by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Oct 03, 2024 - 04:45 PM
Via Middle East Eye
After Iran launched waves of ballistic missiles across Israel on Tuesday evening, with video footage showing many of them hitting their targets, Israel closed off several military zones and barred the publication of reporting on where missiles hit the ground.
The censorship from Israel made it difficult to assess the full damage from Iran's strikes, with both the US and Israel sending mixed messages regarding the size and impact of Tehran's attack.
Rubble of a destroyed building in Hod HaSharon in aftermath of the Iranian missile attack on Israel. via AFP
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that an initial Israeli assessment of the attack showed minor damage to military bases. The Iranian attack hit the Nevatim air base in the Negev Desert, where Israel has placed some F-35 fighter jets. But Israel's military declined to share with the Journal the extent of the damage to the air base.
The military said "it didn’t want to give information to Iran" that could help Tehran understand how much damage its attack caused.
Several missiles were also located near the Dead Sea, near where Israeli nuclear facilities are located. It wasn't clear whether they were intercepted by Israel or the US, according to the report.
One missile hit in the vicinity of a school in the town of Gedera, with photos of the aftermath showing a massive crater in the ground and major structural damage to the nearby buildings.
Israel said that its military and a coalition of allies including the US and UK intercepted most of the missiles. However, video footage online showed numerous missiles landing inside Israel and exploding without being intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
The attacks caused two injuries inside Israel, while one Palestinian was killed by shrapnel in the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
US national security advisor Jake Sullivan said during a brief moment with reporters on Tuesday that the Iranian attack was both a significant escalation by Tehran and also "ineffective".
"In short, based on what we know at this point, this attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective. The word 'fog of war' was invented for a situation like this. This is a fluid situation," he said.
Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement broadcast on state television that 90 percent of the missiles it launched hit their targets successfully.
Iran said it launched the attacks in response to Israel's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, as well as its more recent killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan in southern Beirut.
Israel's censorship of Iran's attack is not new, and the Israeli government has ramped up its censorship during its ongoing war on Gaza, which began in October 2023 after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that an initial Israeli assessment of the attack showed minor damage to military bases. The Iranian attack hit the Nevatim air base in the Negev Desert, where Israel has placed some F-35 fighter jets. But Israel's military declined to share with the Journal the extent of the damage to the air base.
The military said "it didn’t want to give information to Iran" that could help Tehran understand how much damage its attack caused.
Several missiles were also located near the Dead Sea, near where Israeli nuclear facilities are located. It wasn't clear whether they were intercepted by Israel or the US, according to the report.
One missile hit in the vicinity of a school in the town of Gedera, with photos of the aftermath showing a massive crater in the ground and major structural damage to the nearby buildings.
Israel said that its military and a coalition of allies including the US and UK intercepted most of the missiles. However, video footage online showed numerous missiles landing inside Israel and exploding without being intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
The attacks caused two injuries inside Israel, while one Palestinian was killed by shrapnel in the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
US national security advisor Jake Sullivan said during a brief moment with reporters on Tuesday that the Iranian attack was both a significant escalation by Tehran and also "ineffective".
"In short, based on what we know at this point, this attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective. The word 'fog of war' was invented for a situation like this. This is a fluid situation," he said.
Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement broadcast on state television that 90 percent of the missiles it launched hit their targets successfully.
Iran said it launched the attacks in response to Israel's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, as well as its more recent killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan in southern Beirut.
Israel's censorship of Iran's attack is not new, and the Israeli government has ramped up its censorship during its ongoing war on Gaza, which began in October 2023 after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel.
A crater left by an exploded projectile at a heavily-damaged school building in Israel's southern city of Gedera, via AFP.
A report by +972 Magazine found that in 2023, the Israeli military barred 613 articles from being published by media outlets in Israel. That number was a record for the magazine, which began tracking censorship in 2011.
The magazine also found that an additional 2,703 articles had been redacted, which is the highest number of redactions since 2014, a year Israel also launched a war on Gaza.
A report by +972 Magazine found that in 2023, the Israeli military barred 613 articles from being published by media outlets in Israel. That number was a record for the magazine, which began tracking censorship in 2011.
The magazine also found that an additional 2,703 articles had been redacted, which is the highest number of redactions since 2014, a year Israel also launched a war on Gaza.
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kt comments:
Which was why Satan-Yahoo went ape-shit crazy (seen with trembling hands as he appeared before TV, wakakaka) ... and now lashing out at Beirut in sheer outraged petulance ...,
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You MF-ing Ma-Cai, you got to do something .. anything .. before you leave your post, or that Aramaic heretic, your Yehoshua ben Yosef, will curse you forever |
and of course ...
Faithful obsequious Wankee Ma-Cai is (from Reuters via NST) ... discussing strikes on Iran’s oil facilities as retaliation for Tehran’s missile attack on Israel
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OK lah Bibi, will do my best (thinks to himself: Aiyoyo, those MF Persians) |
We'll find out...
ReplyDelete~~~~~
https://t.me/GoBPH/3687
[Standby for Putin's next "special military operation."]
https://t.me/GoBPH/3689
ReplyDeleteTheir troll game is pretty strong, but the real story here is that Iran is subtly disclosing that it has access to satellite imagery— which means it is likely working directly with Russia (or China; or both) to navigate this conflict.
https://x.com/IRIran_Military/status/1841769372710211995?s=19
They blew up pagers, we responded by blowing up the world's most heavily defended air base!
#OpTruePromise2
https://x.com/IRIran_Military/status/1841771336571506839?s=19
Beep... beep! 🚀 💥
https://t.me/GoBPH/3695
ReplyDeleteThe Abraham Accords worked, just not in the way the Deep State intended. (Opposite net effect.)
Total backfire.
https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1841855031760359504?s=19
NEW:
At a meeting in Doha, representatives of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait assured Iran of the Gulf States' absolute neutrality in the ongoing conflict, and that they will not allow the U.S. to use their airbases against Iran – Reuters
🇮🇷🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪🇧ðŸ‡ðŸ‡°ðŸ‡¼
Right...tea, anyone?
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https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1841868336872779904?s=19
BREAKING:
🇮🇱🇬🇧 Bug (secret listening device) found in my bathroom after Netanyahu visit - claims Boris Johnson
During their meeting in his old office, Mr Johnson says Mr Netanyahu, who he calls Bibi, excused himself to go to the bathroom, which Mr Johnson describes as similar to “the gents in a posh London club” which exist within a “secret annexe”.
“Thither Bibi repaired for a while, and it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox.”
Netyanahu put the bug by himself. Who knows how many such recorded conversations Israel has from Trump and Biden
A thread. Use cloud to block sats view?
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https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1841721421828866193?s=19
🇮🇱🇮🇷 The Israeli Nevatim air base in southern Israel on Wednesday show the damage to the roof in a row of buildings near the main runway.
Large pieces of debris can be seen spread around the building following Iran’s Tuesday missile strikes.
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