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He also announced an intelligence and military update regarding aerial control of the region’s skies.
The attack came shortly after an Iranian ballistic-missile assault had also triggered sirens in Israel’s south.
“If this is what he’s publicly sharing, who knows what he’s saying behind closed doors,” a Pentagon contractor, who has interacted with Col. Nathan McCormack, told JNS.
There will be no outbound flights from Israel; its airspace will remain closed until next week.
The alerts will be replaced by a 10-minute alert after a confirmed launch.
“No Democrat occupying the White House in the foreseeable future can unreservedly support Israel in its regional relations,” Henry Olsen, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told JNS.
The latest barrage targeted the north, including Haifa, the Galilee and Golan Heights.
“The Iranian military leadership is on the run,” he says after the IDF killed Iran’s new wartime chief of staff, Ali Shadmani.
“We are not engaged in any negotiations, and we will not allow harm to Israeli citizens,” said Katz during a visit to the site of an Iranian missile impact in the coastal city of Herzliya.
“Iran will try havoc, death, destruction. We will continue promoting life, liberties, civil liberties, and, of course, democracy,” the Israeli president said.
The Predatory Sparrow group claimed the cyberattack, which reportedly caused widespread outages.
Iranian leader Ali Khamenei “must be saying to himself, ‘Is this really worth it? Should I continue down this path?’” said Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter.
