Iran’s IRGC chief threatens Israel with hundreds of missiles
The commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says the force is prepared to launch hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel if the country is attacked.
“You cannot tolerate one missile that has impacted a nonsignificant point,” Hossein Salami said during a speech in Mashhad, Iran, in an apparent reference to the Houthi ballistic missile launched from Yemen that hit a road inside the perimeter of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport last week.
“If we fire 600 missiles over your heads at once, what will you do with the rest of them even if you shoot down 100 missiles?” Salami said.
Netanyahu has promised to retaliate heavily against Iran for the Houthi attack because it accuses Tehran of arming and directing the Yemeni group.
Yemen’s Houthis promise to uphold ‘navigation ban’ on Israel’s Ben Gurion airport
A Houthi military spokesman has confirmed the Yemeni group has launched a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv.
Yahya Saree said during a televised announcement that the launch emphasises “the continuation of the ban on navigation” at the airport, referencing the group’s warning to international airlines to stay away.
He didn’t comment on a second missile the Israeli military said the Houthis fired but fell before reaching Israel. The first missile was intercepted but triggered air raid sirens and panic at the airport.
The Houthis reached an agreement with the Trump administration this month to stop their attacks on ships in the Red Sea in exchange for the US halting its daily bombing campaign of Yemen.
But the Houthis have continued to launch missiles at Israel in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel hits southern Lebanon, unexploded ordnance claims casualties
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) has reported in the past several hours that an Israeli missile was fired towards a vehicle in southern Lebanon’s Chaqra area.
The missile did not explode, and the driver escaped unharmed. The Israeli military has not commented on this incident, but it confirmed earlier that it targeted two alleged Hezbollah operatives in separate southern Lebanon attacks.
NNA also reported that unexploded ordnance left by the Israeli military killed one person and wounded another in a southern Lebanon road linking two small towns.
