Apr 16, 2024. Posted by Periscope - Hellas
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that Israeli warplanes are active across the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran. Gallant emphasized Israel's readiness to strike any enemy wherever they may be.
Israeli
warplanes are operating everywhere in the Middle East, Defense Minister Yoav
Gallant said Tuesday amid rising tensions with Iran.
"The Air
Force planes are operating everywhere, the skies of the Middle East are
open," Gallant told his army forces in northern Israel.
"Any enemy that
will fight against us, we will know how to hit it wherever they are," he
added in statements cited by The Times of Israel newspaper.
Iran
launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Israel on Saturday, in
an attack Tehran said was in response to the April 1 attack on its consulate in
Syria, in which at least 13 people were killed, including seven military
advisers.
Israel has
vowed to respond to the Iranian attack.
"The
Iranians will not be able to implement a different equation of deterrence
against the State of Israel," Gallant said.
Jordan's King
Abdullah II said Tuesday that his country will not be a battlefield for
Israel and Iran.
On Monday,
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian vowed a
"stronger" and "extensive" response to any Israeli military
attack.
Israel and
Iran are regional foes, with decades of hostility and mutual accusations of
conducting attacks.
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