Yesterday’s massive attack was the largest Israel has suffered since the war on Arab terrorism. An attack which adds to the list of missiles, rockets and bombs received from Gaza, Iran and Lebanon last year, since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli army quantified this Tuesday in 25,000 the number of projectiles which he received throughout the war. Understand this war like the one that began just a year ago with the Hamas terrorist attacks against the Reim music festival and against the Beeri and Ofakim kibbutzim.
He served as the spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, Admiral Daniel Hagariwho revealed the information this Wednesday while reporting on the consequences of Tuesday’s attack.
Hagari assured that the damage caused was minimal, given that Israel was prepared for the attack and had a triple anti-aircraft response system (Iron Dome, David Fronde and the Boom system), managed to capture and almost completely destroy the two hundred missiles launched by Iran. Some fell to the ground, some near Israeli Air Force bases and another near Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Outside Mossad headquarters, 1050p local: pic.twitter.com/r0iiN6E9O8
– Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) October 1, 2024
Israel’s response to Iran
Sources close to Hebrew authorities say there are indications that the response to the Iranian attack may not come immediately because Israel is placing more emphasis on destroying Hezbollah’s capabilities at home. current operation in Lebanonholds The Jesusalem post.
Despite the possible delay in the planned retaliation against Iran, Israel continues to emphasize that, as Daniel Hagari and other senior defense policy officials have said, there will be a response against Iran at a time when the government will deem it appropriate.
This Tuesday, Israel intensified its ground invasion of southern Lebanon and bombarded Beirut with greater force. The Israeli army launched more than a dozen bombings against the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah terrorists.
In addition, they also attacked the town of Chiam in the south, as well as Baabek and Bekah in the east. For the moment, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have announced “attacks against terrorist targets in Beirut”, without however giving more details on their operations launched during the night, the number of victims of which is also unknown for the ‘moment.
Israel has already succeeded in completely eliminating the leadership of the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Their operations cause significant losses in the ranks of the terrorists. The day before, 55 deaths and 156 injuries were recorded across the country and Israel has killed more than a thousand in the past two weeks, including Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah.
Separately, the IDF announced the death of a senior Hezbollah commander, Alfakar Hanawi, in an attack in Beirut, whom it accuses of having been responsible for the engineering of the Aziz unit and Hezbollah forces in the Aleppo region. He was also commander of the Iman Hossein Division, “with the full support of (Iranian general killed in US bombing in Iraq) Qasem Soleimani and Hasan Nasrallah.”
