2024-09-30 17:40:12
Time.news – Keep it up exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollahwhile calls for de-escalation continue, but Israel’s land occupation in Lebanon has actually begun. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote that in the evening gunshots and the movement of tanks were reported within the Lebanese border. The Lebanese army has withdrawn from positions along the border south with Israel, less than five kilometers north of the border, as reported to Reuters by a Lebanese security source. The withdrawal, Times of Israel in the background, comes at a time when awareness is increasing about the imminent Israeli threat to southern Lebanon.
Lebanese media reported that Israel attacked and fired on tanks at border villages near an area it declared a closed military border hours earlier, ahead of an Israeli ground attack on southern Lebanon. The area around Khiam and Wizani, both facing the Lebanese-Israeli border, was bombed for at least two hours. Both were located directly east of the military zone that had been targeted by an Israeli military spokesman on Monday evening.
The Jewish government, however, has told the US that it will be a limited campaignfocused on eliminating the infrastructure of the Shiite Pro-Iranian group along the border to remove the threat to Israeli territories, reported the Washington Post, while for the Wall Street Journal in recent days special forces have carried out targeted attacks in Hezbollah tunnels along the border.
From Lebanon, the deputy secretary of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, the possible successor to the slain leader, let us hear him. Hassan Nasrallahin addition to another, more ‘popular’, Hashem Safeddine. “In the event of a threat to the land of Israel we are ready. The enemy will not reach its goals,” he assured. “We will continue with our plan. We will win, just as we won in our confrontation with Israel in 2006”, he added, repeating the accusations against “the United States, Israel’s partner through unlimited military, cultural, political and financial support “..
Unifil, “hot fights, impossible patrols”
UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon were unable to suppress the rebels due to the intensity of Israeli attacks and Hezbollah rockets aimed at Israel. The spokesperson of the United Nations said so. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio said that “The Blue Unifil Helmets are in place in the mission area of responsibility, while the conflict prevents their movements and the ability to carry out their assigned tasks, ” said the spokesman for the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio. Guterres, in a press conference. “For the intensity” of the fighting “I was not able to carry out patrols”.
Biden calls for ‘stop now’
For its part, Washington is working to prevent the spread of conflict in the region: The Biden administration fears an attack from Iran following Nasrallah’s assassination and working with Israel on security, CNN said. At the same time, he warned Tehran that if it attacks the Jewish state directly in the coming days, the response this time will be bigger and more impressive than in April, when the Islamic Republic launched hundreds of missiles and drones against Israel. . Asked by the press for his position on the limited land threat to Lebanon, Biden himself answered: “I am more concerned than you can imagine and I hope they will stop. We should be released now.”
Iran will not leave any of Israel’s “criminal acts” unanswered and will “cut off the hands and feet” of those who attack the country, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry stressed, Nasser Kanani. Only then added that Tehran will not send fighters in Lebanon and Gaza, who “have the strength and power to resist the aggression of the Zionist regime”. Moreover, he continued, “we do not accept any demands and we know that they do not need the help of our forces”.
Lebanese Prime Minister meets French Foreign Minister
In Beirut, the Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with France’s new foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, the first senior Western diplomat to visit the Lebanese capital since Israel’s attacks escalated. The head of the Quai d’Orsay also urged Israel not to carry out any ground attack against Lebanon, adding that France would extend its support to the Lebanese army. “The key to the solution is to end Israel’s aggression against Lebanon and resume the appeal launched by the United States and France, with the support of the European Union and Arab and foreign countries, for release”, the Lebanese leader reiterated this, stressing that “Priority in the implementation of the UN resolution 1701”, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. In this case, Mikati said that he is ready to send troops to the south of the country.
It is precisely the implementation of all the resolutions of the UN Security Council that is necessary for Israel to give the green light to the release in Lebanon, the Israeli Foreign Minister has announced Israel Katzreiterated that there will be no peace until Hezbollah goes north of the Litani River and is armed, as required by the agreement. “The next phase of the war against Hezbollah will begin soon,” Israel’s Defense Minister warned, Yoav Gallant.
Netanyahu’s message to the people of Iran
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Posted a video message in English, speaking directly to the people of Iran. “When Iran is finally free, and that time will come much sooner than people think, everything will be different. Our two ancient peoples, the Jews and the Persian people, will be at peace at last. Our two nations , Israel and Iran, they will be in peace,” he said, arguing that the government of the Islamic Republic does not care about its people, and wants to “waste billions of dollars on unnecessary wars in the Middle East -sun” and “on nuclear weapons” instead of improving. the living conditions of its inhabitants. So encourage the Iranians to turn their backs on their leaders. “Israel is with you,” Netanyahu added.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army continued to bomb Lebanon: in addition to the raids in the Beqaa valley and in the south, during the night they also attacked the center of Beirut, killing three important organizers of the Popular Front for Freedom. of Palestine (PFLP), with leader Nadal Abdel-Alel. The head of Hamas in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu Al-Amin, was also killed in an attack near Tire. The man is still an employee of UNRWA, but was “placed on administrative leave without pay in March and is under investigation into his political activities,” the UN agency for Palestinians said.
In addition to the rockets on the Galilee, Hezbollah said it had used a Nour cruise missile against Israel for the first time, firing at the area of Kfar Giladi, near the border with Lebanon. Meanwhile, from Yemen, the Houthi rebels have announced that they will increase military operations against the Jewish State, after an IDF attack on the targets of the pro-Iran group that caused five deaths and 57 injuries.
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