Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, is concerned that Israel will strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, Sky News reports.
Grossi calls on Israel to show "extreme restraint".
The statement comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Herzi Halevi said Israel would respond to Iran's attack. During Sunday, Iran should have closed its nuclear facilities, according to Grossi, due to "security considerations". However, they were reopened on Monday.
The IAEA conducts regular inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Seven-year-old Amina became the only victim of Iran's attack
Israel, with the help of its allies, shot down one by one the hundreds of attack drones and cruise missiles that Iran fired at the country on Saturday night. The country's population could exhale, except for one family.
Seven-year-old girl Amina al-Hasoni was the only one seriously injured in the attack. Now her parents and 13 siblings watch over her in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Beersheba.
Amina al-Hasoni was hit in the head by shrapnel from a downed robot that penetrated the ceiling as she ran out of her bedroom.
- I think it hit her when she was running, her uncle Ismail told AFP.
The family are Bedouins and live in the village of al-Fura in the Negev desert. Many of the 300,000 Bedouins who live in Israel do not have access to shelters, and are not allowed to build their own. On paper, their villages do not exist.
- We demand our rights. Our villages must be protected, says Jabbar Agu Caf, chairman of the regional Bedouin area.
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Analysis: The attack could save an increasingly isolated Netanyahu
The growing conflict with Iran could strengthen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, writes Mairav Zonszein in an analysis in Foreign Policy. She believes that this weekend's attack from Tehran came just when the public's trust in Netanyahu hit rock bottom and American support began to waver in the wake of the Gaza war.
Instead of isolating Netanyahu, the US must now deepen the cooperation between the countries, Zonszein believes
"The US government will not seriously consider conditionality on aid to Israel in the midst of this debacle."
CNN's Nadeen Ebrahim and Jeremy Diamond write that Israel's war cabinet is certainly making domestic political considerations when deciding how to respond to this weekend's attack.
Netanyahu leads the most right-leaning coalition ever in the country, and in order to prevent a government collapse, it is necessary to appease its most hard-line supporters, the writers believe.
- For Netanyahu, it's only about politics and his own survival, says Alon Pinkas, former diplomat and now commentator for the Israeli news
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