The full extent of damage not yet clear.

Our correspondents in Iran and Israel are not being allowed access to some locations but the BBC verified team has been looking at what we do know about the strikes.

Nawala Mughafi has the details.

Social media was inundated with videos showing a barrage of missiles launched from Iran towards Israel and our team has been working through the night to verify the location so let me take you through what we found.

These are missiles launching from Shiraz in Iran.

U.S. intelligence had warned the attack was incoming.

Iran said its targets included Israeli air bases and the Mossad headquarters.

We've been able to verify strikes in the vicinity of three key locations.

Navatim Air Base, Tel Nof Air Base and what's The lights piercing through the night sky are missiles heading towards the air base.

In just one video we can count at least nine missiles clearly hitting the ground.

Pro Hezbollah media say this air base was used in the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.

The Navatim Air Base is believed to house F-35 fighters but most were presumed to be airborne.

The second location we've looked at is the Tel Nof Air Base.

In this video you can see a crater not at the air base itself but at a school a few miles away.

We matched the school to recent social media photos plus the size and the shape of the surrounding area to satellite imagery.

We also verified videos of missiles hitting northern Tel Aviv.

A short distance from what's reported to be Israeli intelligence headquarters.

This video was taken from the balcony of a tower block.

Then we matched it to this video.

Here you can see the crater of that attack.

We've also spoken with a number of experts about Iran strategy.

US officials say Iran launched about a hundred and eighty ballistic missiles which are hard to intercept because of their high speed.

Fabian Hintz from the International Institute for Strategic Studies told us that the use of ballistic missiles in the attack indicates a deliberate strategy to minimize the warning and response time available to Israeli defenses.

The IDF have said that the missiles did hit some locations in Israel but that in coordination with the US-led defense coalition the majority were intercepted.