Iranian Strike

[Hardy Boy]

Iranian ballistic missiles have struck Tel Aviv as Tehran launched its retaliation against Israel.

Dozens of missiles were targeted at Israel’s largest city and other sites in the country in what the IDF said was an attack on civilians. Footage showed at least one high-rise building badly damaged in the city centre. It was not immediately clear whether it had taken a direct hit.

Israel said there were at least five casualties in what would amount to a serious escalation. Iran has not previously aimed missiles at civilian areas.

“Iran has crossed red lines by daring to fire missiles at civilian population centres in Israel,” Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, said in a statement. “We will continue to defend the citizens of Israel and ensure that the ayatollah regime pays a very heavy price for its heinous actions.”

Israel’s military is killing Palestinians at an average rate of 250 people a day which exceeds the daily death toll of any other major conflict of recent years, Oxfam said today, as the escalation of hostilities nears its 100th day.

Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East Director, said: “The scale and atrocities that Israel is visiting upon Gaza are truly shocking. For 100 days the people of Gaza have endured a living hell. Nowhere is safe and the entire population is at risk of famine.

“It is unimaginable that the international community is watching the deadliest rate of conflict of the 21st century unfold, while continuously blocking calls for a ceasefire.”

[Roch]

Israel has been at war since 1948.

Take a leaf out of Miriam's book Steve..

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[Cambridgecutie]

Good to see Hugo Bachega back 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3rpg2qj377o

[Cambridgecutie]

Good to see Hugo Bachega back 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3rpg2qj377o

More from Hugo:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c1kv9ejy10yo

 

[Roch]

Not sure how long the Iranians can keep this up. Will they run out of rocket fuel and will their personnel become exhausted?

[Bubo bubo]

Not sure how long the Iranians can keep this up. Will they run out of rocket fuel and will their personnel become exhausted?

How large is their weapons stock pile?. Does Israel have sufficient stocks to maintain the dome?

[gringo]

Israel has been at war since 1948.

     Exactly. Israel was born from a war of terror, has waged a war of terror ever since and it will be its demise.

[gringo]

Not sure how long the Iranians can keep this up. Will they run out of rocket fuel and will their personnel become exhausted?

    If it comes to attrition, Roch, there is only one winner. Iran produces its own rocket fuel and rockets/missiles/drones. Israel is reliant on external help which is much more problematical logistically in a longer war. I would also venture that Israeli troop morale will be exhausted before Iran.

[Steve_uk]

    If it comes to attrition, Roch, there is only one winner. Iran produces its own rocket fuel and rockets/missiles/drones. Israel is reliant on external help which is much more problematical logistically in a longer war. I would also venture that Israeli troop morale will be exhausted before Iran.

Why did Iran target civilian population centres and not Israeli military sites?

[gringo]

     Western military doctrine is obsolete and its obsolescence is being demonstrated. Based as it is on dominant Naval and Air power, it becomes obsolete if those are neutralised. NATO, the West have put all of their eggs in one basket. Whilst this doctrine is effective in throwing some barely defended small country against the wall every now and then, it is apparent that the West has no effective contingency plan when faced with a peer, near peer rival who can effectively neutralise their air and naval power. This has, in my view, been long apparent.
      Iran have already taken down 2 F35's plus a f16 and f15. They still have escalation left.

[gringo]

Why did Iran target civilian population centres and not Israeli military sites?

    They did target military sites. Now ask the same question about Israel

[Steve_uk]

Israel will intensify attacks on Iran in the coming days, Benjamin Netanyahu has warned.

“We will hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs’ regime and what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days,” the Israeli Prime Minister said in a new video message.

He suggested that Israeli forces would strike Natanz Nuclear Facility again as it looked to destroy Iran’s ability to manufacture nuclear weapons.

He added: “We have dealt a very severe blow to Iran’s main enrichment site and if necessary we will also hit it again.

“There is a huge threat from ballistic missiles, we have taken action to destroy Iran’s ballistic missile production capabilities.”

The escalation comes after Iran launched a wave of retaliatory missile strikes at Israel less than a day after the IDF’s surprise attack on Friday morning.

[gringo]

     Netanyahu has fled Israel, Steve. He has deliberately lit the fuse for WW3 and left the country. Quoting Netanyahu is quoting the devil himself.

[Steve_uk]

     Netanyahu has fled Israel, Steve. He has deliberately lit the fuse for WW3 and left the country. Quoting Netanyahu is quoting the devil himself.

I don't know about that. Given the history of the Jewish people and the unrelenting persecution they have endured, how are they supposed to react to the following statement? https://www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-trump-lies-about-bringing-peace-to-region-israel-a-cancerous-tumor/

[David1819]

He's a callous snake. But I have to hand it Israel. They have played a blinder. I'm gutted.

Everyone knows the Iranian military is mediocre. It only seems like a blinder to you because you have payed attention to Gringos military fantasy world.