Israel has suffered several air attacks since Friday evening. A strike left around twenty people injured in a town near Tel Aviv. The coastal city of Eilat was also targeted, but the drones were intercepted over the Red Sea.
The essentials
- The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran has threatened to retaliate against any attack against his country or its allies, whether “the United States” or “the Zionist regime.”
- A strike on Tira, northeast of Tel Aviv, injured 19 people. Seven people were hospitalized with moderate or minor injuries as well as anxiety, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross.
- The Pentagon announced Friday evening a military deployment in the region “in the coming months” for “the defense of Israel.”
Latest updates
17:28 – New deadly raids on northern Gaza
The UN denounces an “apocalyptic” situation in Gaza after the Israeli army carried out new deadly raids in the north. A Hamas official told AFP that he had refused to study a proposal for a short truce in Gaza.
16:28 – The death toll rises in Gaza
The Hamas government’s Ministry of Health has made a new assessment since the start of the war on October 7. 43,314 people are said to have died in Palestine. The latest report, dated Friday, showed 43,259 deaths.
15:02 – The Pentagon will send troops to the region
In a press release, the Pentagon assured that soldiers would be deployed “in the coming months” to defend its ally. Pentagon chief “continues to make clear that if Iran, its partners or affiliated groups take advantage of this moment to target U.S. personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take all necessary measures” to defend itself . Hours later, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened to retaliate against any attack on Iran or its allied groups, specifically citing the United States.
13:01 – Iran intensifies strikes on Israel
After the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promised to respond to any attack from Israel and the United States, several air raids were launched towards the Jewish state. The town of Tira, 25km northeast of Tel Aviv, was hit, leaving 19 injured. The coastal city of Eilat was also targeted, but the IDF claimed to have intercepted several drones over the Red Sea.
43,259. This is the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas terrorist offensive on October 7, 2023 in Israel. A figure communicated by the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government on Monday October 14, 2024 and which reveals the intensity of the fighting which has lasted for more than a year now. Over the months, tensions intensified, and as of October 27, 2023, Israel extended its ground operation to Gaza. The objective for Netanyahu and the IDF is clear: to “annihilate” Hamas. A one-week ceasefire nevertheless took place in November 2023. After a significant leap forward, on April 13, 2024, Iran launched its first massive attack on Israel. Hamas ally, Iran then fired nearly 350 explosive drones and missiles at the Jewish state. An attack in response to missiles fired at the embassy in Damascus, Syria on April 1, in which 11 people lost their lives, including seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Tuesday September 17, 2024, a new kind of attack broke into the war. Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies explode. Twelve deaths and nearly 3,000 injured have been recorded in Lebanon. Since its coordinated explosions, Israel has continued to strike Lebanon with air or ground raids. More than 1,000 people are killed in IDF strikes and thousands of Lebanese are forced to be displaced. On October 1, 2024, Iran responded by sending nearly 200 ballistic missiles directly to Israel. Since then, the two countries have been waging a merciless war. On October 8, 2024, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, threatened Lebanon with “destruction and suffering like those we see in Gaza” if the population of the country does not ” “liberated” not from Hezbollah. Comments described as “provocation” by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot.
Monday October 14, 2024, Lebanese Hezbollah threatened Israel with new attacks in a press release. As a reminder, Hezbollah had struck Haifa two days earlier, killing four Israeli soldiers and injuring no fewer than 60. At the start of the week, the terrorist organization indicated that “the resistance […] promise to the enemy”. The raid carried out “south of Haifa is only a foretaste of what awaits him if he decides to continue his attacks against our people”, she threatens. According to Palestinian doctors cited by the Associated Press, the courtyard of a hospital in the Gaza Strip was then bombed by the Israeli army, killing at least four people and causing a fire in a camp for displaced people.
