{"id":38699,"date":"2024-04-14T04:52:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38699"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:52:43","slug":"iran-launches-retaliatory-attack-on-israel-with-hundreds-of-drones-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38699","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches retaliatory attack on Israel with hundreds of drones, missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ERUSALEM\/DUBAI, April 13 &#8211; Iran launched explosive drones and fired missiles at Israel late on Saturday in its first direct attack on Israeli territory, a retaliatory strike that raised the threat of a wider regional conflict, as the U.S pledged &#8220;ironclad&#8221; backing for Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sirens wailed and Reuters journalists in Israel heard distant heavy thuds and bangs from what local media called aerial interceptions of explosive drones. Authorities said a 7-year-old girl was critically injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/person\/joe-biden\/\">Joe Biden<\/a>, who spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he would convene a meeting of leaders of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-return-washington-amid-iran-threats-against-israel-2024-04-13\/\">Group of Seven<\/a> major economies on Sunday to coordinate a diplomatic response to what he called Iran&#8217;s brazen attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six months into an Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza and amid growing risks of a greater regional war, Axios quoted a senior White House official as saying Biden also told Netanyahu the U.S. would oppose any Israeli counterattack against Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/un-security-council-aims-meet-sunday-iran-attack-after-israel-request-diplomat-2024-04-14\/\">U.N. Security Council<\/a> was set to meet at 4 p.m. ET (2000 GMT) on Sunday after Israel requested it condemn Iran&#8217;s attack and designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, according to a schedule released late on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said Iran launched dozens of ground-to-ground missiles at Israel, most of them intercepted outside Israeli borders. They included more than 10 cruise missiles, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: ERUSALEM\/DUBAI, April 13 &#8211; Iran launched explosive drones and fired missiles at Israel late on Saturday in its first direct attack on Israeli territory, a retaliatory strike that raised the threat of a wider regional conflict, as the U.S pledged &#8220;ironclad&#8221; backing for Israel. Sirens wailed and Reuters journalists in Israel heard distant heavy thuds and bangs from what local media called aerial interceptions of explosive drones. Authorities said a 7-year-old girl was critically injured. U.S. President Joe Biden, who spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he would convene a meeting of leaders of the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38701,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38699\/revisions\/38701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}