Even as the US and Russia are scrambling to contain the conflict in various ways, Israelis, after a few days of catastrophizing, are continuing to go on with their lives.
International actors are encouraging restraint from both Israel and Iran, but some in Israel say that escalation has become inevitable.
Israelis continued their beach day only hours after a Houthi attack, highlighting the strange paradigm Israelis find themselves living in.
CDU foreign policy expert Roderich Kiesewetter told Spiegel that Germany should offer Israel military support to defend against Iran's attacks.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday that revenge will be “severe and at an appropriate time, place, and manner,” blaming the “terrorist Zionist regime” for Haniyeh’s death.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said Tehran’s revenge will be “severe and at the appropriate time, place and manner.”
Iran reportedly plans to attack Israel on the day of Tisha B'Av, when Jews mourn the loss of the first and second Temples.
John Healey arrived as Israel was braced for a direct attack from Iran and its proxy group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that Iran's mass aerial attack on Israel was part of the Islamic Republic's "right to legitimate defense."
Abdollahian said that the only reason that Iran had not successfully hit Haifa, Tel Aviv or any major port was because Iran’s “red lines [were] civilians…We only had a military purpose.”