Iran says Hezbollah’s attack shows Israel losing deterrent power
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani says Israel has lost its deterrent power as it was unable to anticipate the time and place of Hezbollah’s “limited and managed attack” on Sunday morning.
Iran says its retaliation against Israel will be ‘precise and calculated’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has again pledged that his country will respond to the assassination of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
“Iran’s reaction to Israeli terrorist attack in Tehran is definitive, and will be measured & well calculated,” Araghchi wrote on X. “We do not fear escalation, yet do not seek it – unlike Israel.”
The minister said he made the remark in a phone conversation with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
Drone strike in southern Lebanon
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that a drone has targeted a car in the city of Sidon, southern Lebanon.
Local sources said the target of the strike survived the attack.
Drone strikes and targeted killings by the Israeli military are a near daily occurrence in southern Lebanon.
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Hamas say Israel targeted one of its members in Lebanon
Hamas’s media office told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the target of today’s Israeli strike in Sidon, southern Lebanon, was one of their members, adding that he survived the attack.
Hezbollah claims drone attack on Israeli equipment
Hezbollah has claimed its first attack since Sunday’s large-scale rocket and drone assaults on several Israeli positions.
The armed Lebanese group said on its Telegram channel that it targeted surveillance equipment at the Ramyah site along the border with an assault drone in the early afternoon and “hit it directly”.
Sirens were sounded in the Israeli communities along the border.
