launches were fired from Iran, that kind of casts a doubt on the Israeli narrative of destroying missile launchers.

Of course, there are so many launches that Israel might not have detected or are aware of.

They say that they want to or act like the war is ending soon, but

they want to try and extend the war so they can hit more and more targets.

So this is a very sensitive situation for Israelis.

And we've been hearing a lot of Israeli media talking about the, that the war goals are not being achieved the way the government has said it will.

Okay, so on the one hand, saying that the war is going to be over quickly, on the other hand, implying that they need to go harder and further in Iran to neutralize the threat.

And just to add to that, we're hearing also that Israel is expanding its defense bunch it by approximately $13 billion.

I mean, does that indicate a war of attrition is on the horizon?

We are talking about 30% of the budget that's now being allocated into the defense budget.

They're doing budget deductions from other sectors to make them and allocate them for defense in their terms or for security.

This shows that Israelis want to signal that they are not done yet.

And they are trying to lobby with the US Administration and with President Trump to try and elongate the war expanded.

But they're saying that they have been receiving conflicting messages from the US President.

That's why they want to keep cracking down on Iran.

And as one security official told an Israeli newspaper, that they will hit targets much more intensely now as if the war is going to end soon while they're going to try and lobby for more time to reach the war goals.

Although, Nevaeh, I have to say that we've been sensing this change of tone, if I may, in Israeli defense analysts or Israeli military sources who are saying that most likely they're not going to achieve the goal of changing their regime, but

they might, we might be looking at undermining its ability to send threats into Israel.

So it seems like they are trying to make their words similar to that of Trump's as he was signaling that the most priority is to undermine the regime and not necessarily change it.

And we've been also hearing from Israeli media, they're saying that maybe the regime will fall after the war ends.

So that's also a change of tone, if you may.

But still, the Israeli military officials, they all want to extend the war for at least two weeks, according to security officials.

Okay, Nita, many thanks for guiding us through the shifting narratives at the moment in Israel.

Nita Ibrahim live for some remarks in the occupied West Bank.