IRAN WAR UPDATES: Israel warns that Iran attacks 'will escalate and expand'
· Toronto Sun
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warns that Israeli attacks on Iran “will escalate and expand.”
This comes after the Israeli military conducted a wave of strikes “in the heart of Tehran” early Friday. Meanwhile, smoke was seen billowing in the Beirut skyline after U.S. President Donald Trump delayed his threat to annihilate Iran’s energy plants over the closure of the Strait of Hormuz until April 6.
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Thousands of Israeli troops crossed into Lebanon, where Israeli officials said they want to take control of the area south of the Litani River, located 30 kilometres north of the border.
Trump extended the deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6, claiming talks with Iran were going “very well.” This despite Iran publicly insisting it’s not negotiating with the U.S. to end the war.
Here’s the latest on the Iran war on Friday:
Attacks on Iran will ‘escalate and expand’
Israel’s defence minister said on Friday that Israeli attacks on Iran “will escalate and expand.”
Israel Katz commented in a statement, noting that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “warned the Iranian terrorist regime to stop firing missiles at the civilian population in Israel.”
“Despite the warnings, the firing continues — and therefore (Israeli military) attacks in Iran will escalate and expand to additional targets and areas that assist the regime in building and operating weapons against Israeli citizens,” Katz said. “They will pay heavy, increasing prices for this war crime.”
Lebanon says 2 were killed in Israeli strike
Lebanon says two people were killed in an Israeli strike on a Beirut suburb.
The country’s Health Ministry gave no further details on the early Friday strike that came without warning on Tahwitat al-Ghadir.
Iran accuses U.S., Israel of ‘clear intent to commit genocide’
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the U.S. and Israel of “clear intent to commit genocide” on Friday.
He also said more than 600 schools have been damaged or demolished and more than 1,000 students and teachers “martyred or wounded” in Iran during the war.
“The aggressors’ targeting pattern accompanied by their rhetoric leaves little doubt as to their clear intent to commit genocide,” Araghchi said during an urgent debate at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday.
The debate focused on a Feb. 28 strike at an elementary school in the southern city of Minab. More than 165 people were killed, most of them of children, according to Iranian state media.
Experts say evidence suggests the blast was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes.
Thai cargo ship reportedly runs aground after Iran attack
A Thai-flagged cargo ship that was attacked by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz was abandoned by its crew has run aground, Iranian media reported Friday.
Thailand’s Foreign Ministry said Friday that the Iranian and Omani authorities were able to reach the Mayuree Naree on a rescue mission as three sailors remain unaccounted for.
The ship was attacked on March 11.
The semiofficial Tasnim and Fars news agencies reported that the ship ran aground near the village of Ramchah on Qeshm Island.
– With files from The Associated Press