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According to the Israeli army, Iran is firing hundreds of rockets towards Israel. Correspondent Alexandra Callenius reports from Tel Aviv on the current security situation.
According to the Pentagon, Iran fired about twice as many missiles in its attack on Israel on Tuesday evening as in its last attack in April, according to the Pentagon. “The attack was approximately twice as large in terms of the number of ballistic missiles fired,” US Defense Department spokesman Pat Ryder told reporters on Tuesday. According to initial situation reports, Israel managed to intercept most of the rockets, he added.
Iran attacked Israel directly with missiles in the evening – for the second time after firing hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in April. According to the Israeli army, “a large number” of Iranian missiles were again intercepted. The army gave the all-clear later in the evening, saying that the danger from Iran had been averted “for the moment”.
The Israeli army is currently carrying out massive air strikes against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and said it launched a “limited” ground operation in the neighboring country on Tuesday night. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday’s attack on Israel was a response to the death of Nasrallah and the deadly attack on the head of the radical Islamic Hamas, Ismail Haniya, in Tehran at the end of July. Israel is blamed for both incidents.
Source: Stern
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