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U.S. military directed to help Israel against Iranian attack
Biden has directed the U.S. to aid Israel in fending off Iran's attack, according to a statement from the National Security Council spokesperson.

Iran says it has concluded its attack on Israel
Iran had concluded its retaliatory attack on Israel, the country's mission to the United Nations announced in a post on X.

The mission called the missile barrage a "legal, rational and legitimate response" to Israel's targeting of Iranian nationals and interests, and infringing on its sovereignty.

Iran targeted Israel in retaliation for killing Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, military says
Israel was targeted in retaliation for the killings of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement shortly after the missile launches.

They were also in retaliation for the death of Abbas Nilforoushan, one of the IRG's regional commanders who was killed alongside Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut Friday.

Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran after he attended July's inauguration ceremony for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

“Should the Zionist regime respond to Iran’s operation, it will face crushing attacks,” the IRG statement said. The attack on Israel was carried out “with the support of the army and the Ministry of Defense,” it added.

8 dead in Tel Aviv shooting
Eight people were killed and nine others wounded in a shooting that began around the time that Iran launched missiles at Israel, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter.

That initial report on the death toll may include the suspect or suspects, according to one U.S. official.

The shooting involved at least one gunman who got off of mass transit and started firing a semiautomatic rifle, the U.S. officials said.

Palestinian Mujahideen Movement claims deadly Tel Aviv shooting
The Palestinian Mujahidin Movement, also known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, took responsibility for a deadly shooting in Jaffa, southern Tel Aviv.

The attack is an extension to resistance efforts in the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon, the group said in a statement.

"The operation confirms the escalation of the resistance ... and that it has become a firm option for our people to restore their rights," the group said

Hagari says Iran attack 'will have consequences'
Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that Iran's attack on Israel "will have consequences."

"We are on high alert both defensively and offensively," Hagari said during a news briefing following the attack. "We will defend the citizens of the State of Israel."

Hagari said the military has "plans" and will strike at the time and place of their choosing.

Hagari said the military has not identified any additional aerial threats from Iran and reiterated that people can leave shelters. The IDF "carried out a large number of interceptions," Hagari said, adding that parts of central and southern Israel were affected by missiles.

"At this stage, we are still assessing the situation," Hagari said. "We are not aware of any casualties."

Jordan allowed U.S. to operate in its airspace to shoot down missiles
Jordan allowed U.S. forces to fly and shoot down Iranian missiles within the Arab country's airspace, a U.S. official and a senior Jordanian official told NBC News.

The Jordanian official confirmed the news and added that Jordan would do the same for "any other missile flying over our airspace."

He raises a good point. If Israelis refuse to accept and will only ever seek to undermine a two-state solution, what exactly is their end game?

He raises a good point. If Israelis refuse to accept and will only ever seek to undermine a two-state solution, what exactly is their end game?

Delay Holocaust 2.0 as long as possible.

Israel plans to launch “powerful airstrikes throughout the Middle East” beginning Tuesday night in retaliation for an Iranian missile barrage launched on the Jewish state Tuesday, according to reports.

The warning comes after nearly 200 ballistic missiles were fired Israel, with shrapnel and warheads raining down on Tel Aviv and other Israeli population centers.

The attack came in successive waves separated by about 10 minutes, leaving Israelis scrambling for shelter as sirens wailed across the country.

Despite the extent of the barrage, only two people have been reported injured while many missiles were intercepted before they could cause any serious harm.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in turn threatened that it would not tolerate reactions from Israel.

“If the Zionist regime reacts to the operation, it will face heavy attacks,” the IRGC said

Delay, or perpetuate Holocaust 2.0 while keeping plausible deniability for as long as possible?

Enough of them think a whole lot of people want to wipe Jews out. This way of thinking goes that even America the friendliest place towards Jews in history will turn on the Jews just like Germany where Jews were also assimilated. The pro-Palestinian demonstration validates this in their minds. Any agreeing to a two-state or democratic one-state solution is viewed as voluntary suicide. I think despite their bluster inside they know they can't fight off the entire world forever.

Stay safe Boo.

The US warned Tuesday that there would be “severe consequences” for Iran after its missile attack against Israel, pledging to work with Jerusalem to extract a price from Tehran.

Washington offered similar support for Israel after helping it thwart Iran’s previous attack in April, but then it quickly turned to caution Israel against responding too broadly, fearing an escalation into a regional war. On Tuesday, though, Biden officials weren’t just stressing Israel’s right to respond but indicating that the US would be assisting Israel in launching that response.

“There will be severe consequences for this attack and we will work with Israel to make that the case,” Sullivan said during a press briefing at the White House hours after Iran launched some 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.

One Palestinian in the West Bank was killed and two Israelis were injured by falling shrapnel and debris that had caused damage and started fires in the area.

“At my direction, the United States military actively supported the defense of Israel,” US President Joe Biden told reporters at the White House, adding that the Iranian attack “appears to have been defeated and ineffective.”


“This is testament to Israeli military capability… [and] also a testament to intensive planning [between] the United States and Israel to anticipate and defend against a brazen attack,” he added.

“Make no mistake, the United States is fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel,” the US president stressed.

Asked how he wanted Israel to respond, Biden said this was a matter in “active discussion” and that the consequences for Tehran “remain to be seen.”

Biden monitored the attack with US Vice President Kamala Harris from the Situation Room, and the pair held another meeting earlier Tuesday after the US received intelligence that an attack was imminent — information that was quickly shared with Israel.

In her own statement to the press, Harris said she backs Biden’s decision to order US military personnel to shoot down Iranian missiles targeting Israel, as he did in April.

She slammed the “reckless and brazen” Iranian missile attack, which further demonstrates that Tehran is a “destabilizing, dangerous force” in the Middle East.

Iran is not only a threat to Israel, Iran is also a threat to American personnel in the region, American interests and innocent civilians across the region who suffer at the hands of Iran-based and backed terrorist proxies,” Harris continued. “We will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend US forces and interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists, and we will continue to work with our allies and partners to disrupt Iran’s aggressive behavior and hold them accountable.”

Pressed on what the pledged response to Iran might look like, Sullivan said the US had already begun discussing the issue with Israel before the strike was carried out and that those conversations would continue, but he declined to offer additional details.

This is a significant escalation by Iran, and it is equally significant that we were able to step up with Israel and create a situation in which no one was killed in this attack in Israel,” said the top Biden aide.

“We are now going to look at what the appropriate next steps are to secure first and foremost American interests and then to promote stability — to the maximum extent possible — as we go forward,” he said.

“We are proud of the actions that we’ve taken alongside Israel to protect and defend Israel,” Sullivan said.

The Israel Defense Forces revealed Tuesday that even before it officially launched ground operations in southern Lebanon earlier in the day, its troops had conducted dozens of secret cross-border raids throughout the current war, destroying numerous Hezbollah positions, tunnels and sites.

The army also disclosed that days after Hamas’s October 7 mass onslaught in southern Israel, thousands of terrorists had been positioned near the Lebanon border in a plan to storm the Galilee and unleash similar carnage there.

The army said special forces have since then carried out more than 70 small raids, destroying numerous Hezbollah positions, tunnels and thousands of weapons that would have potentially been used in the terror group’s invasion plan.

According to the IDF, troops in the raids over past months silently reached around 1,000 Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, some of them several kilometers from the border fence, including tunnels and bunkers where the terror group had stored weapons. The IDF said the sites were located both inside Lebanese villages and in forested areas.

According to IDF assessments, some 2,400 Radwan terrorists and another 500 Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists — trained by Radwan — had been waiting in southern Lebanon villages to attack Israel in the days after Palestinian terror group Hamas carried out its October 7, 2023, mass invasion from Gaza, in which some 1,200 people were murdered in Israel and 251 were kidnapped to the Strip amid widely documented atrocities and systematic targeting of civilians.

IDF ‘not going to Beirut’
In his briefing, Hagari, the military spokesman, said that IDF troops would not be entering Beirut or any major cities in Lebanon, adding that the ground operation would be as brief as possible.

Speaking in English after a similar briefing in Hebrew to reporters, Hagari said Israeli forces “are not going to Beirut. We’re not going to the cities in southern Lebanon. We are focusing on the area of those villages, the area next to our border. We will do in this area what is necessary to dismantle and demolish Hezbollah’s infrastructure.”

Asked how long the ground operations were likely to continue, Hagari said: “I will not reveal to the enemy, but we are doing it as short as we can, days, weeks… We will do the necessary thing.”

Hagari said the IDF was acting “to enable all 60,000 [displaced] Israelis to safely return to their homes in northern Israel.”