Reactions to Iran's attack

Netanyahu after the attacks last night: We will win

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday morning that Israel "will prevail" after Iran fired attack drones and robots at the country last night. Most of the drones are said to have been shot down.

"We returned fire, we stopped, together we will win," Netanyahu writes in a short statement on X.

Iran had, before the night's attack, vowed to avenge Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1. Israel, in turn, has promised to respond to new attacks from Iran.

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Biden to Netanyahu: Take the victory - the US will not participate in counterattacks

The United States will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran. That message is said to have been delivered by President Joe Biden during a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning, reports CNN.

During the night, the US helped shoot down the hundreds of drones and robots fired from Iran at Israel. The vast majority will never have reached their goals.

According to Axios' sources, Biden has pressed that the night's defense was a success, and urged Netanyahu to see it as a victory. Biden believes that the successful defense showed the outside world that Israel is militarily superior to Iran.

- You have a victory here. Take it, Biden is said to have said.

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Analyst: Expect rising oil prices

The price of oil will "most likely rise" a few dollars in the wake of Iran's attack on Israel. This is what Handelsbanken's commodity analyst Christian Kopfer tells TT.

The reason he does not expect a greater effect than that is that an Iranian retaliation against Israel has already been priced in by the market to some extent.

How the crisis in the Middle East develops will be decisive for the development of the economy in general and the price of oil in particular, emphasizes Kopfer.

- The financial markets will be on edge over what will be the next step.

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Hamas hails Iran's attack on Israel: "Deserved"

Hamas defends Iran's attack on Israel, which it says was a "deserved" response to Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1.

"We in Hamas see the military operation carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran as a just and well-deserved response to the crime of attacking the Iranian consulate," the terrorist group writes in a statement.

Iran attacked Israel overnight Sunday with 300 attack drones and robots. The major party was shot down by Israel and its allies. A seven-year-old girl was injured by falling shrapnel.
The conflict between Israel and Iran.

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Aircraft alarms sounded over Israel: "A panicky night"

During the five hours or so that Iran's attack was going on, air strikes were heard in many places in Israel.

- For all the people here, it was a nervous and panicky night, says SVT's correspondent Samir Adu Eid on location in Jerusalem.

He describes that the morning was calm, but that preparedness is still high. The working week in Israel starts on Sundays, but today schools are closed.

When the attack began on Saturday evening, many people went indoors to seek shelter. A shop owner the Times of Israel spoke to said at the time that many people came to stockpile food and water.

- Normally we close at 01, but we keep the shop open.
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Leader: 10,000 Americans within range of Iran

A continued escalation in the Middle East must be stopped, writes The Guardian in an editorial. That Hamas' terrorist act against Israel on October 7 would end in a major war has been a concern for governments in both Western countries and the Arab world ever since.

"This confrontation between Israel and Iran must be defused before it spins out of control," writes the newspaper.

MSNBC writes in an editorial that an Israeli attack could be costly - even for their allies, and points out that the US has tens of thousands of troops stationed around the region.

"All of these troops are within range of Iranian bots or Iranian proxy attacks."