Iran is downplaying Israel’s attack, with Iran’s foreign minister referring to the use of “child’s play”. Meanwhile, Israel continues to bomb the Gaza Strip.
Tones have been dropped on both sides, with some minor incidents, with missile firing in the north and a little tension in the south. The situation today is nothing like what it was in the past days.
Meanwhile, Qatar is reassessing its stance toward the Hamas leadership. He reportedly feels that the damage to his state from this support for Hamas is too great.
And mainly this is caused because Hamas refuses to back down on the issue of hostages, and refuses to provide information on how many hostages are alive. And this is something that he collects as a political cost.
The International Community calls for self-restraint and calmness, following the strike in Iran, for which American officials reported – on the ABC network – that it was three missiles from Israeli fighter jets.
The drones took off from inside Iran, claims Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister.
In an interview he gave to the American network NBC, he said that the drones took off from inside Iran and flew for a few hundred meters before being shot down. “They looked more like toys that our kids play with, not drones,” he said.
“It has not been proven to us that there is a connection between them and Israel,” Abdollahian said, adding that Iran was investigating the matter but that media reports were not accurate, according to Tehran’s intelligence.
Iranian media and officials described a small number of explosions, which they said were caused when anti-aircraft defense systems shot down three drones over Isfahan in central Iran in the early hours of Friday. They referred to the incident as an attack by “infiltrators inside Iran,” rather than Israel.
Abdollahian warned that if Israel retaliates and acts once morest Iran’s interests, Tehran’s next response will be immediate and at the maximum level. “But if not, then we’re done,” he declared.
The attack appeared to target an Iranian air force base near the central city of Isfahan, without hitting strategic points or causing serious damage.
Israel has made no public comment on the incident.
Israel had said it would retaliate once morest the April 13 strike, Iran’s first ever direct attack on Israel that did not cause casualties, following Israel and its allies shot down hundreds of missiles and drones.
Tehran launched those attacks in response to an airstrike allegedly carried out by Israel on April 1, which hit the Iranian consulate in Damascus and killed several Iranian officials.
Allied powers, including the US, have been pushing all week to ensure that any further retaliation is weighted in a way that avoids further escalation, while Western countries have imposed tougher sanctions on Iran to appease Israel.
There was no announcement yesterday from Israel as to what further actions it may be planning.
Violence between Israel and Iran’s proxies across the Middle East has intensified in the six months of bloodshed in Gaza, raising fears that the shadow war between the two countries might escalate into direct conflict.
Israel’s offensive on Gaza began following Hamas Islamists invaded the southern part of the country on October 7, killing 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials. Israel’s military operations have claimed the lives of 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
As darkness fell last night, Israeli warplanes and tanks pounded various areas across the Gaza Strip, with the airstrikes hitting areas of Rafah where more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have taken refuge, such as residents, Hamas media and officials in the enclave’s Hamas-controlled health ministry said.
Two apartments were struck in an apartment building in the city, killing nine people, including four children, and injuring several others, health officials said.
Airstrikes also destroyed at least five houses in the Al Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to residents and Hamas media.
“(Israeli security forces) called some residents and ordered them to leave their homes before the planes bombed some nearby buildings,” Al Nuseirat resident Abu Omar told Reuters via messaging app. “As soon as we left, the earth started shaking from the explosions,” he added.
Source: ertnews
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