Another war breaks out in the Middle East: Iran-Israel

Hezbollah announces that it will join the war

Six months after the Hamas-Israel confrontation began, another war broke out in the Middle East today, Saturday: Iran-Israel. Today Iraq and Israel closed their airspace, minutes after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched an attack with dozens of ballistic missiles and drones against Israel today, in response to the bombing against the Iranian consulate in Syria that occurred last Monday, April 1. .

According to the news agency Xinhua, in Israel, where it is already night, the inhabitants are not sleeping because the interceptor missiles and sirens were activated in several areas of the south of the country and Jerusalem. “The noise of massive explosions is heard in Damascus, the capital of Syria, in the early hours of Sunday local time, due to the unprecedented Iranian attack against Israel,” Xinhua said.

Opinions that World War III began resurfaced with the new war front in the Middle East. For example, this afternoon the National Reaction news agency reported: “URGENT. THE 3rd World War HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED. British fighter jets based in Cyprus have begun helping intercept Iranian missiles and drones fired from Iran at Israel“.

Israel has been on alert since an airstrike killed two Iranian generals at Iran’s consulate in Syria, the agency recalled today. AP. Iran accused Israel and swore revenge. Israel has not commented on the matter.

As part of Iran’s retaliation for the bombing of the consulate, Guard troops boarded a merchant ship affiliated with Israel on Saturday as it crossed the Strait of Hormuz, on its route from the Persian Gulf to India. The ship was seized.

Given this, AP reported, the US president Joe Biden He cut short a trip to his beach house in Delaware to return to the White House to monitor the situation in the Middle East, where Israel’s war against the Palestinian group Hamas has exacerbated tensions. With Iranian-controlled forces such as the Lebanese Hezbollah group and the Houthis in Yemen also fighting, any further attack threatens to degenerate into a regional war.

Shortly after, the Israeli Army reported that Iran launched “dozens” of drones against Israel, estimated that it would take about nine hours to arrive and declared itself ready to defend the country.

Iraq closes its airspace

In turn, according to the news agency EFEthe Iraqi Ministry of Transportation announced today the closure of the country’s airspace before the start of the Iranian drone attack against Israel.

Iraq suspended all civil flights in its airspace today, Saturday, as a precautionary measure to guarantee the safety of civil aviation amid regional tensions, the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority said today, cited by the Xinhua agency. The closure will be in effect from 23:30 local time (20:30 GMT) on Saturday to 5:30 local time (2:30 GMT) on Sunday; This suspension could be extended if necessary, he added.

For its part, according to APthe Iranian state news agency reported that Tehran fired ballistic missiles at targets in Israel.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard itself confirmed this shortly after: “In response to numerous Israeli crimes, including the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and the assassination of several commanders and military advisors of our country in Syria, the Guard’s aerospace force Revolucionaria has attacked certain objectives in the occupied territories with the launch of dozens of missiles and drones,” said the elite military body in a statement collected by the state agency IRNA and cited by EFE.

““Total declaration of war”

At 2:55 in the afternoon today, Agustín Antonetti, director of the Latin American Watch of the Libertad Foundation (Argentina) and the International Foundation for Liberty, reported on the social network “For the first time in history, Iran has just attacked Israel directly from its own territory. “Total declaration of war”.

“President Biden calls an emergency meeting with the secretaries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, the head of the CIA and the senior national security advisor, following Iran’s attacks on Israel,” he posted minutes later.

“URGENT: Jordan has just declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY nationwide,” he added at 2:55 pm And, at 2:59 in the afternoon: “URGENT: Egypt has just announced the closure of all its airspace.”

United Kingdom

Rishi SunakPrime Minister of the United Kingdom, was among the first to react to “the Iranian regime’s reckless attack against Israel.”

“Iran has shown us once again that it is its intention to sow chaos in its own backyard,” Sunak said at 3:14 p.m. “The United Kingdom will continue to defend the security of Israel and that of all our regional partners, including Jordan and Iraq,” he announced.

Sunak added that the United Kingdom, together with its allies, is working urgently to “stabilize the situation and avoid a further escalation” of war in the area. “No one wants to see more bloodshed,” he said.

Fighter planes and anti-missiles defend Israel

In fact, shortly after the National Reaction agency reported that “British fighter jets based in Cyprus have begun helping intercept Iranian missiles and drones fired from Iran at Israel“.

While the Alerta News 24 agency indicated at 3:31 in the afternoon: “URGENT: An Israeli fighter plane fires air-to-air missiles against Iranian kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicles over Tel Aviv.”

In Israel, the war cabinet met today in Tel Aviv, and the Army activated the national missile defense system. “In a few hours the missiles from IRAN will arrive in ISRAEL, the iron dome will be ready to repel these genocidal attacks, as it has done with others in the past,” said National Reaction. “The iron dome in Israel, protecting citizens from hundreds of suicide drones,” posted another X user.

USA

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Mexico

At 3:30 in the afternoon, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that “the Government of Mexico warns with deep concern of Iran’s attack against Israeli territory and the costs that this action could have on thousands of human lives.

“Mexico condemns the use of force in international relations and calls on the parties to self-contain and seek solutions peacefully to avoid the generalization of the conflict in the Middle East. In the same way, Mexico emphasizes the importance of respecting international law for the sake of international peace and security,” he expressed.

Besides, The SRE shared “the emergency numbers of the Mexican embassies in Middle Eastern countries, and advises against traveling to the area in question. and suggests taking precautions and recommendations in the face of the alerts that local authorities are transmitting, as well as following the publications of the following X accounts to have updated information.”

Hezbollah joins the conflagration

A new fuse has been lit, the fire of war spreads in the Middle East. At 3:34 in the afternoon Alerta News 24 alerted on X: “URGENT: Hezbollah announces that it will bomb Israeli territory.”

In the world view

Due to its impact on populations, the economy and other global environments, the new Iran-Israel war found echo in the national and international media.

Joaquín López Dóriga reported that “the White House confirmed Iran’s air attack against Israel” and that Biden “will meet with the National Security team to define the situation.”

Iran

“The Government of Tehran warned this Sunday (Iranian time) that any country that allows the use of its airspace or territory to carry out attacks against Iranian soil will receive a ‘strong’ response,” the German news agency reported. DW.

The Hamas-Israel war has been going on for six months, it also started on Saturday, October 7, 2023when Hamas launched a surprise attack from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israel, leaving more than 1,400 dead, most of them civilians, and just over 230 Israelis kidnapped.

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