Tel Aviv [Israel], March 1 (ANI): Israel’s Ambassador to India, Reuven Azar, said Sunday that Israel is targeting more than 2,500 military sites amid the ongoing escalation with Iran and has no intention of striking schools.
In a conversation with ANI, Azar said Israel does not intend to hit schools but warned that “terrorists blame Israel for different things.”
“We are targeting more than 2,500 military targets. We do not have the intention of attacking schools or anything of that sort. We have to be very careful with the information that comes out of Iran. We’ve seen in the past attempts not only by the Iranians but also by terrorist organizations to blame Israel for different things. We do not know what hit that school. It might have been a misfire. It might have been something else. We are checking that because we want to make sure that no civilian targets are being hit by our forces,” Azar said.
Earlier, on Feb. 28, Israeli media reported that at least 40 Iranians were killed in an Israeli strike on a school in the city of Minab in Hormozgan province in southern Iran, according to the provincial governor.
When asked about casualties in Israel from Iranian strikes during the conflict, Azar said several Israelis have been injured.
“At this point, we’ve seen a few dozen people injured in Israel, the majority of them as a result of a direct strike in Tel Aviv last night, including a woman who was killed. We hope that as time passes and our degradation capabilities increase, the damage that the Iranian regime can continue to inflict on Israel will diminish substantially,” he said.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Al Jazeera that the United States and Israel will not be victorious.
“There is no victory in this war. They have not been able to achieve their targets, and they will not be able to achieve their targets in the coming days. As long as they continue, they cannot achieve anything,” Araghchi said.
“This reminds me of the previous war — the 12-day war last June — when they expected that in two or three days Iran would capitulate and surrender. But it took 12 days for them to understand that Iran was not surrendering and that they had no option but to ask for an unconditional ceasefire,” he added, according to Al Jazeera.
Araghchi said, “I do not see any difference between this time and the previous time. We will resist as long as it takes, and they will see the result.” (ANI)
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