Canadian Defence Minister Bill Blair said his government is watching developments in the Middle East with increasing concern, calling Iran’s missile attack against Israel a “significant escalatory move.”
Israeli authorities sounded the alarm for citizens to reach bomb shelters around midday on Oct. 1, as Iranian missiles were being fired. Footage posted on social media by Israel’s foreign ministry showed barrages of projectiles flying through the sky and hitting the ground.
Israeli army radio said nearly 200 missiles were launched by Iran.
The Iranian attack came shortly after the Israel Defense Forces said it began conducting raids in southern Lebanon against military positions of the Iranian proxy Shia militia Hezbollah. Iran’s attack follows Israel’s decimation of Hezbollah’s top commanders in airstrikes, including its leader Hassan Nasrallah last week….