Israeli army says Iran won’t get off ‘scot-free’ after attack
Israel’s army said yesterday that Iran will not get off “scotfree” after the Islamic republic launched an unprecedented wave of missiles and drones at Israel last weekend.
“Iran will not get (off) scotfree with this aggression,” military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told reporters at Julis military base while displaying the remains of an intercepted missile.
“We will not allow this aggression in the region,” Hagari said, speaking in English.
He said that, even as the world was talking about the “nuclear threat from Iran,” the Islamic republic was “building a conventional threat, meaning to create a ring of fire across Israel”.
From late on Saturday to early Sunday, Iran launched more than 300 drones, missiles and ballistic missiles at Israel but caused just minor damage, including at a military base in the country’s south.
Meanwhile, an Israeli strike killed a local Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon on
Tuesday, the Israeli army and a source close to the powerful Iran-backed movement said. Israel and Hamas ally Hezbollah
have been exchanging neardaily cross-border fire since the Palestinian militant group attacked southern Israel on
October 7, triggering war in the Gaza Strip.
Yesterday’s strike came with regional tensions high after
Iran launched missile and drone attacks on Israel over the weekend in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
The Israeli military said its “aircraft struck and eliminated Ismail Yusef Baz, the commander of Hezbollah’s coastal sector”, adding he was killed in the Ain Baal area.
The official National News Agency reported one dead in an Israeli strike on a car in Ain Baal, about 15 kilometres from the border, later saying “enemy warplanes” struck two cars in Shehabiya, about 10 kilometres from Ain Baal, reporting casualties.
Hezbollah announced in a statement that Baz had been killed, without mentioning his rank or role.
But a source close to the group told AFP that “the field commander in charge of the Naqura region” had been killed “in an Israeli strike”.
Hezbollah said it launched Katyusha rockets on a base in northern Israel’s Beit Hillel “in response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks.” (AFP)