Iran fired dozens of missiles against Israel this Tuesday, October 1, 2024, in response to the assassination of the head of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah and the leader of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, two allies, in the second attack of this type in almost six months .
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“This attack will have consequences. We have plans and we will act when and where we decide.“, reacted the spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagari.
The armed force intercepted a large number of missiles and claimed that the Islamic Republic fired about 180 projectiles at the country.
The explosive devices were visible due to their luminous trails, AFP journalists observed.
Anti-aircraft alarm sirens resounded throughout the territory and dozens of explosions were heard over Jerusalem. During the attack, the country closed its airspace, but reopened it shortly after, airport authorities said in a statement.
In the Tel Aviv area, emergency services reported two minor injuries. In the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian was killed in Jericho by fragments of a downed missile, the city’s governor told AFP.
About an hour after the attack, the army announced to the population that they could now leave the shelters. The armed force had urged citizens to remain close to protected areas in the face of the threat of “far-reaching” Iranian aggression.
What do they say from Iran?
The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, stated that The attack was a response to the death of Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah last week and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.on July 31.
In a statement, They threatened to carry out “devastating attacks” if Israel responded to this Tuesday’s attack. They also pointed out that they targeted “three military bases around Tel Aviv”, in another document released by the Isna agency.
The head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, said that Tehran’s attack was “totally unacceptable” and urged “the entire world” to “condemn it.” The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, asked for an end to “the spiral of violence” in the region.
Israel is waging war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in response to the Palestinian Islamist group’s attack on the south of its territory on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli army is also fighting the pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah, which has opened a front against Israel in support of Hamas, which rules Gaza.
Ground raids in Lebanon
In addition to the Iranian attack, Tel Aviv was also shaken this Tuesday by an attack with automatic weapons that occurred in the Jaffa neighborhood, which left six dead and nine injured.. The attack was the work of two individuals, who were “neutralized,” said the Israeli Police.
It is not the first time that Iran has directly attacked its archenemy in recent months. On April 13, Tehran fired nearly 350 explosive drones and missiles at Israel, in response to a deadly bombing it blamed on Israel against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
Most of the missiles had been intercepted by Israel with the help of foreign countries, especially the United States.
A US official had warned this Tuesday in statements to AFP that Iran was preparing to launch “an imminent attack with ballistic missiles against Israel.”
The Iranian attack occurred on the same day that Israel announced ground military operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and after a week of intense bombings against the Islamist movement, which caused hundreds of deaths.
After this Tuesday’s attack, the Lebanese press agency ANI reported jubilant gunshots in the south of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. Israel bombed the area a few hours earlier, as well as the surroundings of Damascus and the Gaza Strip.
The extent of the Israeli offensive in Lebanon was not immediately clear, but the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said it did not involve a “ground incursion”, while Hezbollah denied that Israeli soldiers had entered Lebanese territory.
An Israeli security official stated that limited-range raids were carried out to “remove threats against civilian communities in northern Israel,” bordering southern Lebanon and a target of Hezbollah fire.
The Israeli authorities had already warned before that, although they had dealt a severe blow to the Islamist movement with the assassination of its leader, Hasan Nasrallah, the battle was not over.
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Calls for de-escalation
International calls for de-escalation have multiplied to avoid a regional war.
Since the escalation of violence, More than a thousand people have died in Lebanonaccording to the Ministry of Health.
The Lebanese Crisis Center stated that more than 240,000 people, both Syrians and Lebanese, fled to Syria since September 23.when the Israeli bombings in Lebanon began.
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, although the bombings have decreased in recent times. days.
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 a school housing displaced people near Gaza City, in the north.
The Israeli Army in turn indicated that its soldiers shot dozens of suspects who, it claimed, represented a threat while they were heading towards a military position in the Palestinian territory.
So far, the Israeli offensive has left more than 41,600 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
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