Iran announced it had launched some 100 missiles and vowed further retaliation for Israel’s sweeping attacks on its infrastructure, which have killed 224 so far.

Missiles, drones and sirens engulfed the skies of Israel as the Jewish nation is facing a multi-front attack from Iran, Houthis in Yemen and Hamas in Gaza. The world watches closely as the conflict in

TEL AVIV — The booms from the night’s Iranian missile strike could be felt across the region, including in my home in Jaffa. In that moment, it felt — to this former Londoner’s ears — like a scene from the Blitz, when the Nazis pounded England with nightly bombs.

The attack on a controversial aid group highlights the challenge for the U.S. and Israel to remake Gaza without Hamas

The attack comes after decades of mutual hostility and a long-running shadow war of covert strikes and sabotage.

Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, killing at least five people, while Israel claimed in the fourth day of the conflict that it had now achieved “aerial superiority” over Tehran and could fly over the Iranian capital with impunity.