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Iran Attacks Israel & Awaiting Purported Israeli Attack on Iran | Reports

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Senior officer: We already know what and where Israel will attack inside Iran:
Moshe Shai, IDF spokesman, Flash 90
The senior officer already knows what and where Israel will attack inside Iran
Around the clock, in front of far and near sectors: "Watching all the moments of combat, there are also difficult moments". Four officers tell how the fighting efforts in Gaza and Lebanon are activated from the pit and how the preparations for attacks in Iran and Yemen proceed: "It is forbidden to react from the stomach, to breathe before acting." Special for N12 magazine: a unique glimpse into the nerve center of the IDF, which has been waging a stubborn war on the house for more than a year, 24/7.
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A few days ago, an unusual "guest" arrived in the village of Mokhibiev in the Marj Eyon area in Lebanon. Major N. went all the way from the pit in Kriya - to where Hezbollah's "pit" is located: she asked to enter the village to see with her own eyes the place from which Hezbollah launched terrorist attacks, the place corresponding to the pit where she has been for many hours and long days since the beginning of the war. N got to see the pit of the Hizballooners from the inside - before the IDF blew it up and destroyed it.

For N. this was no less than closing a circle: as the head of the northern section of the IDF's operations wing, she is responsible for everything the IDF does in Lebanon - in the range close to the border, in ground maneuvers and attacks deep in Lebanon. Every day it synchronizes, together with the Northern Command, all the military operations on this front: attacks, maneuvering inside Lebanon and defense efforts on the home front. "It's a crazy experience when we lead preparations for a maneuver," she says excitedly.
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"We are part of the fighting, watching all the moments of the fighting through the screens and communication networks. That is why there are also difficult moments - we are facing challenges that the army is facing for the first time both in scope and in dealing with it," she emphasizes. "You need to know how to make good recommendations after examining all the meanings, understand the area and understand the citizens." Before each action, she takes care of the variety of considerations - how to place before the decision makers all the information so that they know how to lead and decide, and also what will be told to the public in Israel about the actions.
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הקצין הבכיר שכבר יודע מה ואיפה ישראל תתקוף בתוך איראן

4 קצינים מספרים איך מפעילים מהבור את מאמצי הלחימה בעזה ובלבנון ואיך מתנהלת ההיערכות לתקיפות באיראן. הצצה אל מרכז העצבים של צה"ל, שמנהל כבר יותר משנה את המלחמה
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He's quoting this source. 👆 Not sure why so many OSINT accounts cannot post their sources. 🙄
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Syrian News Agency: A syrian soldier was killed and seven others were wounded in Israeli airstrikes early this morning.

The report says two sites were struck in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood of the capital Damascus, and another military site was hit in the Homs area.

The strikes also caused "material damage," SANA adds.
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Israel's retaliatory strike on Iran delayed due to Pentagon document leak, report says:
According to British daily The Times, leak forced Israel to revise plans and develop alternative strategy; 'There will be a retaliation, but it has taken longer than it was supposed to take,' intelligence source says
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Israel’s planned retaliatory strike on Iran has been delayed due to the leak of classified Pentagon documents detailing the specifics of the operation, British daily The Times reported on Thursday, citing an intelligence source familiar with Israel’s preparations.
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Israel's retaliatory strike on Iran delayed due to Pentagon document leak, report says

According to British daily The Times, leak forced Israel to revise plans and develop alternative strategy; 'There will be a retaliation, but it has taken longer than it was supposed to take,' intelligence source says
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British Airways suspends all Israel flights until March 2025 amid escalation fears:
British Airways announced on Monday that it is suspending its flights to Tel Aviv until the end of March next year, amid heightened fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and as tensions rise in the Middle East.

“This will give greater certainty to our customers who we’re contacting to advise them of their options, including a full refund,” a spokesperson for British Airways said in an emailed statement.

The UK flag carrier joins an array of foreign airlines that have recently extended their flight cancellations to Israel. Last week, low-cost airline Wizz Air nixed all its flights to and from Israel until January 15 and Delta Airlines said it was extending its cancellation of all routes to Israel through at least the end of March.
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Foreign airlines have repeatedly canceled their flights to and from Israel in the past year amid the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, tensions with Hezbollah and two missile attacks on Israel by Iran in April and October.

The cancellations have been especially common in recent months, as Israel escalated its response to Hezbollah’s near-daily rocket and drone attacks — including on central Israel — and came under the second attack from Iran, in which the Islamic Republic launched some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, forcing it to close its airspace for a couple of hours.
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Russia Provided Targeting Data for Houthi Assault on Global Shipping:
Russia provided targeting data for Yemen’s Houthi rebels as they attacked Western ships in the Red Sea with missiles and drones earlier this year, helping the Iranian-backed group assault a major artery for global trade and further destabilizing the region.
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The Houthis, which began their attacks late last year over the Gaza war, eventually began using Russian satellite data as they expanded their strikes, said a person familiar with the matter and two European defense officials. The data was passed through members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who were embedded with the Houthis in Yemen, one of the people said.
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The assistance, which hasn’t been previously reported, shows how far Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to go to undermine the U.S.-led Western economic and political order. Russia, in this case, supported the Iran-backed Houthis, which the U.S. designates as a terrorist group, as they carried out a series of attacks in one of the world’s most heavily traveled shipping routes.
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More broadly, Russia has sought to stoke instability from the Middle East to Asia to create problems for the U.S., analysts say. The widening conflict in the Middle East, triggered by last year’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, has absorbed resources and attention at a time when Washington has sought to focus on the threats from Russia and China
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How Hezbollah is hitting back after being pummelled by Israel
After suffering a series of punishing blows by Israel, Hezbollah is fighting back, launching ambushes on Israeli troops in Lebanon and ratcheting up drone and missile strikes deeper into Israel.
The attacks show that Hezbollah, though weakened by Israeli strikes that have killed a generation of its top leaders and destroyed some of its weapons, is still capable of turning Lebanon’s deadliest conflict in decades into a long grind for Israel.
 
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Iranian officials: If Israel's attack is limited to military bases, missile warehouses and drones, we will not respond.
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These officials reported that Khamenei had issued clear instructions that if Israel launched attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure or nuclear facilities, or if it assassinated senior officials in the Iranian regime, Tehran’s response to those attacks would be inevitable.
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Lebanon's eastern border crossings with Syria shut after Israeli strike, Lebanese minister says:
Lebanon's two eastern border crossings with Syria are now shut, Lebanon's transport minister Ali Hamieh said on Friday, after an Israeli strike early on Friday morning on the Syrian side of the Al-Qaa border crossing.
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Hamieh told Reuters the dawn air strike hit within Syria and said the crossing was now unusable. Strikes earlier this month put the main Masnaa crossing out of service, leaving Lebanon's northern border crossing as the only open route into Syria.
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Lebanon's eastern border crossings with Syria shut after Israeli strike, Lebanese minister says

Lebanon's two eastern border crossings with Syria are now shut, Lebanon's transport minister Ali Hamieh said o
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The Israeli army has dug a trench at least 7 kilometers long along the border between the Golan Heights and southern Syria:
The Israeli military appears to have dug a trench at least 7km long tracking the border between the Israel-occupied Golan Heights and southern Syria since mid-August, satellite imagery shows.

Iran-backed militias including Hizbollah are present in southern Syria, creating another potential front as Israel fights in Gaza and Lebanon.

Israel’s defensive reinforcements come as it prepares to see off any potential threats from civil war-torn Syria after expanding its offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon. Israel is also preparing to retaliate against Iran’s ballistic missile bombardment earlier this month.

Geir Pedersen, the UN special envoy for Syria, told the UN in New York that the regional peacekeeping body, the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), had seen “construction activity” by the Israeli military near the demilitarised so-called area of separation.

“In the Golan, some construction activity has been carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in the vicinity of the area of separation,” Pedersen said on Wednesday. “During this activity, UNDOF observed an Israeli battle tank and excavators cross the ceasefire line into the area of separation.”

Pedersen did not specify exactly where the diggers had been seen.
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Another person with direct knowledge said the UN peacekeepers had noticed Israel strengthening its defensive positions in the occupied Golan. Three UNDOF positions are located less than 1.5km from part of the freshly dug earthworks. UNDOF, which is tasked with monitoring the border area, did not respond to a request for comment.

“It appears that Israel has reinforced its defences along its frontline with southern Syria,” said Haid Haid, a consulting fellow with London-based Chatham House.

A Financial Times analysis of satellite imagery found the trench was 20 metres wide in places. At the earthwork’s northern end, tracks or markings stray across the border into Syrian territory.


Israel has occupied the Golan Heights since capturing it from Syria during the 1967 Six Day war between Israel and several Arab states. Fourteen years later, Israel annexed more than 1,000 sq km, although its claim to sovereignty over the area is not recognised by most of the international community.

Israel has long targeted Iran-backed groups in Syria, including Hizbollah, fearing they would use the shattered country as a staging post to launch attacks on the Jewish state.

With Israel on the offensive against Hamas and Hizbollah, escalation in Syria would pose a fresh risk to Bashar al-Assad’s embattled regime, whose rule is buttressed by Russian military advisers and air power, Iran and Iran-backed militants.
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Charles Lister, director of the Syria and countering terrorism and extremism programmes at the Middle East Institute in Washington, said concerns had grown “that despite the fact that until now Bashar appears determined to keep the Syrian state out of direct involvement in regional hostilities, that may not be possible to sustain forever”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “may actually choose to involve Syria more directly . . . almost forcing Syria to become part of the equation, in which case defensive lines on the Golan will be vitally important”, added Lister.

Asked about Israel’s operations and objectives in Syria, an Israeli military official said: “Assad should choose sides.”

The burnt-out remains of a vehicle targeted in an air strike in the Mazzeh area of Damascus on Monday © STR/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
With the Syrian army hollowed out after 13 years of brutal civil war, and the country in a continuing economic crisis, analysts assess that Assad — with stretched military resources — would prefer to avoid inviting severe Israeli retribution.

But Syria is already under fire. According to Pedersen, the Syrian government says Israeli raids have killed more than 100 people in at least 116 air strikes since October 7 last year, when Hamas triggered the Gaza war with a devastating attack on Israel.

These include a spate of Israeli air strikes in the upmarket Mazzeh area of Damascus in recent weeks. Syrian state media reported Israeli strikes on Wednesday night in a residential area of Damascus, and a military site in Homs.

“Unquestionably, the intensity of Israel’s actions has surged in recent months,” said Lister.

Israel rarely comments on its actions in Syria, and its military did not respond to comment requests on its defensive build-up in the Golan.

Southwestern Syria, which abuts the occupied Golan and where the country’s minority Druze sect is concentrated, has a complex security landscape. Previously a hotbed of opposition to the Assad regime, Russian and regime forces have sought to pacify the region with a reconciliation deal. But organised crime has proliferated and individual warlords have become powerful, destabilising the area.

Israel will be most concerned about the local factions linked to Iran. “Many of these groups, particularly in [the area of] al-Quneitra, are aligned with Iran and Hizbollah,” said Haid. “This affiliation has allowed Iran to sustain its influence in the region, even with a limited direct presence.”

Hizbollah has been able “to mobilise its allies to launch attacks against Israel from Syrian territory, despite the Syrian regime’s efforts to avoid entangling the country in the axis of resistance’s skirmishes with Israel”, said Haid.

However, Russian and Syrian regime forces have this week conducted military exercises on the Golan Heights border, according to London-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has noted Russian military observation posts and patrols being set up in southwestern Syria in recent weeks.
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Satellite images show Israel bolstering defences on Syria border

Digging of new trench in Israel-occupied Golan Heights comes as IDF prepares against potential threats from war-torn neighbour
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