ballistic missiles and drones toward Israel.

Raising concerns about broader conflict in the Middle East.

Six months after Hamas attacked Israel,

Israeli American and other allied forces intercepted dozens of drones and the majority

of missiles before they reached Israeli territory.

Officials said it's the first time Iran has directly attacked Israel from

Iranian territory.

Here's how the conflict between the two countries escalated

tensions in the Middle East had been building on several fronts.

In addition to Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza,

there have been cross border skirmishes between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah

and attacks by Yemen's Houthi militia against Western interests in the Red Sea

Hamas Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels are all backed by Iran on

April 1.

An Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus was hit in what Iran says was an Israeli

airstrike.

The strike killed top Iranian military officials including a senior member of the Islamic

Revolutionary Guard Corps elite quds force.

It was one of the highest profile killings of Iranian military leaders in years.

Israel didn't confirm or deny responsibility for the strike but Iran

publicly threatened to retaliate following the attack.

Israel and Iran have had a years long shadow war.

They don't attack each other directly.

Iran attacks Israel through proxies and Israel responds directly against those

proxies as opposed to directly against Iran on Iranian soil.

What was different here is that this was the most direct attack on an

Iranian asset that we have seen on April 4th,

Israelis started to report GPS errors with some apps placing Tel Aviv residents

in Lebanon's capital Beirut some 130 miles to the north.

The reason the Israeli military was scrambling GPS signals within the country to

thwart missile and drone targeting systems.

On April 10 th Iran's supreme leader said that the strikes in Syria constituted an

attack on Iranian soil.

That the same day President Joe

Biden reaffirmed us support for Israel.

As I told Prime Minister Netanyahu,

our commitment to Israel's security against these threats from Iran and its proxies

is ironclad.

Let me say it again,

ironclad.

We're going to do all we can to protect Israel's security on the 10.

It also emerged that us intelligence reports showed that an attack could be imminent.

According to us officials,

the tension came to a head on April 13th when Iran began sending drones and missiles

toward Israel air raid sirens bled across Israel and

explosions were heard over Jerusalem as Israel's Iron Dome air defense system kicked

in Biden met with his national security team and issued a statement

condemning the attacks and said the US helped Israel take down nearly all of the

incoming drones and missiles.

By early morning of April 14th,

Israel lifted sheltering orders.

A sign that it believes the brunt of the attack is over.

Once you get into that direct back and forth,

things can escalate incredibly quickly.

The United States has said publicly that they intend to defend

Israel.

And so right there off the bat,

you are seeing how these things could spiral incredibly quickly.

There's quite a bit of frayed nerves and really just a question mark over what

is going to happen and where is this region going?