Tel Aviv, March 15, (dpa/GNA) – The Israeli military is planning for at least three more weeks of its campaign against Iran, with “thousands of targets” remaining, Israeli military spokesman Effie Defrin told US broadcaster CNN on Sunday.
“We have thousands of targets ahead,” Defrin said. “We are ready, in coordination with our US allies, with plans through at least the Jewish holiday of Passover, about three weeks from now. And we have deeper plans for even three weeks beyond that,” he added.
Passover, a key date in the Jewish religious calendar, starts this year on the evening of April 1, when families gather to mark the liberation of Jews from Egyptian slavery thousands of years ago.
The Israeli military reports that the air force has carried out more than 400 waves of strikes, since renewed hostilities began on February 28, targeting Iranian infrastructure in particular.
Defrin told CNN that the Israeli military was “not working according to a stopwatch, or a timetable, but rather to achieve our goals.” The aim was to severely weaken the Iranian regime, the brigadier general said.
Turning to renewed hostilities in southern Lebanon, Defrin said the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia had decided to stay out of the 12-day war in June last year, but was now becoming involved.
“In June, they understood that it’s a limited campaign in Iran, so they didn’t attack. Now that it’s all out, they join in,” he told CNN.
GNA