The Tension continues to escalate in the Middle East. The thing is Iran warned this Wednesday that will bomb “all infrastructure” of Israel if attacked in retaliation for the launch of 200 missiles against Israeli territory, carried out in response to the assassination of the leaders of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, Hasan Nasrallah, last week, and of the Palestinian Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, on July 31, and of an Iranian general.
“If the Zionist regime, which has gone crazy, (…) wants to continue these crimes or act against our sovereignty and our territorial integrity, an operation like the one tonight (Tuesday) will be repeated with greater intensity and all the regime’s infrastructure will be hit“General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of the General Staff of the Islamic Republic’s army, told Iranian state television.
For his part, Israel and its American ally threatened to respond to the Iran attack, which caused one death in the West Bank but did not cause any fatalities, at least officially, in the territory it targeted.
This Tuesday, anti-aircraft warning sirens sounded throughout Israel, including Jerusalem, where missiles intercepted in the sky and the noise they made when exploding could also be seen. That scenario led to an order for city residents to take shelter in their homes.
Magen David Adom CEO Eli Bin announced that there was a direct hit on a building in north Tel Aviv. In addition, many others were recorded in Tel Aviv, as well as in Dimona, Nabatim, Hora, Hod Hasharon, Beer Sheva and Rishon Lezion.
In this context, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called the Iranian offensive a “serious mistake” and assured that Tehran will “pay” the price of aggression. “Whoever attacks us, we attack him,” he stressed.
The spokesman for the Israeli army, Daniel Hagari, had expressed himself in the same direction, who assured that The attack “will have consequences”.
We have plans and we will act at the time and place we choose,” he stressed. Meanwhile, in the early hours of this Wednesday, he announced that his country’s air force “will continue bombing heavily in the Middle East.”
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The Israeli army reported it. They activate air raid sirens throughout the country.
Shortly after, The Israeli Army announced that it was carrying out aerial bombardments against Hezbollah targets in Beirut. A Lebanese security source said that the attack was carried out in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, where the Israeli army had called on the population to evacuate.
Hezbollah fighters confronted “an Israeli enemy infantry force” who tried to infiltrate the town of Adaysseh (…) and fought against them,” the movement said in a statement. The members of the Islamist militia attacked the Israeli forces at three different points on the border with Lebanon with rockets and artillery, added the text.
The United States, which helped its ally “shoot down Iranian missiles”, stated that it wants to “coordinate” with the Israelis a response to its arch-enemy Iran. “The United States totally, totally, totally supports Israel,” declared President Joe Biden.
The UN Security Council will meet urgently on Wednesday to discuss the escalation of hostilities in the region, the scene of a war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israeli incursions against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Since the upsurge in violence, more than a thousand people have died in that country, according to the Ministry of Health. The Lebanese crisis center stated, for its part, that more than 240,000 people, both Syrians and Lebanese, fled to Syria since September 23, when Israeli bombings began in Lebanon.
In the Gaza Strip, Israel continues its offensive, launched after the Hamas attack on October 7 that left 1,205 dead, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures.
In fact, as officially reported, this Wednesday “Israeli Air Force planes selectively attacked terrorists from the Hamas terrorist organization under the direction of intelligence from the Defense Forces and the Southern Command who were operating in a command complex. and control established in the area, which was previously used as ‘Brig High School’ in the center of the Gaza Strip.”
The Palestinian Civil Defense said on Tuesday that 12 people were killed in a bombing in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, and seven others were killed in an attack on another school housing displaced people near Gaza City, in the north.
The Israeli army in turn indicated that its soldiers shot dozens of suspects they considered a threat.
So far, the Israeli offensive has left more than 41,600 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.