Its very telling that Israel is begging the US to help them against Iran. They realized that apart from air strikes and bombs, they don't have the capacity to launch an aerial invasion. A lot of analysts mentioned given Iran's mountainous terrain, a ground invasion is impossible and air strikes alone cannot win a war.
If all the Muslim millitaries had united and attacked Israel right now when Iran is doing the same, Israel would really feel it, their defense and army is not as invincible as felt, its one thing launching millitary operations in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria but they don't have the naval fleet, resources like the American's do for bigger ambitions.
What's tonight's update? Did Zionists receive missiles as promised to them 3000 years ago? @Rana
Sadly Zionists are killing hundreds of Palestinians on daily basis.
Its very telling that Israel is begging the US to help them against Iran. They realized that apart from air strikes and bombs, they don't have the capacity to launch an aerial invasion. A lot of analysts mentioned given Iran's mountainous terrain, a ground invasion is impossible and air strikes alone cannot win a war.
If all the Muslim millitaries had united and attacked Israel right now when Iran is doing the same, Israel would really feel it, their defense and army is not as invincible as felt, its one thing launching millitary operations in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria but they don't have the naval fleet, resources like the American's do for bigger ambitions.
A Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedic said from the impact site in Beersheba:
"We quickly arrived at the scene with large forces of intensive care vehicles, ambulances and motorcycles and saw thick smoke and cars on fire, and in one of the buildings there was visible destruction, and damage to other apartments. We have set up two points to treat the injured and are conducting medical examinations for residents who are leaving the buildings. At the same time, together with forces of the Homefront Command, the fire department and the police, we are conducting scans of the building with the destruction and the other apartments that were damaged to ensure that no one is injured in the apartments.”
Analysts are also reporting that Israel does not have the capacity to sustain missile attacks much longer but does Iran have missiles in stockpile, what has been tricky for the Israelis is that Iran has kept their stockpile mobile and underground and not in one place and Iran has now begun to purge Israel's spy network in Iran where they have arrested a lot of Indians, Afghanis therefore weakening Israel's ability to get actionable intelligence
Analysts are also reporting that Israel does not have the capacity to sustain missile attacks much longer but does Iran have missiles in stockpile, what has been tricky for the Israelis is that Iran has kept their stockpile mobile and underground and not in one place and Iran has now begun to purge Israel's spy network in Iran where they have arrested a lot of Indians, Afghanis therefore weakening Israel's ability to get actionable intelligence
Israel fields three tiers of missile defence systems, “At the lowest tier is Iron Dome, which has gotten more popularity just because it gets used a lot more often against rocket and maybe lower-tier cruise missile attacks. Every time that Hamas shoots rockets at Israel, that’s where Iron Dome comes in.”
Recent exchanges with Iran “are more illustrative of some of the higher tier systems — that’s The Arrow missile defence system or the David’s Sling missile defence system,”
Yes accuracy is not 100% , but around 85%
When you lunch dozen of Ballastic hypersonic missiles, some of them may hit the target .
USA ( THaad) is also helping them to intercept Iran missiles .
No Indians are attested,it's just Pakistani propaganda.
A Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedic said from the impact site in Beersheba:
"We quickly arrived at the scene with large forces of intensive care vehicles, ambulances and motorcycles and saw thick smoke and cars on fire, and in one of the buildings there was visible destruction, and damage to other apartments. We have set up two points to treat the injured and are conducting medical examinations for residents who are leaving the buildings. At the same time, together with forces of the Homefront Command, the fire department and the police, we are conducting scans of the building with the destruction and the other apartments that were damaged to ensure that no one is injured in the apartments.”
Minor damage caused to several buildings in the Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park within the city of Beersheba, following this morning’s impact of a ballistic missile fired by Iran.
The fact that they are hitting SPND HQ a day after they hit the Arak reactor should tell you that they are laser-focused on their goals.
What's the Iranian goal? Nobody really knows.
Maybe this: Fire a few missiles at civilian centers in Israel, wait for the visuals showing some material damage from a couple of missiles that couldn't be intercepted, dance around optics and tell everyone they're winning.
There is no proof it was clustered bombs. Plus Isr and West uses those type of weapons.
As sad as it is, it was quite devastating attack with 250+ officially reported injured. It means actual damage including damage to main target is probably closer to 1000+.
Iran missile strikes near Beersheba tech park, Microsoft office, Israeli military branch
The central rail station has been temporarily shut down because it also sustained damage.
And there was damage visible to the Microsoft office in the Gav-Yam Negev advanced technologies park. This tech park has a lot of research and development activities in robotics and data sciences, and so on.
It is adjacent to Ben Gurion University and, according to their website, it is also adjacent to the Israeli army’s C4i branch campus, its telecommunications branch.
So this is what we know of that location. Seven people are reported to have been lightly injured in that attack.
The south of Israel is more sparsely populated, and the one missile that we could see landed before the beginning of business hours, so there were no people in the offices, presumably.
The goal of attacking Iran has mixed reasons, I feel people get bogged down too much. I read a great analysis online and I agreed with it, the gist was that:
Yes, it’s true that since the 1979 revolution, Iran’s leaders (especially under Khomeini) have had a strong anti-Israel stance. Part of their vision was that Muslims in the region would eventually rise up, push out foreign influence (mainly the US, Israel, and allied governments), and take control of their future. Martyrdom, or dying for God, was seen as a big ideal. And some older Shia religious ideas about Jews also feed into this way of thinking. So yeah, there’s definitely a strong ideological reason behind their conflict with Israel.
But that doesn’t mean Iran’s leaders are irrational or just looking to die for their cause. After the revolution, reality hit hard, especially when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran. That war dragged on and forced Iran to make some practical choices. They had to drop their bigger plans, like toppling Saddam or taking land, and they even accepted help from Israel at one point. By the late '80s, Khomeini basically said that protecting the state came first, even more important than religious rituals. As one historian put it, whenever Iran had to choose between its revolutionary ideals and its survival, it chose survival. So no, they’re not crazy or suicidal, they’re strategic. The strike on the Iraqi generator by Israel led to Israel helping Iran by giving them crucial data for one of the best air operations in modern day history when they wrecked Iraq's modern air planes on the other side of the country all the while refuelling multiple times in Iraqi space.
We’ve seen this pattern in their foreign policy too. Iran backed Christian majority Armenia over Shia Azerbaijan. It’s been friendlier with India than with Muslim majority Pakistan. It also supports different groups in Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, even when their religious beliefs don’t line up. Iran isn’t always the one causing chaos, but it’s really good at stepping in when states fall apart, like in Iraq, Lebanon, or Yemen. And in most of those cases, it’s the US, Israel, or Saudi Arabia that played a bigger role in breaking things down.
Now about the nuclear issue. Israel's main fear is it could shift the power balance and give Iran more confidence. It might also inspire groups across the region to keep resisting Israel, thinking that Iran’s strength makes real change possible in the long run. Eg right now Israel can create terror in the neighborhood, bomb Iran's embassies, kill Iranian commanders in other nations.....all of this terrorism would end and Israel's ability to gobble up land in Iran allied nations eg Hezbollah infleunced Lebanon would all but finish.
Regarding Russia:
Muslims around the world keep on expecting everything from Russia when it comes to this. People have no idea how close Russians are to Israelis and how when it comes to Russia Israel has even defied the US. There is a reason for it. In the 73 war when Israel started getting ideas about advancing to both the Syrian and Egyptian capitals the Soviets threatened to invade Israel and by some accounts even had a strike group and an invasion army ready near Israeli coast with the aim of a swift strike, neutralising the IDF. Israel then backed down. During the attrition war as well Israelis were under strong orders by IAF never to engage, target or harm any Soviet plane or armed forces or advisors inside Egypt (except one ocassion where this did happen but not again). Since the Soviet Union ceased to exist a few things happened:
a) a mass exodus of Jews from Soviet especially Russian lands coming to Israel - Russian is the second most spoken language in Israel
b) as a result Putin has many times affectionately called Israel little Russia and said just like Russians guard ethnic Russians in other states (see Ukraine/Georgia) they consider Israel the same
c) Israel has bought politicians in the West and lobbied for influence which is not possible to do in Russia. Putin is a dicator and rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Israel learnt their lesson with the USSR and so have at times gone out of their way to ensure Russians stay on their side. They did not, despite huge US pressure and a direct request from Zelensky, arm the Ukrainians. They are netural to both sides, something that enraged the US. Nor did it join sanctions on the Russians.
d) The biggest reason is weapons, the Russians arming groups/nations against Israel would have severely limited their ability to strike. Which is why when Russia HAS eg say helped Syria, Syria was banned from using Russian weapons to ever retaliate against Israel. Israel also openly, with Russian permission, operated in Syrian air space to target Iran
e) Re my above line, Russians have been happy to have Iran limited within Iran. They have fully supported the IAF wrecking Iraninan assets all over Syria and allowed it by stopping Syria from attacking the IAF or using their SAM batteries to do so. They have also never supported Iran being nuclear, because if it did then it wouldn't really need Russian help. The nuke would be detterence. In the current conflict too Russia has dumped Iran. They WOULD get involved say if the US got involved to repay the US for helping Ukraine but not when it's Israel
Putin is not the USSR. Even the USSR learned in the end how inept the Arab armies were and scaled back their support after 1973. People don't realise international politics are not street level fights. They're a very complex web of relations, interests and goals. Sometimes which overlap, sometimes which don't.
Use of tactical nuclear weapon by US would be catastrophic, warns Russia
The use of a tactical nuclear weapon by the US in Iran would be a catastrophic development, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has warned.
Peskov was commenting on what he called speculative media reports about that possibility, Russian state media reported.
The US has signalled that it has not ruled out joining Israel’s strikes on Iran, with the White House saying on Thursday that Trump would make a decision within the next two weeks.
Russia has been urging the US not to join in the Israeli attacks, warning it would dramatically destabilise the region and risk a nuclear disaster.
Use of tactical nuclear weapon by US would be catastrophic, warns Russia
The use of a tactical nuclear weapon by the US in Iran would be a catastrophic development, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has warned.
Peskov was commenting on what he called speculative media reports about that possibility, Russian state media reported.
The US has signalled that it has not ruled out joining Israel’s strikes on Iran, with the White House saying on Thursday that Trump would make a decision within the next two weeks.
Russia has been urging the US not to join in the Israeli attacks, warning it would dramatically destabilise the region and risk a nuclear disaster.
IAEA: Khondab reactor damaged, but no ‘radiological consequence’ expected
The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has now assessed that Israel’s strikes Thursday on the Khondab heavy water research reactor damaged key buildings at the facility, including the distillation unit.
But the global nuclear watchdog says that because the Khondab reactor was still under construction and not operational, it contained no nuclear material. Therefore, no “radiological consequence” was expected, the agency’s head Rafael Grossi said in a statement.
The statement said that damage to the facility — which was previously named Arak — had initially not been visible, but that the agency had later assessed that key buildings in the complex had been damaged.
The Israeli military said that it had specifically targeted “the structure of the reactor’s core seal, which is a key component in plutonium production”.
Whatever happens from here, Iran has won our hearts and sympathies by maning up and taking on this eras superpower (USA alongside her proxy and spoilt child Israel) totally alone. They have rattled Israel, espcially last day's attacks. The stupid muslim countries should take note of this, nothing is impossible in this World if you are stadfast and have full belief in Allah SWT.
More than 50 fighter jets attacked selected targets of the nuclear weapons program and industrial sites for the production of missile components in Tehran overnight.
Israeli Ministers Ben Gvir and Karai announced that foreign reporters interested in broadcasting from Israel during the war must obtain prior approval from the military censor. Broadcasting without the appropriate permits will constitute a criminal offense - and a violation of censorship regulations. "Freedom of the press does not override the security of our citizens and soldiers," the Minister of Communications said
If you're tired of all these dodgy X accounts, and can't abide the pro-Israeli claptrap from mainstream outlets - there's one good Israeli news source called Haaretz.
They're the only publication who consistently and vocally oppose the occupation. They've exposed government and military abuses against Palestinians for many years.
Unsurprisingly they are subject of an Israeli government boycott and are often singled out for abuse by the Israeli right.
More than 8,000 Israelis left homeless due to conflict with Iran: Report
Iran’s retaliatory attacks have resulted in the displacement of more than 8,000 Israelis, Yedioth Ahronoth reported, citing the Israeli Property Tax Compensation Fund.
Some 30,000 requests have been made for compensation for damage to buildings or vehicles, the daily reported.
More than 8,000 Israelis left homeless due to conflict with Iran: Report
Iran’s retaliatory attacks have resulted in the displacement of more than 8,000 Israelis, Yedioth Ahronoth reported, citing the Israeli Property Tax Compensation Fund.
Some 30,000 requests have been made for compensation for damage to buildings or vehicles, the daily reported.
If you're tired of all these dodgy X accounts, and can't abide the pro-Israeli claptrap from mainstream outlets - there's one good Israeli news source called Haaretz.
They're the only publication who consistently and vocally oppose the occupation. They've exposed government and military abuses against Palestinians for many years.
Unsurprisingly they are subject of an Israeli government boycott and are often singled out for abuse by the Israeli right.
Not all israelis are the caricatures that we normally see on TV. There are many left leaning jews that are oppose to what Israel is doing, have worked with such Israelis academics including those from the Wiezmann institute, and it did make me sad to see parts of it being destroyed.