Iran war Updates Purim 5786

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- Missle intercepted  all clear given.

Sirens sound in Tel Aviv and other areas of central Israel amid an Iranian ballistic missile attack.

- Trump: The US Navy will start securing tankers in the Strait of Hormuz

-French President Macron: We have defense agreements with Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. We must stand by their side. I have decided to send a warship to Cyprus for protection. I have given the order to send the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its accompanying force to the Mediterranean Sea

- Trump on Iran: “If we don't stop them, you'd have a nuclear war. They would've taken out many countries. You know what? They're sick people. They're mentally ill, sick people. They're angry, they're crazy, they're sick."

-  Saudi Arabia is very close to allowing its air force to strike targets inside Iran after facing unprecedented missile and drone attacks on its civilians.” 

-President Trump announces Iran has lost air detection and detection facilities: "They're gonna be in for a lot of hurt!. The leader of the pack is gone. There was another hit today on the new leadership!" And a 3rd round of strikes coming soon.

Tump: The Iranians are still expected to launch missiles for some time. The Iranians are losing places to launch from because they are being destroyed. 

- Ben Gurion Airport may open this week to allow repatriation flights within next 48 hours according to Amit Segal.

the Transportation Ministry is considering a plan for a phased reopening of Israel’s airspace to allow local airlines to start flying Israelis home before the weekend. 

President Trump is open to the possibility of arming local militias in Iran, which would be ready to overthrow the Iranian regime, according to an official US source. President Trump has not yet decided on the matter, but the report comes after a conversation President Trump had last night with Kurdish leaders in Iran.

-Israel strikes building as Iran clerics gather to elect new supreme leader.

- Trump: ‘Iranians want to talk, I said it’s too late

Rocket hits house in Bnei Brak no reports of 4 lightly injured cars on fire

Bnei Brak

           Dancing at the scene in Bnei Brak

Bnei Brak 

- US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee advises US citizens in Israel wishing to leave the country to do so via Egypt, hours after the US urged all of its citizens in the Middle East to immediately evacuate the region amid fighting with Iran.

- People booking flights with Aekia out of Taba

- Sitens sound in the north more missiles fired toward Israel  for the 3rd time today

- The IDF struck a senior commander of the Iranian terror regime in Tehran. commander of the Lebanon Corps on behalf of the Quds Force, Daoud Ali Zada. According to two sources in the security system

A top member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force who worked with Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli Navy strike in Beirut yesterday, the IDF announces

.- IDF soldiers enter Lebenon  with boots on the ground after Hezbollah Radwan force was seen close to the border sparking fears of an infiltration attempt.

- Air sirens earlier Purim morning in Yerushalayim turned out to  be a false alarm 

-  US warns its citizens to urgently leave almost all Mideast countries, including Israel

- Hezbollah launched drones toward the Ramat David airbase; the IDF intercepted them and responded with a powerful strike in the Dahieh area.

- The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia was hit by Iranian drones.

- Trump: Soon you will know what the response will be to the killing of the soldiers and the attack on the embassy.

-Witkoff: The Iranians told us they possess enough enriched material for 11 nuclear bombs.

- Netanyahu promises swift and decisive action against Iran.