Hawzah News Agency –Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Israel’s strikes had “initiated a war” and it would not be allowed to do “hit and run” attacks without consequences. “The Zionist regime [Israel] will not remain unscathed from the consequences of its crime'' , Imam Khamenei said in a statement.
“The Zionist regime [Israel] will not remain unscathed from the consequences of its crime. The Iranian nation must be guaranteed that our response will not be half-measured,” Khamenei said in a statement.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Iran “carried out its crushing and precise response against dozens of targets, military centres and airbases” in Israel at the command of Supreme Leader Khamenei.
Three separate waves of attacks and hundreds of missiles were launched at Israel on Friday night.
Still, during the barrage, a modern apartment block was hit in central Tel Aviv, and according to live footage from the scene, fires raged inside some of the apartments, with smoke billowing from the building.
Another residential building, next to the apartment block, also appeared to have suffered significant damage, with windows blown and pieces of twisted metal hanging from its exterior.
At least 40 people were injured during the attack, according to the Israeli news outlet Haaretz, citing emergency services. Earlier, the Israeli ambulance service said two seriously wounded people were trapped in a building in the greater Tel Aviv area.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, told the UN Security Council that 78 people were killed and more than 320 others injured in Israel’s Friday attacks, including women and children.
In a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei read on state television, the new commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Pakpour, vowed that “the gates of hell will open on the infanticide regime, referring to Israel.
“Iran has the ability to significantly harm the Israeli home front”, Defrin told a televised news conference that was cut short due to what the army said was an incoming attack.
Source: AL JAZEERA
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