Government says Israel’s escalation in the Middle East ‘is in no one’s interest’

The Government said it is monitoring the unfolding concern successful the Middle East “closely” aft Israel launched a bid of airstrikes targeting subject sites successful Iran.

The attacks said it did not targeting atomic oregon lipid facilities successful its latest attack, 2 Israeli officials confirmed to the Associated Press.

A Government spokesperson said connected Saturday morning: “We are monitoring this concern closely.”

The Number 10 spokesperson added the Government supports “Israel’s close to self-defence and to support itself successful line”, truthful agelong arsenic it adheres to “international humanitarian law.”

“Further escalation is successful nary one’s interest,” the connection said.

Israeli confirmed it has completed its question of airstrikes which said its craft “struck rocket manufacturing facilities utilized to nutrient the missiles that Iran fired astatine the authorities of Israel implicit the past year”.

Iran said the airstrikes targeted subject bases successful Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran provinces.

The connection added that the airstrikes caused “limited damage”.

In Syria, the authorities quality bureau SANA citing an unnamed subject official, reported “barrages of missiles from the absorption of the occupied Syrian Golan and Lebanese territories targeted immoderate subject sites successful the confederate and cardinal regions” aboriginal connected Saturday.

It said that Syria’s aerial defences had changeable immoderate of the missiles down.

In a pre-recorded video connection shared connected societal media aboriginal connected Saturday morning, Israeli subject spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said:  “The authorities successful Iran and its proxies successful the portion person been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7 … including nonstop attacks from Iranian soil,”

“Like each different sovereign state successful the world, the State of Israel has the close and the work to respond.”