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- Mar 06, 2026, 13:09 IST IST
JERUSALEM: When Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, the Israeli military’s chief of staff, sat down for Shabbat dinner on Friday at his mother’s home in central Israel, nobody else at the table knew what was about to unfold.
Hours later, the general was being taken in an unmarked car to an underground military command centre in Tel Aviv, where he gave the orders for Israeli forces to attack Iran, according to two Israeli military officials.

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