Israeli military announces death of soldier in northern Israel
The Israeli military has announced that a soldier has been killed in the northern Israeli community of Malkia. The soldier, a 20-year-old with the Field Intelligence Corps’ 869th Battalion, was killed in a mortar and missile attack carried out on Wednesday by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese armed group said on Wednesday that it carried out 12 attacks on various Israeli positions across the border, including buildings housing Israeli troops in the towns of Manara and Shlomi. Two Israeli soldiers were also killed on Monday in a Hezbollah drone attack on an Israeli military position near the northern Israeli town of Metula.
Syria says Israeli missiles fired at Damascus shot down: Report
Reuters news agency is reporting that Syrian air defences shot down Israeli missiles fired from the occupied Golan Heights towards the capital Damascus, according to the country’s Defence Ministry.
Syria says ‘some material losses’ suffered in Israeli missile attack
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reports that air defence forces shot down Israeli missiles launched from the occupied Golan Heights in northern Israel that were targeting a building on the outskirts of Damascus.
“Our air defence forces intercepted the [Israeli] missiles and shot down some of them,” SANA reports, quoting a military source.
The attack, at about 3:20am local time (00:20 GMT), caused “some material losses”, SANA said.
Since October 7, Israel has intensified years of clandestine attacks on targets in Syria that it claims are linked to Iran.
Houthis say missiles, drones targeted 2 ships in Gulf of Aden
The Yemen-based Houthis have targeted two ships in the Gulf of Aden with ballistic missiles and drones, a spokesman for the group has said.
The attacks on the ships – identified by the Houthis as the “Israeli” MSC DIEGO and the MSC GINA – were “accurate”, Yahya Saree added, without providing further details. The group said they also hit a third ship, the MSC VITTORIA, in two attacks carried out in the Indian Ocean and then in the Arabian Sea.
The Houthis, who have been targeting international vessels in the vital shipping lanes since November in retaliation for Israel’s war on Gaza, said they were “following developments” and won’t “hesitate to escalate their military operations”.
Alleged Israeli attack hits vehicle in southern Lebanon: Report
An Israeli drone attack has targeted a vehicle in the southern Lebanese town of Bafliyeh, Lebanon’s an-Nahar media reports. A photograph published in the Lebanese media outlet shows a battered vehicle on the side of the road, with smoke rising around it.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli authorities.
Two killed in drone attack in southern Lebanon
A suspected Israeli drone attack on a vehicle in southern Lebanon has killed two people and wounded a third, a medical source has told Al Jazeera. The Palestinian news agency Wafa and Lebanon’s National News Agency also reported casualties from the attack, which took place near the town of Bafliyeh.
Israeli army destroys home of suspected attacker
Israeli forces have blown up the home of a man who is alleged to have carried out a February shooting attack at a bus stop in southern Israel, reports the Wafa news agency. The demolition of his eighth-floor apartment, located in Jerusalem’s Shu’fat refugee camp, has left his wife and four children homeless.
The man, 37-year-old Fadi Jamjoum, was fatally shot by an Israeli reservist following the February bus stop attack. Within days, Israeli forces raided Jamjoum’s home and took measurements, preparing to demolish it, according to Wafa.
Israel regularly demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of attacks on Israel, a policy that rights groups decry as a form of “collective punishment”.
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