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It's Friday, April 19th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

U.S. officials have confirmed that Israel launched several strikes against Iran Friday in the early morning hours.

This was a retaliatory action for Iran's missile attack against Israel last week.

Reuters reports that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

and his war cabinet had approved the strike on Monday.

It took days of negotiations within the war council with the U.S. and other allies on what the scope of the attack should be.

The goal was one that would balance a proper response but not escalate the conflict.

Morning Wire spoke to Aria Lightstone from Israel.

He is former senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

He believes the attack sent a message but was also measured.

These attacks were done in such a way not to quote embarrass Iran and to allow Iran some degree of

plausible deniability of what Iran has been out in full force

declaring that Israel did not attack it and there was no damage in this non-attack and in

such a way I do believe that this round has concluded in no way shape or form is the war

Israel against Iran over but this round of direct attacks in between Iran and Israel I believe is over for a period of time.

I think we will see an uptick of attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon to Israel and vice versa

as the war continues to be played out now via proxies.

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