Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant met elite I.D.F. unit, as per reports on Oct 9. Gallant held meeting with I.D.F. Intelligence unit 9900 amid reports of Iran attack plan. I.D.F.’s unit 9900 spies gather intelligence in theatres of war.Biden and Netanyahu speak as Gallant warns of ‘deadly’ surprise attack on Iran,Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke for the first time in weeks on Wednesday amid expectations of an imminent Israeli strike on Iran, which Yoav Gallant warned would be “deadly, precise and surprising”.Netanyahu’s defence minister issued the warning in a video message on Israeli media on Wednesday night, broadcast after he postponed a scheduled trip to Washington.Gallant said that the Iranian missile attack on Israel on 1 October had been a failure but would be avenged.Whoever attacks us will be hurt and will pay a price. Our attack will be deadly, precise and above all surprising, they will not understand what happened and how it happened, they will see the results,” the Israeli defence minister said.Gallant’s video message was broadcast a few hours after the conversation between Netanyahu and Biden, their first in seven weeks, which was joined by the vice-president, Kamala Harris, whose presidential campaign could be upset by the widening hostilities in the Middle East and any consequent spike in oil prices. It also emerged on Wednesday that Netanyahu last week spoke with Harris’s opponent, Donald Trump.A White House readout of the call did not directly mention possible retaliation for the Iranian missile strike but said Biden had condemned Tehran’s attack “unequivocally” and pledged “ironclad” support for Israel.
