The IRGC for the 1st time used cutting-edge Fattah-2 rockets to bypass air defenses. and hit Israeli war bases. Only one civilian death was admitted, by falling debris.
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File photo: A model of the Iranian Fattah hypersonic missile on display in Tehran, April 15, 2024. Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto
Iran used hypersonic missiles for the first time during its strikes on Israel on Tuesday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced. Missiles reported to arrive in just 15 minutes
Iran launched several salvos of missiles in what the IRGC called a response to the recent Israeli killings of the heads of Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as an Iranian general who was in Lebanon.
Fattah-2 hypersonic missiles were used in the attack to bypass Israeli radars, Iranian media reported on Tuesday evening, citing the IRGC.
The Guard claimed that 80-90% of the missiles used in ‘Operation Honest Promise 2’ struck their targets, among which were the Tel Nof air base near Tel Aviv and the Netsarim area near Gaza, where they said “a large number of Israeli tanks” were destroyed.
Iran also claimed to have destroyed a number of Israeli F-35 fighters at the Nevatim air base, located halfway between Beersheba and the Dead Sea
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) estimated the number of incoming missiles at 180 and acknowledged that “a few hits” were recorded. According to the IDF, the majority of the missiles were successfully intercepted.
The only reported casualty on the ground is a Palestinian man, who was killed by a falling missile fragment near Jericho in the West Bank.
Tuesday’s bombardment was bigger in size and scope than the April strike, the first-ever such attack by Iran, in which scores of ballistic missiles and drones were fired at Israel in reprisal for an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
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Hypersonic missiles fly anywhere from five to 25 times the speed of sound. Iran unveiled its first such missile, the Fattah-1, last June. The Fattah-2 version was revealed to the public in November. Neither had been used in combat before.
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According to Tehran, the missile barrage was a response to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who was killed in Tehran in July.
Iran also cited the killings of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and IRGC Major General Abbas Nilforoshan in Lebanon last week.
At least one hit was reported at an offshore gas platform near Ashkelon. The installation, apparently engulfed in flames, was visible from far away, one of the unverified videos suggests.
Apart from activating ground defenses, Israel reportedly scrambled 25 of its F-15 fighter jets to respond to the attack. Much of the IDF’s fleet, however, remains in the north of the country, where it has been busy with the bombing campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon.US poliyicians
Israel has vowed to strike back, while Iran has warned that any further attacks will be met with force.
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US politician Vance has urged Israel to strike back at Iran, despite it being backed by Russia and China.
Geriatric President Biden has authorized more US troops to the Middle East, repeating the mantra of “Israel’s right to Self Defense’.
Biden has been widely slammed for his daily calls for ‘restraint’ while authorizing a new gift to Israel of at least $8,700,000,000 more of public money to pay for mostly US armaments.
Iran launches missiles at Israel as IDF enters Lebanon: LIVE UPDATES
West Jerusalem announced the start of cross-border ground raids in the early hours of Tuesday
Israeli soldiers work on tanks and armored personnel carriers in northern Israel, Sept. 30, 2024. © AP Photo/Leo Correa
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the beginning of “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” against the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday. The move comes after two weeks of bombing by the Jewish state that killed over 1,000 people and displaced 1 million more.
During the bombing campaign, the IDF killed several senior Hezbollah members, including the group’s long-time leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The intensification of airstrikes came after thousands of hand-held pagers and radios used by Hezbollah members simultaneously exploded across Lebanon, killing both militants and civilians. Although it was widely reported that Mossad was behind the blasts, Israeli neither confirmed nor denied its involvement.
The goal of the IDF operation is to ensure the safety of citizens living in the northern part of Israel, West Jerusalem said. Hezbollah has been launching barrages of rockets into Israel in what it had said was an act of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. Some 70,000 Israelis have been displaced due to Hezbollah attacks.
The IDF occupied parts of southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000 in what became known as the First Lebanon War in Israel.
Israel invaded Lebanon again in 2006, which resulted in a 34-day conflict with Hezbollah.
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At least 1,873 people have been killed and 9,134 others wounded in Lebanon as a result of Israeli attacks since October 8 last year, the Lebanese Disaster Risk Management Unit has announced. The number of those displaced has exceeded 1 million, with more than 155,600 people registered in shelters, it said.
Heavy smoke of billows Israeli air raids in the southern Lebanese border town Khiam. © Getty Images
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Danish police have said they are investigating two blasts near the Israeli embassy on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen.“No one has been injured” in the incident, Copenhagen police announced on X (formerly Twitter). “A possible connection to the Israeli embassy, located in the area, is being investigated,” it added. The police promised to release details of the probe at a press conference later in the day.
04:42 GMT
Hezbollah announced that its fighters were directly engaging Israeli infantry in the southern Lebanese city of Odaisseh.The IDF began cross-border raids on early Tuesday morning. The Israeli military said that commandos recovered weapons, including rocket launchers, from Hezbollah-linked sites during nighttime operations.
04:22 GMT
The rapid escalation in the Middle East signifies “a complete failure” of the policies of US President Joe Biden, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“The inarticulate statements of the White House demonstrate a complete incompetence when it comes to resolving crises,” she wrote on Telegram, arguing that diplomatic efforts of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken have “led to thousands of casualties and a gridlock.”
03:41 GMT
The supporters of Iran and Hezbollah gathered in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities to celebrate Tuesday’s missile attacks against Israel. In Baghdad, the demonstration took place outside the Iranian embassy.Many people participating in the rally were reportedly members of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi-based Shia militant group, which is aligned with the Lebanese-based Hezbollah.
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02:50 GMT
Videos posted to social media purportedly show new Israeli strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
00:55 GMT
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed that Tuesday’s missile barrage targeted “solely military and security sites in charge of genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.”
“We did so after exercising tremendous restraint for almost two months, to give space for a ceasefire in Gaza,” the diplomat wrote on X. He promised a “stronger and more powerful” response if Israel decides to “invite further retaliation.”
00:37 GMT
Two people received minor injuries from the falling fragments of Iranian missiles in Jordan, the country’s Interior Ministry said, as quoted by the Roya news agency.Roya cited a military source as saying that the Jordanian Armed Forces have been placed on high alert due to “military escalation in the region.
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00:17 GMT
PBS correspondent Nick Shifrin said that one of the Iranian ballistic missiles fired on Tuesday fell “about 1,500 feet” from the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv. The missile left a crater that is “about 30 feet deep and maybe 50 feet wide,” Shifrin said.Iranian officials earlier said that they targeted Mossad facilities, as well as Israeli military sites.
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The IDF said in the early hours of Wednesday that it was “attacking terrorist targets in Beirut.” The Lebanese news website Al Mayadeen, meanwhile, reported that a residential building has been struck.
At least 55 people were killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday and more than 150 were wounded, according to the Lebanese Defense Ministry.
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