Hezbollah claims attack on army base in northern Israel
The Lebanese group says its fighters bombed the Ilania military base in northern Israel with rockets.
A Hezbollah statement on Telegram said the attack was carried out at 10:20am (07:20 GMT) in response to ongoing Israeli attacks on the Lebanese and Palestinian people.
Israel confirms Hezbollah attack on Haifa, reports no deaths
Two rockets launched from Lebanon at Israel’s Haifa region led to the activation of warning sirens in several towns, according to an army statement. Both rockets were intercepted by air defence systems and there were no reports of deaths in the incident at 10:52am (07:52 GMT), it said.
Hezbollah announced the attack earlier in a statement on Telegram.
Israeli army tells UN peacekeepers in Lebanon to leave border positions
The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, has confirmed to Al Jazeera that the Israeli army has asked its troops to leave some of their positions close to the border amid a potential escalation of its ground incursion.
Israel is accusing Hezbollah of using UNIFIL, along with Lebanese civilians, as shields. The UNIFIL command confirmed it will not evacuate and “will keep reviewing the security situation”.
Earlier, the Israeli military ordered communities north of the UN-proposed buffer zone to evacuate for the first time since the war began.
WHO medical supplies arrive in Lebanon
The first batch of medical supplies mobilised by the World Health Organization (WHO) to treat thousands of victims of Israeli attacks arrived in Beirut. Two more flights are planned for this afternoon with another scheduled for tomorrow, according to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The first flight with @WHO medical supplies - enough to treat tens of thousands of people with injuries - arrived in Beirut, #Lebanon, an hour ago.
Two more flights are planned to arrive this afternoon, carrying more trauma supplies, as well as mental health and cholera… pic.twitter.com/tK2lE1VlYw
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) October 4, 2024
Four medics killed in Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon
The official National News Agency says four health workers have been killed after they were targeted by an Israeli drone strike near the governmental hospital in the town of Marjayoun.
Medical staff at the hospital were evacuated and operations shut down, it said.
“No one was wounded from the medical staff but we have decided to evacuate temporarily until the security situation becomes clearer,” hospital director Mounes Klakesh said.
Israel has intensified its attacks on Lebanon, launching its heaviest air strikes so far with dozens reportedly killed across the country over the past day.
