The only known casualty from Iran’s major ballistic missile attack on Israel was a Palestinian civilian, the New York Times reported.
Sameh al-Asali, a native of Gaza, was killed by "falling shrapnel" in a West Bank village near Jericho.
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Israel Defence Forces said Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles toward the Jewish state in its latest attack, most of which were successfully intercepted by Israeli forces with the help of U.S. naval destroyers, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a press briefing Tuesday.
Iran’s attack was in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike last week that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon and for the July killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Fox News reported.
Sullivan celebrated the success of Israel’s defense, saying the collaboration between America and the Jewish state was responsible for defeating the Iranian attack.
"This attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective. This was first and foremost the result of the professionalism of the IDF but in no small part because of the skilled work of the U.S. military and meticulous joint planning in anticipation of the attack," Sullivan said.
Israel has already promised that the Iranian attack "will have consequences."
"We are on high alert both defensively and offensively. We will defend the citizens of the state of Israel," Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said.