We hit Mossad, air bases and radarsreports the Revolutionary Guard // They don’t understand our determination to defend ourselves, but they willNetanyahu threatens
▲ Celebration in Palestine Square, in Tehran, after Iran’s offensive against Israeli territory.Photo Ap
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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, p. 28
Jerusalem. Iran fired a volley of ballistic missiles at Israel, in revenge for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniye and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, as well as the invasion of Lebanon, forcing nearly 10 million people to hide in bomb shelters as shells and interceptors exploded in the darling.
Tel Aviv warned Tehran that it committed a big mistake and? will pay for it.
According to Israeli officials, 181 missiles were launched in the attack. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intercepted a great dealand highlighted that a Palestinian was killed in Jericho, the reoccupied West Bank, as a result of missile debris, while two Israelis were slightly injured.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard indicated that 90 percent of the targets were hit and that hypersonic missiles were used Fattah for the first time against Israel. The Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohamad Bagheri, highlighted: We have hit the headquarters of the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence service), the Nevatim and Hatzerim air bases, strategic radars and concentration centers for Israeli armored vehiclesand threatened that if there is a response from Israel, he will launch devastating attacks.
Iranian President Masud Pe-zeshkian said the attack was a legitimate response to Israeli actions for the peace and security of Iran and the region.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters that the order to fire missiles at Israel came from the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who remains in a safe placeadded the senior official.
Explosions were heard across much of Israel, from Jerusalem to the Jordan Valley. State television reporters remained lying on the ground during live broadcasts.
A rocket hit a school in Gadera, central Israel, and photos and videos from the scene showed extensive damage to the building, although no one was injured. Israel’s air defenses were effectiveaccording to the IDF.
The United States, which warned before the attack that it was imminent, participated in the defense, both by detecting the threat in advance and by intercepting some of the missiles, according to the Israeli army.
The IDF detailed that there were impacts isolated in central Israel and several more in the south, but no damage was observed, so planes, air defenses and Air Force traffic control were operating normally.
a failure
At a security cabinet meeting from a secure bunker near Jerusalem after the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the bombing failure and it was thwarted thanks to Israel’s air defense system, which is the most advanced in the world. He also thanked the United States for its support.
The Iranian regime does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and retaliate against our enemiesNetanyahu said. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar; Hamas’ top military commander, Mohammed Deif; Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah Chief of Staff Fuad Shukr did not understand it, and there are probably those in Tehran who do not understand it, but they willhe warned, and finished: whoever attacks us, we will attack.
He explained that this has happened wherever Israel fights the axis of evil: in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iran.
When calling the forces of light in the world to unite against the Islamic republic, the premier urged them to “support Israel. The choice between tyranny and freedom, between blessing and curse, has never been clearer.
Ensure the existence
Israel is on the move and the axis of evil is retreatingNetanyahu insisted. We will do everything necessary to continue this trend, to achieve all the objectives of the war, primarily the return of all our hostages, and to ensure our existence and our future..
Both Iran and Israel ended the Islamic Republic’s attack.
Meanwhile, the Iranian president, Masud Pezeshkian, highlighted the decisive response against aggression of Israel, while Iran’s mission to the United Nations (UN) noted that the attack was a legal, rational and legitimate response to terrorist acts.
In Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes continued, leaving 55 dead and 156 injured, the Ministry of Health’s Emergency Operations Center announced.
More than 30 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
The Israeli army insisted that the objectives of its invasion of Lebanon are places where weapons are made of the Shiite militia Hezbollah, and reported fighting with militiamen in the border area, according to the military spokesman in Arabic, Avichai Adrian on the social network X.
Israeli troops bombed the south of Beirut and demanded that the civilian population not move in vehicles towards that area of the Litani River.
However, the pro-Iranian militia assured that it did not see any sign of Israeli forces, the Ap and Afp news agencies reported.
The Lebanese army denied that it had withdrawn from the border with Israel, as press agencies reported yesterday, hours before a new incursion by Israeli troops, and specified that it was a repositioning of observation points.
Finally, at least eight dead and seven wounded were the result of an attack in Jaffa, in Tel Aviv; according to The Jerusalem Posttwo armed men got off a light train and opened fire on people. The two attackers were killed by security forces, the media added.