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Iran has launched missiles toward Israel, the Israeli military says
Missiles have been launched from Iran to Israel, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces. Follow for live news updates.
“Resorting to another direct missile attack on Israel would mean the regime (in Tehran) sees itself in more dire straits that Iranian officials acknowledge,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank in Washington, DC, told CNN. Israel is ramping up strikes on Iran-backed proxies on multiple fronts, with “ a limited ground operation ” across its northern border into Lebanon targeting Hezbollah, and long-distance attacks on Houthi militants inside of Yemen, as fears of a devastating regional conflict loom large. When asked by CNN’s Laura Coates why there appears to be so much daylight between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden, who again on Monday called for a ceasefire in Lebanon, Sanger said one of the reasons is “these two leaders don’t have a whole lot left to say to each other.”
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