Israel: Reports of Large Explosion, Possibly From Drone, Near U.S. Embassy Branch In Tel Aviv
Medical personnel took at least seven people to the hospital.
Videos and pictures have emerged of an explosion near the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, Israel.
A preliminary investigation from the IDF:
A preliminary investigation shows that the explosion in Tel Aviv was caused by the fall of an aerial target, which did not trigger a warning. The matter is under in-depth investigation. Many forces are now operating in place. The Air Force will increase the patrols of the planes operating to protect the country’s skies. There is no change in the directives of the Home Front Command.
מבדיקה ראשונית עולה כי הפיצוץ בתל אביב נגרם כתוצאה מנפילה של מטרה אווירית, שלא הפעילה התרעה. הנושא נמצא בתחקור מעמיק. כוחות רבים פועלים כעת במקום.
חיל האוויר תגבר את פטרולי המטוסים הפועלים להגנת שמי המדינה.
אין שינוי בהנחיות פיקוד העורף— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) July 19, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supposedly canceled his trip to America. [Update: This claim does not appear to be true.]
Ambulance service said 8 hospitalized in Tel Aviv. One died from the drone’s shrapnel.
Translation: “Crazy! Documentation of the UAV explosion in the city of Tel Aviv, you can hear a hum and then a huge explosion.”
מטורף: תיעוד פיצוץ הכטב"מ בעיר תל אביב, שומעים זמזום ואז פיצוץ אדיר!
Crazy: Documentation of the UAV explosion in the city of Tel Aviv, you hear a hum and then a huge explosion! https://t.co/DOYFImMPZF pic.twitter.com/wMtqBZHjRg
— יענקי כהן | Yanki Coen (@yankicoen) July 19, 2024
Explosion was one short block from the U.S. embassy branch office. pic.twitter.com/mAKJV0LBmT
— Melissa Weiss (@melissaeweiss) July 19, 2024
Site of the explosion in Tel Aviv a short time ago. pic.twitter.com/m46rxgBGxQ
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) July 19, 2024
In Tel Aviv now at the site. Some sort of explosion. Still gathering details. pic.twitter.com/39LX3W6E4Q
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) July 19, 2024
There are reports of an explosion in the area of the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv pic.twitter.com/lhy9C2KYi8
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) July 19, 2024
UPDATE
A residential building in Central Tel Aviv was struck by an Iranian UAV launched from Yemen, leading to at least one civilian casualty and many injured.
We will continue operating to better protect Israelis against terrorism on all fronts. pic.twitter.com/SqGdcDRVT7
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 19, 2024
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I had a satellite earth station install just outside Tel Aviv 13 years ago. I had a gorgeous 20 year old female IDF handler that was with me every minute I was not on site building the satellite dish. Four weeks in, the coffee shop we frequented on the way into work got rocketed by Hamas 10 minuets before we got there. Israel was suddenly like Afghanistan but with pretty women. My IDF handler treated me like a platonic sugar daddy as I was 29 years older than her. That was my best install. Hamas needs to die.
Pervert!
Hardly, unless the female was a “female.”
I think he we referring to the age difference.
Yes Hamas needs to die.
So do the Houthis, which is the group boasting of having committed this criminal act of terrorism. Doubtless using money & expertise furnished by their mutual patron Iran, using funds made available when the Biden Administration ended the Trump Administration’s sanctions.
If Hanas supporters do not also die, then this problem will continue. This is distasteful, but must be dealt with..
fjb supplied the money to them to keep israel off balance
U.S. Consulate….. U.S. Embassy Branch Office… nice to see that the real Embassy is now in Jerusalem.
I was in Tel Aviv 20 years ago when a suicide bomber hit Mike’s Place, right next to that US consulate.
Houthis: Keeping Israel Safe from Immoral Thai Massages!
Why are we focusing on the Embassy? It was a lot closer to Original Thai Massages than the Embassy.
Maybe Hezbollah doesn’t like happy endings.
Only for their martyrs.
It would be fantastic to design a small drone with a meat grinder that makes male terrorists voices go up a few octave’s. I bet that would strike terror in their hearts.
What about Western Union, the famous message parlour?
The fact that a UAV (of modest size or more) can launch from Yemen, fly presumably undetected either through Saudi and then through Jordan or up through the Red Sea and then over Egypt to eventually make it into the Med to then cross into Israeli airspace and strike a target in Tel Aviv is hugely troubling. Israel will likely not publicly comment on what went wrong, for obvious reasons. But, whatever it was, I hope it a failure of automated defense system (which can be corrected) rather than a generational improvement in Iranian tech.
What I heard today (unverified, take it with as much salt as you like) is that they spotted it but mistakenly calculated that it was going to hit an empty field so they decided to let it through.
This must be a mistake.
I know this because Ben Stiller said this war must end.
And Bill Burr said he’s concerned about the children.
And Thomas Friedman said that there’d be peace in the Middle East and in Dearborn if only the Jews would get massacred and raped and kidnapped.
And Antony Blinken learned a new cord on his guitar.
So again, this must be some kind of a mistake.
So when we will see Iran’s karma come home to roost?