Scud missiles hit Israel
1991 · Event
Saddam answers the air war by firing Scuds at Tel Aviv and Haifa, gambling that Israeli retaliation will shatter the Arab members of the coalition. Washington begs Israel to sit still, rushes Patriot batteries to defend it — and, remarkably, Israel absorbs 39 missiles without firing back. The coalition holds.
On these timelines: The Gulf War, The Levant, Master, USA
More from The Gulf War
- Gulf War (1990)
- Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990)
- Operation Desert Storm (1991)
- The air war opens live on CNN (1991)
- The 100-hour ground war (1991)
- Liberation of Kuwait (1991)
- The UN sets Saddam a deadline (1990)
- Operation Desert Shield (1990)
Around 1991
- War on Terror (2001)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)