Israel vowed Iran “will pay” for its missile attack and an Israeli official told NBC News the country would retaliate swiftly. Tehran urged the U.S. to “step aside” and warned of “a far more crushing response,” as fears grew of all-out war in the Middle East.
The Israeli military announced the deaths of eight soldiers in Lebanon today and said that infantry and armored units would join its invasion of the country’s south targeting Hezbollah. The Iran-backed militant group said this morning that it had repelled Israeli forces from a Lebanese border town.