After Iran unleashed a volley of ballistic missiles toward locations all over Israel, Tel Aviv has threatened to react. With Iran’s strike, a situation that seemed to be spiraling out of control suddenly became far more intense.
At a late-night security cabinet gathering after Iran attack, Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “Iran made a big mistake tonight-and it will pay for it.” Iran is unable to comprehend our will to protect ourselves and exact revenge on those who oppose us, according to Netanyahu.
Less than twenty-four hours had passed since the Israeli prime minister issued the directive for the biggest ground invasion into southern Lebanon in about two decades when Tehran launched a first-ever barrage of more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israeli cities.
Shortly after 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, scores of missiles were fired above toward Israel’s major coastal towns. As the ballistic missiles, a few of which had been foiled by Israeli radar systems, flashed over the dark air, air sirens wailed throughout Israel. To hear the noise of far-off explosions, other missiles that were still intact seemed to be heading towards Israel’s shore and central regions.
The Palestinian civil defense organization in the Israeli-occupied West Bank said that an individual had died close to Jericho and that falling rocket shrapnel brought about destruction and ignited fires in the region. The army of Israel claimed it was unaware of any fatalities resulting from the missile assaults.
Tehran declared that it fired the missiles at three Israeli military posts in retribution for an array of Israeli bombings in Lebanon, which destroyed communities in the southern part of the nation. In addition, IRGC, a branch of Iranian armed forces, announced that the operation was in response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran. An Israeli assault on Beirut on Friday claimed the life of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, delivering a severe blow to the group.
