The Jordanian army said, in a statement on Wednesday, that its air defenses dealt with 20 ballistic missiles originating from Iran that targeted the Kingdom, and intercepted 18 of them, while two missiles landed in a remote area, stressing that there were no casualties.
The statement quoted the official army spokesman as saying that “Jordanian air defense systems dealt with 20 ballistic missiles launched towards Jordanian territory (from Iran), and 18 of them were successfully intercepted and destroyed, while two missiles fell in areas devoid of population centers,” stressing that there were “no loss of life.”
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard had announced, in a statement carried by official Iranian media, at dawn today, that it had attacked with ballistic missiles what it described as an American base in the Azraq region of Jordan, and said that this came in response to American attacks that targeted Iranian oil tankers.
The Revolutionary Guard also warned that it would target oil tankers in Kuwait and Bahrain, calling on crews to “leave their ships immediately,” according to what was reported by the official IRNA news agency.
“IRNA” conveyed a message to the “Revolutionary Guards” in which it said: “In view of the hostile actions committed by the terrorist American army by targeting a number of oil tankers belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran, we warn all oil tanker crews located in the vicinity of the docks of Kuwait and Bahrain, which host these terrorists and participate in their hostile actions, and we warn them of the need to leave their ships immediately, whether they are in the waiting areas or on the docks. Because they will be vulnerable to being targeted.”
The US Central Command (Centcom) stated that it “destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers on September 8, after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard targeted a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice during the past two days.” The American warship succeeded in avoiding Iranian attack attempts and continued its patrols in territorial waters, without any casualties among American personnel.
The intensive contacts made by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun with the American side contributed to curbing the Israeli military campaign that has escalated since Saturday, at a time when Lebanon is waiting for the American side to set the date for the eighth session of negotiations with Israel.
The pace of the Israeli escalation in southern Lebanon declined yesterday, after 3 days of air strikes and artillery shelling, which resulted in the killing of at least 28 people, the wounding of dozens, and the displacement of hundreds from the city of Nabatieh and its surrounding villages, before the wave of returns began.
In addition, the escalation of danger to the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon prompted civil and political activists to launch the “Nabatieh Call 2” calling for strengthening the army’s presence and for the state to assume responsibility for the city’s security.
The Lebanese Army quickly intensified its military patrols in the city of Nabatieh. In order to reassure the people.
The Lebanese Army announced today, Tuesday, the rescue of more than twenty people off the coast of the north of the country after their boat broke down during an irregular smuggling attempt, according to Agence France-Presse.
The army stated, in a statement, that its navy, with the participation of the Civil Defense and the Red Cross, rescued “22 people during an attempt to smuggle them illegally on board a boat after it broke down off the coast of the city of Tripoli,” the capital of northern Lebanon.
He indicated that work would continue to “rescue the rest of the passengers,” without specifying their number.
The official National News Agency reported that more than twenty of the boat’s passengers were Syrians and the others were Lebanese.
Migrants and asylum seekers who leave Lebanon by boat search for a better life in Europe, and often head to the island of Cyprus, located in the eastern Mediterranean, less than 200 kilometers from the Lebanese coast.
The conflict that broke out in Syria in 2011 after the government suppressed peaceful protests against the rule of Bashar al-Assad, led to the death of more than half a million people and the displacement of about half of the population.
Despite the return of relative stability after the overthrow of Assad in late 2024, about 1.12 million Syrians remain refugees in Lebanon, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
UNHCR estimates that about 400,000 Syrians will return from Lebanon in 2025.
In Lebanon, the economic collapse in late 2019 and the deterioration of living conditions prompted many Lebanese to choose the path of irregular migration.
Over the past years, the Lebanese army announced that it thwarted several attempts to smuggle migrants across the sea.
