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...The Damascus consulate attack marked a significant escalation of the hostilities that have engulfed the Middle East since the war between Hamas and Israel erupted in October....
...Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security....
...The leader of Lebanon’s Hizbollah militant group said that the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus this week widely blamed on Israel marked a “turning point” and vowed that Iran’s response would...
...Shortly after 11pm, Israel confirmed that Iran had launched its barrage, and just before 2am sirens went off in Jerusalem, across southern and northern Israel and in the Golan Heights....
...Tehran launched the attack on Saturday night in retaliation for an Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus this month that killed several senior Iranian commanders....
...As western countries stepped up efforts to dissuade the Jewish state from striking back, Lord David Cameron emerged from meetings in Jerusalem to say the “situation is very concerning”....
...Israel’s presumed strike on an Iranian consulate in Damascus this month and Iran’s retaliation on Saturday have overturned the policy of avoiding direct confrontation that guided the two countries’ shadow...
...Indeed, Iran launched the weekend assault after a suspected Israeli strike on its Damascus consulate this month killed several senior Revolutionary Guard commanders — an attack it called a violation of its...
...Israel has refrained from an immediate retaliation against Iran, whose strike on the Jewish state came in response to a suspected Israeli air strike on its consulate building in Damascus earlier this month...
...He also said Israel was prepared for any retaliation against it by Tehran for the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus last week....
...General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, said that by targeting the Iranian consulate in Damascus in an attack on April 1, Israel had “crossed a red line that was unbearable”...
...Additional reporting by Neri Zilber in Tel Aviv and James Shotter in Jerusalem...
...The US has asked China and other countries, including Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to urge Tehran not to launch a retaliatory attack on Israel for its air strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria....
...The Islamic regime launched its barrage in retaliation for the suspected Israeli strike this month at its consulate in Syria, which killed several senior members of the elite Revolutionary Guard....
...Additional reporting by Malaika Kanaaneh Tapper in Beirut, Felicia Schwartz in Washington and Guy Chazan in Jerusalem...
...In the week since Iran launched its barrage — in retaliation for an attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus which killed several senior Iranian commanders — Netanyahu has been under pressure from hardliners...
...He sounded an equally defiant note about Iran — eight days after a suspected Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate building in Damascus....
...His remarks come amid a large deployment of Israeli troops at the Gaza border and a build-up of U.S. military assets in the region, as Washington seeks to deter Iran and its regional allies from attacking...
...He’s covering Jerusalem for the FT right now. Thanks, John. John Reed Thanks, Marc. [MUSIC PLAYING] Marc Filippino Israel’s currency has been hurt by the conflict with Hamas....
...Australia has reversed a four-year-old decision to recognise West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in a U-turn that sparked an angry response from the Middle Eastern country....
...Australia has reversed a four-year-old decision to recognise west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in a U-turn that drew an angry response from the Middle Eastern country....
...Trump infuriated Palestinians by reversing decades of American policy by moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, closing the consulate in the holy city — which had effectively served as a diplomatic...
...He also pledged to invest in Palestinian health facilities, but showed no progress on a promise to reopen the shuttered consulate in Jerusalem that was the de facto diplomatic mission to the Palestinians...
...Additional reporting by James Shotter in Jerusalem and Andrew England in London...
...Additional reporting by James Shotter in Jerusalem...
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