- Safiu Kehinde
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to retaliate against Iran’s missile attack, during which 180 missiles were fired toward Israel.
Netanyahu made the vow a Security Cabinet meeting hours after the Tuesday’s attack.
“Iran made a big mistake, and it will pay for it,”Netanyahu said at the meeting where Israel’s ground campaign in Lebanon and possible responses to Iran’s missile attack were discused.
Meanwhile, at a press briefing earlier, the Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari confirmed that several Iranian missiles hit central and southern Israel, and “quite a few” were intercepted by air defence systems.
Sequel to the attack, a local Civil Defense reported that a 38-year-old Palestinian was killed as one of the missiles exploded near Jericho city in the occupied West Bank.
However, there has been no immediate report of fatalities within Israel yet.
Confirming the attack, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed that it had targeted Israel with dozens of ballistic missiles on Tuesday.
The IRGC said in a statement that the attacks were in retaliation for Israel’s assassinations of resistance leaders, including Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Also for senior IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan, as well as its intensification of “malicious acts” with the U.S. support in its offensives against Lebanese and Palestinian peoples.