Iranians drive past a billboard with an image depicting a missile attack over Israel and slogans rea (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Iran has gloated about its regime’s recent on a sick billboard in its capital city, Tehran.
The billboard shows dozens of missiles raining down on . , which militarily and economically backs both the Lebanon-based and the militants who run the Gaza Strip, launched dozens of missiles into on Tuesday night.
“If you want war, we are masters of war,” reads the slogan at the top, written in Farsi. The slogan underneath, in Hebrew, reads: “ must be wiped from the face of the earth and this is the beginning of the story.”
It is another escalation in a tit-for-tat cycle that is pushing the closer to a wider and more dangerous After the attack, warned there would be “repercussions”.
On Wednesday, pressed forward on two fronts, pursuing a against Hezbollah that left eight Israeli soldiers dead. It also conducted that killed dozens, including children.
Iran launched dozens of missiles at Israel (Image: Getty)
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The Israeli military said in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, without elaborating. The deaths followed an earlier announcement of the first Israeli combat death in Lebanon since the start of the incursion — a 22-year-old captain in a commando brigade. Another seven troops were wounded.
Together, the deaths announced on the eve of , the Jewish new year, were some of the biggest casualties sustained by Israeli forces in months.
In Gaza, Israeli ground and air operations in the territory’s second-largest city of Khan Younis killed at least 51 people, including women and children, Palestinian medical officials said.
Israel has killed thousands in Gaza (Image: Getty)
Late on Wednesday night, an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building near the Lebanese capital’s city centre, the second time has struck central Beirut this week. At least six people were killed and seven wounded in the residential Bashoura district.
Residents reported a sulphur-like smell following the attack, and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency accused of using internationally banned . Human rights groups have in the past accused of using white phosphorus incendiary shells on towns and villages in conflict-hit southern Lebanon. previously denied using similar weapons.
Multiple strikes were also reported in Beirut’s southern suburbs in areas issued evacuation warnings by the Israeli army. The area struck in central Beirut was not covered in those warnings.
The latest actions on multiple fronts have raised fears of a wider conflict that could draw in Iran as well as the United States, which has rushed military assets to the region in support of . Meanwhile, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said an Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in Damascus on Wednesday evening, killing three people and wounding at least three others.
An Associated Press journalist at the scene said the missile appeared to have targeted the bottom floor of a four-storey apartment building. There was no immediate comment from , which rarely claims responsibility for strikes outside of its borders.