Iran's first direct attack on Israel brings the arch-enemies to the brink of war. International efforts were already underway on Sunday to defuse the situation.
US President Joe Biden and the heads of state and government of the seven leading economically strong democracies (G7) wanted to discuss ways out of the crisis. An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council was scheduled in New York. Israel had support from the US, Britain, France and Jordan. A ten-year-old Bedouin girl was seriously injured in the Negev Desert. According to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the Revolutionary Guards have taught their arch-enemy a “lesson’. The use of more than 120 ballistic missiles was a clear escalation. Only a few made it to Israel. The leadership in Tehran retaliated with Operation Sincere Promise for a suspected Israeli attack on an Iranian embassy building in Syria's capital Damascus. Two brigadier generals of the Revolutionary Guard were killed. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said 99 percent of the more than 300 projectiles fired were intercepted. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed the use of British jets that shot down “a number” of attack drones.