Iran launches barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel

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Iran launches barrage of ballistic missiles at *******

Explosions have been heard across ******* after Iran said it had launched dozens of ballistic missiles towards the country.

The ******** military said there were a large number of interceptions and a “few hits” in central and southern areas, and warned Iran that the ******* would have “consequences”.

******** paramedics said two people had suffered light injuries after being hit by shrapnel in the central Tel Aviv area.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it launched the missiles in retaliation for recent attacks that ******* the leaders of Hezbollah and ******, as well as a senior Iranian commander.

They also threatened that there would be further “crushing attacks” if ******* responded.

Iran’s supreme leader had vowed on Saturday that *******’s ******** of Hezbollah ally Hassan Nasrallah would be avenged.

The missile ******* also came hours after ******** troops began an invasion of southern Lebanon to remove what the ******** military said were “Hezbollah ******* targets” in border villages that posed a threat to residents of northern *******.

******* has gone on the offensive after almost a year of cross-border hostilities sparked by the war in Gaza, saying it wants to ensure the safe return of residents of border areas who have been displaced by Hezbollah attacks.

However, there are widespread fears that the significant escalation of their long-running conflict risks an all-out regional war that draws in the US and Iran.

Before the missile *******, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis in a video statement: “We are in the midst of a campaign against Iran’s axis of evil.

“Together we will stand steadfast in the trying days ahead of us. Together we will stand. Together we will ****** and together we will win.”

A senior White House official meanwhile told reporters in Washington: “A direct military ******* from Iran against ******* will carry severe consequences for Iran.”

In April, Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles at ******* in retaliation for a deadly strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria that ******* several top commanders.

Almost all of them were shot down by *******, the US and other Western allies and their ***** partners, and an air base in southern ******* sustained only minor damage when it was hit.

******* responded by launching a missile that hit an Iranian air base.

US officials said earlier that Iran had been ready to launch a new missile ******* against ******* on short notice since early August, when it threatened to retaliate for the ************** of ****** leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. ******* neither confirmed nor denied that it ******* Haniyeh.

On Saturday, a day after Hezbollah’s leader was ******* in an ******** air strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised that the ****** of Hassan Nasrallah “shall not go unavenged”.

He gave no details, but said: “The fate of this region will be determined by the forces of resistance, with Hezbollah at the forefront.”

Iran has built a network of allied armed groups across the Middle East, which are all opposed to the US and ******* and sometimes refer to themselves as the “Axis of Resistance”. Besides Hezbollah, they include ****** in the ************ territories, the Houthis in Yemen, and a number of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria.

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