A man and a dog check the rubble of a destroyed building in Hod HaSharon in the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel, on Oct. 2, 2024.Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images

Netanyahu says Iran 'made a big mistake and will pay for it' after firing 180 missiles at Israel

Netanyahu said the strike on Israel 'failed' and was 'thwarted thanks to Israel’s air defense system, which is the most advanced in the world'

by · National Post

(Oct. 2, 2024 / JNS) — Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Tuesday night following Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel that the IDF would respond with “precise and surprising offensive capabilities.”

The Islamic Republic fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at the Jewish state on Tuesday evening, forcing Israel’s entire civilian population of nearly 10 million people into bomb shelters.

I want the world to know what Hamas did to me in the tunnelsThey were locked deep down in the tunnels for days. The terrorists went up because there was not enough oxygen to breathe. There was never enough water. They slept on filthy mattresses, in their filthy clothes. They were tortured and starved, sometimes given half a pita or two dates. The terrorists would eat and drink in front of them. “Once they ate a piece of fish and we had two teaspoons from it. It was delicious. Someone who knows how to cook, one of the mothers of the terrorists, I guess. It was the best thing I ate there,” says Aviva Siegel, who spent 51 days held captive by Hamas underground in tunnels and in terrorist homes in 13 locations in Gaza.Karin Kloosterman, Special to National Post, 02 Oct 2024'Active shooting on the Boulevard. Stay inside': 30 seconds away from a terror attack in JaffaJAFFA, Israel — In my corner of south Jaffa, it didn’t start with the Iranian missiles. It started with gun shots, from a machine gun probably. A round of about 30 shots fired into the night, at what felt like the corner of my street.Karin Kloosterman, Special to National Post, 01 Oct 2024