2024-10-27 09:11:00
Iran asserted its right to defend itself after Saturday’s attacks by Israel on its military sites, the latest episode of hostility between the two enemy countries that has sparked calls for restraint in the face of the risk of military escalation in Middle East. After this Israeli attack, Tehran reported “limited damage” and four soldiers killed. Israel then threatened Iran with “paying a high price” if it retaliated.
Information to remember
⇒ We must “neither exaggerate nor minimize” Israel’s attack, assures Ayatollah Khamenei
⇒ New Israeli raid in the southern suburbs of Beirut
⇒ Israeli attacks in Iran: “I hope this is the end,” says Biden
10:00
“Neither exaggerate nor minimize” Israel’s attack, says Ayatollah Khamenei
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei indicated on Sunday, October 27, that Israeli attacks on Iranian military sites should be “neither exaggerated nor minimized” on Friday night. “The damage caused by the Zionist regime two nights ago must be neither exaggerated nor minimized,” Iran’s supreme leader said on the social network X, in his first reaction to the Israeli attack.
09:45
New Israeli raid in the southern suburbs of Beirut
Lebanon’s national news agency Ani reported an Israeli raid on the southern outskirts of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, early Sunday morning. Shortly before, the Israeli army had called on residents of two neighborhoods on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital to evacuate their homes, claiming that there were “Hezbollah-affiliated structures and sites.”
09:30
Israeli attacks in Iran: “I hope this is the end,” says Biden
Joe Biden said on Saturday that he hopes this is “the end”, following airstrikes carried out by Israel on Friday night against military installations in Iran. “I was in the secret service […]. It seems that they (the Israelis) hit nothing but military targets. I hope this is the end,” the US president told reporters.
For his part, Israeli President Isaac Herzog praised the United States, “a true ally,” and the “public and covert” cooperation between the two countries after Israel’s attacks on Iran, he said in a message on X.
08:30
Iran says its determination to defend itself ‘has no limits’
Iran’s determination to defend itself “has no limits”, Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday, after Israeli overnight attacks on military sites in the country. “I think we have shown that there are no limits to our determination to defend ourselves,” Abbas Araghchi said, during an interview on the Iranian Supreme Leader’s website.
08:00
“Catastrophic” situation in the northern Gaza Strip: WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Saturday that the situation is “catastrophic” in the war-torn northern Gaza Strip, with “intensive military operations taking place in and around health establishments”.
“The situation in northern Gaza is catastrophic,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
07:30
The UN chief is “deeply concerned” about the escalation in the Middle East
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply concerned about the continuing escalation in the Middle East” following Israeli attacks in Iran, his spokesman said in a statement on Saturday. “The Secretary-General reiterates as a matter of urgency his appeal to all parties to cease all military actions, including in Gaza and Lebanon, to make all possible efforts to prevent an all-out regional war and to return to the path of diplomacy,” he added.
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