Israel’s air force struck targets deep inside Lebanon overnight, according to local security sources. A leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian organization Hamas, was killed in an attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Saeed Atallah Ali died along with three family members, media close to Hamas reported.
The Israeli army says it attacked fighters from the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia in a mosque in southern Lebanon. The Israeli Air Force, using information from military intelligence, shelled a Hezbollah command center inside a mosque bordering Salah Ghandur Hospital in southern Lebanon on Saturday night, the army said. It was the first time that the Israeli army attacked a mosque in Lebanon since Hezbollah expanded its attacks on Israel in support of the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas in the Gaza war.
The Israeli military has called on Lebanese refugees not to return to their homes. The Israeli attacks on villages in Lebanon would continue, an army spokesman said on Platform X. He did not specify which villages were involved. Since the intensive attacks began, the Israeli military has repeatedly called on people in certain areas of Lebanon to flee. This is usually followed by air strikes by the Israeli army.
Meanwhile, in the Middle East, on the eve of the first anniversary of the Islamist Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7, there is nervous anticipation of Israel’s announced retaliation for Iran’s recent rocket attack. Israel has not assured the government of US President Joe Biden that a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is off the table, a senior US State Department official told US television channel CNN. Biden spoke out against such an attack on Wednesday.
The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump now contradicted him: “His answer should have been: Target the nuclear facilities first and worry about the rest later,” said Trump at a campaign event in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Meanwhile, mutual shelling between Hezbollah and the Israeli army continues. Israel’s army wants to weaken Hezbollah and drive it away from the border. The Shiite militia issued a statement early today saying it had fired another barrage of rockets into northern Israel. According to the Israeli military, the previous day the pro-Iranian militia fired around 222 projectiles from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Sirens also wailed at night in northern Israel.
2024-10-05 09:11:37