Israel Says It’s Destroyed Most of Iran’s Missile Launchers
Smoke rises following airstrikes in Tehran on March 6.
Photographer: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Israel Defense Forces says it’s demolished a majority of Iran’s ballistic-missile launchers, causing the number of missiles targeting Israel and other countries in the region to fall throughout the week.
More than 60% of such launchers have been “neutralized and destroyed,” Eyal Zamir, chief of the general staff of the IDF, said in a televised statement on Thursday. Zamir did not say how many had been struck, but the IDF had cited the number as 300 earlier that day.