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SvennoJ on 13 May 2024
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Displaced in northern Israel won’t go home if Gaza war persists: Nasrallah

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah says residents of northern Israel would not be able to return home for the start of the next school year if their government presses on with its war on the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with the Israeli military across Lebanon’s southern border in parallel with the war on the besieged coastal enclave. The group said it is launching rockets at Israel both to support Hamas and to deter Israel from launching an attack on Lebanon.

In a televised address on Monday, Nasrallah repeated that Hezbollah would keep fighting as long as Israel continued its assault on Gaza. “The link between the supportive Lebanese front and Gaza is definitive, final and conclusive,” he said. “No one will be able to delink them.”

Israel said it wants to secure the north for residents to return home either through a mediated diplomatic agreement or a military attack against Lebanon. Families displaced from northern Israel had been hoping to return home by September 1 for the start of the academic year.

 

Israeli military says it hits Hezbollah launchers ready for attack

The Israeli military has released aerial footage of what it says is an air strike on a site where Hezbollah was about to launch rockets at Israeli positions.

It said its fighter jets hit the site in southern Lebanon’s Ayta al-Shaab, which led to secondary explosions and a rocket flying out, indicating the apparent presence of weapons ready to launch.

The armed Lebanese group has managed to carry out multiple launches at northern Israel in the past few hours, setting off sirens in Upper Galilee. But the Israeli military said the launches inflicted no casualties.

Hezbollah claims seven attacks on Israeli positions

The armed Lebanese group says in its end-of-day report that its fighters carried out seven attacks throughout Monday, with the latest hitting Israeli soldiers in the settlement of Metulla.

Hezbollah said the attack was in response to Israeli assaults on southern Lebanese villages and civilian homes, most recently in Odaisseh.

It also reported a drone attack on an Israeli army site in Beit Hillel, resulting in casualties, along with a rocket attack on Kfarchouba and an antitank guided missile attack on a Merkava tank.



Gaza war is ‘adding instability in Yemen’: UN relief chief

Israel’s war on Gaza continues to have wide-ranging ramifications for the region and beyond, including exacerbating a long-running humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

“The last seven months of misery and pain in the wider region, of course, I am referring to the conflict in the Middle East, in Gaza, have added instability in Yemen,” said Martin Griffiths, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

“Attacks on vessels in and around the Red Sea have disrupted global trade, but we cannot, we must not, let developments in the region of the Red Sea stand in the way of peace in Yemen.”

The Houthis in Yemen have been launching attacks on commercial and military vessels in the key waterway near their shores to oppose the war on Gaza and express solidarity with the Palestinians.



Iran’s Khamenei backs Houthis in book fair visit

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, used a visit to the Tehran International Book Fair earlier on Monday to renew his support for the Houthis in Yemen amid the war on Gaza.

Khamenei was filmed briefly meeting with a member of the Houthis who said he brings greetings from the group’s leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi.

“I love the courageous and brave people of Yemen,” Khamenei said, also conveying a greeting for the Houthi leader.

The Yemeni group, which the US says have been receiving arms from Iran for years, has been behind many attacks using missiles and drones on vessels in the Red Sea, carried out in opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza and Western support for it.


Houthi military threatens to expand operations

The Houthis in Yemen promise to launch more attacks – and at new scales – to oppose the war on Gaza, according to spokesman Yahya Saree.

“Gaza is a red line for us,” he said during a speech earlier today.

“We can target things that the enemy hasn’t thought of and can’t imagine, things that neither the Yemeni people nor the people of the [Islamic] nation can imagine,” he said without elaborating.

The Houthis have already promised to level up their attacks to target vessels in the Mediterranean Sea if attacks on Palestinians persist.