The outgoing president and his vice-president, candidate for the November 5 election, Kamala Harris, both followed the attack from the White House situation room, it is specified.
In Tehran, the official IRNA news agency announced Iran’s firing of “missiles on Tel Aviv”, without any further details.
Interceptor missiles were fired by the Israeli army above Jerusalem against projectiles coming from the east visible in their light traces, AFP journalists noted. Interceptor missiles were fired by the Israeli army above Jerusalem against projectiles coming from the east visible in their light traces, AFP journalists noted.
Dozens of detonations were heard and explosions were visible in the sky. Warning sirens rang out across Israeli territory. Traffic was completely halted at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport and Israeli airspace closed.
There were two minor injuries in Israel, according to emergency services. About an hour after the firing of dozens of missiles, the army indicated that there was no longer an Iranian threat “for the moment” and affirmed that the population could leave the shelters.
“In response to the martyrs of Ismail Haniyeh, Hassan Nasrallah and Abbas Nilforoushan (a deputy to the head of the Guards), we aimed at the heart of the occupied territories,” indicated the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, in reference to Israel.
In a statement, they also threatened Israel, their archenemy, with “crushing attacks” if it responded to the missile attacks.
Israel has been at war with Hamas in Gaza since an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement against Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. It is also fighting Lebanese Hezbollah which opened a front against Israel in support of Hamas, its ally, the following day from the start of the war.
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On Friday, Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a devastating raid claimed by Israel in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
On July 31, Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, was killed in an attack while he was in Tehran. Iran and Hamas blamed Israel.
Heavy gunfire broke out in the southern suburbs of Beirut after the Iranian attack on Israel, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.
An attack in Tel Aviv
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Hassan Nasrallah’s death “will not be in vain” and Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref warned it would lead to the “destruction” of Israel.
It was an American official who raised the alert late in the afternoon about an imminent attack by Iran.
On April 13, in response to a deadly strike attributed to Israel on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Iran fired some 350 explosive drones and missiles towards Israel, the first direct attack of its kind, and which injured a Bedouin girl. Most of the missiles were intercepted by Israel with the help of foreign countries, especially the United States.
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In addition, four people were killed in an automatic weapons attack in Tel Aviv carried out by two shooters, who were “neutralized”, according to the police.
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