Iran launched its first full-scale military attack against Israel on Saturday, sending drones toward Israel
. Iran’s state-run media reported that dozens of drones had been fired. The Israeli army’s spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said it would take several hours for the attack aircraft to arrive and that the country was prepared. Iran had been threatening to attack Israel after an airstrike earlier this week widely blamed on Israel destroyed Iran’s consulate in Syria, killing 12 people, including two elite Iranian generals.
Israel says it has closed its airspace after Iran launched dozens of drones against it late Saturday. Israeli aviation authorities said they were closing the country’s airspace to all flights as of 12:30 a.m. local time . The attack late Saturday marked the first time Iran had ever launched a full-scale military assault on Israel, despite decades of enmity dating back to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran has a vast arsenal of drones and missiles. Tehran’s choice of the Shahed-136 drones both give Israel and its allies hours to shoot down the bomb-carrying drones. For the time being, it does not appear Iran has used any of its ballistic missiles in the attack, which would pose a greater risk to Israel.
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