Iran launches attack against Israel

[Stella]

Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesperson, has said that Iran has launched dozens of drones towards Israel, a development that brings the two countries to the brink of all-out conflict after more than a decade of shadow war and soaring tensions in the wake of 7 October and Israel’s war in Gaza.

The drones are “hours away” from reaching Israeli soil, officials told local media on Saturday night. Israel’s forces have been on high alert for days for the possibility of a direct attack launched by Tehran, and jets could be heard roaring across the north of the country after the announcement. Israel’s sophisticated Iron Dome air defence system is expected to be able to intercept Shahed drones, which fly at around 150km/hour.

Rumours swirled for several hours before Hagari’s statement at 11pm local time (9pm BST) about Iran’s threatened retaliation for the 1 April killing of Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior figure in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards, in a strike on an Iranian diplomatic building in the Syrian capital of Damascus for which Tehran holds Israel responsible.

As several surrounding countries closed their airspaces in anticipation of the attack, Israel announced that schools will be closed for the next two days.

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What do all the armchair commentators think Israel could have done more strategically since October? Or would it have been in an even worse situation now had it not retaliated in Gaza the way it did. Islamic terrorism seems to be a creature like Hydra. Cut off one head and two more grow back.

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What do all the armchair commentators think Israel could have done more strategically since October?

Just throwing this out there, but perhaps they could have refrained from bombing Iran's consulate in Damascus and killing 16 people?

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There is nothing they could have done differently in Gaza. No one anywhere could have expected them to behave with any more care than they did (and most people would never have expected them to behave with anywhere near the care they did).

Iran staring what will likely become WWIII is not surprising. What is surprising is that no one (possibly except Israel) seemed willing to attempt to stop it.