‘Will respond to Iran at time we choose’

Israelrsquos military chief that his country will respond to Iranrsquos weekend attack but he did not elaborate on when and how as world leaders urged against retaliation trying to avoid a spiral of violence in West AsiaThe Iranian attack on Saturday came in response to a suspected Israeli strike two weeks earlier on an Iranian consular building in the Syrian capital of Damascus that killed two Iranian generals It marked the first time Iran has launched a direct military assault on Israel despite decades of enmity dating back to the countryrsquos 1979 Islamic RevolutionIran launched hundreds of drones ballistic missiles and cruise missiles at Israel in the attack The Israeli military said that 99 per cent of the drones and missiles were intercepted by Israelrsquos own air defences and warplanes and in coordination with a USled coalition of partners Israeli military chief Lt Gen Herzi Halevi said Monday that Israel is considering its next steps but that the Iranian strike ldquowill be met with a responserdquoDemonstrators in Los Angeles rally during a lsquoStrike for Gazarsquo protest calling for a permanent ceasefire PicAPHalevi gave no details The armyrsquos spokesman Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said Israel will respond ldquoat the time that we chooserdquo Both men spoke at the Nevatim air base in southern Israel which Hagari said suffered only light damage in the Iranian attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been huddling with top officials to discuss a possible responseSpeaker pushes for vote for Israel aidHouse Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing toward action this week on aid for Israel Ukraine and Taiwan unveiling an elaborate plan to break the package into separate votes to squeeze through the Housersquos political divides on foreign policy Cconservatives have fiercely opposed to aiding Ukraine Johnsonrsquos move is first significant action on bill after more than two monthsProPalestinian protests shut airport highways bridges in USProPalestinian demonstrators blocked roadways in Illinois California New York and the Pacific Northwest on Monday temporarily shutting down travel into some of the nationrsquos most heavily used airports onto the Golden Gate and Brooklyn bridges and on a busy West Coast highway In Chicago protesters linked arms and blocked lanes of Interstate 190 leading into OrsquoHare International Airport around 7 am in a demonstration they said was part of a global ldquoeconomic blockade to free Palestinerdquo according to Rifqa Falaneh one of the organisersTraffic in the San Francisco Bay Area was snarled for hours as demonstrators shut down all vehicle pedestrian and bike traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and chained themselves to 55gallon drums filled with cement across Interstate 880 in Oakland Protesters marching into Brooklyn blocked Manhattanbound traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge In Eugene Oregon protesters blocked Interstate 5 shutting down traffic on the major highway for about 45 minutesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever