Israel is not the only country that has a nuclear program: Israeli attacks in Gaza in 2010-2020 and Iran’s top nuclear scientist killed by gunshots in November 2020
On Friday, the Israeli attack on an apartment building in Beirut’s densely populated southern suburbs killed several Hezbollah militants, including Ibrahim Aqeel, a senior commander who was wanted in the deadly 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut; and about 10 others from the group’s elite Radwan unit.
Hours later, the leader of Hamas’s political office, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed by an explosive device hidden in a guesthouse in Tehran where he was staying after he had attended the inauguration of Iran’s president. Iran vowed to retaliate for the attack, which it called a violation of its sovereignty. Israel did not confirm or deny involvement in that attack.
The attacks are taking place at the same time as Israel is in a military offensive in Gaza which has already killed thousands of Palestinians. The United Nations, rights groups and some governments have accused Israel of using disproportionate force in its war in Gaza against Hamas. Israel says it is legal to use force.
There are a lot of documents relating to Iran’s nuclear program in a warehouse that was broken into by Israeli spies. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel later used the documents to accuse Iran of lying for years about its efforts to build a nuclear weapon.
Israel used the heart of its never-acknowledged nuclear arms program in the Negev desert as a testing ground for the Stuxnet computer worm. Tehran needs a nuclear weapon, and the destructive program wiped out roughly 20% of its nuclear machines.
They are just the latest attacks — including a series against Iran’s nuclear program — that have embarrassed enemies and demonstrated Israel’s prowess at using military technology and intelligence in ways that suggest it can strike anywhere and at any time.
From 2010 to 2012, four people with links to Iran’s nuclear program were killed by hit men riding motorcycles. In one instance in 2010, a sticky bomb was attached to a car door. In other places, gunmen opened fire on vehicles in Tehran and sped off.
In November 2020, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by gunshots fired from a truck-mounted machine gun that had been attached to a remote-controlled robotic apparatus. It was said that the operation took months and years to plan.
Israel strikes on schools are killing women and children: Gaza’s health ministry says the strike was motivated by the human rights of children in the enclave
Although schools have become regular targets of Israeli strikes, they continue to draw Palestinians seeking shelter because they offer some limited access to plumbing and are seen as somewhat safer than other places in the enclave, which has suffered increasing lawlessness.
The media office for the Gazan government, which is controlled by Hamas, said that many widows and orphaned children had been at the school to receive a small payment to help cover food costs. Hunger is a pervasive problem in Gaza, with experts warning this summer that almost half a million people in the territory faced starvation.
The Israeli military claimed on Saturday to have conducted a strike on terrorists at the Al Falah School, which is connected to the UNRWA.
The Saturday strike on the Zeitoun School killed many women and children, according to Gaza’s rescue services. The majority of the dead were women and children according to Gaza’s health ministry.