Iran launched 300 drones and missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation, Iranian officials say, to an alleged Israeli airstrike that killed two of the country’s military generals earlier this month.
Thankfully, the strike resulted in only one fatality. The vast majority of the projectiles were struck down by Israeli’s defense system, aided by the U.S., Britain, and Jordan. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates alerted U.S. Intelligence of the attack ahead of time.
The outsized retaliation marks the country’s first direct act of military aggression in the region, but Iran has been intimately involved in the Israel-Hamas war since its inception.
The Gazan-terror group Hamas became a household name last October when it carried out a military-style assault on Israeli civilians. An estimated 1,300 people died. Another 250 were taken hostage — 129 of whom remain in Hamas custody today. Hundreds of women suffered brutal sexual torture, oftentimes leading to their deaths.
As the Daily Citizen previously reported, many intelligence officers credit Iran not only with supporting this attack, but coordinating it, including training hundreds of Hamas soldiers and helping the terror group build thousands of rockets and drones.
Iran famously bankrolls regional terrorism, spending an estimated $100 million every year backing Hamas and Hezbollah, which have physically attacked Israel during the war. Hamas received a whopping $70 million from Iran in 2022 alone.
Iran’s direct response marks a shift in its military strategy, but not its ideological one. It has long been, and will remain, an enemy of Israel.
As Iran’s roll in the Middle East continues to evolve, citizens should be encouraged that unlikely regional allies came to Israel’s rescue. We will never know how many lives Jordan’s air defense, and Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E.’s intelligence, saved.
Christians should also take this time to remember that the Bible calls believers to support Israel. While we need not affirm every military or political action the Israeli state takes, we are called to defend Israel’s right to exist.
Though the geopolitical situation in the Middle East is notoriously fluid, our biblical mandate to prayerfully oppose existential threats to Israel—including those coming from Iran.
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