Netanyahu praises Israel’s hard hitting attack on Iran as Tehran plays down impact

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Netanyahu praises *******’s hard hitting ******* on Iran as Tehran plays down impact

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“We hit hard Iran’s defence capabilities and its ability to produce missiles that are aimed at us,” Mr Netanyahu said in a speech, calling the ******* “precise and powerful” and saying it met all its objectives.

With warfare raging in

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and Lebanon, direct confrontation between

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and Iran risks spiralling into a regional conflagration. But a day after the ******** airstrikes, there was no sign they would spark another round of escalation.

Iran has not signalled how it will respond to Saturday’s long-anticipated strikes, which involved scores of fighter jets ******** targets near the capital Tehran and in the western provinces of Ilam and Khuzestan.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said *******’s *******, which ******* four soldiers and damaged several military bases, “should neither be downplayed nor exaggerated”.

US President Joe Biden has

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after the ******** strikes, while the ******* Nations security council is expected to meet on Monday to discuss the *******.

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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sits in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday (AP)

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi called on the Security Council to meet over the *******, saying that it constituted “a grave threat to international peace and security and further destabilised an already fragile region”.

*******’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon rejected Iran’s complaint, saying that Iran was “trying to act against us in the diplomatic arena with the ridiculous claim that ******* has violated international law”.

“As we have stated time and time again, we have the right and duty to defend ourselves and will use all the means at our disposal to protect the citizens of *******,” Mr Danon said.

The full extent of damage caused by *******’s *******, a response to an unprecedented Iranian ******* three weeks ago during which Tehran launched around 180 ballistic missiles, forcing millions of civilians into ***** shelters, ******** unclear. But satellite images showed damage at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran’s onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program.

In a separate development, a truck rammed into a bus stop near Tel Aviv, ******** one person and wounding more than 30. ******** police said the attacker was an ***** citizen of *******. The ramming occurred outside a military base and near the headquarters of *******’s Mossad spy agency.

While concerns remain about a possible further escalation of fighting, ******** defence minister Yoav Gallant, a close ally of Mr Netanyahu, claimed Iran’s ability to use its allies

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in Gaza and

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in Lebanon to ******* ******* had been thwarted.

He said in a speech that the two groups “are no longer an effective tool” of Tehran.

But the comments came as ******** strikes on northern Gaza ******* at least 22 people, according to local health authorities, most of them women and children, as part of the latest weeks-long offensive in the area.

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Palestinians inspect the site of an ******** strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City over the weekend (REUTERS)

The Gaza Health Ministry said 11 women and two children were among those ******* in the strikes late on Saturday in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. It said another 15 people were injured.

******* launched its war in Gaza on 7 October after ****** militants broke through the border and ******* around 1,200 people, taking a further 251 ******** in the enclave. A little less than half of those taken remain in captivity.

Since then, more than 42,000 Palestinians have been *******, according to the local authorities, while more than 90 per cent of the population has been displaced, often multiple times.

Aid groups have warned of a catastrophic situation in northern Gaza, which was the first target of *******’s ground offensive and suffered the heaviest destruction of the war. ******* has severely limited the entry of basic humanitarian aid in recent weeks, and the three remaining hospitals in the north – one raided over the weekend – say they have been overwhelmed by waves of injured.

The UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, in a statement by his spokesperson, accused ******** authorities of denying most aid deliveries of food and medicine amid “harrowing levels of ******”.

In southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based, an ******** strike on Sidon, a city in coastal south Lebanon, ******* at least eight people and wounded 25 on Sunday, the country’s health ministry said.

Elsewhere in the south, a strike on Zawtar al-Sharkiya ******* three people and a Saturday ******** of Marjayoun ******* five, it said.

******* said four of its soldiers were ******* in south Lebanon fighting.

The ******** military urged residents of 14 villages to evacuate immediately and move north of the Awali river.

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