The United States sends new arms shipments to Israel. This time it concerns anti-missile systems, THAAD, intended to strengthen the protection of the Jewish state against attacks by Iran and groups supported by Tehran in the region.
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The defense system that the Pentagon will send to the Israelis provides protection against short- and medium-range missiles as well as intermediate missiles. For the president Joe Bidenit is “ to protect Israel ” and according to American military officials, this announcement illustrates Washington’s unwavering commitment to the Jewish state.
Around a hundred American soldiers should also be deployed in Israel to operate this THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) battery, specifies our correspondent in New York, Loubna Anaki. The Pentagon specifies that it is not uncommon for troops to be sent there, although usually, it is for routine training and cooperation operations.
No details have been given on the delivery times of these defense systems, but this risks further inflaming tensions. The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs also warned earlier in the day that Washington was endangering American soldiers by “ deploying them to operate US missile systems in Israel “. But Washington believes that this will strengthen Israel’s capabilities after missile attacks carried out by Iran as well as groups supported by Tehran, whether Hezbollah in Lebanon or the Houthis in Yemen.
Iran launched some 180 missiles against Israel on October 1a direct attack on an unprecedented scale that Tehran presented as a response to the assassinations of the leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, an allied armed movement, and a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. No casualties or major damage were reported in this attack. The United States, Israel’s main ally and whose warships helped intercept Iranian missiles, described it as ” ineffective “. Israel promised a response lethal » to the attack of its regional enemy.