Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States is focused on de-escalating the tension between Israel and Iran.
Israel reportedly launched a strike that hit a military site in centralovernight early Friday morning. The strike represents a limited response to Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel last week, and it demonstrates Israel’s ability to hit targets within Iran’s borders, which is a development given Israel’s previous hesitation to aim at targets in Iran.
Blinken denied U.S. involvement in the strike early Friday morning, saying, “The United States has not been involved in any offensive operations,” though he did not provide more details. The Biden administration has sought to avoid the Israel-Hamas war expanding into a regional conflict, even as Israel and the U.S. engaged in limited fighting against several other Iranian proxies. Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel prompted Israel’s war in Gaza and set off a series of fights between Israel and the U.S. against Iran’s proxies — Hezbollah in Lebanon, militias in Iraq and Syria, and the Houthis in Yemen.
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