UPDATE: Iran responds to Trump with waves of missiles against Israel in the midst of the Jewish Passover celebration | International
Sources confirm that the following story has emerged from the international scene.
Silence and emptiness have marked this Thursday the celebration of Jewish Passover in Jerusalem, a holiday of family gathering like Christian Christmas. Only the extreme emergency alerts that made cell phones roar in response to the firing of waves of Iranian missiles towards Israel disturbed the night of Judaism’s most sacred dinner on Wednesday with races towards the bomb shelters. Iran has responded with a display of force to the speech in which hours earlier the president of the United States, Donald Trump, had assured that Tehran’s military capabilities have been “decimated” in more than a month of war. In support of its ally, the Shiite militia Hezbollah has joined the Iranian offensive by launching rockets into the north of the Jewish State. Under military censorship, Israel reports some minor injuries, while ensuring that its defense systems have been deployed to “intercept threats.” A spokesman for the Iranian armed forces limited itself to reporting that its enemies’ assessments of its country’s military capabilities are “incomplete,” and announced that military actions will be intensified with “more forceful, broader and destructive” attacks until the United States and Israel assume “permanent repentance.” This Thursday, several people inspect the damage caused to a McDonald’s store in the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona by a projectile launched from Lebanon. ATEF SAFADI (EFE) This same Thursday, Iran executed the protester from the January protests Amirhossein Hatami, the ninth political detainee to whom the death penalty is applied, reports Ali Falahi. Hatami was accused of “attacking a military center in Tehran”, the Basij Kaveh base. No details have been released about the charges, the court process or the defendant’s access to legal services. The speed of the process and other irregularities have reinforced suspicion that the executions are being used as a tool of public intimidation. The Iranian regime has also detained Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist, as reported by her family on social media. Sotoudeh was arrested on Wednesday at her home in Tehran without the charges against her having been reported so far. In a recent interview he stated that the Iranian capital “is abandoned”, without shelters and without alarms sounding in case of attack. Shortly before sunset, the sirens of the anti-bombing alert alarms wailed again in Jerusalem. In the war of communications that arises after the shooting, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hezbollah and its leader, Naim Qassem, that they “will pay a very high price” for attacking northern Israel with a barrage of 100 projectiles in the middle of the Jewish Passover celebration. Late at night, the Israeli armed forces confirmed the launch from Yemen of a missile fired by the militias of the Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, who already joined the conflict in a first attack against Israel last week. Israel claims to have hit more than 50 targets of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard ballistic missile system since Wednesday afternoon. The Israeli army has reported that the air force attacked the “central headquarters” and financial headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Tehran on Wednesday night. Those who have paid the price for the war tension have been the Palestinian citizens of Jerusalem, a third of the city’s million inhabitants, who were prevented from accessing the walled area of the Old City, with the sole exception of the few residents it still houses. Without Christian pilgrims in the middle of Holy Thursday and with businesses closed, the image that could be seen from the Damascus Gate was an epitome of desolation. The border police patrol that controlled access also closed the way to the few foreigners who tried to approach the holy places, except for the Jews who headed towards the Western Wall through the Muslim quarter. Violation of the Geneva ConventionIran has also denounced that the Pasteur Institute in Tehran has been hit in attacks by the United States and Israel, in an action that it has described as a violation of the Geneva Convention. “The aggression against this centuries-old pillar of global health, a member of the International Pasteur Network, constitutes a direct attack on international health security,” a spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Health stated in To Trump’s message of ending the conflict “in two or three weeks”, the Tehran regime and its allies have responded with volleys of projectiles. The price of a barrel of oil skyrockets and the world economy is weakened by the closure of the strategic Strait of Hormuz to navigation and the attacks on producing countries in the Gulf that host US military installations. An Iranian source cited by Reuters said that Tehran demands a ceasefire with guarantees before ending its military actions. For now, Pakistani mediators are not reporting on new indirect negotiations between the parties. Hormuz passage protocolFrench President Emmanuel Macron has stated that it is unrealistic to launch a military operation to force the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, after President Trump urged US allies to work to reopen it. “Some defend the idea of liberating the Strait of Hormuz by force through a military operation,” Macron told reporters during a trip to South Korea, quoted by Reuters. “But [sin un alto el fuego previo] “It would take a long time and would expose everyone who transits through the strait,” he warned. Iran and Oman, which control both banks of Hormuz, are finalizing a passage protocol for navigation through the strait. Ships transiting through its waters must have permits from both coastal states obtained in advance, according to Efe, and tanker traffic through the key route for oil transportation will be “supervised and coordinated.” The vice minister The Iranian Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, has assured that this will not imply “restrictions, but will serve to guarantee safe passage and provide better services to ships.” Meanwhile, the tension threatens to spread to other countries in the region. The United States Embassy in Iraq has warned through its X account that there is a risk of attacks by militias aligned with Iran in the next “24 or 48 hours,” reports Natalia Sancha. “They could target American citizens. companies, universities, diplomatic facilities, energy infrastructure, hotels, airports and other places considered linked to the United States,” details the statement, in which American citizens are asked to leave Iraq “immediately.”
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