The Pentagon announced it will send an anti-missile defense system and the necessary troops to run it to Israel. The system will help bolster the country’s defenses against Iran amid increasing threats of all-out war in the Middle East.The deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system requires nearly 100 soldiers to operate and includes 48 interceptors capable of targeting short- to medium-range missiles. The system was deployed to the Middle East shortly after the Israel-Hamas war began last year. It is unclear at this time when it will arrive in Israel.In response to reporters’ question Sunday, President Joe Biden said the THAAD system would protect U.S. forces and defend Israel.But the decision could further escalate violence in the Middle East as Iran has warned the U.S. to keep troops out of Israel.On Sunday, an airstrike from Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah killed four Israeli soldiers.Another attack in Lebanon injured U.N. peacekeepers when Israeli forces claimed, without evidence, that Hezbollah militants were using the peacekeepers as human shields.”Get the UNIFIL forces out of harm’s way. It should be done right now, immediately,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded video statement.A spokesman for the U.N. Secretary-General stated that the attacks on peacekeepers might constitute a war crime, further isolating Israel in a multi-front conflict in the Middle East.”The Secretary-General reiterates that the safety and security of UN personnel and property must be guaranteed,” spokesman Stéphane Dujarric wrote in a statement. “And that the inviolability of UN premises must be respected at all times without qualification.”
The Pentagon announced it will send an anti-missile defense system and the necessary troops to run it to Israel. The system will help bolster the country’s defenses against Iran amid increasing threats of all-out war in the Middle East.
The deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system requires nearly 100 soldiers to operate and includes 48 interceptors capable of targeting short- to medium-range missiles. The system was deployed to the Middle East shortly after the Israel-Hamas war began last year. It is unclear at this time when it will arrive in Israel.
In response to reporters’ question Sunday, President Joe Biden said the THAAD system would protect U.S. forces and defend Israel.
But the decision could further escalate violence in the Middle East as Iran has warned the U.S. to keep troops out of Israel.
On Sunday, an airstrike from Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah killed four Israeli soldiers.
Another attack in Lebanon injured U.N. peacekeepers when Israeli forces claimed, without evidence, that Hezbollah militants were using the peacekeepers as human shields.
“Get the UNIFIL forces out of harm’s way. It should be done right now, immediately,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded video statement.
A spokesman for the U.N. Secretary-General stated that the attacks on peacekeepers might constitute a war crime, further isolating Israel in a multi-front conflict in the Middle East.
“The Secretary-General reiterates that the safety and security of UN personnel and property must be guaranteed,” spokesman Stéphane Dujarric wrote in a statement. “And that the inviolability of UN premises must be respected at all times without qualification.”
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