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Lebanon orders school closures in conflict areas: State media
The media office of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Lebanon has announced that all educational institution directors in areas affected by fighting which is preventing safe attendance must shut down their schools, the National News Agency (NNA) is reporting.
They are also directed to inform students and relevant educational districts of the closures, the NNA added.
Earlier, the Lebanese University announced the closure of its branches in the southern cities of Sidon, Nabatieh, and Tyre tomorrow.
These disruptions to Lebanon’s education system came after Isreal launched massive strikes against the south last night, targeting 400 sites by its own account.
Army chief vows to ‘hit anyone’ who threatens Israelis
Israel’s army chief says the military’s attacks on the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group were a “message” to the country’s foes in the region and beyond.
“This operation against Hezbollah’s chain of command is a clear message to Hezbollah, but it is also a message to the Middle East and beyond: We will hit anyone who threatens the citizens of the state of Israel,” Herzi Halevi said in a video statement.
IRGC says Israeli collaborators arrested in Iran
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says in a statement carried by Reuters news agency that 12 people had been arrested for being operatives collaborating with Israel and planning acts against Iran’s security.
“As the Zionist regime and their Western backers, most notably the United States, have not succeeded in their sinister goals against the people of Gaza and Lebanon, they are now seeking to spread the crisis to Iran with a series of actions planned against our country’s security,” the statement reads.
The IRGC added that members of the network of 12 operatives were arrested in six different Iranian provinces, but did not say when.
In late July, the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran in an assassination blamed on Israel by Iranian authorities.
‘We must stand together against this occupier’: Hamas
Walid Kilani, a Hamas media official in Lebanon, has said that the group has been “extremely flexible in the negotiations” for a ceasefire in Gaza and for a prisoner-captive exchange.
He also said that some members of Israel’s coalition have made it clear that Israel has “ambitions in Jordan”, and that “this Zionist enemy is an expansionist enemy and will not be satisfied with occupying Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, or Lebanon”.
“We must stand together against this occupier [Israel],” he said.
Kilani also said that Hamas has not used its weapons in Lebanon “and has not and will not participate in any internal dispute in Lebanon”. “Hezbollah’s decision to continue the war or stop is up to the group, and Hamas has nothing to do with it,” he said.
