Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant spoke after the first day of the conflict between Israel and Iran and said that the Israeli army managed to stop the main Iranian attack.
However, Gallant warned that Iran’s activities are not over and that the military will be on alert.
“The campaign is still not over. We have to be alert and attentive to the instructions of the IDF command and prepare for every scenario. Israel withstood the Iranian attack with hundreds of drones and missiles. The army stopped the attack impressively,” Gallant said, praising the relationship and the USA and partner countries.
He also referred to Iranian activities.
“The whole world has seen Iran for what it is. A terrorist state that attacks Israel from a distance of 1,500 kilometers and a state that tries to activate all its proxies,” said Gallant.
A little earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his victory against Iran in a short message.
“We intercepted. We blocked. We will win,” Netanyahu said.
Israel’s war cabinet should meet today at 3 pm Israeli time, after which it will be known in which direction the Israeli army will act when it comes to the conflict with Iran, Klix.ba writes.
On the second day of the conflict between Israel and Iran, security services from Tel Aviv presented data on the intensity of Tehran’s attacks.
According to the latest published data, Iran fired 185 suicide drones, 110 missiles and 36 cruise missiles in the direction of Israel.
“Although most were launched from Iran, some also came from Iraq and Yemen as well as Syria. Not a single drone or cruise missile managed to infiltrate Israeli airspace,” the report said.
In addition to Israeli fighter jets, planes from the United States of America, Great Britain, and Jordan, which intercepted dozens of drones over its territory, also took part in shooting down drones.
The spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Daniel Hagari spoke about the attack and said that 99 percent of the missiles fired by Iran were intercepted during the night.
“Some of the missiles managed to bypass Israel’s Air Defense Forces and hit the Nevatim Air Base in the south of the country. There was minor damage to the infrastructure, but the base is operating as usual,” said Hagari.
Although it is said that Israel has already decided to respond to the attack on Tehran, the war cabinet has not yet adopted any such decisions.
According to the Israeli media, at 15:00 Israeli time, the military government will sit, after which more details will be known about Tel Aviv’s potential response to the events during Saturday.
When it comes to the damage that occurred after the Iranian attack, for now the most talked about is the material damage that occurred as a result of the downing of missiles and drones. However, Israeli media reports that a seven-year-old girl from the Bedouin village of Arad, which is located in the south of Israel, was seriously injured in the attack by Iran, Klix.ba reports.
