Israel - Iran missile attack latest: Tehran threatens ‘more crushing attacks’ as reports of Tel Aviv shooting
Iran fires dozens of missiles today in retaliatory attack for Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon
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Iran has threatened “more crushing and destructive” attacks after firing two waves of missiles at Israel.
Iran’s revolutionary guards said they fired dozens of missiles on Tuesday in retaliation for Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, including its killing of the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah.
They added that if Israel retaliated, Tehran’s response would be “more crushing and destructive”, Iranian state TV reported.
Israeli media has reported that more than 100 missiles were fired as civilians took cover in bomb shelters with sirens sounding across the country. No injuries have been reported so far.
Less than an hour after the attack started, Israel’s military sounded the all-clear and said Israelis were free to leave their shelters.
It came as police said six people were killed in a shooting in Tel Aviv, minutes before Iran launched its attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who reportedly convened the Israeli security cabinet at the government bunker near Jerusalem, has since spoken to Sir Keir Starmer, Sky News has reported.
The attack comes less than 24 hours after Israel announced it was carrying out “targeted” raids into southern Lebanon. It is the first time Israel has invaded its northern neighbour since 2006, when the two engaged in a month-long all-out war.
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Israel claims Hezbollah planned to invade over the border
Israel has claimed in a declassified military report that they discovered Hezbollah plans to invade over the border and “carry out its 7 October”, a reference to the deadly Hamas attack last year.
The report, as we earlier reported, also claimed Israel had neutralised around 700 military sites used by Hezbollah to stage this alleged attack.
“For decades, Hezbollah built terrorist and fighting infrastructures in the villages near the border, through which it planned to penetrate Israeli territory and carry out its October 7,” the report read.
“The map that Hezbollah planned to use as part of the ‘plan to conquer the Galilee’ was found inside one of the compounds that our fighters raided.”
It did not, however, release this plan. Below, you can see military spokesperson Daniel Hagari detail their findings from the report.
Israel carried out dozens of raids into Lebanon over the past year, declassified report says
Israeli forces have been carrying out raids into southern Lebanon for months, uncovering Hezbollah tunnels and weapon caches under homes and discovering invasion plans by the group, an Israeli military spokesman has claimed.
The spokesperson said the details are being declassified for the first time, hours after Israel officially announced a ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
The declassified report was posted by military spokesperson Daniel Hagari on X, formerly Twitter.
The report claimed that “following intelligence gathered over many years, dozens of ground operations have been carried out within the territory of Lebanon since the beginning of the war”.
Though Israel says it did not engage in fighting during the secret raids, they reported they discovered numerous weapons. They added that they had neutralised 700 targets.
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Poland to reduce number of staff at Beirut embassy
Poland will limit the number of staff at its embassy in Beirut, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday, adding that Warsaw would organise transport for Polish citizens who want to leave Lebanon.
“The decision was made to limit the staff at our embassy in Beirut,” spokesperson Pawel Wronski told reporters. “Mainly these are the families of diplomats. We will try to keep the essential people, and those who are not essential will return to the country (Poland)”
Lebanon violence will not end well for anyone, UN special coordinator says
The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has said that violence is spiralling to dangerous heights with strikes throughout Lebanon and incursions across the Blue Line.
“This cycle of violence will not end well for anyone,” Hennis-Plasschaert said.
UPD: More than 41,600 Palestinians killed in Gaza since 7 October
The health ministry in Gaza has updated the total death toll for those killed in the enclave since Israel launched it’s retaliatory invasion last October.
The ministry said more than 41,638 Palestinians have been killed and 96,460 injured.
UK's Lammy says Israel must avoid getting 'bogged down' in Lebanon
British foreign secretary David Lammy has said nobody wants a return to the past with Israel fighting in southern Lebanon over a long period, adding the price of a regional Middle Eastern war would be “huge”.
“None of us want to return to the years in which Israel found itself bogged down in a quagmire in southern Lebanon,” Lammy told broadcasters.
“None of us want to see a regional war. The price would be huge for the Middle East and it would have a significant effect on the global economy.”
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