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Sirens triggered in Upper Galilee following rocket launches
The Israeli military said the sirens were sounded in the Upper Galilee area of north Israel after it detected 10 rockets launched from southern Lebanon. Not all of the rockets were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system, the Israeli military said, but there have been no reports of damage or injuries.
Hezbollah is yet to confirm the rocket launches.
Bombing of Beirut adds to Lebanon’s ‘mass displacement crisis’
We just heard a huge explosion. We are at one of the entrances to Beirut’s southern suburbs. Neighbourhoods of Beirut’s southern suburbs came under heavy fire late yesterday. Twelve hours of intense bombardments.
We can see some people making their way back inside. These are people who left their homes in a hurry last night and who are now returning to retrieve whatever they can get from their homes.
There is a lot of fear here. The roads are nearly empty. This area on a normal day would be packed with cars and a lot of traffic because this is a densely populated area.
We’ve been driving around the Lebanese capital for the past two hours and you see people in parks, in public squares and along the beach, and even on the side of the roads. They have nowhere to go.
This is a mass displacement crisis already since Monday when Israel began its intensive and extensive air strikes targeting Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds in the east and south of the country. It displaced more than 100,000 people. That’s added to the 110,000 who were already displaced in 11 months of fighting.
Now this is a new wave of displacement that is causing more strain on a nearly cash-strapped government.
Multiple explosions heard in Tel Aviv: Report
There are reports of explosions heard in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli news outlet Ynet.
Meanwhile, a surface-to-surface missile fired from Lebanon towards central Israel fell in an open area, the Israeli army said. The army added that no sirens were sounded and that the incident was under review.
Israeli army claims Hamas commander in southern Syria killed
The Israeli army is claiming that it killed the head of the Hamas network in southern Syria, Ahmad Muhammad Fahd, overnight on Friday. Fahd was “eliminated” before he carried out another operation against Israel, the Israeli army claimed in a post on X.
Syria denounces Israeli attacks in Beirut
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has called the latest Israeli attacks in Lebanon’s capital “a new crime against humanity”.
“The Syrian Arab Republic strongly condemns all these continuous crimes, and renews its affirmation that the Israeli terrorist entity’s insistence on shedding blood and committing all kinds of war crimes and crimes against humanity that are blasphemy, will lead the region to a dangerous acceleration that is impossible to predict its consequences,” it said in a statement.
Israel’s targeting of Hezbollah leader in Beirut bombing a ‘very dangerous turning point'
There seems to be a lot of confidence within the Israeli establishment that the leader of Hezbollah, the secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, was at the location.
The message that is coming out in Israeli media in leaks is that it’s very difficult to see how he would have survived this attack. This is from the Israelis. We’ve heard nothing from Hezbollah. The message from the Israelis now is that they are checking whether the strike – in their words – has been “successful”.
All of this is speculation but certainly the feeling from Israel is that he was there. It’s extraordinary really. We are at a very dangerous turning point when it comes to what happened yesterday in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
