Israel, Iran and UNDER ATTACK
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Israel, Hezbollah and Iran
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Israel’s military has bombed central Beirut, killing at least 12 people and sending black smoke billowing into the sky over Lebanon’s capital. The Israeli strikes on Thursday targeted the Bachoura neighborhood close to downtown Beirut.
Israel says Iran has been firing cluster munitions throughout their 10-day war — adding a complicated and deadly challenge to Israel’s already stretched air defenses.
Specks of orange light streak across the night sky, an unnerving spectacle that’s become more common as Iran increasingly outfits some of its ballistic missiles with cluster munitions.
Israel's ruthless use of cluster munitions on Lebanon led to a ban on these bombs worldwide; now they cry foul as Iran uses them against them—although Tel Aviv is not part of the Convention that agree
April WTI crude oil (CLJ26 ) today is up +5.49 (+6.04%), and April RBOB gasoline (RBJ26 ) is up +0.0878 (+3.25%). Crude oil and gasoline prices today are sharply higher after Israel on Saturday bombed 30 Iranian oil depots.
Iran is launching missiles loaded with cluster submunitions toward Israel “almost on a daily basis,” a spokesman for the Israeli military said. The weapons are designed to disperse small explosives over large areas,
Boeing Co. has a new $298 million contract with Israel to deliver as many as 5,000 new air-launched smart bombs, according to three people familiar with the transaction.
Typically, Iranian ballistic missiles have 500 to 1,000 kilograms of explosives in them and strike one target, causing significant damage there and to the immediate surroundings. Fifty percent of the