The raid against Hezbollah, the missiles from Iran and the Israeli bombings. Now also a rocket from the Houthis in Yemen. With a truce between Tel Aviv and Tehran still ongoing, it feels like we have gone back months if not years. On June 7, the Middle Eastern front caught fire. The US president attempted to limit the damage by asking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return to the negotiating table, but was ignored.
Israel’s attacks
Already in the morning Israel had been the scene of violence. An Arab-Israeli citizen shot people at a gas station near the town of Koshav Yair. The toll is one dead and five injured. Tel Aviv then struck Beirut’s southern neighborhood of Danyeh, despite Washington’s request not to attack the Lebanese capital.
IDF struck at Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs and released footage of the hit.
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The IDF confirmed that it had hit two “Hezbollah headquarters” apartments. The Israeli military justified the raid as a response to missiles fired by the “party of God” in northern Israel.
The response and the counteroffensive
Tehran, which has always linked the truce to a halt to Israeli operations in Lebanon, then fired about ten missiles at Israel. In response, the Israeli government scrambled its fighter jets to attack Iran. United States President Donald Trump in those hours tried to downplay the Iranian offensive and reportedly asked Benjamin Netanyahu not to respond to the Pasdaran rockets.
“We are close to concluding something positive in terms of an agreement,” the tycoon reportedly told the Israeli prime minister, inviting him not to reply to the offensive. “We think the president has bought himself some time. He’s pretty confident that we’re close to a deal with Iran. I don’t think there’s anything imminent in terms of an Israeli attack,” a US official told Axios.
But that wasn’t the case. Overnight, the IDF confirmed that “the Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terrorist regime in western and central Iran a short while ago”. “Several explosions were heard in Tehran, Tabriz and Isfahan,” Iranian state television wrote on Telegram.
The Houthis and the Kurds
During the night, an operation by the Pasdaran also emerged against the headquarters of Kurdish militias in Iraqi Kurdistan. According to state media reports, the Revolutionary Guards targeted the headquarters of “terrorist groups”.
Meanwhile, another enemy of Israel has taken the field: the Houthis in Yemen. “The Israeli army has identified the launch of a missile from Yemen towards Israeli territory and air defense systems are currently in action to intercept the threat,” read a military statement. The rocket was then intercepted.