Almost 4 months after Iran launched missiles towards Israel in an unprecedented motion on April 13, Jerusalem and Washington are bracing for one more weekend assault by Tehran and its allies in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh earlier this week.
America has already begun deploying extra warships and fighter jets within the Center East to guard American personnel and defend Israel, the Wall Road Journal reported.
In line with the report, the Biden administration is satisfied that Iran will assault Israel this weekend. America fears that the assault may very well be broader and extra advanced than the one on April 13, which was a retaliation for an airstrike in Syria that killed a prime Iranian basic.
To make issues worse, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah additionally vowed to reply to the Israeli airstrike in Beirut earlier this week that killed commander Fuad Shukr.
The April assault was in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike on an Iranian consulate in Damascus that killed seven folks, together with a senior commander.
On the time, Israel obtained help from a number of Arab international locations, together with Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which helped shoot down Iranian and Houthi drones. Additionally they allowed the US and Israel to make use of their airspace to intercept missiles.
Nonetheless, this time round, the US feels it may be troublesome to obtain the identical degree of cooperation as a result of killing of Haniyeh, which has drawn harsh condemnation throughout the Center East area, in line with a report by Axios.