According to foreign media reports, Prime Minister Netanyahu told the American administration that the Israeli attack on Iran would be upon a military target (not a nuclear or civilian target) – an attack of the kind that is expected to yield the least friction, in accordance with the American request to reduce the action and not to deteriorate into an all-out war. The American defense systems deployed in Israel, along with several dozen American soldiers (the first time American soldiers are officially stationed in Israel, and the first time American systems have been deployed in Israel since the 1991 Gulf War), may indicate close strategic cooperation between the Israeli government and the American administration.
The Israeli attack is going to be carried out in response to the Iranian missile attack carried out against Israel on October 1, during which nearly 200 ballistic missiles were fired at Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva. Many of the missiles were intercepted, but some of them hit and caused damage, and only by a miracle and thanks to the public’s attention to the instructions of the Home Front Command, no Israeli civilian was injured (when the only person killed was a Palestinian in Jericho). It is expected that even after the Israeli response there will be an Iranian response, and that the event and war will not end there.
In the meantime, the fear in Israel has been directed specifically at the threat of drones, with which the Israeli defense system is struggling to act hermetically, as expressed on Sunday, when the Hezbollah drone hit the dining room at the Golani training base near Binyamina, where hundreds of recruits dined. The impact led to dozens of injuries at different levels, as well as 4 fatalities who did not even see the battlefield: Amitai Alon, Yoav Agmon, Yosef Hayev, and Omri Tamari. By the time a newer system (perhaps) is reached, the current operative conclusion is to raise more alarms about any suspected UAV.