How Israel responds to the barrage stands to push the Middle East closer to a regional war or pull it back from a descent into open warfare with Iran
An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel , as seen from Ashkelon, Israel on April 14. Israel is vowing to strike back at Iran after the unprecedented launch of drones and missiles by Tehran in the early hours of Sunday morning.
After a meeting of Israel’s war cabinet Monday, broadcaster Channel 12 said a decision had been made to respond “clearly and forcefully,” with the intent of setting a line in the sand that the country “will not allow an attack of that magnitude against it to pass without a reaction.” Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said she had told her Israeli counterpart to “please take the win, and make sure that we can work together to bring back peace in the region.”
The U.S. said it used naval destroyers and terrestrial defence systems to shoot down 80 Iranian drones and at least six ballistic missiles. “All of these hits will be corrected in the next few days,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, a military spokesman, said in a briefing from the base.
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