{"id":109414,"date":"2024-10-02T06:36:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T23:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109414"},"modified":"2024-10-02T06:36:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T23:36:49","slug":"iran-fires-at-least-180-missiles-into-israel-as-regionwide-conflict-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109414","title":{"rendered":"Iran fires at least 180 missiles into Israel as regionwide conflict grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>JERUSALEM (AP) \u2014 Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday, the latest in a series of escalating attacks in a yearslong conflict between Israel and Iran and its Arab allies that threatens to push the Middle East closer toward a regionwide war.<\/p>\n<p>The orange glow of missiles streaked across Israel\u2019s night sky as air raid sirens sounded and residents scrambled into bomb shelters. Israel vowed retaliation for Iran\u2019s barrage, which it said had caused only a few injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Before Iran\u2019s attack, Israel had landed a series of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-airstrikes-suburb-617575d9c5d7c711bc02e7b81d2ba4ad\">devastating blows<\/a><\/span> in recent weeks against the leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon. It then ratcheted up the pressure on the Iran-backed militant group \u2014 which has been firing rockets into Israel since <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\">the war in Gaza<\/a><\/span> began \u2014 by launching what it said is a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has said it will continue to strike Hezbollah until it is safe for citizens displaced from homes near the Lebanon border to return. Hezbollah has vowed to keep firing rockets into Israel until there is a cease-fire in Gaza with Hamas, which is also supported by Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the country\u2019s air defenses intercepted many of the incoming Iranian missiles, though some landed in central and southern Israel. Israel\u2019s national rescue service said two people were lightly wounded by shrapnel. In the West Bank, Palestinian officials said a Palestinian man was killed by a missile that fell near the town of Jericho, though it wasn\u2019t clear where the attack originated.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed late Tuesday to retaliate against Iran, which he said \u201cmade a big mistake tonight and it will pay for it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Israel and Iran have fought a shadow war for years, but rarely have they come into direct conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Israel considers Iran to be its greatest foe &#8212; citing Iran\u2019s repeated calls for Israel\u2019s destruction, its support for Arab militant groups and its nuclear program. Iran denies Israeli accusations that it is developing a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Moments before Iran launched its missiles, a shooting attack in Tel Aviv left at least six people dead, police said, adding that the two suspects who had opened fire on a boulevard in the Jaffa neighborhood had also been killed. <\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called Iran\u2019s missile attack a \u201csignificant escalation,\u201d although he said it was ultimately \u201cdefeated and ineffective,\u201d in part because of assistance from the U.S. military in shooting down some of the inbound missiles. President Joe Biden said his administration is \u201cfully supportive\u201d of Israel and that he\u2019s in \u201cactive discussion\u201d with aides about what the appropriate response should be to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday morning to address the escalating situation in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Iran launched another direct attack on Israel in April, but <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-ballistic-missiles-israel-retaliation-gaza-war-edccddf7a871b78cd5528e265e1e7317\">few of its projectiles reached their targets<\/a><\/span>. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed in flight. <\/p>\n<p>Iran said it fired Tuesday\u2019s missiles as retaliation for attacks that killed leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian military. It referenced Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Revolutionary Guard Gen. Abbas Nilforushan, both killed in an Israeli airstrike last week in Beirut. It also mentioned Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader in Hamas who was assassinated in Tehran in a suspected Israeli attack in July. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday, Israel said it had begun limited ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire pounded southern Lebanese villages, and Hezbollah responded with a barrage of rockets into Israel. There was no immediate word on casualties.<\/p>\n<p>While Hezbollah denied Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of covert ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p>If true, it would be another humiliating blow for Hezbollah, the most powerful armed group in the Middle East. Hezbollah has been reeling from weeks of targeted strikes that killed <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/obituary-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-2da3789a02fd4e2e88511a7f59174d19\">Nasrallah<\/a><\/span> and several of his top commanders.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, Israel warned people in southern Lebanon to evacuate to the north of the Awali River, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and much farther than the Litani River, which marks the northern edge of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/unsc-resolution-1701-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-addf018ee9da719329e1726f7156d456\">a U.N.-declared zone<\/a><\/span> intended to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah after their 2006 war.<\/p>\n<p>The border region has largely emptied out over the past year as the two sides have traded fire. But the scope of the evacuation warning raised questions as to how deep Israel plans to send its forces into Lebanon.<\/p>\n<h2>Questions raised over whether Israeli forces entered<\/h2>\n<p>An Associated Press reporter saw Israeli troops operating near the border in armored trucks, with helicopters circling overhead, but could not confirm ground forces had crossed into Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Israeli announcement of an incursion, U.S. officials on Monday said Israel had described launching small ground raids inside Lebanon as it prepared for a wider operation.<\/p>\n<p>U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon has seen sporadic incursions by Israeli military forces, but \u201cthey have not witnessed a full-scale invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hagari, the Israeli army spokesman, said Israel had carried out dozens of small raids inside Lebanon since Oct. 8, when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel after the outbreak of the war in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>Hagari said Israeli forces had crossed the border to collect information and destroy Hezbollah infrastructure, including tunnels and weapons. Israel has said Hezbollah was preparing its own Oct. 7-style attack into Israel. It was not immediately possible to confirm those claims.<\/p>\n<p>Hagari said Israel\u2019s aims for its current ground offensive in Lebanon were limited. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to Beirut,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hamas-middle-east-israel-media-4d942411c64c8ae1e919ae93401f8919\">was accused of lying to the media in 2021<\/a><\/span> when it released a statement implying ground troops had entered Gaza. The military played down the incident as a misunderstanding, but well-sourced military commentators in Israel said it was part of a ruse to lure Hamas into battle. <\/p>\n<h2>Israel strikes more targets and Hezbollah fires rockets <\/h2>\n<p>The Israeli military said Hezbollah had launched rockets at central Israel on Tuesday, setting off air raid sirens and wounding a man. Hezbollah said it fired salvos of a new kind of medium-range missile at the headquarters of two Israeli intelligence agencies near Tel Aviv. Hezbollah had also launched projectiles at Israeli communities near the border, targeting soldiers without wounding anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s statements indicated it might focus its ground operation on the narrow strip along the border, rather than launching a larger invasion aimed at destroying Hezbollah, as it has attempted in Gaza against Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah and Hamas are close allies backed by Iran, and each escalation has raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East that could draw in Iran and the United States, which <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hezbollah-us-military-ships-aircraft-3ef96cbdf87238de559e84e28573f611\">has rushed military assets to the region<\/a><\/span> in support of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli strikes have killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks, nearly a quarter of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry. Hundreds of thousands have fled their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah is a well-trained militia, believed to have tens of thousands of fighters and an arsenal of 150,000 rockets and missiles. The last round of fighting in 2006 ended in a stalemate, and both sides have spent the past two decades preparing for their next showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Recent airstrikes wiping out most of Hezbollah\u2019s top leadership and the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-pager-explosion-e9493409a0648b846fdcadffdb02d71e\">explosions of hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies<\/a><\/span> belonging to Hezbollah indicate Israel has infiltrated deep inside the group\u2019s upper echelons.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s acting leader, Naim Kassem, said Monday that Hezbollah commanders killed in recent weeks have already been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>As the fighting intensifies, European countries have begun pulling their diplomats and citizens out of Lebanon. <\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Mroue reported from Beirut and Madhani reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut and Zeke Miller and Lolita C. 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