US forces shoot down Iranian drones targeting Israel

US forces in the Middle East continue to shoot down unmanned aircraft launched against Israel by Iran, a US defense official said this Saturday.

“US forces in the region continue to shoot down drones launched by Iran against Israel,” the official said. “Our forces remain positioned to provide additional defensive support and protect US forces operating in the region,” he concluded.

Iran launched an attack with drones and missiles against Israel this Saturday, marking an escalation of unpredictable consequences in a region already shaken by more than six months of war between the Jewish State and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

This is the first direct attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the territory of Israel, its archenemy.

In parallel, Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, both allies of Iran, carried out their own attacks against Israel. The first fired rockets against the Golan, occupied by Israel, and the second launched drones towards Israeli territory.

For its part, the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, announced that they had also launched missiles against Israel as part of this operation in retaliation for the bombing of their consulate in Damascus on April 1, in which two of them died. his generals and which he attributed to Israel.

The Iranian attack was launched “in response to the numerous crimes committed by the Zionist regime, including the attack on the consular section of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus and the martyrdom of a group of commanders and military advisors of our country in Syria,” Iranian state television reported, citing the Guardians’ public relations department.

Immediately after the start of Iran’s retaliation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his war cabinet in a bunkered room at a secret location.

The United States, Israel’s main ally, indicated that it “will support the people of Israel,” after announcing on Friday the sending of military reinforcements to the region.

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