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    Iran says it will target Israel after weekend attack

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    Tensions in the Middle East showed no signs of easing on Monday as a senior Iranian military official vowed that Israel would face “bitter and unimaginable consequences” for his country. weekend attack on military targets which killed at least four Iranian soldiers.

    Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the attack showed Israel’s “miscalculation and frustration on the battlefield” in Gaza and Lebanon. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei echoed Salami’s statements, saying Iran would “use all available tools.” ” to respond to Israel’s attack.

    Baghaei said the Islamic Republic had a “duty to respond firmly” despite diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions in the region. Iran had already been downplayed Saturday’s air attack by Israelsaying it caused only limited damage. The United States has warned Iran not to escalate the fighting.

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said all Israelis military objectives have been achieved. The Israeli military said it had seriously damaged factories producing long-range ballistic missiles, while destroying air defense batteries.

    The strikes served as retaliation for an Iranian missile bombardment on October 1 that did little damage to Israel. This attack was a response to the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran, which Iran blamed on Israel.

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Sunday that the Israeli attack should not be “exaggerated or downplayed” and referred the decision on retaliation to government officials. President Masoud Pezeshkian said only that Iran would retaliate with an “appropriate response.”

    Developments:

    ∎ The UN Security Council will meet on Monday to discuss the Israeli attack on Iran. The Swiss mission to the UN said the meeting was requested by Iran with the support of Algeria, China and Russia. Iraq filed a complaint with the UN over Israel’s use of its airspace during the attack.

    ∎ The Palestinian death toll since Israel’s invasion of Gaza has surpassed 43,000, and more than 100,000 have been injured, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said.

    Israel retaliates in Iran: US says it was not involved

    The Israeli army withdrew from Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, completing a raid on the “terrorist headquarters established by Hamas” in Jabaliya, military spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, in a message published on social networks.

    Shoshani said weapons, cash and intelligence documents were seized in and around the hospital. The army surrounded the hospital last week and stormed in over the weekend. Some activists barricaded themselves at the hospital and around 100 were arrested, including some who the army said had tried to escape during the evacuation of civilians.

    Gaza’s health ministry denied any militant presence at the hospital. The ministry accused the Israelis of detaining all male medical staff at the hospital and confining women to hospital rooms without food or water. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, described the situation in northern Gaza as “catastrophic.”

    Israeli planes struck the ancient Lebanese city of Tire on Monday after the army called for the evacuation of swathes of the coastal region, Lebanese and Israeli media reported. Earlier, a barrage of around 30 rockets was fired from Lebanon towards Israel.

    Tire was considered safe until recently despite intensifying air attacks between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanon-based Hezbollah. But Israeli airstrikes this week have torn facades off buildings, left rubble piled in the streets and raised fears that the city is unsafe. As a result, tens of thousands of residents fled.

    Contributor: Reuters

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