Ben Gurion airport suspends all flights as Israeli airspace closed
The Israeli Airports Authority announced on Saturday the full suspension of flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport and the closure of Israeli airspace due to the current security situation. All flights are canceled until further notice, and aircraft already en route to Israel have been diverted to alternate airports. Passengers affected by cancellations are […]
World responds slowly as US, Israeli attack on Iran unfolds
World leaders responded slowly on Saturday as the US and Israel carried out a joint strike on Iran, and Iran responded, with only a handful of countries reacting to the dramatic events. Hours after the attack began, following multiple missile barrages from Iran fired toward Israel and other locations in the Middle East, a British […]
Iran launches heavy missile barrage across Israel in retaliation for US-Israel attack
Sirens sounded across central Israel on Saturday during an Iranian missile attack on the country, launched in response to the joint Israeli, US preemptive strike earlier that morning. A total of 125 missiles were fired against Israel by Iran during their first barrage, with 35 entering Israeli airspace and the rest being intercepted earlier. As […]
Khamenei cut off from contact, no certainty on fate, Israeli sources say
The Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been cut off from contact, and there is no certainty about his fate, according to Israeli officials who spoke with Walla. Iranian officials promised to release a recording from Khamenei soon. Israeli and US strikes on Iran killed several senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders and Islamic Regime […]
PM: Strikes meant to end ‘existential threat’; time for Iranians to cast off yoke of tyranny
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday issued a video message to the public after Israel and the US launched a wave of strikes against Iran, saying the operation aims “to remove the existential threat” posed by the Islamic Republic, and “create the conditions” for Iranians to change their destiny. “My brothers and sisters, citizens of […]
Some Iranians celebrate Israeli-US strikes as Khamenei said targeted, his palace destroyed
As Israel and the United States launched a massive wave of strikes across Iran on Saturday, the picture of what was happening on the ground in Tehran and other cities was unclear amid a major internet blackout, though videos posted to social media appeared to show some Iranians celebrating as they saw regime targets go […]
1 killed in UAE as Iran targets 5 Arab countries with missiles; Riyadh slams ‘brutal Iranian aggression’
One person was killed Saturday in the United Arab Emirates as Iran targeted five Arab countries in addition to Israel in response to strikes launched by Israel and Iran. Israel and the US launched major joint strikes on Iran on Saturday, with waves of attacks on sites across the Islamic Republic as US President Donald […]