Gaza - Damascus - Isfahan: Agencies
Israeli security and government sources told the Jerusalem Post that Israel launched the attack on Iran on Friday, but would not claim responsibility for it “for strategic reasons,” according to the Al-Sharq news website.
The Israeli newspaper quoted officials, whose identities were not revealed, saying, “Israel responded to those who attacked it.”
Former CIA Director John Brennan said that the city of Isfahan, in central Iran, is a “target-rich environment,” noting that it includes an air base, a missile production facility and other areas that may be of interest.
He added in statements to MSNBC, “Intelligence agencies will try to determine the scope of the damage caused by the Israeli strike, and whether there are casualties in a way that increases pressure on Iran to respond.”
“The amount of damage done inside Iran will determine many things,” explained Brennan, who headed the agency between 2013 and 2017.
Iran has confirmed that its nuclear facilities near Isfahan are completely safe.
Iran also announced - according to the American Al-Hurra channel on Friday - that it shot down marches and that there is no missile attack currently.
ABC News, quoting an American official, confirmed that Israeli missiles targeted a site in Isfahan in central Iran, coinciding with the sound of explosions being heard in both Syria and Iraq.
The American ABC channel, citing American officials, reported that Israeli missiles targeted a site in Iran. These officials were unable to confirm reports of attacks on Iraq and Syria.
Meanwhile, a Syrian military source announced that Israel launched a missile attack targeting air defense sites in the southern region of Syria, indicating material losses.
The source said, on the Syrian Ministry of Defense’s Facebook page: “At approximately 2:55 am today (Friday), the Israeli enemy launched an attack with missiles from the direction of northern occupied Palestine, targeting our air defense sites in the southern region, which led to losses.” "Material."
On the other hand, at least four Palestinians were martyred, and others were injured, in a raid launched by Israeli occupation aircraft on a house in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City.
Medical and civil defense sources said that the occupation warplanes bombed another house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City. This led to injuries, and the injured were transferred to the Arab National Hospital “Al-Baptist” in the city.
She indicated that ambulance and rescue crews were able to recover the bodies of two martyrs, after the occupation aircraft targeted a house for the Qashlan family in the new camp in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, and they were transferred to Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.
In an infinite toll, the number of martyrs as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October reached 33,970 martyrs, the majority of whom were children and women, in addition to 76,770 injured, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.