Israel strikes Iranian targets as PM Carney arrives at EU Summit
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Israel strikes key Iranian sites as PM Carney arrives in Brussels. CTV's Jeremie Charron reports on his agenda for the Canada-EU Summit.
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JERUSALEM — 'Hallelujah. We've been waiting for this moment. I knew it would come. A lot of people doubted that it would come,' said Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, an Israeli politician and media commentator, as we waited in a public bomb shelter in Jerusalem early Sunday morning. Article content Hours earlier, the United States struck several of Iran's key nuclear facilities, in some cases using bunker-buster bombs to destroy deeply buried infrastructure that had been beyond the reach of Israeli weapons. While the exact extent of the inflicted damage was (and remains) unknown, it was already evident, even in those first hours, that much had been destroyed. Article content Article content Article content Despite the sleep deprivation of an early-morning alarm, the mood in the shelter was celebratory. Article content Article content 'Israelis have been waiting patiently for American involvement, and Israelis don't know how to wait patiently for anything,' continued Hassan-Nahoum, who said that she did not fear retaliation from the Iranian leadership because Israel had spent the previous week 'cutting off their legs.' Article content She said that, 'Being in a shelter at 7:30 in the morning, losing people, having buildings destroyed, running to shelters, having our children traumatized. Everybody's willing to do that for the sake of destroying the existential threat against our country.' Raphael, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was similarly elated. 'I think it's a wonderful morning for the world. We've woken up to a new reality where we've seen one potential nuclear menace taken off of the map,' he told me amid the dim light. Article content Having just returned from the United States, he understood that Americans are 'reticent' about getting entangled in another Middle Eastern 'forever war.' However, he feels that this situation is different from Iraq or Afghanistan, because, this time, the goal is not to reconstruct a foreign nation, but only to de-fang an emerging nuclear state that could pose a 'very credible threat to the West.' Article content Article content He said that regime change is needed, characterizing the Islamic Republic as an 'evil state that's trapped the (Iranian) people in tyranny.' Like others in the shelter, he was unconcerned about Iranian retribution, because Jews have 'survived many tougher ordeals over thousands of years' and 'whatever they throw our way, we've seen worse before.' Article content Article content The alarm ended soon after and life resumed. The day was hot and sunny. Iran had launched around 35 missiles that morning — far fewer than the hundreds that had been sent in the initial days of the war — but only three managed to land. At a nearby cafe, locals drank coffee and discussed the American strikes over pastries. Article content But the city was relatively quiet. Most businesses were closed by emergency mandate, and only food stores operated. One Australian tourist, Zevi Gestetner, explained how the attacks caused his government to cancel its evacuation plans for the day, leaving his family stranded. They sat on a patio together, mulling their options, as buskers performed music down the street.
