THE Washington Post reported Monday October 14 that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have confided to his American ally, Joe Biden, to consider striking the Iranian army, and not Iran’s oil or nuclear infrastructure, in retaliation for the firing of some 200 missiles by Tehran on the Hebrew country. The Israeli Defense Minister had promised a “deadly, precise and surprising” attack against Iran after this second operation of its kind in less than six months.
Information to remember
⇒ Netanyahu told Biden to consider striking Iranian military sites, according to the Washington Post
⇒ The Blue Helmets will keep “all their positions” in Lebanon, says their leader
⇒ Funeral in Iraq of the Iranian general killed by Israel with Nasrallah
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Netanyahu told Biden to consider striking Iranian military sites, according to the Washington Post
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his American ally to consider striking the Iranian army, and not Iran’s oil or nuclear infrastructure, in retaliation for Tehran’s firing of some 200 missiles on Israel, the Israeli Prime Minister said. Washington Post Monday.
According to two officials close to the matter who spoke anonymously to the American daily, the Israeli head of state made this promise to Joe Biden during a telephone interview on Wednesday October 9, the first between the two men in seven weeks. , after months of tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv.
The Israeli retaliatory strike, which will be part of “a series of responses”, must take place ahead of the US presidential election on November 5 and will be calibrated so that it is not perceived as “political interference” against -vis it, according to one of the two sources cited by the Washington Post. Neither neither the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office nor the White House provided any comment, the daily said. “Some analysts, however, believe that Biden should be wary of Netanyahu’s promises,” notes the Wall Street Journal.
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Blue Helmets will keep “all their positions” in Lebanon, says their leader
UN peacekeepers will keep their current positions in Lebanon despite calls from Israel to move at a time when fighting with Hezbollah is intensifying, their leader Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday again demanded that peacekeepers deployed in southern Lebanon withdraw from certain positions near the Israel-Lebanon border, saying it was completely “false” that Israeli forces had targeted UNIFIL, the UN force in Lebanon. Tensions between Israel and UNIFIL have increased in recent days. Five of its soldiers were injured by the Israeli army, which earned Israel strong criticism.
The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom condemned on Monday the “threats” weighing on UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force deployed in southern Lebanon, calling that the attacks targeting her “stop immediately”. “We, the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, express our deep concern following the recent attacks on UNIFIL bases, which left several injured peacekeepers,” the ministers wrote in a joint statement.
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Funeral in Iraq of Iranian general killed by Israel with Nasrallah
A funeral procession took place Monday in the holy Shiite city of Karbala, in central Iraq, in tribute to General Abbas Nilforoushan, killed in Lebanon along with the leader of pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, during an Israeli strike on Beirut at the end of September, noted an AFP photographer.
The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, announced Friday that the body of General Nilforoushan had been found, “after continuous efforts”, at the site of the strike which targeted a Hezbollah stronghold in the suburbs. south of Beirut, September 27. His body was flown Monday from Beirut to Baghdad International Airport, then by ambulance to Karbala.
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Lebanon: ICRC calls for protection of medical personnel
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Monday for the protection of Lebanon’s health system after reports of Israeli strikes hitting medical personnel during fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
“I am making an urgent appeal for the protection of health workers, ambulances, hospitals and primary health centers,” said Nicolas von Arx, ICRC regional director for the Near and Middle East. “Attacks on health facilities are extremely worrying,” he added.