Israel’s PM has also vowed retaliation, saying Homeland “will pay” for its actions.
“Iran made a big mistake tonight – and it will pay for it,” Benjamin Netanyahu said at the outset of a political-security meeting.
“The regime in Iran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and our determination to retaliate against our enemies.
“We will adhere to the principle we have set: Whoever attacks us, we will attack them. This is true in every region we fight the axis of evil and it is true for Iran as well.”Analysts have been warning for months that the failure of the Biden’s administration to pressure Netanyahu’s government to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza would push the Middle East into a regional war.
“A regional war becomes inevitable when the US continues to fund and aid Netanyahu and all of his war crimes, his genocide, his attacks on all of his neighbours,” Raed Jarrar, advocacy director at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a think tank in Washington, DC told Al Jazeera.
“This will not stop without the US putting its foot down and saying ‘we will not send more weapons to Israel, we will not fund and aid Israeli crimes’,” Jarrar said.
Read more about how the US has responded to the latest strike here.