Live Updates: Israel’s Retaliatory Attack on Iran Hits Military Bases
The New York Times
Iran’s national air defense force said that Israel had struck sites in three provinces, including Tehran, causing “limited damage.”
Peace talks were nowhere in sight and, despite Yahya Sinwar’s death, the violence seemed only to increase, as Israel struck northern Gaza and Hezbollah fired dozens of projectiles.
Extensive Israeli attacks have blown up Hezbollah munitions and killed many fighters and leaders, but the Lebanese militia is far from incapacitated, analysts say.
President Biden called the death of Yahya Sinwar a “moment of justice” that could open “a path to peace” in Gaza. Earlier, he said the U.S. secretary of state would go to Israel to discuss postwar planning.
Israeli officials said the body of a slain militant was being taken to a laboratory in order to assess whether its DNA matches that of Yahya Sinwar.
The attacks, which also hit southern Lebanon, came after the United States expressed concerns about the bombardment of the Lebanese capital. Israel’s military said it had aimed at Hezbollah targets.
Several people were killed in the attack on the compound where displaced people were sheltering, Palestinian news media said. The Israeli military said Hamas fighters were embedded there.
Weeks after Israel launched a devastating offensive in Lebanon against the militants, their strike south of Haifa showed that they can still inflict damage of their own.
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The Times reviewed the minutes of 10 meetings among Hamas’s top leaders. The records show the militant group avoided several escalations since 2021 to falsely imply it had been deterred — while seeking Iranian support for a major attack.
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