“Iran plans to attack in cooperation with Hezbollah » – According to the media, Western intelligence agencies have evidence of Iran's plans
On the holy day of Tisha B'Av, Iran plans to launch an attack on Israel, according to information they have gathered by the Western secret services and broadcast by the Israeli media.
According to information reportedly available to Western intelligence agencies, Iran's attack, in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Iraqi soil, will begin on the Jewish holy day, which begins on August 12 and ends on August 13.
Ismail Haniya was killed when a bomb hidden for almost two months in the residence where he lived was detonated
According to Sky News Arabia, Western intelligence has evidence of Iran's plans. According to the plan, Iran will attack in cooperation with Hezbollah, from the territory of Lebanon.
Already at Haniya's funeral, in Doha, Qatar, the threats against Israel peaked, with its leader Hezbollah, Nasrallah, to directly threaten Israel with destruction, while Iran's religious leader, Ali Khamenei, on the same wavelength, promises reaction and retaliation.
The head of the Israeli army, Herzi Halevi, for his part, said on Thursday that “anyone who attacks or threatens the citizens of Israel, or attacks Israel, we are ready, no matter how far, to find them and kill them.”
Tehran and its allies plot retaliation
Ismail Haniya was killed the day before Wednesday, in an “airstrike”, according to Hamas and Iranian media, in a building for war veterans in northern Tehran, a few hours after attending the swearing-in ceremony of Iran's new president Massoud Pezeskian.
Iran, Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah blamed Israel for Haniya's murder. The Israeli armed forces said for their part that the “single” extraterritorial strike they carried out last night was the one that killed Fouad Shukr, a top Hezbollah official, in a southern suburb of Beirut.
A New York Times report, citing five Middle Eastern officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ismail Haniya was killed when a bomb that had been hidden for nearly two months in the residence where he lived, although the building is in theory heavily guarded by the Revolutionary Guards, as it is part of their huge complex in a wealthy district in the northern part of the Iranian capital.
Retaliation 'inevitable'
Declaring that retaliation for the Haniya assassination is 'inevitable' “, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that “Israel does not know what red lines it crossed” during Fuad Shukr's funeral.
In the evening, the movement announced that it had fired dozens of rockets Katyusha against northern Israel.
Iran-backed Hezbollah – an ally of Hamas – has been exchanging fire daily with the Israeli army on the Lebanese-Israeli border since the day after the war broke out in the Gaza Strip, with triggering the Palestinian movement's unprecedented incursion into southern Israel on October 7.
