Revenge should be a cold dish for Israel
Israeli troops and rockets attacked on Israel in response to the Arab attack on the Gaza Strip, Israel’s consulate, said US President Biden
A devastating ground invasion by Israel left Gaza in ruins and killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, according to Palestinian health officials.
The Times of Israel said the Israeli military said that Hezbollah was responsible for about 40 rockets that were fired at Israel.
President Biden cut short his trip to Delaware so that he could return to the White House Saturday in case of an attack. “We are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel. We will help defend Israel. Biden said Friday that Iran will not succeed.
“Iran is a terrorist state — the world is seeing this now more than ever,” Israel’s defense minister Yoav Gallant said Saturday, hours before the launch. We know how to respond to terrorism and we are determined to defend our citizens.
By Saturday, as anticipation had grown over a possible retaliation, Israeli officials warned residents living in communities near Gaza and the Lebanon border to limit the size of gatherings and to work indoors or within reach of a shelter. Schools across Israel were closed through Monday.
Iranian officials said the attack was in response to an airstrike from earlier this month that hit Iran’s consulate in Damascus, Syria. Two generals were killed in the line of duty.
The White House confirmed that the attack would be watched from the Situation Room by the President along with top defense and diplomatic officials.
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“We have determined a clear principle: Whoever harms us, we will harm them. We will defend ourselves against any threat and will do so level-headedly and with determination,” Netanyahu said.
In a Saturday night speech to Israelis, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said his country was ready for “any scenario, both defensively and offensive.”
In a statement broadcast on Iranian state television, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had launched dozens of drones and missiles against targets in Israel.
The drones would take a long time to arrive in Israeli airspace. If sirens go off, he told Israelis to stay in safe rooms for 10 minutes.
And Jeffrey Lewis, a member of the International Security Advisory Board at the U.S. State Department, said in a post on X that Iran was using land-attack cruise missiles that could carry around a ton of explosives.
In recent decades, Iran has largely been focused on deterrence, long-range missiles, drones and air defenses. It has one of the largest ballistic missile and drone arsenals across the Middle East, according to weapons experts, and is also becoming a major arms exporter globally.
In the wake of the attack by Hamas, Israel asked the US for more precision-guided weapons for its combat aircraft and more for its missile defense system. Some missiles in Israel’s weapons arsenal have failure rates of 15 percent or more.
His post states that different versions of the missile have been made available to the Houthis in Yemen.
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Israel’s cabinet is debating that question. As a matter of self-defense, Israel has the right to respond in kind. It is not enough for Israel to demonstrate its capacity for defense, as it did over the weekend. It must also re-establish its capacity for deterrence. That is, it needs to show Iran’s leaders that the price for bringing their war against Israel out of the shadows will be unbearably high, and is therefore not to be repeated.
Governments in the Middle East, including Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, also issued statements expressing concern and calling for restraint so as not to exacerbate tensions in the region.
On Saturday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said he condemned Iran’s attack and was “deeply alarmed about the very real danger of a devastating region-wide escalation.”
The leaders of the G7 said that they stood in solidarity with Israel and that they had further destabilized the region. The G7 is made up of the United States, Canada, Italy, Japan, France, Germany and the EU.
Steve Scalise, the House Majority Leader, released a statement saying that Republicans want to include language that holds Iran and its terrorist proxies accountable.
House Republicans in congress are making changes to their legislative schedule this week in order to consider a proposal that supports Israel.
Israel and its allies were able to intercept nearly all of the weapons. However, a few of the Iranian ballistic missiles made it through the defenses, severely injuring a 7-year-old girl and slightly damaging a military base in southern Israel, according to Israeli officials.
The Iranian state media reported that a senior military official said Iran’s operation against Israel was over and no more attacks would be made.
The US and Israel worked together in the days leading up to the attack. The Iranian barrage was described as being at the high end of what the US and Israel expected.
Israel’s most advanced air defense system, the Arrow 3, provided the main protection against Iran’s ballistic missiles. The Arrow 3 has been around for several years, but had never faced such an intense onslaught.
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The Times of Israel and Haaretz reported that a young Bedouin girl underwent surgery after being wounded in the attack. Hagari confirmed the reports.
Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said the country notified the U.S. ahead of the attack through Swiss intermediaries, informing that the strike will not target American personnel or bases in the region. U.S. officials, however, said there was no notification from Iran prior to the attack on where weapons would be targeting.
Israel said it hit an alleged munitions production site in southern Lebanon, which it said belonged to Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire across the border with Lebanon for a long time. Iran has long supplied Hamas with funds and weapons but the White House has not directly linked Iran to the Oct. 7 attack.
At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Sunday, Iran’s ambassador to the U.N., Amir Saeid Iravani, said Iran had no other choice but to “exercise its inherent right to self-defense under international law.” Iravani stated that his county did not want to begin a conflict with the United States in the region.
The war cabinet gathered to discuss how to respond to the Iranian attacks. The Israeli leadership has not yet indicated what shape its response might take.