Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) holds a gathering with the Safety Cupboard after Iran’s missile assaults on Israel in West Jerusalem on October 01, 2024. Director of the Mossad David Barnea (R) additionally attended the assembly.
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Israel launched airstrikes early Saturday concentrating on what it described as navy targets in Iran in retaliation for a ballistic missile assault Oct. 1, officers mentioned. There was no speedy data on harm within the Islamic Republic.
Israel’s navy described the assault as “exact strikes on navy targets in Iran,” with out instantly elaborating.
“The regime in Iran and its proxies within the area have been relentlessly attacking Israel since Oct. 7 – on seven fronts – together with direct assaults from Iranian soil,” an Israeli navy assertion mentioned. “Like each different sovereign nation on the planet, the State of Israel has the best and the responsibility to reply.”
In Tehran, the Iranian capital, the sound of explosions may very well be heard, with state-run media there initially acknowledging the blasts and saying a few of the sounds got here from air protection methods across the metropolis.
Iran has launched two ballistic missile assaults on Israel in latest months amid the continuing Israel-Hamas battle within the Gaza Strip that started with the Hamas assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Israel additionally has launched a floor invasion of Lebanon.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken works in an workplace aboard an plane carrying him to London, Britain from Doha, Qatar, October 24, 2024.
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The strike occurred simply as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was arriving again within the U.S. after a tour of the Center East the place he and different U.S. officers had warned Israel to tender a response that will not additional escalate the battle within the area and exclude nuclear websites in Iran.
