The Minister of Defense of Israel, Yoav Gallant, assured this Wednesday in a visit to the Army Intelligence Directorate that his country’s response to the massive missile attack launched by Iran last Tuesday will be a “powerful, precise and, above all, everything, surprising”.
“They will not understand what happened and how it happened,” Gallant said, according to a statement released by his office.
The Defense Minister defended that last week’s Iranian attack – which consisted of the launch of 180 ballistic missiles against Israeli territory – was “aggressive” but not precise.
The bombing of the Islamic Republic left only one dead, despite its magnitude, and it was a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Jericho, who was crushed by the remains of the interception of one of the missiles.
In addition, the armed forces recognized that some missiles managed to hit the center and south of the country, in the vicinity of bases such as Nevatim – in the Negev desert – or Tel Nof – in the center of the country – but since then The authorities boast that they continue to operate.
“The Air Force was unharmed, all runways are operational, our activities continue, not a single plane was damaged, not a single soldier or civilian was injured,” the minister continued, ignoring the Palestinian victim.
Joe Biden’s request
This Wednesday, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, held a phone call of about 50 minutes with the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to discuss the retaliation of the Jewish State against Iran.
On October 1, Iran’s massive attack sounded alarm bells throughout the country, forcing millions of people to take refuge.
Then, the Iranian authorities claimed the operation as a response to the assassination of the leader of the Shiite group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli bombing in Beirut, as well as that of the former political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in another attack in Tehran that Israel never claimed or denied.
The hostilities between the Islamic Republic and the Jewish State have been framed in recent days by Israel’s bombing campaign and ground operations in Lebanon – in the south, east and Beirut, the first, and only in the south, the second.
The intermittent exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah around the border with Lebanon began a year ago, when the Jewish state launched war in Gaza in response to Hamas’ savage attack on Israeli territory.
The Israeli campaign in Lebanon has already left more than 2,100 dead in that country, the vast majority in the last two weeks, after Israel launched a ground offensive.
In this scenario, Joe Biden urged the Israeli prime minister this Wednesday to minimize damage to civilians in his offensive in Lebanon, especially in the densely populated areas of Beirut.
According to the White House in a statement, Biden reaffirmed to Netanyahu “Israel’s right” to protect its citizens from the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, but also “emphasized the need to minimize harm to civiliansparticularly in the densely populated areas of Beirut.”
Shortly before, the White House stated this Wednesday that it will not allow “Lebanon to become Gaza.”
“The suffering in both Gaza and Lebanon adds greater urgency to our efforts to end those conflicts and lay the foundation for lasting peace and security in the region,” said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. .
The spokesperson, however, did not explain whether this topic was part of the telephone conversation between Biden Netanyahu, which Jean-Pierre described as “direct and productive.”