“We cannot remain idly faced with such aggression, Iran will not emerge unscathed” from its attack, said army spokesperson Daniel Hagari, during a visit organized for the media on a base in southern Israel. “Firing 110 missiles directly at Israel will not go unpunished. We will respond when, where and how we choose,” he added. The Israeli army showed a group of journalists one of the missiles intercepted during the attack and recovered in the Dead Sea, specifying that this type of device can carry an explosive charge of 500 kilos.
350 drones and missiles intercepted
“Their role, their only intention was to kill and destroy Israeli lives and Israel,” said another army spokesman, Peter Lerner. “If they had not been intercepted, the scale (of the damage) would have been immense,” added this spokesperson.
“We were only talking about Iran’s nuclear threat. At the same time, Iran was posing a conventional threat, in order to create a ring of fire around Israel,” added Daniel Hagari. Overnight Saturday and Sunday, after months of growing tensions across the region, Iran for the first time launched a direct attack against Israel, in retaliation for a deadly strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, on April 1, attributed to Israel.
Israel announced that it had intercepted, with the help of the United States and other allied countries including France and the United Kingdom, but also Jordan and Saudi Arabia, almost all of the 350 drones and missiles launched by Iran against its territory.