Iran claims to have used 11,000mph hypersonic missiles for first time in Israel attack dubbed ‘Operation True Promise 2’

by Nick Parker, Foreign Editor, successful bluish Israel

I’D conscionable ordered a java successful a roadside cafe connected my mode backmost from Israel’s bluish warfare portion erstwhile the alert flashed up connected my phone.

It read: “Iran is preparing an imminent ballistic rocket onslaught against Israel. Please instrumentality screen arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

I was sitting successful a pizza edifice successful a much-rocketed country northbound of the coastal larboard of Haifa when the informing pinged successful my pocket.

Moments aboriginal I saw different diners picking up their phones arsenic warnings reached them but was impressed by their stoicism arsenic they carried connected munching connected their margaritas.

These were radical who person endured regular rocket attacks from Hezbollah for astir a twelvemonth but adjacent they began to shuffle successful their seats arsenic much warnings appeared connected their mobile information apps.

This was intelligibly thing overmuch bigger than the daily Hezbollah barrage from the north.

And moments aboriginal we were jammed successful the doorway arsenic it was confirmed that much than a 100 Iranian ballistic missiles flying astatine 14 times the velocity of dependable were connected their way.

This was confirmed to beryllium lone the archetypal of several waves of attacks heading retired way.

We ran crossed the roadworthy into a factual structure wherever English speakers told maine to expect to beryllium stuck determination for immoderate clip arsenic I tapped retired my communicative utilizing the glow of my laptop screen.

Then moments aboriginal the archetypal booms divided the aerial precocious supra arsenic Iron Dome interceptors engaged the incoming rockets.

I - astir apt precise foolishly - took a sneak peek into the entity extracurricular and watched trails of reddish rockets racing up to conscionable the missiles successful a spectacular but perchance deadly firework display.

But scary spectaculars similar this person go a mode of beingness for the radical of bluish Israel - who intelligibly spot the boffins whose rocket wizardry had saved their lives yet again.

It remained unclear whether Iran’s panic masters had inflicted decease oregon demolition arsenic they attempted to decimate their hated enemy.

And this whitethorn beryllium conscionable the archetypal of galore terrifying tests for the radical of Israel, their enemies and the millions caught successful the crossfire arsenic the menace of a catastrophic warfare looms.

By Foreign News Reporter Juliana Cruz Lima

Following the 2006 Lebanon War, successful which Israel and Hezbollah fought to a bloody standstill, the panic radical began preparing for the adjacent conflict.

They constructed a immense underground web crossed confederate Lebanon.

The lessons of that war, successful which Hezbollah’s small, mobile units were capable to astonishment and sometimes overpower Israeli forces, person been embedded successful its subject doctrine ever since.

The tunnels are present a cardinal portion of this strategy, allowing Hezbollah to replicate the tactics of insurgencies astir the world: onslaught fast, disappear, and usage the enemy’s size and spot against them.

Some of these tunnels person been recovered stretching into Israeli territory, designed to facilitate astonishment raids heavy wrong bluish Israel.

In 2018, the IDF launched Operation Northern Shield, a months-long ngo to observe and destruct Hezbollah’s cross-border tunnels.

The find of these tunnels — immoderate reinforced with factual and moving dozens of meters underground — revealed conscionable however precocious Hezbollah’s capabilities had become.

Last month, Hezbollah revealed its hidden panic passageway network from which missiles tin beryllium launched successful a chilling menace to Israel.

A blood-curdling video released by the Lebanese terrorists revealed a elephantine underground roads with capable country for lorries to transport their deadly weapons.

Posters of leaders and soldiers adorn the gangly chromatic walls arsenic heavy equipped men velocity done the "missile city" successful motorbikes.

Trucks loaded with tremendous missiles marque their mode done the acheronian roads successful a frightening glimpse of the terrorists' arsenal.

Drone footage past shows the seemingly endless panic maze, which besides appears to beryllium location to subject tech and computers.

Inside the panic tunnels, Hezbollah fighters tin determination unseen, store weapons, and motorboat ambushes, creating a unsafe cat-and-mouse crippled with the IDF.

They tin besides determination into a overmuch larger web of bunkers, rocket silos, and bid centres, profoundly embedded successful civilian areas.

These tunnels - which tin agelong for miles - nexus captious positions, allowing Hezbollah fighters to emerge, strike, and past vanish backmost underground earlier Israel tin respond.

Reports besides suggest that Hezbollah has been expanding its passageway web successful confederate Lebanon successful caller weeks.