"Hezbollah and the Iranian regime are one and the same - we will complete the collapse of the Iranian axis and continue to attack the enemy," Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir said during a visit to soldiers in the north of the country, according to a statement from the military.
The words come after Israel stated on the seventh day of the war that Iran is coordinating rocket and missile attacks with Iran-backed Hezbollah.
“Hezbollah chose to join the effort alongside Iran, and they are paying the price,” Zamir said.
Trying to overload
According to Nadav Shoshani, a spokesman for the Israeli military, the cooperation is “an attempt to overload our air defense systems.”
From the U.S. side, Donald Trump, on the Truth Social platform, dismissed any agreement with Iran to end the war unless it involved "unconditional surrender."
According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the United States estimates that it will take four to six weeks to achieve the war goals - which are said to be to destroy Iran's missile program and navy, and to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons.
So far in the war, U.S. forces have attacked over 3,000 targets in Iran, according to a fact sheet from the military command CENTCOM on Friday evening.
It also states that 43 Iranian ships have been sunk or damaged.
Around 50 Israeli fighter jets have carried out a raid on a large underground bunker in Tehran, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. The bunker is said to have belonged to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Threats of attacks
Several other Iranian cities, including Bandar Abbas near the Strait of Hormuz, have been attacked, according to Iranian media.
Iran threatened on Friday with "more intense and far-reaching" retaliatory attacks, according to Iranian state-run media.
Explosions were heard near the airport in Arbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the day, and debris from downed drones later fell near a hotel, AFP reports. Drones also hit a cargo terminal at Basra airport in southern Iraq, while two more struck the Burjesia oil facility, where, among others, U.S. companies operate.
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait also say they have been attacked again. In Qatar, air defenses have neutralized drones aimed at the U.S. military base at al-Udeid, according to the country's defense ministry.
