Israel plans “tough response” to Iran attack

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Lerato Khumalo

Israel wants to punish Iran with a “harsh response” for the rocket attack. Iran is said to have warned Nasrallah that he would die. All developments in the news blog.

9:22 p.m.: Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet have discussed a response to Tuesday’s Iranian missile attack. As the Israeli television station Kan News reports, the answer is said to be “hard”.

However, the report states that Israel wants to be careful not to trigger a regional war with its response, Kan News reports.

7:52 p.m.: The Islamist Hamas has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on Tuesday evening in Tel Aviv that left seven dead and 17 injured. In a statement, the terrorist organization said the two perpetrators from the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were its members. At the same time, Hamas threatened further terrorist attacks.

The two men who were shot killed their victims on a light rail train and at a stop in Jaffa, the predominantly Arab district of the coastal metropolis. One of them had an automatic rifle, the other a knife. According to the information, the victims were train passengers and passers-by.

7:05 p.m.: After the Iranian missile attack on Israel, US President Joe Biden spoke out against an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. “The answer is no,” Biden said in response to a reporter’s question before departing for the US state of South Carolina. But Israel has a right to respond to the attack. Biden also said there would be further sanctions. Biden had previously advocated carefully considering the response to the Iranian missile attack

Biden previously took part in a discussion with the group of seven large democratic industrial nations (G7). The White House said there was also talk about new sanctions. We are working on a joint statement. “President Biden expressed the United States’ full solidarity and support for Israel and its people and reaffirmed the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security.”

6:36 p.m.: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to leave the country days before his death in an Israeli airstrike. This is reported by three Iranian sources to the Reuters news agency.

After the attack on Hezbollah on September 17, in which thousands of the terrorist organization’s pagers exploded, Khamenei sent a messenger. He is said to have asked Nasrallah to flee to Iran. The reason for this is said to have been evidence of Israeli agents within Hezbollah.

The bearer of the message was Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan. He was in Nasrallah’s bunker during the Israeli attack and also died.

5:24 p.m.: A total of eight Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting with the Shiite militia Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The army said another seven soldiers were wounded, some seriously. These were two different battles. The army had previously only reported one soldier killed.

The Hezbollah militia said it destroyed three Israeli battle tanks that were advancing on the Lebanese town of Marun al-Ras. There is currently no confirmation of this from Israel. The information provided by both sides cannot be independently verified.

4:32 p.m.: According to Palestinian sources, at least 32 people were killed in an advance by the Israeli army in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis. Many of the victims were women and minors, emergency services said. The information cannot be independently verified.