After Israeli strikes in Lebanon, there were a lot of feelings of tension
Israel’s Nuclear Program in the Negev Desert: Israel During the Oct. 7 Attack and the 2020 Israel-Iran High-Sensitivity Nuclear Scientists Shooting
Israel’s bombing of an apartment building in Beirut that killed a top Hezbollah commander comes after back-to-back attacks on the Iran-backed militia, with mass explosions of wireless devices across Lebanon on Tuesday followed the next day by the explosion of numerous walkie-talkies owned by Hezbollah members across the country.
Since the Hamas-led attack on Israel last Oct. 7, Israel has conducted a series of assassinations of commanders of Iran’s regional proxy forces, including Hamas and Hezbollah.
These attacks have come at the same time as Israel’s wide-scale military offensive in Gaza, which health officials there say have killed more than 41,000 Palestinians. The UN, rights groups, and some governments accuse Israel of using disproportionate force in its war against Hamas. Israel says its use of force is justified and legal.
Israeli spies broke into a warehouse in Tehran with torches and took a huge amount of documents regarding Iran’s nuclear program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel later used the documents to accuse Iran of lying for years about its efforts to build a nuclear weapon.
Israel’s Dimona complex, the heart of its never-acknowledged nuclear arms program in the Negev desert, was used as a testing ground for the Stuxnet computer worm. The destructive program was eventually credited with wiping out roughly a fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, which Tehran needs to produce a nuclear weapon.
They are just the latest attacks — including a series against Iran’s nuclear program — that have embarrassed enemies and demonstrated Israel’s prowess at using military technology and intelligence in ways that suggest it can strike anywhere and at any time.
Four people with ties to Iran’s nuclear program were killed by hit men on motorcycles. An assassin placed a sticky bomb to a car door in 2010. In others, gunmen approached vehicles in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and fired through the window before speeding off.
In November 2020, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by gunshots fired from a truck-mounted machine gun that had been attached to a remote-controlled robotic apparatus. Experts said the operation had taken months, and likely years, of planning.
The Israeli military strike on the school of the Timeoun enclave: a human-rights defender and a humanitarian advocate
Although schools have become regular targets of Israeli strikes, they continue to draw Palestinians seeking shelter because they offer some limited access to plumbing and are seen as somewhat safer than other places in the enclave, which has suffered increasing lawlessness.
The media office for the Gazan government, which is controlled by Hamas, said that many widows and orphaned children had been at the school to receive a small payment to help cover food costs. Almost half a million people in the Gaza Strip faced starvation this summer, according to experts, as hunger is a pervasive problem.
According to a statement from the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the Israeli military carried out a strike at the Al Falah school, which is connected to the Zeitoun school.
The Saturday strike on the school killed a number of people, including an infant, according to the rescue services. The majority of the people killed in Gaza were women and children, according to the health ministry.
