The US officials noted that Iran has launched around 115 and 130 ballistic missiles that were intended to target Israel


As the world continues to navigate through the ongoing Iran-Israel tensions, reports are emerging that roughly 50 per cent of Iranian missiles either failed to launch or crashed before reaching Israel during the late Saturday attack.

While giving an update on the attack, three US officials told The Wall Street Journal that Iran’s attack using its ballistic missiles can not be considered a success because most of them failed to reach Israeli territory

50% of Iranian missiles failed to launch or crashed before reaching Israel, reveals US

The US officials noted that Iran has launched around 115 and 130 ballistic missiles that were intended to target Israel


Top US officials said that most of the missiles launched by Iran failed to reach the targets. Source: Reuters
Top US officials said that most of the missiles launched by Iran failed to reach the targets. Source: Reuters
As the world continues to navigate through the ongoing Iran-Israel tensions, reports are emerging that roughly 50 per cent of Iranian missiles either failed to launch or crashed before reaching Israel during the late Saturday attack.

While giving an update on the attack, three US officials told The Wall Street Journal that Iran’s attack using its ballistic missiles can not be considered a success because most of them failed to reach Israeli territory.

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The US officials noted that Iran has launched around 115 and 130 ballistic missiles that were intended to target Israel. The officials mentioned while half of those ballistic missiles were intercepted successfully, the other half “failed in the flight” and did not reach their targets.

“So much for the vaunted ballistic missile capability of Iran,” one of the officials exclaimed.

Israel incurs relatively low damage

Shortly after the attack, the Israeli Defence Force Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that Iran fired 170 drones, over 30 cruise missiles and more than 120 ballistic missiles towards Israel.

Hagari mentioned that out of the hundreds of launches only “few” crossed into Israel and caused “minor damages” at the Navatim Airbase. The airbase suffered minor damage to its infrastructure located near the runway.

While no one died in the attack, a spokesperson for Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service confirmed that a 7-year-old girl was injured by shrapnel from a missile inception.

Israel remains divided over retaliation

In light of the attack, the Israeli war cabinet on Sunday conducted deliberation for over three hours but did not reach a unanimous decision over how the country would respond to the Iranian attack.

An official source from the Israeli prime minister’s office said that while the cabinet is certain that “there will be a response”, they are waiting for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) to “present options”.

The source also told the Israeli news outlet that the cabinet unanimously favours a retaliation against Iran but continues to remain divided over the timing and scale of any such response.

World hopes for de-escalation

Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration is also facing significant international pressure with world leaders urging the authorities to de-escalate the matter.

US President Joe Biden and senior members of his national security team sought to contain the risk of a wider regional war and told their Israeli counterpart that the United States would not participate in any offensive action against Iran.

In a conversation with the Israeli Prime Minister on Saturday, Biden insisted that further Israeli response was “unnecessary”, CNN reported. The POTUS insisted that Israelis should consider the Saturday incident a win because Iran’s attacks had been largely unsuccessful and demonstrated Israel’s superior military capability.

However, during phone calls with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz maintained that the Jewish nation will continue defending its citizens.

I emphasized: Israel, like any other country, is committed to defend its citizens,” said Katz in a post on X.

“I told them — it’s your time to weaken the Iranian regime, to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organization, and to impose crippling sanctions on the Iranian missile project. Iran must pay a price,” he added.


https://www.firstpost.com/world/most-iranian-missiles-failed-to-launch-or-crashed-before-reaching-israel-reveals-us-13759723.html

They were angry at the sendet

Yinmu. The missiles destroyed the military bases inside Israel where the F-35 jets used to bomb the Iranian embassy are parked.
Here's a report on Sky news tv quoting inside sources within Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilb2cm3_VPY?si=QeNgle2Y8PsDB38S

War is bad so let's stop the mischief. It was so bad that Israel can't show the world the devastation it caused.

I am so happy for the lives saved and that could have been lost if those 300+ missiles and drones successfully landed in Israel. Isreal is a tiny country and not everyone inside Israel supports the war or are Israeli. There are Nigerians currently in Isreal now for various reasons, missiles don't identify nationalities or religion when it explodes. Please pray for this war to end.

FreeStuffsNG:
Yinmu. The missiles destroyed the military bases inside Israel where the F-35 jets used to bomb the Iranian embassy are parked.
Here's a report on Sky news tv quoting inside sources within Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilb2cm3_VPY?si=QeNgle2Y8PsDB38S

War is bad so let's stop the mischief. I am so happy for the lives saved that could have been lost if those 300+ missiles and drones successfully landed in Israel. Isreal is a tiny country and not everyone inside Israel supports the war or are Israeli. There are Nigerians currently in Isreal now for various reasons, missiles don't identify nationalities.

The Islamabad in your just showed itself again

Let there be peace world-wide

Ogbuu101:

The Islamabad in your just showed itself again

you do know that there are more Moslems than Christians in Israel. You also know that Israel doesn't give an F about your Christian God?


I don't understand the type of colonization that happened to Africans honestly. India and China were also colonised but you don't see them fighting for the God of the colonisers

What next everyone acting on the script of superior powers that controls the world

The way I see it,Iran may blow itself up in a full blown war.
Iran will blow up Tehran and claim it was Nigeria or Ghana.
Hahaha
Abeg let's have peace abeg.
Everybody is a loser in a war abeg.

Iran don dey show themselves and the world keep quiet.

If Israel launches a full-blown assault on them, you go begin hear United Nations members blow big grammar like humanitarian catastrophe of unparalleled proportions!

These islamic countries should know their limits!

michlins:
you do know that there are more Moslems than Christians in Israel. You also know that Israel doesn't give an F about your Christian God?


I don't understand the type of colonization that happened to Africans honestly. India and China were also colonised but you don't see them fighting for the God of the colonisers

Who is fighting who?
That land that is said to be the size of Nasarawa state is the only home about 20 million Jews have yet you Muslims with your conquest mentality want it by all means.
The same way your colleagues in Nigeria want to take over the lands of the Christian middle belt by all means.
All history books place the Jews as the owner of those lands especially Jerusalem but just like your mohamad with his special hatred for Jews,all of you want the land by all means.
Good thing is Israel is a greater terrorist when terrorized

All these nonsense propaganda will not dispute the fact that Iran will beat Israel wotowoto without the support of US and it allies.Even this missiles and drones fired by Iran were mostly intercepted with the support of US, UK, and Jordan.. Israel that Hizbullah defeated in 2006 war.

SoNature:
Iran don dey show themselves and the world keep quiet.

If Israel launches a full-blown assault on them, you go begin hear United Nations members blow big grammar like humanitarian catastrophe of unparalleled proportions!

These islamic countries should know their limits!

Una don dey accept reality? .At first you people said 99% of the missiles failed to hit their target, now you are saying 50%.Ok let us agree for the sake of argument that it's only 50% successful,do you know the damage those missiles will do on their target?, because we are talking of about 330 missiles and drones.

Ogbuu101:

Who is fighting who?
That land that is said to be the size of Nasarawa state is the only home about 20 million Jews have yet you Muslims with your conquest mentality want it by all means.
The same way your colleagues in Nigeria want to take over the lands of the Christian middle belt by all means.
All history books place the Jews as the owner of those lands especially Jerusalem but just like your mohamad with his special hatred for Jews,all of you want the land by all means.
Good thing is Israel is a greater terrorist when terrorized

and now you're the defender of the Jewish people. Same Jewish people the Pope wanted to exterminate from the holy land during Christian crusades.

Have you wondered why the second most holy land is located in this same place? That's because they the Jewish people were protected by the Moslems against the Christian crusaders. That's why there are more Moslem population than Christians.

The land in question is owned by Palestinians. Even the time it was given to Jacob (by your God), people have been inhabiting the said land. You can not wake up and evacuate people from their ancestral homeland in the name of your God. You're a land grabber.


And no, I'm not a Moslem. I know history and I don't support injustice and bias. Just like I can never allow an inch of my land for RUGA, same way I won't support the annexation of people's ancestral lands in the name of God

360degreess:
Una don dey accept reality? .At first you people said 99% of the missiles failed to hit their target, now you are saying 50%.Ok let us agree for the sake of argument that it's only 50% successful,do you know the damage those missiles will do on their target?, because we are talking of about 330 missiles and drones.

Read carefully and understand. Stop rushing to comment nonsense. Out of all the drones and missiles Iran launched towards Israel, about 50% of them either failed to launch or dropped somewhere else while 99% of those that successfully flew towards Israel were intercepted and destroyed. This thing is simple English.

FreeStuffsNG:
Yinmu. The missiles destroyed the military bases inside Israel where the F-35 jets used to bomb the Iranian embassy are parked.
Here's a report on Sky news tv quoting inside sources within Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilb2cm3_VPY?si=QeNgle2Y8PsDB38S

War is bad so let's stop the mischief. It was so bad that Israel can't show the world the devastation it caused.

I am so happy for the lives saved and that could have been lost if those 300+ missiles and drones successfully landed in Israel. Isreal is a tiny country and not everyone inside Israel supports the war or are Israeli. There are Nigerians currently in Isreal now for various reasons, missiles don't identify nationalities or religion when it explodes. Please pray for this war to end.

Same missiles that couldn't kill a soul now destroyed F35s parked in bunkers...

Una Mind no go touch ground 😂