tisdag 1 oktober 2024

The Middle East Crisis|Israel-Iran

Israel promises "painful response" to Iran's attack

Israel will respond to Tuesday evening's Iranian robot attack against the country, according to Reuters, Israel's US ambassador Danny Danon.

- As we previously made clear to the international community, any enemy that attacks Israel can expect a painful response.

According to Israeli media, Israel's military states that it will carry out "powerful attacks" against targets in the Middle East during the night of Wednesday. It is unclear exactly which targets are intended.

Iran, in turn, states that if Israel chooses to respond to the attack, it will be met with a "more crushing and devastating" counterattack. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that 90 percent of its robots successfully hit their targets during Tuesday's attack. According to Israel, a "large number" of the Iranian robots were shot down without reaching their targets.
Over 180 robots fired at Israel from Iran - said to be 'over for now'

Iran has carried out an attack on Israel with over 180 robots, Israel's military says. Iran's Revolutionary Guard confirms the attack and states that it attacked Israel with ballistic robots.

Air raid alarms have gone off over large parts of Israel and explosions have been heard over Jerusalem. 
 
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Bild från Jerusalem/Bild från Shoresh TT.  
A source told Reuters that the attack took place in two waves.

Omni employee Nora Adin Fares, who is in the Jordanian capital Amman, says the whole sky is lit up by either robots or rockets.

- It started with one and then there were ten, twenty, thirty.

At 19:40 Swedish time, Israelis are allowed to leave the shelters and the military says that the attack "for the time being" is over. Jordan's air force says it shot down an unknown number of robots, and a source told Reuters that Israel shot down robots over Syria.

Iran describes it as revenge for the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The attack comes after US and Israeli sources warned that an attack by Iran, which supports the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, was imminent.
 
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Omnis Nora Adin Fares: Half the sky was lit up by the attack

Omni's Nora Adin Fares is located in the Jordanian capital Amman, between Israel and Iran. Just before seven o'clock, Swedish time, on Tuesday evening, she could see what are believed to be Iranian drones or robots passing over Jordan on their way to their targets in Israel.

- It started with a single flash of light that flew towards Israel, in the middle of the prayer time. And within a couple of seconds it rained about ten, then about twenty, and then about thirty. Half the sky lit up for a few seconds, she reports from the scene.

According to Nora Adin Fares, Jordan is divided on the issue of Israel. The two countries have a peace agreement, but a fifth of Jordan's population consists of Palestinians displaced after Israel's creation, and few sympathize with Israel.

- At one of the viewpoints in the mountain Jabal al-Weibdeh, people gathered in silence, then jubilation broke out, she says.

- Now over an hour has passed since the first attack. We can still hear celebrating people honking their cars.

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