Israel announces that it will continue its campaign against Iran for at least another three weeks
The Israeli military is planning at least three more weeks of campaigning against Iran, given that “thousands of targets” remain, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN on Sunday.
“We have thousands of targets in front of us,” said the IDF spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, according to News.ro. “We are prepared, in coordination with our American allies, with plans that extend at least until the Jewish holiday of Passover, about three weeks from now. And we have more extensive plans even for another three weeks after that,” said Defrin.
According to the IDF, since the start of the campaign against Iran on February 28, the Israeli Air Force has carried out approximately 400 waves of attacks in western and central Iran, focusing on destroying infrastructure and targeting agents in the fire, defense and production units.
Israeli officials say the US and Israel have already hit thousands of targets since the start of the war.
Defrin told CNN that the IDF “does not operate according to a timer or a calendar, but rather to achieve its objectives,” which are to “severely weaken the Iranian regime.”
He said the massive offensive by the United States and Israel against Iran pushed Lebanon's Hezbollah to join the conflict, in contrast to their decision to stay out of the conflict during last summer's 12-day war. Israel's military operations in Lebanon could continue even after the end of the Iran war, according to Israeli officials. The IDF is sending more troops to its northern border in an attempt to capture territory and repel Hezbollah.
