Top Israeli diplomat at UN warns his country’s retaliation for Iranian missile attack will be heavier than Tehran ‘could ever have imagined’
Joe Biden has said he would not support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites, as the US sought to temper Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack on Tuesday and contain a rapidly escalating regional conflict.
As Israel contemplated opening a fourth front with its regional enemies, eight Israeli soldiers were confirmed killed and a significant number wounded in three clashes withLate on Wednesday, powerful explosions were again heard in southern and central Beirut, as Lebanese authorities said that 46 people had been killed and 85 injured in Israeli attacks on the city in the previous 24 hours.
But the Biden administration fears that a major Israeli response, particularly one targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, could trigger further escalation that could ultimately draw in US forces, and potentially lead to an Iranian decision to try to build nuclear weapons., and the sole fatality was a Palestinian killed by falling debris on the West Bank.
Most of the Israeli casualties on Wednesday came from a commando brigade involved in a confrontation with the Shia militia just over the border from the Israeli community of Misgav, while two soldiers from the Golani Brigade were killed in a separate incident in Maroun-el-Ras district in southern Lebanon.
The UN security council convened on Wednesday to discuss the worsening conflict, with the secretary-general, António Guterres, warning that “time is running is out” and that the “deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence must stop”.
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