The Abu Dhabi Media Office urged the public to rely only on official sources for information and to avoid sharing rumours or unverified reports.
Since the onset of the blatant Iranian aggression, UAE air defences have engaged 294 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles and 1600 UAVs launched from Iran, last recorded on March 14.
On March 7, UAE’s President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan addressed residents following the recent Iranian attacks, saying authorities would fulfil their responsibility to defend the land and its people.
“Pardon us if we did not meet expectations, but we are in a time of war. I promise you that we will fulfil our responsibility to defend you, our people and our families,” he said.
Sheikh Mohamed made the heartfelt remarks during a visit to those injured in the attacks. At the hospital, he was seen holding the hands of the wounded, gently touching their heads, and speaking with both them and their families in a quiet moment of reassurance.
Perhaps by remembering the twenties merely as an enchanting series of novelties or the crude afterthought of a simpler past, we preserve the illusion of our own simple innocence,” mused historian Paula Fass in the introduction to her book The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s.
