Netanyahu, warning to Iran: “We will attack”. And he accuses Macron

Benjamin Netanyahu promises Israel will respond to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Tuesday. “No country in the world would accept such an attack on its cities and citizens, and not even Israel“, says the prime minister in a video statement. “Israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to these attacks – and we will do so.”

In Lebanon, he adds, Israel is changing “the balance of power in the north.” “About a month ago, we started to fulfill the promise I made to the residents of the north,” says the prime minister, referring to the goal of returning residents of the northern part of Israel to their homes, a year after their evacuation from the border Lebanese.

“We eliminated Nasrallah and the Hezbollah leadershipwe eliminated the commanders of the Radwan force who were planning to invade the Galilee and carry out a massacre of our citizens greater and more terrible than that of October 7″, he continues.

Israel has destroyed “a large part” of Hezbollah’s stockpile of missiles and rockets. “And these days our heroic soldiers are destroying the series of terror tunnels that Hezbollah had secretly prepared, near our borders,” he added. “Although we have not yet completed the removal of the threat, we have clearly changed the course and balance of the war.”

US sources: “Imminent attack”

According to what American sources predict, the Israeli response to the Iranian attack would be imminent. There would also be a role for the United States in the operation, in which fighters should not participate, while there will certainly be coordination between Washington and Tel Aviv.

“We are certainly trying to prevent the situation from escalating into a regional war, but it is clear that the United States could be involved“said the officials, who understand the need for Israel to respond to Tehran, while recognizing the complexity of a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. “It is not so simple to eliminate Iran’s nuclear infrastructure with a single bombing. It’s very complicated,” they added.

A signal, meanwhile, suggests that Israeli action could take place quickly. The head of US Centcom, General Michael Kurilla, arrived in Israel for meetings with Israeli military leaders.

Biden: “I haven’t spoken to Netanyahu yet”

American President Joe Biden has not yet spoken to Netanyahu as he himself announced, answering “no” to a CNN journalist’s question who asked him about a possible conversation. In recent days, Biden had said that he would speak “relatively shortly” with the Israeli prime minister amid the escalation in the Middle East.

Macron and weapons to Israel

The Israeli prime minister meanwhile attacks Western leaders in favor of an arms embargo on Israel. “Shame“, he said in a televised statement, addressing French President Emmanuel Macron directly, who has put a stop to the supply of weapons to Israel which “uses them in Gaza”. “I think that today the priority is that we reach to a political solution, which stops supplying weapons to fight in Gaza. France doesn’t send them”, said the number one of the Elysée.