2024-04-21 00:00:00
After the attack with missiles and drones Iran On Saturday, April 13, Israel launched its retaliation. A deadly explosion at an Iraqi military base highlighted the high tensions that persist in the region, as do Deadliest Israeli attacks in Gaza and the intensification of fighting in the West Bank.
These events increased fears that the escalation of tit-for-tat attacks between Israel and Iran could lead to a broader war in the Middle East. Israel had warned it would respond after Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones a week ago in its first direct attack on its archenemy’s territory.
That attack by Iran had been in response to an airstrike – widely attributed to Israel – that devastated the Iranian consulate in Damascus and killed seven Revolutionary Guards on April 1.
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Last Friday, Iranian media reported explosions in the central province of Isfahan. The news agency Fars He detailed that there were “three explosions” in Qahjavarestan, near the Isfahan airport and the 8th Shekari army air base. “What happened last night was not an attack,” he told NBC News the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
“It was the flight of two or three quadcopters, which are at the level of the toys that our children use in Iran,” he added. “As long as there is no new adventure by the Israeli regime against Iran’s interests, we will not have an answer,” he concluded.
According to a senior source in the US Congress who spoke with the international agency AFPwere Israeli retaliatory attacks against Iran.
Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at British think tank Chatham House, said: The Israeli attack had been “calibrated to avoid damage and further Iranian aggression”, while eIranian political expert Hamid Gholamzadeh warned that the incident in Isfahan, although “insignificant”, must be seen in the context of the “struggle for the balance of power” between the two countries. “The region is on fire and at any moment a total war could break out”he claimed.
Since the Gaza war began, violence has also impacted the other occupied Palestinian territory, West Bank.
The Israeli army said Saturday that its forces killed 10 militants and arrested another eight people. during a 40-hour raid on a refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that 11 people were injured in the Israeli attack, including a paramedic who was shot while trying to reach the injured.
Israel needs “further escalation and another war to distract world attention”
Israel has reduced vast areas of the besieged Palestinian territory to rubble and aid groups have warned that the north is on the brink of famine. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuwhich is under pressure from the rising number of civilian casualties, It needs “further escalation and another war to distract world attention” from the suffering in Gaza, said Iranian analyst Gholamzadeh.
At the same time, fear is growing about Israel’s intention to send troops to the southernmost city of Rafah, where most of the population who have fled violence elsewhere now take refuge.
Foreign ministers from the G7 group of developed economies, meeting in Italy on Friday, warned that They opposed a “large-scale military operation in Rafah” because it would have “catastrophic consequences” for civilians. However, this Saturday, the Gaza Civil Defense agency said that an overnight Israeli attack on Rafah killed nine members of a family, including six children.
Agency spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said the Israeli army had also attacked other areas of Rafah during the night, adding: “It was a very hard night.”. Israel’s military said it attacked dozens of militant targets over the past dayincluding the site in northern Gaza from where a rocket was fired toward the Israeli city of Sderot.
Efforts to seal a long-sought truce have stalled, according to the Qatari mediator. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a staunch critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, met with Qatar-based Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday and called for unity among Palestinians.
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