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At least eight missiles hit the Nevatim air base while others destroyed F-15 warplanes at other bases like Hatzerim, the Palestine Chronicle reports Wednesday.
It shared footage on X showing the missiles evading a cloud of defender rockets and slamming into the ground at Nevatim. It appears many other bases were hit in the attack that Teheran emphasised had targeted military sites only.
Footage circulated showed massive fires at several military bases, particularly Tel Nof Airbase.
“These planes, which were used to bomb the Gaza Strip and Lebanon with over 85,000 tons of explosives at in the last year, have been rendered out of service by the IRGC,” the Chronicle said of the Hatzerim strikes..
Tel Aviv exposed and vulnerable
Social media in Israel was alive with videos of missiles raining down across the Nazi state.
They made a mockery of Tel Aviv’s claims that it shot down most of the missiles. External commentators are almost unanimous in agreeing the overwhelming majority of missiles hit their targets accurately.
The fact that almost 200 missiles pierced Israel’s notorious “Iron Dome” defences will have the military tacticians tearing their hair out as it is now clear the whole of Israel is vulnerable to Irans weaponry.
Their precision was marked by a measure unusual among US- and Israel-style attacks – almost no civilian casualties.
Another measure of the attack’s effectiveness has been Israel’s lack of an immediate, or direct, response. Commentators speculated it has not received the required levels of support from the US for an all-out war in Arabia.
US feebleness clear to see
US inability to rein in Israel’s rogue tactics on the ground is turning into a political hot potato in America as election fever hots up.
El Figaro speculates Wednesday US president Joe Biden, or anyone in America, is now powerless to influence Middle East events after allowing Israel free rein for 361 days in Gaza where it has murdered almost 42 000 people before the entire world’s horrified eyes.
Le Figaro journalist Adrien Jaulmes argued Biden has lost the initiative in Arabia. After failing to secure a Gaza ceasefire, or enforce any of his notorious “red lines”, Biden’s lasting legacy is growing threat of a regional war, one he has tried feebly to avoid for months
Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’s military wing, Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, celebrated the missile retaliation as a lone, but welcome sign of solidarity with the people of Gaza: “We congratulate the Iranian response that covered the entire geography of occupied Palestine and dealt a strong blow to the criminal occupation that thought that its rampage in the region and its aggression against its people could pass without punishment.
“This is an exceptional day in the history of the struggle, in which the fires of the nation’s resistance crossed in the skies of Palestine, and Tel Aviv was exposed to the strikes of the fighters from Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran.
Mossad in the crosshairs
“This is a call to all the free people of the nation to take a share in the liberation of Palestine.”
While the scale of the damage that approximately 200 other missiles caused in Israel remains inconclusive, reports have emerged saying that one of the targets was the country’s intelligence agency Mossad’s headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Images have emerged and CNN and The Guardian have reported craters caused by one of the missiles close to the Mossad headquarters. One of the reports described the crater as 30 feet deep and 50 feet wide at a distance of about 50-100 feet from the headquarters.
PBS foreign affairs and defence correspondent, Nick Schifrin posted a video report on X, showing a crater and identifying the site close to Mossad on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Iranian media said the attacks hit the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, the Netzarim and Navatim air bases, radars and gathering centers for Zionist tanks.
Israel’s Channel 12 said at least 100 homes were damaged in the central city of Hod Hasharon.
The Palestine Chronicle reports the Israeli army carried out eight air raids targeting Beirut overnight, and numerous raids and shelling against southern Lebanese towns.
Face-to-face gun battles
Hezbollah said it struck Israeli troops and artillery camps in several northern settlements, achieving “direct hits”.
It said it targeted a concentration of enemy forces and artillery positions south of Kiryat Shmona with a rocket barrage and caused casualties”. Israel’s Channel 12 said soldiers were wounded in shelling and exchanges of fire with Hezbollah near the border with Lebanon and were taken to Rambam hospitals in Haifa and Ziv in Safed in the Upper Galilee on Wednesday morning.
Al-Mayadeen reports Israeli claim of one soldier injured was a lie. It reported fighters had engaged in a face-to-face gun battle with the Israelis as they tried to enter the border village of Adaissa, forcing the stormtroopers to withdraw.
A major medical evacutation requiring a fleet of helicopters then occurred amid a major smoke screen around the area.
Air raid warnings continued sounding across northern Israel and Upper Gallillee throughout the morning as Hezbollah continued firing hundreds of rockets.
Widening war
Iran warned any escalation for Israel would invite a response “at an entirely different level”. Almost simultaneously, two explosions rocked the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, although police reported no injuries.
Iran did not claim responsibility for the blasts.
Israeli massacres in Gaza continued, amid stiff Palestinian resistance.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, 41,615 Palestinians have been killed, and 96,359 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The Gaza Health Ministry said at least 57 people had been killed across the strip since dawn.
The Palestine Chronicle says the Israeli army committed “several, major massacres, unseen in Gaza in weeks, killing over 40 in Khan Younis, three in Gaza City and more elsewhere”.
Al-Jazeera reports the Israeli army targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut with nine raids in about two hours. The airstrikes targeted the areas of Hadath, Ruwais, Choueifat and Haret Hreik.
‘Logical and legal response’
Iranian Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri said Israel did not understand sabr: “We have gone through a difficult period of restraint since the assassination of (Hamas leader Ismail) Haniyeh in Tehran following repeated requests from the US side and its promises of a ceasefire in Gaza, but the situation is no longer bearable following the martyrdom of Sayyed Nasrallah and Brigadier General Nilfroshan.”
Teheran said the missile retaliation was a “logical and legal” response to the murders of Nasralah, Nilforoshan and Haniyeh.
It remains to be seen if the attack will be enough to restrain Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hand.
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