Occupied Jerusalem – Zaytoun News
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi stressed that our action is over unless the Israeli entity wants to see more reactions from us. In this case, our response will be stronger, more powerful and more forceful.
Araqchi wrote on his social media account: Tonight, we used our right to self-defense according to Article 51 of the UN Charter and struck only military and security bases responsible for the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
He stressed that this action was taken after about two months of great self-restraint on our part in order to provide the possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Iranian foreign minister continued that Israel’s protectors today bear a greater responsibility to stop Tel Aviv from provoking war rather than foolish intervention.
while Israel and the U.S. promised to retaliate against Tehran as fears of a wider war intensified.
Washington said it would work with longtime ally Israel to make sure Iran faced “severe consequences” for Tuesday’s attack, which Israel said involved more than 180 ballistic missiles.
The United Nations Security Council scheduled a meeting about the Middle East for Wednesday, and the European Union called for an immediate ceasefire.
“Our action is concluded unless the Israeli regime decides to invite further retaliation. In that scenario, our response will be stronger and more powerful,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in a post on X early on Wednesday.
Israel renewed its bombardment early on Wednesday of Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Hezbollah group, with at least a dozen airstrikes against what it said were targets belonging the group.
Iran’s attack marked it biggest ever military blow against Israel.
Sirens sounded across the country and explosions rattled Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley as the entire population was told to move into bomb shelters.
No injuries were reported in Israel, but Palestinian police spokesman Louay Erziqat announced the death of a Palestinian worker from the Gaza Strip who was hosted in a National Security Forces camp in Jericho, as a result of shrapnel from an Iranian missile falling on the town of Naimah in Jericho.
Erziqat said in a statement: “The Palestinian citizen Sameh Khader Hassan Al-Asali (38 years old) was killed as a result of being directly hit in the head by shrapnel from a missile, and he died on the spot.”
10 Total Count
