Israel attacked: Iran fires ballistic missiles in retaliation for Lebanon invasion, action against Hezbollah

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******* attacked: Iran fires ballistic missiles in retaliation for Lebanon invasion, action against Hezbollah

Chaos in the Middle East has broken out as Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at ******* in retaliation for *******’s campaign against Tehran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.

The ******* comes a day after ******* commenced a “target” ground invasion of Lebanon, vowing to dismantle Hezbollah and its ability to ******* ******* and its citizens.

Alarms sounded across ******* and explosions could be heard in Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley on Tuesday after Israelis piled into ***** shelters. Reporters on state television lay flat on the ground during live broadcasts.

******** army radio said nearly 200 missiles had been launched into ******* from Iran. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Iran had launched tens of missiles at *******, and that if ******* retaliated Tehran’s response would be “more crushing and ruinous”.

*******’s military later sounded the all-clear and said Israelis were free to leave their shelters. Military spokesman Daniel Hagari said the military was not aware of any injuries resulting from the Iranian missile attacks.

He described the ******* as serious and said it would have consequences.

Camera IconMany rockets, fired from Iran, are seen over Jerusalem from Hebron, West Bank on October 01, 2024. Credit: Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images

A senior Iranian official told Reuters the order to launch missiles at ******* had been made by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei ******** in a secure location, the senior official added.

Reuters journalists saw missiles intercepted in the airspace of neighbouring Jordan.

Oil prices shot up five per cent on the news of the Iranian missile strikes, which raised the prospect of a wider war between the two arch-enemies.

A previous round of Iranian missiles fired at ******* in April – the first ever – were shot down with the help of the US military and other allies. ******* responded at the time with air strikes on Iran.

Iran has vowed to retaliate following ******** strikes that ******* the top leadership of its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, including that group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, a towering figure in Iran’s network of fighters across the region.

******* said its troops had launched ground raids into Lebanon, though it described the forays as limited.

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==Camera IconResidents have been ordered to remain close to ***** shelters as air raid sirens sound across the country. Credit: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

In Washington, US President Joe Biden said the ******* States was prepared to help ******* defend itself from Iranian missile attacks.

“We discussed how the ******* States is prepared to help ******* defend against these attacks, and protect ********* personnel in the region,” Biden said on X about a meeting held with Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House national security team earlier in the day.

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaking after Iran fired its salvo of missiles at *******, condemned what he called “escalation after escalation”, saying: “This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire.”

Though so far characterised by ******* as limited, a ground campaign into Lebanon for the first time in 18 years pitting ******** soldiers against Hezbollah, Iran’s best-armed proxy force in the Middle East, would be a major regional escalation.

More than a thousand Lebanese have been ******* and a million have fled their homes in weeks of intense ******** air strikes.

In the latest announced ******** of a senior Hezbollah figure, ******* said on Tuesday it had assassinated a commander named Muhammad Jaafar Qasir, describing him as in charge of weapons transfers from Iran and its affiliates.

Many Lebanese say they were ready to resist ******** forces.

In Beirut, ******* struck a high-rise building in the central Jnah area and one in the capital’s southern suburbs that briefly closed the road to Beirut airport. The ******** military said it had carried out a “precise strike”.

******* has long said it would do whatever it takes to secure its northern border and let tens of thousands of Israelis return to towns they fled since the outbreak of war in Gaza a year ago, when Hezbollah began ******* across the frontier in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

– With Reuters

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