Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed it. There is a context of concern about the possibility that Iran is preparing an attack in response to the assassination of senior Iranian officials.
Israel continues its war in Gaza, but also prepares for scenarios in other areasThe Prime Minister said on Thursday Benjamin Netanyahu in a context of concern about the possibility that Iran is preparing an attack in response to the assassination of senior Iranian officials.
“We will hurt whoever hurts us. “We are preparing to meet the security needs of the State of Israel, both in defense and attack,” said Netanyahu, in statements released by his office after a visit to the Tel Nof air base, in southern Israel.
Israel has been preparing for possible Iranian retaliation over the deaths of a general and six other officers in an airstrike. against the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus on April 1. Israel has not claimed responsibility, but Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Israel “must and will be punished” for the attack.
Netanyahu made his comments as Israeli troops and warplanes began an overnight operation in central Gaza that the military said was aimed at destroying infrastructure of Palestinian armed groups.
Most Israeli troops have been withdrawn from Gaza, in preparation for an assault on the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians take refuge, but fighting has continued in several areas of the enclave.
“It was as if the occupation army was launching a new war,” Raouf Abed, 20, said via a chat app from Deir Al-Balah, south of the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp. “The explosions were incessant, the sounds came from different directions.”
“Every time we wait for a ceasefire, Israel intensifies the aggression, as if trying to pressure Hamas by attacking us civilians,” he said.
Source: Ambito
