Israel Strikes Back on Building in East Lebanon as It Vows to Respond to Iran’s 300 Drone And Cruise Missiles Attack as Middle East Holds Its Breath Amid World War III Fears
- Israel Strikes Back on Building in East Lebanon as It Vows to Respond to Iran’s 300 Drone And Cruise Missiles Attack as Middle East Holds Its Breath Amid World War III Fears
by EMILY JANE DAVIES, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Israel has levelled a building in east Lebanon and vowed a response to Iran’s 300 missile attack – as the Middle East holds its breath amid fears of World War III. A source within Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said Israel struck one of its buildings close to the Syrian border today, as tensions soared after Iran directly attacked Israel. The source told news agency AFP: ‘The Israeli strike targeted an area… near Baalbek and targeted a two-storey building belonging to Hezbollah,’ adding that there were no casualties reported.
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Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency also reported that ‘an enemy air strike targeted a building’ in the village of Nabi Sheet and ‘destroyed it’. The IDF later confirmed the strike on the ‘significant weapons manufacturing site’ in the Nabi Sheet area. It comes after Israel said it ‘foiled’ Iran‘s unprecedented attack on its country and revealed 120 ballistic missiles along with 200 drones were used.
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The strike marks the first time a direct military assault has been launched by Tehran on Israel despite decades enmity dating back to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran sent the salvo of missiles in response to a drone strike at the beginning of April in Syria that killed 12 Iranians, including two top generals.
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Reports in Israel suggested RAF and US warplanes had shot down some Israel-bound Iranian drones over the Iraq-Syria border area amid the attack. But Victoria Atkins has said she is ‘not in a position to confirm or deny’ whether British jets have already shot down Iranian drones.
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