Today, 9:34 pm
Israel is braced for potential attacks by Iran and Hezbollah in the coming days, and assesses that they could come from “several fronts,” Channel 12 reports.
It says the Israeli security establishment is on “peak alert” and that members of a US-led international coalition aimed at thwarting such attacks are braced to try and deter and intercept them.
Israel’s leadership has been holding discussions on how Israel would respond to such attacks, including as regards “a readiness for an entry into all-out war in this context.”
As things stand, Home Front Command instructions to the public are unchanged. If something changes, the IDF has stressed, the public will immediately be told.
The TV report notes that today’s edition of Iran’s Kayhan pro-regime newspaper, in its editorial, warned that, in contrast to Iran’s almost completely thwarted April attack on Israel, its attack this time would target areas deep inside Israel, such as Tel Aviv and Haifa, strategic centers and the homes of Israeli officials.
The TV report also notes that Shi’ite militias in Iraq are threatening to strike at both Israel and US targets.
While the report notes that Iran has already impacted Israel by prompting the cancellation of flights by numerous foreign airlines and by inducing concern among Israelis over an imminent attack, it says the killing, blamed on Israel, of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh at an IRGC-run guesthouse in the heart of Tehran early Wednesday has left the regime feeling “deeply penetrated” and “completely exposed” to Israeli intelligence.