The US and different Western allies are reportedly serving to Israel to defend towards retaliatory Iranian airstrikes, deploying fighter jets and different defenses to intercept incoming drones and cruise missiles earlier than they attain Israeli territory.
American forces have began capturing down unmanned aerial autos (UAVs) within the skies over Iraq and Syria, in keeping with unconfirmed Israeli broadcast studies. Greater than 100 of the Iranian kamikaze drones have been taken out by US and UK forces earlier than they reached West Jerusalem’s airspace, the Israeli army’s Military Radio outlet reported.
Israeli and British fighter jets have been reporedly launched to intercept Iranian drones over Jordan. UK pilots allegely took off from Cyprus after Iran started launching suicide drones towards Israel on Saturday evening, in obvious retaliation for a missile strike earlier this month that killed seven army officers on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
With Tehran vowing revenge, US and Israeli leaders have been bracing for assaults in latest days. US President Joe Biden reduce brief a weekend go to to his Delaware seashore home earlier on Saturday, returning to the White Home to fulfill along with his nationwide safety advisers. “We’re dedicated to the protection of Israel,” Biden stated earlier than the drone raids started. “We’ll help Israel. We’ll assist defend Israel, and Iran won’t succeed.”
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Native broadcaster Channel 12 reported that along with the drone swarms, cruise missiles have been launched into Israel. The Houthi rebels in Yemen launched drones towards Eilat, the outlet stated. The Houthis and different Iranian-backed militias have ramped up assaults towards Israeli and US targets throughout the Center East for the reason that Israel-Hamas conflict started final October.
The Iranian Protection Ministry warned its neighbors towards permitting Israel to make use of their airspace for strikes towards Tehran. Iran launched Shahed UAVs from inside its personal territory, and the drones apparently handed by means of Iraqi and Syrian airspace on their approach to Israel.
Israel is getting ready for a number of days of clashes with Iran, and an Israeli response to Saturday’s airstrikes is anticipated, broadcaster KAN reported. Earlier on Saturday, Israel Protection Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari warned that Iran would “bear the results for selecting to escalate the state of affairs any additional.”
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