War, Israeli attack on Iran imminent. Hezbollah: “Lost contact with Safieddine”

2024-10-05 07:28:00

War, <a href="https://time.news/israel-has-no-intention-of-staying-permanently-in-gaza-says-defense-minister/" title="Israel has no intention of staying permanently in Gaza, says defense minister”>Hezbollah admits: “Lost contact with leader Safieddine”

Sources of Hezbollah they reported to Al Jazeera that it has lost contact with the chairman of its executive council, Hashem Safieddinesince last Friday. A Lebanese security source, citing the armed group, said that, indeed, Safieddine he was in an underground headquarters in the Marijah area, a southern neighborhood of Beirut, when he was targeted by an Israeli airstrike.

Since the raids took place, on the night between Thursday and Friday, it is the first time that Hezbollah has expressed its opinion on the fate of the leader, considered the most likely successor to Hassan Nasrallahkilled in an Israeli airstrike on 27 September. Since yesterday Israeli and Saudi press sources have been reporting Safieddine dead, while other media reported only his unavailability or injury. So far there have been no official statements from the Israeli army.

War, Macron: “Stop supplying Israel with the weapons it uses in Gaza”

French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken out in favor of stopping supplies of weapons to Israel which are being used in the conflict in Gaza. “I believe that today the priority is to return to a political solution, to stop handing over weapons to fight in Gaza,” the president said on France Inter radio, adding that “France does not provide any.”

Media, ‘Israeli attack on Iran is imminent’

In the morning, despite it being Shabbat, talks were held at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv with representatives of countries allied with Israel in order to coordinate action against Tehran. Senior army officials took part in the meetings. Ynet reports that the IDF said that “you cannot ignore what Iran has done.” Previously, American officials in a conversation with the Israeli media estimated that the Israeli attack on Iran is “imminent.” Meanwhile, the head of the US Central Military Command, General Michael Kurilla, is arriving in Israel.

‘IDF expands ground operations in Gaza for October 7’

According to Israeli military sources, lThe army is preparing to expand ground operations in the Gaza Strip to coincide with the October 7 anniversary. The evacuations indicated by the army in the morning in Nuseirat and Bureij, in the central area of ​​Gaza, would be a sign of the expansion of the attacks, underline the national media. The evacuated areas are located just south of the Netzarim corridor, where the army maintains a semi-permanent presence.

Israel war, leader of the armed wing of Hamas killed

While Hezbollah reports clashes with Israeli troops on the border with Lebanon (“Israeli enemy soldiers again attempted to advance towards the outskirts of the village of Odaisseh (Adaysseh)” and ‘the clashes continue’), Donald Trump says Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear sites.

“The answer should have been: hit nuclear power first and worry about it later”, said the tycoon to those who asked him what he thought of the response given by the US president on the possibility that the Jewish state would hit Tehran’s atomic plants.

Joe Biden has said he is against it and in the last few hours he has urged the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to also look for “other alternatives” to attacks on Iranian oil installations.

Hamas: “Al-Qassam brigade commander killed in raid in Lebanon”

Meanwhile, Hamas confirms the killing in Lebanon of Saeed Atallah Ali, a commander of the group’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades. He was killed, as confirmed by Hamas and reported by the satellite TV al-Jazeera, in a raid by an Israeli drone that hit the Palestinian refugee camp of Beddawi, in the Tripoli area, in the north of the Country of the Cedars. According to Hamas, Atallah Ali’s wife and two daughters were also killed in the operation.

“We promise our people to avenge the pure blood shed and to confirm that our next set of responses will be in deeds before words,” Hamas says.

Israel continues to pound Lebanon with unprecedented ferocity, the conflict monitoring group said Air warsaccording to which the bombing of Tev Aviv against the Hezbollah strongholds in the country, mark the world’s “most intense air campaign” outside Gaza in two decades.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, Israeli raids have killed over 1,400 people in less than three weeks, injured around 7,500 and forced more than a million people to leave their homes. The attacks by the Jewish state are taking place at “a level and intensity that Israel’s own allies would never have carried out in the last 20 years,” Emily Tripp, director of the UK-based group, told CNN, citing the campaign military led by the United States against ISIS in 2017, where, at the height of the battle for Raqqa – the de facto capital of the terrorist group – 500 rounds of ammunition were used in a single day.

FBI alert for October 7th

Alert FBI And Department of Homeland Security for possible security threats or violence ahead of October 7, when one year will have passed since the Hamas attack on Israel. The anniversary, is the assessment in the context of the ongoing conflict, could be “a motivating factor for violent extremists or perpetrators of hate crimes to commit acts of violence or threaten public safety”.

NYT: “For US officials Sinwar is alive and wants regional war”

Yahya Sinwar would be alive, he would still be making crucial decisions for Hamas, he would have hardened his positions, he would have become fatalistic after almost a year of war in Gaza, he would have no intention of reaching an agreement with Israel and indeed he would be determined to see it involved in a wider conflict in the Middle East.

This is what emerges from the New York Times which cites US officials. Although, they acknowledge, there is no certain proof of his existence in life.

According to the newspaper, American negotiators believe that Hamas has no intention of reaching an agreement with Israel for the ceasefire and the release of the hostages held in Gaza Strip since the October 7 attack a year ago in Israel which led to the start of Israeli military operations against Hamas in the Palestinian enclave. And, he writes again NowUS officials also believe that the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned above all with its political survival and may not believe that a ceasefire in Gaza is in its interest.

According to US officials, Hamas has shown no desire to engage in talks in recent weeks. And the sources suspect he is more resigned to the continuation of Israeli military operations. The belief of Sinwar it would be, according to officials, that a larger war with greater pressures on Israel and its soldiers could lead the military to scale back operations in Gaza. And, the NYT observes, the war in the region has spread, but not in such a way as to significantly benefit Hamas, “at least not yet”.