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US-Israel Wars, Day 90: Israel Expands Ground Assault Inside Lebanon
UPDATE 0600 GMT:
One Israeli soldier has been killed and two reservists wounded by a Hezbollah explosive drone attack on northern Israel, close to the border with Lebanon.
Two drones exploded in a military zone. One killed Sgt. Rotem Yanai, 20, as she ran to a shelter. The second drone seriously wounded a reservist and moderately injured another.
Israel is carrying out a second day of airstrikes on Tyre in southern Lebanon.
Since midnight, there have been more than a dozen strikes on and near the city. At dawn, at least seven airstrikes occurred within an hour on densely populated neighborhoods.
Rescue operations are ongoing.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Iran has retaliated, attacking an American airbase in Kuwait, after renewed US strikes threatened a seven-week ceasefire in the Trump Administration’s war.
US forces targeted a military facility and downed four Iranian attack drones early Thursday. American officials claimed the drones were a threat around the Iran-controlled Strait of Hormuz. They said a ground control station in the port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, about to launch a fifth drone, was also hit.
“These actions were measured, purely defensive, and intended to maintain the ceasefire,” an official asserted.
Iranian officials said three locations near Bandar Abbas were targeted. They said there were no casualties or damage.
Two hours later, Iranian State broadcaster IRIB said the Revolutionary Guards had targeted a US base in Kuwait “that served as the source of the attack”. Kuwait’s army announced air defenses were intercepting hostile missile and drone threats just before 6 a.m. in Kuwait City.
IRIB also said the Guards intercepted “four vessels [that] attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz and enter the Persian Gulf without coordination with the security forces”, around 12:35 a.m. local time.
Iranian officials said the ships, one of them an American tanker, turned off their radars. Guards forces asked them to identify themselves, but they did not respond or cooperate. The Guards than fired warning shots.
Trump Threatens Iran…and Oman
On Wednesday afternoon, at a photo-opportunity Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump — who had said over the weekend that a framework deal was imminent — again threatened to collapse the ceasefire.
They want very much to make a deal. So far they haven’t gotten there. We’re not satisfied with it, but we will be.
Either that or we’ll have to just finish the job.
Trump also threatened to attack the Gulf State of Oman, which has been in discussions with Iran about a system to oversee the Strait of Hormuz.
Proclaiming that the Strait would be “open to everybody”, Trump snapped, “Oman will behave just like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.”
