425
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting.

Air attack warning sirens began wailing over Jerusalem just before 2am local time on Sunday after the weapons were fired a few hours earlier from Iran with US and Jordanian military assisting Israel’s air defenses in intercepting the first incoming barrage.

With weapons believed to be still in the air en route to Israel, Iran’s mission to the United Nations posted on X: “Iran’s military action was in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus. The matter can be deemed concluded.”

However, it threatened more severe action in the face of further Israeli aggression and warned the US and Jordan specifically not to assist Israel.

MBFC
Archive

Edit: here are links to the NYT and BBC live feeds.

Edit 2: updated summary and archive to reflect article changes.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 60 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wasn't Hamas created in response to Israeli aggression?

Not defending Hamas, but they don't exist in a vacuum.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

The Israeli far-right gained power in part due to Hamas, PLO and Hezbollah attacks.

It's an endless spiral of violence, reprisal and even more violence.

[-] MxM111@kbin.social -4 points 6 months ago

The goal of Hamas is not “to stop aggression” but to destroy Israel. So it was formed as response to Israel existence, to which many Muslims never agreed.

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Israel is born out of aggression

[-] MxM111@kbin.social -2 points 6 months ago

Nonsense. It was born according to UN resolution (and League of Nations resolution as well). And since then the aggression was directed against Israel with multiple wars initiated by those who did not want to agree with the resolutions. If it were not for those wars many Arab/Muslim lives would be saved and there would not be a situation we are today. The situation with Palestine today is direct consequence of all that history because how Israel can trust an independent Palestine when Gaza ruling party has destruction of Israel as one of the main principle. The same principle that you seem to support by the way, thus supporting the cycle of violence with no prospects of peace.

this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
425 points (98.2% liked)

World News

38810 readers
2898 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS