Kate Garraway pauses Good Morning Britain for 'breaking news' report

Abbie Bray & Nicola Croal
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Kate Garraway halted proceedings during Friday's airing of Good Morning Britain to share some startling "breaking news" with viewers.

Her on-screen partner, Adil Ray, sat beside her as she revealed the news of reports that Israel had launched an attack on a location in Iran.

Jerusalem-based GMB correspondent Richard Gaisford was also on hand to provide live updates on the alleged attack, the Express reports.

Opening with: "Breaking news because in the last few hours, there have been reports that Israel has carried out an attack at a site in Iran.

"Blasts were heard in the city of Isfahan home to Iranian military manufacturing sites, an airplane site, and also in the area of some nuclear sites too."

Kate Garraway and Adil Ray paused Good Morning Britain to make the announcement -Credit:ITV
Kate Garraway and Adil Ray paused Good Morning Britain to make the announcement -Credit:ITV

In continuation, Garraway added: "So it is unclear what exact target was hit, or indeed any extent of the damage."

As the show continued, both hosts redirected the attention back to their correspondent in Jerusalem, Richard, who provided the latest updates from the field stating: "It's a very confusing and concerning situation at the moment."

Offering more context to the story, he further explained: "Let's talk about what we know.

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"All of the information on this is coming from unnamed official American sources speaking to American television networks, and the Israelis have said absolutely nothing about this so no confirmation from them that they've been involved with a military operation."

Highlighting the American involvement, Richard concluded: "The Americans are saying that... they're saying that the White House was briefed and nuclear targets were not part of this and that the Israelis were not trying to target the nuclear production facilities of the Iranian military in any way."

Richard continued by informing Kate and Adil that the Iranians were "downplaying" the situation, yet confirmed there was an explosion.

He stated: "We certainly know that their air defences have been in operation overnight, and there have been pictures unverified put online of those air defences operating. So no confirmation as to what it was that's been shot down."

Jerusalem-based GMB correspondent Richard Gaisford gave live updates on Israel's alleged attack in Iran -Credit:ITV
Jerusalem-based GMB correspondent Richard Gaisford gave live updates on Israel's alleged attack in Iran -Credit:ITV

He added: "The Iranians say that there has been no explosion on the ground, so very difficult to know what the impact of this attack would be if indeed it is an attack by the Israelis."

Claiming the fraught situation was hard to decipher, he said: "It's a really difficult situation to know just before we had this breaking news overnight, we had the Iranian foreign minister talking to CNN and he said that if there were to be an attack by Israel, the response would be immediate and at a maximum level."

Richard continued: "Well, almost immediately, we had sirens sounding in the north of Israel, there were concerns of a Hezbollah attack but turned out that was a false alarm.

"Certainly, there had been misinformation in the run-up to this. All day yesterday, sources had been briefing that there wouldn't be an attack until after the Passover holiday next week.

"But again, still waiting for confirmation as to what the Israeli involvement in this has been and how they managed to get either drones or aircraft into Iranian airspace."

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.

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