"We severely damaged Iran's defense capacity and the ability to produce missiles aimed at us," he said.

Three waves of attacks, involving more than 100 warplanes, struck targets over 1,000 miles from Israel. However, the IDF Chief of Staff noted that Israel used only a fraction of its capabilities.

Satellite images reveal extensive damage to key Iranian military installations, potentially delaying Iran's ballistic missile production for years. Israel also dismantled air defenses in Iraq, Syria, and Iran, including advanced S-300 and S-400 systems.

Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman sees this as a powerful message to Iran.

"Most importantly, it's sending the message to Iran. Anytime, we want. We gotcha," Friedman told CBN News. "And we didn't do it this time but keep it up, keep up this nuclear program and you'll see us in the near future."

Saudi Arabia condemned the attack but did not directly mention Israel.

"The Arab world is condemning publicly, the GCC, the Arab League condemning the attack publicly. But the secret of the Middle East is don't listen to what people say, watch what they do," said Dan Diker, Executive Director of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA).

Diker states that Israel is emerging as the "strong horse" in the Middle East.

"The Arab world knows that what Israel just did to the Iranian regime, and what it did to Hamas, and to Hezbollah by killing off their leadership and decimating their command structure is to actually kill the arch enemy of the very Arab nations that were condemning Israel," Diker told CBN News.

Iran responded with a mix of bluster and restraint. The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened, "The consequences of the attack in Iran will be unimaginable for the state of Israel." Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, however, offered a measured response.

"Iran is not looking for war but is obliged to respond appropriately to the Israeli attack," Pezeshkian said.

But there's also a hint—delivered by this Iranian newsreader—that rather than keep up these tit-for-tat strikes and counterstrikes, Iran might rather work towards a ceasefire to halt the fighting in both Gaza and Lebanon.

On Sunday, the day of the official memorial ceremony for soldiers and those who battled the enemy and have fallen since the October 7th massacre, Israeli President Isaac Herzog hailed those who fought on that day.

"The most moving faces of the Israeli mosaic, Jews and Druze, Christians and Muslims, from various perspectives and ways of life—who sought to protect the State of Israel and its citizens, with devotion, determination, and a sense of unmatched mission and who fell while standing guard on that dreadful day and in the war that followed—across the South, the North, Judea and Samaria, and in every part of our homeland," Herzog told bereaved family members and the rest of the country.

In the ongoing battle, the Israeli police suspect terrorism after a truck rammed into a crowd at a bus stop near Herzliya on Sunday morning, killing one and injuring more than 30 people. The bus stop was near the IDF's Glilot base. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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