Dubbed "Operation Rising Lion," Netanyahu called it a "targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival" and vowed to continue the operation "for as many days as it takes to remove this threat."

In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, it was reported that:

key Iranian generals and scientists had been killed in the initial attack;
several strategic Iranian sites, including Natanz, Iran's main nuclear enrichment facility, had been struck;

and Iran had launched more than 100 drones and begun missile strikes against Israel in retaliation.

So, why is this happening? What is the situation now? And where do we go from here?