Israeli military claims over 70 Hezbollah targets attacked
The Israeli military has claimed that its air force hit more than 70 Hezbollah targets over the past 24 hours. Jet fighters hit antitank positions, military buildings, ammunition depots and operatives, it said.
The military also released what it claimed was night-vision footage from its soldiers invading southern Lebanon, and that they had attacked Hezbollah operatives and retrieved weapons.
An explosives-laden drone crossing into northern Israel from Lebanese territory was also shot down after sirens activated in the upper Galilee area, the military said.
🚨 ✈️ Hostile Aircraft Intrusion [08:39:53] - 1 Alert:
• Confrontation Line — Metulla
Population: 1,600 pic.twitter.com/zV9kH2cAkV
— ILRedAlert (@ILRedAlert) October 26, 2024
Israeli army blows up houses in Lebanon border village
Lebanon’s National News Agency said “the army of the Israeli enemy has since dawn blown up and destroyed houses” in the border village of Odaisseh.
The Israeli military had earlier reported “the explosion of a large quantity of explosives in Lebanon” that was strong enough to trigger earthquake warnings in large parts of Israel.
Hezbollah says it targeted Israeli soldiers and military base
Hezbollah said it has carried out drone and rocket attacks on Israeli soldiers and a military base.
The Iran-backed group said in a statement that its fighters had launched a “salvo of rockets” at Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of the village of Aita al-Shaab, where Hezbollah reported regular clashes with Israeli forces over the past two weeks.
Hezbollah says it targeted intel base in northern Israel
In a statement, the Lebanese armed group said “a rocket salvo” had targeted Meishar base which it called Israel’s “intelligence headquarters for the northern region”. Earlier, we reported Hezbollah saying the group launched a drone attack against Israel’s Tel Nof airbase, south of Tel Aviv.
It also said attacks were carried out at Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of the Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab.
Hezbollah says it fired rockets at 5 Israeli residential zones
In a series of statements, Hezbollah claimed “rocket salvoes” on five residential areas in northern Israel, including the outskirts of Krayot near Haifa.
Israeli raid on Lebanese health centre kills paramedic
According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, a paramedic was killed and 12 wounded in an Israeli raid on a health centre in al-Bazourieh, near Tyre, in the south of the country.
The Public Health Emergency Operations Centre – affiliated with the Ministry of Public Health – said in a statement the Israeli raid on the health centre led to the killing of a paramedic and the injury of others, including three paramedics.
The ministry said the total number of killed paramedics “since the beginning of the aggression has risen to 164 and the number of wounded to 275”.
The ministry said it “reiterates its condemnation of the occupation forces’ insistence on targeting medical and health centres and crews and urges the international community to put an end to this long series of inhumane attacks”.
Death toll in Lebanon rises to 2,653
Israeli attacks killed 19 people in Lebanon on Friday, said the Lebanese Health Ministry, bringing the death toll to 2,653 since the Israel-Hezbollah conflict began last year.
Israel has drawn condemnation for the targeted killing of three journalists in south Lebanon on Friday when its forces hit a compound where media workers were staying.
Hezbollah says US responsible for ‘tragedies’ caused by Israel
Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned of a “dangerous escalation” in the region saying Washington bears “full responsibility” for the “treacherous” raids on Iran launched by United States ally Israel.
“Hezbollah strongly condemns the treacherous Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran and considers it a dangerous escalation at the level of the entire region,” the Lebanese group said in a statement.
The US “bears full responsibility for the massacres, tragedies and pain” caused by Israel, it added.