The most likely explanation is that the school strike was the result of a misidentification of the target. As “NYT” writes, the school used to belong to the base complex, but has been separated from it since 2016. There was damage in Bahrain during the attack overnight.
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Alarm in Tel Aviv
Table of Contents
- Alarm in Tel Aviv
- Saudi Arabia: Three missiles were intercepted heading towards a military base
- Iran: There are fatalities in the missile attack on Shiraz
- Trump: A ground invasion of Iran would be a waste of time. We want to change leadership
- AFP: Hezbollah shelled the north of the country in response to attacks on Beirut
- Qatar foiled an attack on the largest US base in the Middle East
- Trump: It’s only a matter of time for Cuba to fall, but first I have to end Iran
- “NYT”: US forces are probably responsible for the attack on a girls’ school in Iran
- Israel: We have launched another wave of strikes against targets in Tehran
- An Iranian attack damaged a hotel and two apartment buildings in the capital of Bahrain
After almost 12 quiet hours, an air raid alarm sounded in central Israel in Tel Aviv and surrounding towns. A few minutes earlier, missile launches from Iran were detected – reports the New York Times.
Saudi Arabia: Three missiles were intercepted heading towards a military base
Saudi Arabia’s air defense intercepted and destroyed three missiles heading towards the Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Al-Kharj Province on Friday morning, the Saudi Ministry of Defense said. Earlier, Saudi air defense neutralized drones targeting the Ras Tanura refinery in the Eastern Province, as well as cruise missiles targeting the Al-Kharj industrial area, located about 80 km southeast of Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh.
Iran: There are fatalities in the missile attack on Shiraz
Several people were killed on Thursday evening in a US and Israeli missile attack on the city of Shiraz in southern Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday morning, quoted by AFP. According to state media, the attack occurred in a public place in a residential area.
Trump: A ground invasion of Iran would be a waste of time. We want to change leadership
US President Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Thursday that a land invasion of Iran would be a “waste of time” because the country has already lost its military potential. He noted, however, that Washington intends to “cleanse” Tehran of its current authorities and already has candidates for new leaders. However, he did not indicate who, but he definitely ruled out that it would be the son of the killed Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, Modjtab Khamenei.
AFP: Hezbollah shelled the north of the country in response to attacks on Beirut
Lebanese Hezbollah, supported by Iran, carried out massive rocket and artillery bombardment of northern Israel on the night from Thursday to Friday, the AFP news agency reported. The attack was a response to earlier Israeli strikes against targets in Lebanon. There is no information about casualties or damage.
Qatar foiled an attack on the largest US base in the Middle East
Qatar’s defense ministry announced on Friday that air defense systems successfully stopped a drone attack targeting Al Udeid Air Base, the largest US military base in the Middle East. About 10,000 are stationed there. soldiers. The base was attacked by Iran last June in retaliation for US attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. At the end of February, some of the staff was evacuated.
Israeli President Yitzhak Hercog said on Spanish radio Cadena SER that Spain was playing a “strange and incomprehensible game” and is not fulfilling its obligations as a member of NATO and the European Union. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday that his government opposes the war and treats the actions of the US and Israel in the Middle East as contrary to international law.
Trump: It’s only a matter of time for Cuba to fall, but first I have to end Iran
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the fall of the regime in Cuba is only a matter of time, but stressed that he must first end the war with Iran. He called on Iranian diplomats to seek asylum and on Iranian security forces to lay down their weapons.
“NYT”: US forces are probably responsible for the attack on a girls’ school in Iran
A girls’ school in the southern Iranian town of Minab was probably hit by a US missile during attacks on a nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base, according to a New York Times analysis. According to Iran, more than 170 people were killed in the attack, including 150 girls. According to former Pentagon official Wes Bryant, who was quoted by the newspaper, the evidence showed perfectly precise strikes. In his opinion, the most likely explanation is that the attack on the school was the result of misidentification of the target. As “NYT” writes, the school used to belong to the base complex, but has been separated from it since 2016.
Israel: We have launched another wave of strikes against targets in Tehran
Iranian state media reported explosions heard in various parts of the country’s capital. The Israeli armed forces wrote in a statement that they had launched a “wide wave” of strikes against the “infrastructure of the Iranian terrorist regime” in Tehran.
An Iranian attack damaged a hotel and two apartment buildings in the capital of Bahrain
Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior reported on the night from Thursday to Friday that a hotel and two residential buildings in the capital, Manama, were damaged as a result of the Iranian attack.
Video recordings published on website X show a skyscraper in which a fire broke out on one of the upper floors. According to witnesses, it was caused by a drone.
“Iran’s aggression (…) caused material damage, with no fatalities,” Bahrain’s interior ministry reported on the X website.
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