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Iran launches missiles against Israeli territory and alarms sound throughout the country
Iran launched a missile attack against Israeli territory on Tuesday afternoon, confirmed the military spokesman in Arabic, Avichay Adraee, activating anti-aircraft alarms throughout the country.
“Recently, missiles have been launched from Iran towards the State of Israel. They are asked to remain alert and follow precisely the instructions of the Internal Front Command,” the Israeli Army said in a statement.
In Jerusalem, in addition to the sound of the alarms, which continue at this time, it was also possible to see missiles intercepted in the sky and the noise they made when they exploded.
This fulfills the warning that the United States had launched minutes earlier. A US government official warned that Iran would be preparing an imminent attack with ballistic missiles.
“We have indications that Iran is preparing an imminent launch of ballistic missiles against Israel,” he said.
“The United States is actively supporting defense preparations to defend Israel against this attack,” the source told EFE.
“Serious consequences” for Iran in case of attack
Likewise, the White House official warned Iran of “serious consequences if it decides to attack with direct military attack.”
An attack with ballistic missiles would complicate interception by the Israeli anti-aircraft defenses, since the projectiles follow a ballistic trajectory after reaching great heights, sometimes reaching the outermost layers of the atmosphere.
According to a US official told CNN, the US expects the Iranian attack to have a similar scale and objectives to the attack with hundreds of drones and missiles on April 13.
Israel foresaw large-scale attack
The spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagari, had warned that the retaliatory attack with ballistic missiles from Iran could have a “large-scale” character.
“We are following the threat seriously. We ask the public to follow the guidelines of the Interior Front Command. Iran’s fire could be on a large scale,” Hagari said at a press conference, in which he asked the Israelis to take refuge in bunkers in case the anti-aircraft sirens are activated.
Hagari confirmed that the United States had informed Israel that Iran was preparing to attack in the coming hours, after the murder on Friday of the top leader of Hezbulah, Hassan Nasrala.
“We have faced this type of threat before and we will do it now too,” Hagari said in a previous message, which urged the Israelis to act “responsibly as they have done throughout the war” and recalled that air defense systems are prepared.
Iran already attacked Israel in April
This Monday, when Israel began an incursion into southern Lebanon, the United States had not yet detected the movement of military equipment in Iran, although this could change due to the Iranian ability to mobilize quickly, according to US sources told NBC.
This would be Iran’s first attack on Israel since April, when Iran attacked two Israeli air bases on the Negev with missiles and drones and reached points of the occupied territory of the Golan Heights, although Israel, the United States or Arab countries over which they flew managed to intercept most of the Iranian projectiles.
International
María Corina Machado kidnapped and forced to record videos before being released, says opposition
The Venezuela Command, the campaign team of opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, denounced the “kidnapping” and subsequent release of political leader María Corina Machado after she led a protest in Caracas on the eve of the Venezuelan presidential inauguration.
In a post on X, the opposition team stated that the former lawmaker was “intercepted and knocked off the motorcycle she was traveling on” after leading a rally in the Chacao area of the Venezuelan capital.
“Gunshots were fired during the incident. She was forcibly detained. During her kidnapping, she was forced to record several videos, and then she was released,” the statement added, which was made public nearly two hours after Machado’s party, Vente Venezuela, reported that she had been “violently intercepted.”
International
Governor Jenniffer González expresses solidarity with Venezuela’s struggling opposition
Puerto Rico’s Governor Jenniffer González expressed her sorrow over Venezuela’s political crisis on Thursday and voiced her support for Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, just one day before President Nicolás Maduro is set to take office following the controversial July elections.
“I think it is sad that the Venezuelan people have to suffer the consequences of a dictator who came to power by deceiving the people. I recognize Edmundo González for his leadership,” the governor stated during a press conference, coinciding with a day of protests by Venezuela’s opposition.
“The Venezuelan community has my full support, and, as we have done in the past, we will maintain that line of communication with whatever we can collaborate on,” assured the Puerto Rican head of government.
González Urrutia is currently in the Dominican Republic, the last announced stop on his American tour, where he was accompanied by Dominican President Luis Abinader and former Latin American presidents from the Spain and Americas Democratic Initiative (Grupo Idea).
International
Hundreds of venezuelan protesters demand ‘democratic change’ in Rome
Dozens of Venezuelans demonstrated in central Rome on Thursday to show their support for opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia and demand a “democratic change,” on the eve of the presidential inauguration that has deeply divided the country.
The protest took place in the Roman square of Largo Argentina and gathered several members of the Venezuelan diaspora and refugees, who sang their national anthem and displayed signs with the slogan “Glory to the brave people.”
Around 150 participants were present, according to one of the coordinators of the protest, Celeste Puerta from the ‘Aiuto Venezuela’ Civic Movement, who spoke to EFE.
Similar actions have been organized in other Italian cities, including Bologna, Florence, and Milan in the north.
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