“I say to the Ayatollah regime: whoever attacks us, we will attack,” Netanyahu said. He justifies the killing of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah as a “settlement with a mass murderer.” Iran has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
After the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the Iranian leadership believes that all options are conceivable – including an even more comprehensive Middle East war. “Everyone should be aware that the situation is extremely explosive and anything is possible at any time (…) including war,” warned Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Sunday.
According to Araqchi, Israel has created an international crisis and put the entire world on alert. Iran has therefore also called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, said the chief diplomat in an interview with Iranian reporters in New York. Araqchi further said that Nasrallah’s blood was not shed in vain and that Israel would regret the act.
According to observers, the Iranian reaction to Nasrallah’s killing has so far been rather reserved. So far there has been no talk of a retaliatory strike of our own. Tehran currently seems to prefer to diplomatically discredit Israel on the international stage.
Netanyahu speaks of a historic turning point
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran against an attack on his country. “And to the Ayatollah regime I say: whoever attacks us, we attack,” he said in Tel Aviv.
“There is no place in Iran or the Middle East that Israel’s long arm cannot reach,” Netanyahu threatened. “These are momentous days. We are at a historic turning point,” said Israel’s head of government.
Rockets from Lebanon hit northern Israel
Israel continues to come under attack from Lebanon following the killing of Iranian-backed Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike in a Beirut suburb on Friday. According to the Israeli army, about eight rockets fired from Lebanon hit the area of the city of Tiberias in northern Israel early on Sunday. The projectiles landed in “open areas,” it said. There were no injuries. Israel also continues to attack Lebanon.
According to the military, an Israeli missile ship also intercepted a drone that was traveling from the Red Sea towards the port city of Eilat. There had previously been an air alarm in the city on Israel’s southern tip. The so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq said its fighters had attacked an “important target” in Eilat with drones.
The group is an association of militias loyal to Iran in the country that have been operating together under this name since the beginning of the Gaza war a year ago. The militias said the pace of attacks on Israel and its allies would increase. She published a video of the alleged launch of the drone, in which someone holds a photo of the killed Hezbollah chief Nasrallah into the camera.
Hundreds of people killed
Since the beginning of the Gaza war almost a year ago, Hezbollah and other forces from the so-called Axis of Resistance of Iran’s allies have repeatedly attacked Israel. This also includes militias in Iraq and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
According to their own statements, those involved want to support the militant Palestinian organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip in the fight against Israel. For a long time, Israel shot back to a similar extent. However, the country has massively increased its airstrikes in Lebanon this week. Hundreds of people were killed.
Israel also continues to attack Lebanon
In the early hours of Sunday morning, the Israeli military again attacked dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. The targets included launchers aimed at Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said.
