Department of Defense Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed that U.S. military forces helped defend Israel against an Iran's ballistic missile attack and that no U.S. personnel were injured.
at Israel this evening, lighting up the skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as Iron Dome defenses intercepted some of the projectiles and warning sirens blared.
Iran must face consequences for its attack on Israel, the State Department said today, declining to rule out Iran’s nuclear program as a potential target. Israeli police called it a terror attack after two suspects went on a"killing spree" just before Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel. The Palestinian Mujahidin Movement, also known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, took responsibility for the attack.Twelve people were wounded, six seriously, according to Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency services.
As of now the airport in Lebanon is still open and the State Department is not conducting an evacuation but instead helping interested U.S. citizens find a flight out. Pezeshkian said that the decision was made to confront Israel"in defense of Iranian interests and citizens," according to an NBC News translation.
So while Iran seems to be messaging that today's attack could certainly have been worse, others may view their communiques as open threats of escalation.Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today that Israel"effectively defeated" Iran's missile attack with the support of the United States and other partners.
The aviation authority also assured passengers that tickets would be refunded"if necessary" and more information would be released to the public at a later time.NBC News’ Raf Sanchez, on the ground in northern Israel, described skies filled with “missile after missile after missile” being intercepted by waves of aerial defense fire.Jordan allowed U.S. forces to fly and shoot down Iranian missiles within the Arab country's airspace, a U.S.
"Staying in open areas and moving outside if not essential should be avoided, and staying close to protected spaces can be life saving," the IDF said.Plestia Alaqad, a 22-year-old journalist who covered the widespread destruction and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, is now living under the threat of Israeli airstrikes once again. This time in Beirut.
After she was awarded a scholarship named after Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in 2022 while reporting on an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank, Alaqad said she went to Lebanon to pursue a master’s degree in media studies at the American University of Beirut.Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that Iran's attack on Israel"will have consequences.
That initial report on the death toll may include the suspect or suspects, according to one U.S. official. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran after he attended July's inauguration ceremony for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Both the president and vice president are monitoring the missile assault in the White House situation room. The U.S. military has been directed to"shoot down missiles targeting Israel."NBC News' Erin McLaughlin takes shelter when air raid sirens warning of an apparent Iranian missile attack targeting Israel interrupt her reporting from Tel Aviv.In Tehran, state media has removed references to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's leading Friday prayers.
Paramedics on the scene treated"a number of injured people with varying degrees of injury, including those who are unconscious," the MDA spokesperson said. The UAE established diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020 through bilateral agreements known as the Abraham Accords, a huge breakthrough for the Jewish state.Israel could be “trying to soften Hezbollah’s defenses” and probe its weak points with its incursion into southern Lebanon, according to Fawaz A. Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
“They should not do it. It would be a big mistake if they do,” said Trump, who regularly warns that a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris would be a vote to move closer to a potential World War III. “They have no respect for the administration. This would have never happened if I was president. Zero chance.”U.S.
"We’re not going to Beirut, we’re not going to the cities in southern Lebanon," IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said."We are focusing in the area of those villages and the area next to our borders, and we will do in this area what is necessary to dismantle and demolish Hezbollah’s infrastructure." The Israeli military earlier announced new restrictions from Israel’s Home Front Command, including a ban on outdoor gatherings of more than 30 people across Israel, including in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.Humanitarian workers are looking to help thousands of people sheltering in schools in southern Lebanon move farther north after Israel announced a"limited" ground invasion across its northern border.
"I'm trying to be strong, to pretend I'm really strong, but honestly, I'm not," Kaisi said."I know that any time the area could be bombed. ... I don't know what's going to happen in the coming hours, but I can tell you that it's really, really the worst day in Lebanon."More than 10,000 people in Gaza are in need of medical evacuation, Louise Wateridge, a spokeswoman for the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, told reporters in Geneva today.
Western nations have been weighing their options on how to get nationals out of Lebanon safely if a full-scale war breaks out there, with Cyprus and possibly Turkey seen as offering sanctuary to tens of thousands of people.Displaced families searching for safety in Lebanon are struggling to find sanctuary as shelters fill up, with a growing number of people having to sleep in streets, playgrounds and parking lots, according to humanitarian workers.
The United States has indications that Iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel, a senior White House official and a defense official told NBC News. Nearly a year before Israel said its troops crossed into Lebanon yesterday, small teams of Israeli commandos began operations targeting Hezbollah tunnels, weapons depots and other sites, the official said. At times, Israeli troops slept inside Lebanon.
The order includes areas in south and central Israel, as well as the West Bank, and urges people in these places to work indoors or near bomb shelters. Fayed said he was afraid of both Hezbollah’s response and an Israeli invasion because “I saw what happened in Gaza.” He added that some people were shifting “more towards being with the resistance than going against the resistance,” because of Israeli actions in southern Lebanon.
Many airlines have stopped flying to the two nations since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalated in the past fortnight. "I can tell you this is not not numbers of a large ground invasion," the official said, without offering specific figures."These local raids we’re doing, are very limited and in scope and in the area of operating. So at the moment, no clashes."Israel says it has launched a limited ground offensive in southern Lebanon, announcing that is conducting"limited, localized, and targeted ground raids" against Hezbollah.
"You must immediately head north of the Awali River, he said in a post on X."Save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately."The U.N.'s peacekeeping force in Lebanon says the IDF notified it yesterday of its intention to carry out"limited ground incursions" in the country. Aoun said both Hezbollah and Israel were responsible for violence, and called on the international community to implement the 1701 resolution, referencing a 2006 U.N. resolution that aimed to end Hezbollah’s armed presence in the south as part of an agreement to end a 34-day war with Israel.Hezbollah says that it fired a barrage of"Fadi-4" missiles at Israel's Mossad headquarters and Glilot intelligence base in the Tel Aviv area.
Later, Israeli emergency services said that its staff were"providing medical care and evacuating a 54-year-old man" with shrapnel injuries to his head and back to a hospital in Petah Tivka, east of Tel Aviv.Fears are growing in southern Lebanon of what the days, weeks and potentially months ahead will look like after Israel launched what it said were"limited" ground raids across the border.
"I don’t know if you’re getting the message, but if the situation persists, it is going to be extremely hard," he said.Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has reaffirmed U.S. support in a call with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, but said that a"diplomatic resolution" between Israel and Hezbollah is required to ensure the safe return of civilians to their homes.
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