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Iran Fires Missiles At Israel In New Escalation
Iran on Tuesday launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in retaliation to the killings of Iran-backed militant leaders.
The attack was said to have sent Israelis to shelters and prompting alarm across the region.
The Israeli military said in a statement that a short while ago, missiles were launched from Iran towards the State of Israel as sirens sounded across the country.
The military, after an hour announced that there was no longer a threat and it was decided that it is now permitted to leave protected spaces in all areas across the country”, with a “large number” of Iranian missiles intercepted.
According to report, between 150 and 200 missiles had been fired in the attack.
It as gathered that this was Iran’s second on Israel after a missile and drone attack in April in response to a deadly Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
Iran’s official news agency IRNA, said the Islamic republic had launched a missile attack on Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial hub.
Its Revolutionary Guards Corps said the attack was in response to Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week as well as the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a Tehran bombing widely blamed on Israel.
Israeli airspace was closed with all flights diverted, a spokesman for the airport authority said.
It was further gathered that Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, which lie between Iran and Israel, closed their airspace too.
As the missiles made their way to Israel from the east, blasts were heard over the Jordanian capital Amman, as Israel’s allies moved to intercept them.
While Iran-backed groups across the region had already been drawn into the Gaza war, sparked by Palestinian group Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, Tehran had largely refrained from direct attacks on its regional foe.
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