Iran's attack on Israel 'will be met with a response', military chief confirms| ITV News

there is one question that has gripped

the Middle East and much of the wider

world in the hour since Iran launched

missiles and drones at Israel this

weekend what will Israel do next

officially we're told only that Tan's

attacks which were largely foiled will

be met with a response but tonight leaks

from Benjamin netanyahu's War cabinet

give a suggestion of what may be planned

it's understood Israeli ministers have

agreed to clearly and forcefully strike

back but the IDF will seek to avoid

inflicting further casualties Mr

Netanyahu himself is said to want to

respond wisely and not from the

gut early yesterday we watched as

history unfolded overhead this was an

unprecedented attack being styed by an

unprecedented Shield wielded by a

coalition that included Arab countries

defending Israel for the first time ever

the massive Iranian barrage broke a

taboo but not much else of the more than

300 drones and missiles sent this way

just a handful evaded interception some

Landing in this Southern Airbase the

Damage Done by the aerial assault may be

minimal but that doesn't mean this swarm

attack was anything other than seismic

on the operational level on the

Strategic level on any level it's first

time event Seine was a divisional Chief

in the mosad and is an Iran expert

operative the question is how you

retaliate and uh I think we it will be

smart to do it in a sophisticated way

not just by drones and the and the

aircraft if you were still in the Mossad

what would you advise the government to

do to use the

mad I mean famously Israel assassinated

the head of the nuclear program that's

what the foreign reports are saying and

um yeah is that the sort of thing you're

talking about yeah it's two weeks ago

today that the Israeli Air Force

attacked that Iranian diplomatic

compound in Damascus Israeli

intelligence mistakenly believed that

Iran's response to the killing of senior

Republican guard officers would come

from a proxy like Hezbollah the Israelis

would not done it had they known it

would lead to Iran's first ever direct

strike on

Israel the factor Regional war is not

raging already is down to the Brilliance

of the defense mounted by the IDF and

the air forces of allies including the

United States France Jordan and the

United Kingdom all of whom are now

urging

restraint so we are working urgently

with our allies to deescalate the

situation and prevent further Bloodshed

we want to see calmer heads prevail and

we are directing all our diplomatic

efforts to that end Iran launched an

unprecedented aerial attack against

Israel and we mounted unpre military

effort to defend Israel together with

our partners we defeated that

attack Israel's Coalition Partners led

by Mr Biden are now asking this country

to accept the victory achieved in the

nocturnal Skies of early yesterday and

move on but the war cabinet is yet to

decide it appears they have two choices

take the win or take the shot John

Irvine News at 10 Tel

Aviv well more than six months in now to

the war in Gaza the fears of a wider

regional conflict have RAR been so acute

so how did we get here and what

potentially happens next ragie is here

to take us through it ragy well this

decisive moment was begun by an attack

that pushed this conflict closer to

becoming a wider Regional War across the

Middle East the first time Iran has ever

launched a fullscale military assault

from its soil on Israel despite Decades

of intense hostility and it was Spar by

that air strike carried out by Israel in

Syria's Capital Damascus as you heard

earlier several top Iranian

revolutionary guard were killed they

were responsible for coordinating Iran's

proxies not just in Syria but also in

Iraq Lebanon Yemen and of course Hamas

in Gaza all against Israel a response to

the incident in Damascus had been feared

and on Saturday of course it arrived

Iran launched a coordinated attack with

help from its proxies in the region

first went drones then slower cruise

missiles and then finally faster

ballistic missiles but it was by its

very nature a nuanced attack and that's

because Iran's drones took several hours

to enter Israeli airspace therefore

allowing the IDF and its allies time to

prepare a defense by the time the cruise

and ballistic missiles were launched 99%

of the projectiles that were fired

according to the IDF were hit a joint

effort between the US the UK and

importantly Jordan home to a significant

Palestinian population now Israel will

be compelled to respond some way somehow

the question is when and

how I do not think that it's likely that

Israel will limit itself to again only

corresponding with Iranian proxies we've

been doing that for many years that

hasn't been successful Now is really the

time to make Iran understand that their

aggressive behavior will not go

unchecked and that they're not going to

pay the consequences for it Jonathan kri

is speaking to me earlier and despite

the apparent failure of the attack it

will have allowed Iran to learn a great

deal not only about Israel's own air

defense capability but also the

willingness of its allies and other

countries to step in but tonight Julie

the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has

asked the IDF to come up with a range of

options of how to respond to Iran not

just by direct military action okay ragi

I know we'll talk to John Irvine about

that shortly thank you very much indeed

uh for the moment on that well in Israel

today unlike in Gaza little sign of the

immediate danger that this way weekend

haunted the skies this morning

restrictions imposed in respon to Iran's

threats were lifted and schools reopened

but across the country divisions are

emerging specifically over if how and

when a retaliation should be

brought defending the existence of this

state is an everyday mindset on the

streets of Jerusalem passed through

generations today we some celebrated

Israel's success in neutralizing Iran's

assault on its territory the army of

Israel is the best in the world we are

the best in the

world others recall Their Fear you can

lock it this is Carrie Fred's bomb

shelter where she spent the night on

Saturday with her children cowering from

attack and you it her husband watched

the missiles be intercepted from their

balcony they're prepared for Israeli

retribution we should retaliate but

maybe later cuz we're just so tired it's

200 days of War walking around with this

feeling like something terrible is about

to happen and it's exhausting the

Israeli way of life is intact though

normality seems to have resumed but

they're waiting for where and how bold a

move their government makes next Israel

must attack Iran you cannot have threat

hanging on the air over your head Sim

Rothman is a lawyer and a right-wing

activist so you don't fear a full full

scale Regional War wake up and smell the

missiles the attacks on Israel from Gaza

the attacks on Israel from Lebanon the

attacks from Yemen we are in a regional

War Israel is in a regional

War a war where suffering knows no

bounds the weekend's Focus may have

shifted away from Gaza but the bullets

didn't children families shot us as they

dared to travel North

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and it is in Gaza that 39-year-old Carl

Gat is still being held hostage

kidnapped by Hamas on October the 7th

carel speaks Arabic she's a peaceful

person Shai Dickman is her cousin

worried now that the 133 hostages will

be forgotten if tensions with Iran

escalate further I'm glad that my

government succeeded to defend us from

the attack my cousin was was kidnapped

from her parents' house as long as the

same Terror organization rules and as

long as the facilitations of Terror

still exist then I don't don't I don't

know how I can trust my own

security the Skies over Israel remain

quiet tonight but this environment is

fragile Lucy Watson News at 10 Jerusalem