{"id":116642,"date":"2024-10-28T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=116642"},"modified":"2024-10-27T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T08:12:36","slug":"28-00-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=116642","title":{"rendered":"Israel Strikes Iranian Military Targets, Reports of \u2018Limited\u2019 Damage Ease Escalation Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Israel Strikes Iranian Military Targets, Reports of \u2018Limited\u2019 Damage Ease Escalation Fear<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Reuters and Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Israeli Air Force plane, October 26, 2024. Photo: Israel Defense Forces\/Handout via REUTERS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Israel bombed military sites in Iran early on Saturday, but its retaliation for an Iranian attack this month did not target the most sensitive oil and nuclear facilities and drew no immediate vows of vengeance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The risk of a wider conflagration between heavily armed Israel and Iran has convulsed a region already on fire with warfare in Gaza and Lebanon, but Tehran\u2019s initial response appeared muted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s military said scores of jets completed three waves of strikes before dawn against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran, and warned its heavily armed arch-foe not to hit back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran said its air defenses had successfully countered the attack but four soldiers were killed and some locations suffered \u201climited damage.\u201d A semi-official Iranian news agency said there would be a \u201cproportional reaction\u201d to the Israeli strikes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tensions between Iran and Israel have grown rapidly since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Iran-backed Hamas, raising fears of a wider regional conflict that could drag in global powers and imperil world energy supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fears of an escalation have increased since Oct. 1 when Iran launched about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, killing one person in the West Bank, in response to earlier Israeli moves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Worsening conflict in Lebanon, where Israel is waging an intense campaign against Iran\u2019s main regional ally Hezbollah to stop it firing rockets into northern Israel, has raised the temperature still further.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States and other countries responded to Israel\u2019s strikes by calling for an end to the cycle of confrontation. President Joe Biden said it appeared Israel had only struck military targets in its attack and that he hoped they were \u201cthe end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said his country has no limits when it comes to defending its interests, its territorial integrity and its people, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

An earlier statement from the Foreign Ministry said Iran was \u201centitled and obligated\u201d to defend itself, but added that it \u201crecognizes its responsibilities towards regional peace and security,\u201d a more conciliatory statement than after previous bouts of escalation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two regional officials briefed by Iran told Reuters that several high-level meetings were held in Tehran to determine the scope of Iran\u2019s response. One official said the damage was \u201cvery minimal\u201d but added that several Revolutionary Guards bases in and around Tehran were also hit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iranian news sites aired footage of passengers at Tehran\u2019s Mehrabad Airport, seemingly meant to show there was little impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s military, signaling it did not expect an immediate Iranian response, said there was no change to public safety restrictions across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018MESSAGE TO IRAN\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at Tel Aviv\u2019s Institute for National Security Studies, said the Israeli strike had appeared designed to give Tehran an opportunity to avoid further escalation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe see that Israel wants to close this event, to pass this message to Iran that it is closed and we don\u2019t want to escalate it,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Videos carried by Iranian media showed air defenses continuously firing at apparently incoming projectiles in central Tehran, without saying which sites were coming under attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s military said its jets had struck missile manufacturing facilities and surface-to-air missile arrays, and safely returned home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the regime in Iran were to make the mistake of beginning a new round of escalation, we will be obligated to respond,\u201d the military said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel notified the US before striking, but Washington was not involved in the operation, a US official told Reuters. Targets did not include energy infrastructure or Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities, a US official said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the days after Iran\u2019s strikes on Israel this month, Biden had warned that Washington, Israel\u2019s main backer and supplier of arms, would not support a retaliatory strike on Tehran\u2019s nuclear sites and had said Israel should consider alternatives to attacking Iran\u2019s oil fields.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arab states situated between Israel and Iran have been particularly worried that use of their airspace could prompt retaliation against them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jordanian television quoted a source in the country\u2019s armed forces as saying no military planes had been allowed through its airspace. A Saudi official also said that Saudi airspace had not been used for the strike.<\/span><\/p>\n

A regional intelligence source said Israeli jets had flown across southern Syria, emitting sonic booms near the Jordanian border, and then across Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia, which has mended fences with Iran after years of regional rivalry, and had been edging towards better ties with Israel before the war in Gaza, condemned the attack as a violation of Iranian sovereignty and international law.<\/span><\/p>\n

LEBANON CONFLICT<\/span><\/p>\n

In Lebanon, Hezbollah said on Saturday it had launched a drone attack at Israel\u2019s Tel Nof airbase south of Tel Aviv and targeted an intelligence base in northern Safed with rockets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel said it had struck Hezbollah facilities in Beirut\u2019s southern Dahiyeh suburb including a weapons-making site and an intelligence headquarters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The conflict in Lebanon, which has greatly intensified in recent weeks, has also led to strikes on sites linked to Iran and Hezbollah in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel launched airstrikes against some military sites in central and southern Syria early on Saturday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. Israel has not confirmed striking Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Efforts to secure a ceasefire and hostage-release deal in Gaza, which could help cool the wider conflict, are expected to resume in Doha when negotiators fly there on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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