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Iran on Saturday night launched a large wave of attack drones from its territory toward the Jewish state, in the first-ever direct attack on Israel by the Islamic Republic, with warning sirens activated in Israeli communities throughout the country early Sunday as the military worked to intercept the Iranian aircraft.

Footage of the Iranian attack over Jerusalem's Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Netanyahu wants conflict with Iran, it distracts from both the genocide he's perpetrating and the spectacular intelligence failure of his administration that allowed the initial Hamas attack in the first place. This is why Netanyahu attacked Iranian ~~military~~ assets first. He deliberately provoked this.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He attacked Iranian civilian assets - it was a consulate.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Out of the 16 casualties, 2 were civilian. Seems like it was targeting military personnel.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A consulate is not a military installation by design. It is a diplomatic building, and considered sovereign ground of the represented nation state. Israel quite literally attacked Iran's territory first.

It should also be noted that while it's widely known Israel carried out the attack, they have not confirmed or denied it.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is an interesting attack from an economic standpoint. While the cruise and ballistic missiles were worth the cost of interception, the shahed drones cost much, much less than the cost if intercepting (a fact frustrated Ukrainian air defense could talk all day about). Since about the 1990’s we’ve been in a situation where often the missile costs less than the enemy aircraft intercepted… but the cost of the missile va the drone cost has created a huge economic disparity in war. You have to pay the price to prevent death and damage, but a drone can now bleed a country in the pocket book without killing a person.

When viewed from this perspective, the iranian attack takes a new light. Sure, they announced the attack, and then made it, and the weapons were mostly downed. But at the end of the day, israel will spend 5:1 (at least) for the victory. A few weeks of this, and israel would run out of interceptor rounds and be taking serious hits… the answer to which, is… pay millions and millions to avoid this possibility, by overstocking interceptor missiles.

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hamas and Hezbollah have been launching near daily rocket attacks on civilian targets for over 6 months now. This attack is larger than the usual daily salvos, but still smaller than what Hamas launched on the first day.

It will be incredibly interesting to see if they continue to launch rockets after Iron Beam is deployed operationally with a marginal cost of interception far lower than the cost of a rocket or drone.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

there are more answers to this. just to name a few:

  • infiltrate the attacking country and replace leaders with friendly puppets
  • diplomacy
  • nuke the shit out of the attacking country

the economic imbalance just forces the other side to act more quickly

[–] Wilshire@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en/31824

Iran has officially declared the start of the attack on Israel. "The evil regime will be punished," its leader said.

Iran, the Houthis from Yemen, Syria, Hezbollah are performing massive strikes on Israel with drones and missiles. Over 200 combat drones and missiles are in the air - media.

Iran's defense minister: "We will also perform a strike on those who open their airspace or territory to Israel to attack Iran."


https://t.me/combatfootageua/15045


https://t.me/yigal_levin/65257

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Fire, meet gas

[–] MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

clips look like they're all getting shot down?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

99% according to IDF