European leaders joined the U.S in pushing for Israel to restrain its response to Iran’s drone and missile attack, in a bid to allay a wider military conflict.
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Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said that Israel is still considering its steps, but he said that the Iranian strike of missiles and attack drones “will be met with a response.”
Israel’s War Cabinet met Sunday without deciding next steps against Iran as a nervous world waited for any sign of further escalation.
Tensions are at their highest since the Israel-Hamas war began six months ago after a suspected Israeli strike this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria killed 12.
Israel on Sunday hailed its successful air defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran, saying it and its allies thwarted 99% of the more than 300 drones and missiles launched toward its territory
The U.S. and its allies are sounding an unusually urgent alarm over Iran’s possible plans to retaliate in the coming days over Israel’s purported killing of senior Iranian officials at a diplomatic mission in Syria.
Dozens of angry Israeli settlers stormed into a Palestinian village in the West Bank.
Hamas released Aviva Siegel during a humanitarian cease-fire in November, but her husband remains captive, and she told a room of lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday she hopes he is still alive.
The Anti-Defamation League’s New England chapter said the organization has reached out to Warren’s office to talk about “her language in describing Israel’s defensive actions.”
Iran has threatened to hit Israel in retaliation for an attack on a diplomatic compound in the Syrian capital of Damascus last week that killed senior Iranian military officials.
The terrorist group reportedly told mediators it does not have 40 living Israeli hostages who meet the criteria for the first phase of a cease-fire.
Israel’s foreign minister issued the threat amid heightened tensions between the rival powers following the killings of Iranian generals at a consulate in Syria.
The rally was held on the International Day of Al-Quds, an annual pro-Palestinian event held on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Ismail Haniyeh’s sons are among the highest-profile figures to be killed so far in the war between Israel and Hamas.
The United States said relations between Israel and the Palestinians are far from ripe.
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