The Israeli air defense system “Iron Dome” operates on rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, August 7, 2022.
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In the evening of April 12, Israel was shelled from the territory of Lebanon. A total of approximately 40 launches were recorded.
About this the press service of the IDF reported.
Some of the missiles were intercepted, the rest fell in open areas. No casualties have been reported.
That same evening, the IDF air defense group successfully intercepted two explosive Hezbollah drones that flew from Lebanon to Israel.
“Over the past few hours, the IDF has struck a number of locations in southern Lebanon to eliminate the threat,” the Israeli army said.
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Senior US officials believe that an attack by Iran is “inevitable”, a view shared by their Israeli counterparts.
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Iran has said it will retaliate against Israel for a deadly airstrike on its consulate in Syria, stressing that it was a rare direct clash in the escalating proxy conflict between the rivals over the Gaza war.
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Israel has struck Iranian-linked targets in Syria for years, including allegedly killing individual operatives. However, the latest attack was the first case of a direct attack on an Iranian diplomatic establishment. The number of airstrikes increased after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip with Hamas militants.
- In January, Iran fired missiles at an “Israeli spy base in northern Iraq” in response to the killing of another of its commanders in Syria.
