In Lebanon, 136 people killed in the last 24 hours
We’ve heard and seen Israeli air strikes throughout the morning in the vicinity all across southern Lebanon, but in the last hour, the Bekaa Valley and eastern Lebanon have been hit, as has Baalbek and the road towards Syria.
The death toll is climbing as well: 136 people killed in the last 24 hours, and that is something that is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on the emergency services. They’re simply running out of people and ambulances to be able to service the entire area.
A photographer documents damage to a building that was hit by an Israeli air strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, in Lebanon on Monday, September 30
Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel’s Gesher Haziv settlement
The Lebanese armed group says its fighters targeted northern Israel’s Gesher Haziv settlement with a “salvo of rockets”. Earlier, Hezbollah said it had also fired rockets at the northern Israeli town of Safed.
Israeli drone strike kills one near Lebanon border
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says that one person was killed after being struck by an Israeli drone in the village of Khiam, which abuts the country’s border with Israel.
Israel declares areas around three northern border settlements as ‘closed military’ zone
The Israeli military has declared the areas around the settlements of Metula, Misgav Am, and Kfar Giladi in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon as a “closed military zone” and said entry to the areas was prohibited.
It said the decision, announced as speculation has grown of an imminent Israeli ground invasion into southern Lebanon, was taken following a situational assessment.
Hezbollah says it fired rockets at several Israeli army positions
In a statement, the Lebanese group says it fired rockets at Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights.
The group said it also fired a long-range anti-ship cruise missile at Kfar Giladi, a rural cooperative community known as a kibbutz, and said it also targeted a settlement in northern Israel with a “salvo of rockets”.
In a separate statement, Hezbollah said it fired Fadi 1 missiles at areas in northern Haifa.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army said that it detected 10 rockets fired from Lebanese territory towards its north, and that some of them have been intercepted.
Heavy Israeli shelling on southern Lebanese towns and villages
Heavy Israeli artillery shelling as well as air raids have been reported in several towns and villages near the border of Israel, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) says.
Air raids have been reported in the outskirts of Kawkaba, Rachaya al-Fakhar, Kfar Kila and Khiam, the NNA said, while Marjayoun and Wazzani have been targeted with artillery shelling.
The intense attacks come amid rising fears of an imminent ground invasion of Lebanon.
Smoke plumes billow after an Israeli air strike targeted the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with northern Israel on Monday
Israeli army orders new evacuations from Beirut’s southern suburbs
Our correspondents report that moments ago, the Israeli army called on residents of several buildings in Dahiyeh, the area of Beirut that Israel has been pounding with air attacks since it began its intensified attacks on Lebanon, to leave their homes.
Israeli army planes also dropped thermal flares over the skies of the neighbourhood, or correspondent added.
Israel again bombs south Beirut
Our correspondent on the ground in Beirut reports that Israeli warplanes have bombed Laylaki, a neighbourhood in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs.
Hezbollah says it fired on Israeli troop movements near border
The Lebanese group says on Telegram that its fighters attacked movements of Israeli soldiers “in the orchards opposite the [Lebanese] towns of Odaisseh and Kfar Kila”. The group said this attack achieved direct hits.
Statements from Israeli officials and leaks to media from US officials appear to point to an imminent Israeli ground operation in Lebanon.
