BREAKING: UAVS LAUNCHED FROM IRAN BOUND FOR ISRAEL: REPORTS

Sat 13 April 2024:

We are getting reports that UAVs have been launched from Iran and are headed for Israel.

Israel’s Channel 12 TV news reports that Iran has launched dozens of pilotless aircraft at targets in Israel and that their flight time was expected to take hours.

An expert interviewed by the channel, retired general Amos Yadlin, said the drones were equipped with 20 kg of explosives each and that Israel’s air defences were ready to shoot them down.

Barak Ravid, a political reporter for Axios, posted on X that Iran has launched an attack against Israel using dozens of drones, citing four US and Israeli officials.

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