Yesterday’s massive attack was the largest that Israel has suffered since the war with Arab terrorism has lasted. An attack that adds to the list of missiles, rockets and bombs that have been received from Gaza, Iran and Lebanon in the last year, since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israeli territory on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli army has quantified this Tuesday in 25,000 the number of projectiles that he has received throughout the war. Understanding this war as the one that began just now a year ago with the Hamas terrorist attacks on the Reim music festival and on the Beeri and Ofakim kibbutzim.
He has been the spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, Admiral Daniel Hagariwho revealed the information this Wednesday when reporting on the effects of Tuesday’s bombing.
Hagari has assured that the damage caused has been little, given that Israel was prepared for the attack and the triple anti-aircraft response system (iron dome, david sling and the Arrow system), worked by capturing and almost completely destroying the two hundred missiles that Iran launched. Some did fall to the ground, some near the Israeli Air Force bases and another next to the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Outside Mossad HQ, 1050p local: pic.twitter.com/r0iiN6E9O8
— Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) October 1, 2024
Israel’s response to Iran
Sources close to the Hebrew authorities say there are indications that the response to Iran’s attack may not come immediately because Israel is placing more emphasis on destroying Hezbollah’s capabilities in its homeland. current operation in Lebanonholds The Jesusalem Post.
Despite the possible delay in a planned retaliation against Iran, Israel continues to emphasize that, as Daniel Hagari and other senior political defense officials have said, there will be a response to Iran at a time the government deems appropriate.
This Tuesday, Israel intensified its ground invasion of southern Lebanon and bombed Beirut with more force. The Israeli Army has launched more than a dozen bombings against the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah terrorists.
Israeli troops on the border with Lebanon. (Getty)
In addition, they have also attacked the city of Chiam, in the south, and Baabek and Bekah, in the east. For now, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have announced “attacks against terrorist targets in Beirut”, although they have not given more details about their operations launched during the night, of which the number of victims is also unknown for now. .
Israel has already managed to completely eliminate the leadership of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Their operations are causing significant casualties in the ranks of the terrorists. During the previous day, 55 deaths and 156 injuries were recorded throughout the country and Israel has killed more than a thousand in the last two weeks, including Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah.
In addition, the IDF has announced the death of a senior Hezbollah commander, Alfakar Hanawi, in an attack in Beirut, whom they accuse of having been in charge of the engineering of the Aziz unit and of Hezbollah forces in the Aleppo region. . He was also commander of the Iman Hossein division, “with the full support of (the Iranian general killed in a US bombing in Iraq) Qasem Soleimani and Hasan Nasrallah.”
