The IDF is ready for a potential Iranian ballistic missile attack in the coming hours, and the home front should be on high alert, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Sunday at 5:07 p.m.
Zamir acknowledged that the attack would be a retaliation for the IDF’s airstrikes in Beirut earlier Sunday, which itself was in retaliation for Hezbollah drone launches against Israeli towns in northern Israel.
A statement said that Zamir was getting running updates on the heightened security situation.
Although Zamir stated that there were no immediate home front restrictions, there could be in the coming hours in the event of an Iranian attack.
If Iran attacks Israel, Israel will respond with airstrikes
It is expected that if Iran attacks Israel – as it did with around 25 missiles last week, which did not cause any deaths – that Israel would respond with airstrikes, as it did with two waves of dozens of fighter jets last week.
It is also expected that US President Donald Trump would step in after a relatively short time, and that a larger war would not be reignited.
