TEL AVIV, Israel
Israel’s military chief said Monday that the country will respond after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate.
British Prime Minister Rishi
Sunak says “all sides must show restraint” to avoid a rising spiral of violence
in the Middle East. French President Emmanuel Macron said Paris will try to
“convince Israel that we must not respond by escalating.”
The Iranian attack on Saturday
marked the first time Iran has launched a direct military assault on Israel,
despite decades of enmity dating back to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The attack happened less than two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike in
Syria that killed
two Iranian generals in an Iranian consular building.
An Israeli military
spokesperson said that 99% of the drones and missiles launched by Iran were
intercepted.
Israel and Iran have been on a
collision course throughout Israel’s six-month war
against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. The war erupted after Hamas
and Islamic Jihad, two militant groups backed by Iran, carried out a
devastating cross-border attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 people in Israel
and kidnapped 250 others.
An Israeli offensive in Gaza
has caused widespread devastation and killed over 33,700 people, according to
local health officials.
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