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SvennoJ on 05 August 2024

Hezbollah confirms fighter killed in southern Lebanon

Hezbollah confirms that another of its operatives, identified as Ali Jamal al-Din Jawad, has been killed.

Earlier today, the group announced that a paramedic with the Lebanese civil defence teams and another fighter were killed as a result of Israeli military air strikes in Meiss el-Jabal in southern Lebanon.

Israel says killing of Hezbollah commander ‘significant blow’ to group’s ability

The Israeli military has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the Hezbollah operative that the Lebanese group confirmed was killed today.

It released aerial footage of a drone strike on a motorcycle purportedly in the southern Lebanon village of Aabba, adding that Ali Jamal al-Din Jawad was a commander in the Radwan unit of Hezbollah.

It said the assassination will deal a “significant blow” to Hezbollah’s ability to carry out attacks on Israel. The Israeli military also claimed an air strike on a building used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Kfar Kila.

It reported that multiple explosive-laden drones have been launched from Lebanon today, with several making impact in the Mount Meron area but inflicting no casualties.

Rockets launched at base housing US troops in Iraq

Multiple reports indicate explosions in the vicinity of the Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq, where US troops are stationed.

Reuters news agency cited unnamed security sources as saying at least two rockets were fired at the base, which has been a repeat target of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq umbrella group of Iran-aligned forces.

US personnel injured in strike on base in Iraq

Reuters news agency is reporting that US personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.

Citing three unnamed US officials, the report states that “several” personnel were injured.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/politics/personnel-injured-iraq-al-asad-airbase/index.html

Isfahan explosion-like sounds were ‘training exercises’: Iran’s IRGC

Multiple loud explosions were heard in Isfahan in central Iran in the past few hours in a tense night across the Middle East.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says in a statement that the sounds were a result of training exercises for commandos enrolled at Amir Al-Momenin University of Military Sciences and Technology.

Mohammad Reza Jannesari, the political and security deputy for the province, also confirmed to state media that the sounds were related to a drill.



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‘Targeting infrastructure constitutes war crime’

The EU says it is “gravely concerned” over the continued destruction of key civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including a water treatment plant in Rafah.

“We are deeply concerned about the collapse of the sanitation, solid waste management, and health systems, causing the spread of diseases, including polio, skin and respiratory infections, in particular among children,” an EU statement said, renewing a call for an immediate ceasefire.

“We recall that targeting critical life-saving infrastructure constitutes a war crime and urge all parties to take all feasible precautions to avoid harm to civilians, humanitarian workers, and critical civilian infrastructure.”



So concerned, here have some more weapons to continue destruction.

More than 11,000 Palestinians expected to be displaced again in Gaza: UN

The latest Israeli military evacuation order for southern Gaza is displacing a large number of Palestinians, many of whom have been displaced multiple times already.

“Our partners tracking population movements in Gaza estimate that more than 11,000 people had been living in these areas affected by this evacuation order,” Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesperson for the UN chief, told reporters in New York.

The order, issued on Sunday, affected areas south of Khan Younis, where the Israeli military has renewed a ground invasion that had lasted for months in its initial phase.

He also confirmed that the Israeli military has hit three schools sheltering displaced people in the past 48 hours, killing dozens of Palestinians and wounding more.


US doesn't want to escalate?

US says it will respond at ‘its choosing’ after attack on US forces in Iraq

The US is very concerned, particularly now, with this strike on the al-Assad base in Iraq.

President Biden has been briefed by his national security team on that attack. According to the White House’s press office, the president discussed steps the US is taking to defend its forces and respond in a manner of its choosing and place.

This comes just as the Pentagon also released information that, over the last 24 hours, US troops detected and destroyed what appeared to be a several-pronged Houthis strike towards US and coalition forces and merchant vessels.

That included the US destroying five drones over the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, as well as a drone ship, and an antiship ballistic missile in the Red Sea. All of this, the US is attributing to the Houthis.

While the US is very concerned about de-escalating the situation in the region, it appears the opposite is happening. Even so, there are still diplomatic efforts ongoing.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is speaking with his G7 counterparts on Sunday and trying to put some last-minute diplomatic pressure to minimise any sort of retaliation that may come from Iran and its proxies.


You've been asked to leave Iraq...

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraq-seeks-quick-exit-us-forces-no-deadline-set-pm-says-2024-01-10/

BAGHDAD, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iraq wants a quick and orderly negotiated exit of U.S-led military forces from its soil but has not set a deadline, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said, describing their presence as destabilising amid regional spillover from the Gaza war.

Longstanding calls by mostly Shi'ite Muslim factions, many close to Iran, for the U.S-led coalition's departure have gained steam after a series of U.S. strikes on Iran-linked militant groups that are also part of Iraq's formal security forces.


SvennoJ on 05 August 2024

New revelation exposes Israel’s UNRWA lies by Wall Street Journal, Matthew Miller

In a huge development, its has emerged that the Wall Street Journal had lied in January when it sensationally alleged that 10% UNRWA staff in Gaza had links with Hamas. A news website has got hold of an email by the WSJ’s chief editor who says that her publication has not been able to substantiate those lies with evidence.

US official gives astonishing reply to Iran’s right to defend against Israel

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Monday once again showed just how shameless the Biden administrating can be in siding with Israel. Both on the starvation faced by Palestinians in Gaza and Iran’s right to defend against Israel, Miller came up with astonishing replies.

 

Mehdi Hasan Debate Exposes Zionist Lies About Israel’s Apartheid State

 

US Troops FLOOD Middle East As Iran War Looms



SvennoJ on 06 August 2024

Latest Israeli attacks on Gaza target port area, kill motorcyclist

An Israeli drone strike on a motorcycle travelling on Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza’s as-Zawayda area has killed one person and left another injured, while Israeli naval boats have shelled the port area west of Gaza City, the Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli artillery pounded Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood late on Monday. Earlier in the day, four people were killed in an Israeli strike on a group of civilians on a street in the Tal al-Hawa area and two young men were killed when a group of people were targeted by an air strike on a street in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Israeli forces have also ordered residents of central Khan Younis city and several neighbourhoods to evacuate immediately ahead of an expected ground operation, though Wafa reports that Israel’s military continued its attacks even as residents were ordered to leave their homes in the designated areas.



Child malnutrition surges in Gaza as more civilians killed, displaced: UN

In the five-day period up to Monday, 143 Palestinians were reported killed and 341 injured by Israeli attacks on Gaza from air, land and sea forces, according to the UN’s latest situation report.

Detected cases of child malnutrition in Gaza have jumped almost 50 percent in July compared with June, with more than 650 Palestinian children now suffering from “acute malnutrition” in the enclave, which is a three-fold increase in cases since May.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reports that an estimated 10,000 people remain missing or under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza.

And about 11,000 people have been affected by the Israeli military’s latest order for residents of areas in southern Khan Younis and northern Rafah to evacuate. The order affects 24 residential blocs covering 18sq km (7sq miles), the UN reports.


An injured child sits next to a woman at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City following Israeli bombardment on the Hassan Salama and Nassr schools housing displaced Palestinians on Sunday


Displaced Palestinians live in fear of another wave of forcible displacement: NGO

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has sent an update about the humanitarian situation in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, where aid teams and a significant number of displaced people are concentrated.

“People are living in a constant state of unpredictability, not knowing what is going to come next, be it more displacements, more relocations, or a regional escalation,” Hassan Morajea, regional access advisor for the Norwegian Refugee Council, says from Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

NRC estimates that recent relocation orders have reduced the size of Israel’s unilaterally designated “humanitarian zones” in Gaza from 20 percent to 14.5 percent, displacing more than 200,000 people from Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah between July 22 and 28.

“The streets are uninhabitable, crowded with people using anything that will offer some semblance of a roof over their heads, even if that is in a damaged building scarred with holes, and destruction around them. It’s shocking to see people living in ruins, but that’s what’s happening here in Gaza, because there is no other option. There aren’t open fields to even set up a tent. There aren’t even tents for them to set up,” Morajea said.

At least five people were killed and 16 wounded on Sunday in an Israeli drone attack on tents at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, with a separate attack on a house nearby in the same area killing three.


A woman walks amid the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike that hit tents used as temporary shelters by displaced Palestinians in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on August 4



SvennoJ on 06 August 2024

Israel say Hamas officials killed in Gaza; Palestinians hit Israelis in north, south: Monitors

Israel’s military claims to have killed two Hamas officials in recent strikes on the Gaza Strip while Palestinian fighters have targeted Israeli troops and armour with anti-personnel mines and rocket-propelled grenades in the north and south of the enclave, monitors report.

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), Israel claimed it killed the commander of Hamas’s Sheikh Radwan Battalion and the group’s minister of economy in attacks on Sunday.

On Monday, Palestinian fighters targeted an Israeli armoured personnel carrier with a mine in Gaza City Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood and fired mortars at Israeli troops deployed on the Netzarim Corridor, located south of Gaza City, the US-based think tanks report.

Hamas fighters carried out three attacks in eastern Khan Younis on Monday, including detonating an antipersonnel mine that targeted Israeli soldiers stationed inside a building in the city. In nearby Rafah, three improvised explosive devices were detonated targeting Israeli soldiers, the ISW-CTP reports, and at least 15 rockets were fired from southern Gaza towards Israel.


Six bodies recovered in Bureij, Rafah

The bodies of five people killed in central Gaza’s Bureij camp and one person killed in Rafah have been recovered, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. Bureij is among several areas in central Gaza shelled by Israeli forces today, according to their earlier report.

Rafah has also been targeted by Israeli attacks today, the report added, with several residential buildings destroyed there.


Trail of destruction in Bureij after deadly overnight attacks

Israeli air strikes continue to pound central Gaza, as well as hitting the eastern part of Khan Younis in what seem to be concentrated attacks.

The Israeli military is describing their attacks as “targeted killings” but judging from the kind of targets they are hitting and the people showing up injured at the hospital, they seem quite the contrary.

In the Bureij refugee camp, for example, four brothers from one family were killed in overnight attacks. It was not until this morning that paramedics and rescue teams were able to get to their bombed house and remove their bodies from under the rubble.

Eyewitnesses described the bombing as quite intense, causing massive explosions that not only destroyed the targeted home but also the majority of properties, residential homes and infrastructure in the area.


Malnutrition getting ‘worse and worse’

Malnutrition in Gaza has become widespread, and the aid provided is just a “drop in the ocean” compared to people’s actual needs, according to Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, deputy medical coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, a charity also known by its French initials MSF.

The situation has grown so dire that even members of Abu Mughaisib’s own team have reported suffering from malnutrition.

“It’s getting worse and worse,” he told Al Jazeera from Gaza’s southern district of Rafah. “It’s not only the north, it’s the entire Gaza Strip” that is affected.


Displaced Palestinian children carry rations of soup distributed by volunteers in Rafah, southern Gaza



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Key takeaways from B’Tselem’s report on Israel’s ‘torture camps’

The Israeli human rights group collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians, including 21 from the Gaza Strip, who had been held in Israeli prisons since October 7.

The detainees spoke to B’Tselem following their release – here are some details:

  • The B’Tselem report reveals that more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities were converted into a network of camps “dedicated to the abuse of inmates” following October 7.
  • “Such spaces, in which every inmate is intentionally condemned to severe, relentless pain and suffering, operate in fact as torture camps,” it said.
  • The violations include “frequent acts of severe, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation; deliberate starvation; forced unhygienic conditions; sleep deprivation; prohibition on, and punitive measures for, religious worship; confiscation of all communal and personal belongings; and denial of adequate medical treatment”.
  • B’Tselem said at least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 7. Some 48 of them were from Gaza.
  • The report said that detainee testimonies demonstrate “a systemic, institutional policy focused on the continual abuse and torture of all Palestinian prisoners”. This policy, it said, is implemented under the direction of Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, with the full support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • B’Tselem also noted that the number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails has doubled to 9,623 since the war on Gaza began.


Reports of torture in Israel’s Sde Teiman ‘only represent the tip of iceberg’

A group of 10 UN human rights experts have decried the world’s “silence” on reports of Israeli forces torturing Palestinian detainees, warning that the allegations of maltreatment and sexual violence at Israel’s Sde Teiman prison “only represent the tip of the iceberg”.

The independent experts said they have received “substantiated reports of widespread abuse, torture, sexual assault and rape” of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons.

“Countless testimonies by men and women speak of detainees in cage-like enclosures, tied to beds blindfolded and in diapers, stripped naked, deprived of adequate healthcare, food, water and sleep, electrocutions including on their genitals, blackmail and cigarette burns,” they said in a statement. “In addition, victims spoke of loud music played until their ears bled, attacks by dogs, waterboarding, suspension from ceilings and severe sexual and gender-based violence.”

The experts called on the international community to ramp up pressure on Israel, stating that the “allegations of gang rape of a Palestinian detainee – now shockingly supported by voices in the Israeli political establishment and society – provide irrefutable evidence that the moral compass is lost”. They also urged the UN Human Rights Council, in particular, to urgently launch an inquiry into Israeli facilities holding Palestinians.

Israeli reservists fail polygraph probing sexual abuse allegations: Report

Two Israeli reservists suspected of sexually abusing a Palestinian prisoner have failed a polygraph test about the allegations, reports Israel’s Channel 12.

The soldiers, among five still detained over sexual abuse allegations at Israel’s Sde Teiman facility, denied committing or covering up an act of sexual assault during the polygraph examination, but the examiner deemed their responses deceptive, said the report.

The allegations against the reservists have divided Israeli society, with a group of far-right activists storming the facility they were held at last week demanding their release.


Israelis continue to protest detention of soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian prisoner

Israelis are demonstrating in front of the military court at the Beit Lid base in the centre of the country, to protest the continued detention of five reserve soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert.

Last week, dozens of Israeli protesters, including far-right members of the Knesset, clashed with military police after at least nine soldiers suspected of abusing a Palestinian prisoner were detained for questioning.

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said the demonstration comes ahead of the start of a court hearing on the third extension of the detention of the five soldiers.

Demonstrators chanted slogans such as “This is the state of the Jews and it precedes democracy” and called for the release of the accused soldiers.

As Israel experiences yet another violent demonstration outside one of its military bases, opposition leader Yair Lapid has taken to X to condemn the country’s government, saying it “harms the functioning of the army and endangers national security”.



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UN expert condemns Israeli killing of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza

The UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression has condemned Israel’s killing last week of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Rifi in Gaza, urging that their deaths be prosecuted as a war crime.

“I strongly denounce the deliberate targeting by Israel of two journalists in Gaza, which adds to an already appalling toll of reporters and media workers killed in this war,” Irene Khan said in a statement.

The two men were killed in a July 31 air strike by the Israeli military, which said al-Ghoul was a Hamas operative who took part in the October 7 attack against Israel.

Al Jazeera has rejected what it said are “baseless allegations”, saying that journalism was his only profession.

“Given Israel’s failure to heed earlier calls for accountability, I urge the International Criminal Court to move swiftly to prosecute the killings of journalists in Gaza as a war crime and call on the international community to urgently consider the use of international mechanisms to investigate crimes against journalists in Gaza,” Khan added.


Palestinians inspect a vehicle where Al Jazeera TV said its reporter Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City, July 31



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Three teens among 4 killed during Israeli military raid in West Bank: Report

The death toll from the Israeli military raid on the town of Aqqaba in the occupied West Bank’s Tubas area has risen to four – including two 19-year-olds and a 14-year-old, the Wafa news agency reports.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health told Wafa that the two 19-year-olds from Aqqaba died early on Tuesday of their wounds after being shot by Israeli forces.

A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was also shot and killed during the raid and, on Monday evening, a 37-year-old man died from critical head wounds from the Israeli gunfire.

According to reports, the Israeli military stormed the town, surrounded a house and fired live bullets at young Palestinians who tried to resist the incursion into their community. The Palestine Red Crescent Society had reported that seven Palestinians were shot and seriously injured during the Israeli raid.


Israeli military raid on Jenin continues, arrests carried out across West Bank

Israeli forces continued their military raid on Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp in the early hours of this morning, destroying civilian infrastructure as reconnaissance aircraft overflew the occupied West Bank city.

The Wafa news agency reports that the raid, which began on Monday, involves Israeli military bulldozers causing “severe material damage” to public infrastructure and private property in the city and refugee camp. Power outages have been reported as a result of damage to electrical transformers, the news agency reports.

Raids and arrests have been reported elsewhere in the occupied territory, including:

  • Two young Palestinians arrested in the Jalazone refugee camp, located to the north of Ramallah.
  • Three Palestinians, including a teenager, arrested in raids in the Bethlehem area during which clashes broke out with local people resisting the Israeli military incursion in the village of Artas.
  • A wounded Palestinian man was arrested in the town of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin, after Israeli forces stormed his family home.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic verified footage of damage to Palestinian vehicles during the Israeli raid on Jenin on Monday.

Translation: [Israeli] bulldozers destroy infrastructure and roads in Jenin camp. 


Israeli drone attack kills 1 in Jenin

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that one person was killed in the eastern area of the city in the occupied West Bank, after being bombed from the air by an Israeli army drone.

Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters went on all night in the city as a raid by the army unfolded.

In latest Jenin raid, 18-year-old killed by Israeli drone attack

Now the death toll [from Israeli raids in the West Bank] has increased to five because an 18-year-old Palestinian has been killed here in Jenin. We heard two loud bangs as we were making our way to this city, which had been undergoing a raid since the afternoon of yesterday.

We have seen more and more Israeli military vehicles going towards the Jenin refugee camp, where armed confrontations have taken place between the Palestinian fighters there and the Israeli forces that kept coming in. And now we’ve heard the drone strikes, two of them, killing one Palestinian. Medical sources say they have nine injuries just here in Jenin, two of them are in critical condition.

Death toll from West Bank raids rises to 7

The death toll from continuing Israeli raids in the West Bank has risen to seven, Palestinian officials have confirmed. Al Jazeera correspondents have reported that three people, including an 18-year-old, were killed in Jenin this morning and four others in Tubas.

This brings the death toll in the occupied West Bank since October 7 to 612, including 145 children and 11 women.



SvennoJ on 06 August 2024

Israeli police officer injured in checkpoint stabbing: Reports

Israeli media is reporting a stabbing attack at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem. Israel’s Kan broadcaster said that an Israeli police officer was lightly injured in the attack and that the perpetrator has been killed.

Israeli police confirm Jerusalem stabbing incident

The Israeli police, in a statement, say that one person was “lightly” wounded in the incident and that the attacker was “neutralised”.



Surge in killings as Israel raids West Bank

Israeli forces conducted two air strikes against the Jenin refugee camp, now we are talking about five killed just here, in Jenin.

That is an escalation that took place in the morning, after Israeli forces raided this area late afternoon yesterday. They were targeting a money exchange shop saying that everyone who is dealing with Hamas will be paying the price.

We are talking about the bodies that couldn’t be moved by the Palestinian medical teams. We’re still hearing the drones, so the raid is not over.

We’re also talking about another incident that took place in Aqqaba, near Tubas, where four Palestinians have been killed. According to local sources, the Palestinians discovered an undercover Israeli unit that was surrounding one of the homes, leading to armed confrontations. Then Israeli forces used force against Palestinians, some of them doing nothing, not participating.

We’re talking about an escalation in the occupied West Bank, where on Sunday we reported two Israeli air strikes killed nine, and today we’re talking about [at least] nine killed since midnight.


Sixteen arrested in latest West Bank raids

Israeli forces have rounded up 16 people in the occupied West Bank in the last day, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Those arrested include an injured person, several children and former prisoners, said the group in its latest update.

The arrests took place in the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, Tubas, Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus, Jericho and Qalqilya, it added. They bring the total number of Israeli arrests in the West Bank since October 7 to 9,970, said the group.


Witness recounts Jenin attack

Al Jazeera has spoken to a witness to one of the Israeli air attacks in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

The witness, Mohaidden Abu Sbaih, said Israeli bulldozers showed up in the area, as warplanes appeared overhead. Within five minutes, he said, the Israeli aircraft struck a building in the neighbourhood.

After the strike, community members located the remains of four people killed in the attack, he said. “They are gangs,” said Abu Sbaih, referring to the Israeli military forces.


Number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on West Bank rises

Here’s the latest breakdown following the Israeli army’s raids in different locations of the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian health officials:

  • Five people were killed on the Jenin area
  • Four people were killed in Aqaba town in Tubas district
  • Three people were killed in the village of Kafr Qud, west of Jenin.


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US destroys Houthi drones, missile in Yemen, Gulf of Aden and Red Sea

The US’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has issued a statement with details of the assaults, saying it destroyed five Houthi drones, one drone ship and a missile in three different locations – Yemen, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

CENTCOM said its forces, in the past 24 hours, destroyed three Houthi drones launched over the Gulf of Aden and one drone in rebel-controlled areas in Yemen. Additionally, US forces also destroyed one drone, one drone ship and one antiship ballistic missile in the Red Sea.

Israel intercepts projectile from Lebanon

The Israeli military said its air defence forces intercepted a “suspicious aerial target” launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel.

It said air raid sirens were activated as the projectile was shot down over Kerem Ben Zimra and Gush Halav in the Upper Galilee and added there were no casualties.


Hezbollah claims attack on Israel’s Avivim

The Lebanese group said it targeted a building used by Israeli soldiers in the village of Avivim near Lebanon’s Blue Line border with Israel.

The announcement came after the Israeli military said it intercepted a projectile over Kerem Ben Zimra and Gush Halav, towns that are near Avivim in the Upper Galilee.


Four killed by Israeli air attack in southern Lebanon: Report

An Israeli air raid on the village of Mayfadoun has killed four people, according to a statement from Lebanon’s Health Ministry cited by the country’s An-Nahar media outlet.

Israel’s military did not immediately comment on the reported strike. It comes several hours after Israel’s military shot down what it called a “suspicious aerial target” from Lebanon.

Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon strike: Report

All four people killed in the Israeli strike in Lebanon’s Mayfadoun were Hezbollah fighters, reports AFP, citing a security source. Reuters, also citing an unnamed security source, said the four killed were men.

The attack is bound to further inflame tensions with the Lebanese group, which, along with Iran, is believed to be preparing a retaliatory attack against Israel.

Hezbollah says four fighters killed

The Lebanese group says four of its members have been killed in cross-border fighting with Israel, without providing details about the circumstances of their deaths.

Injuries in Hezbollah attack on northern Israel: Report

Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 reports that a drone launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah has made a “direct hit” on a farm near Nahariya. The injuries, the number of which we are unable to confirm at this time, range from “moderate” to “serious”.


Hezbollah claims strikes on Israeli military units

Hezbollah has confirmed it carried out an air attack in northern Israel that caused casualties.

In a statement, the Lebanese group said it fired a series of drones at the headquarters of Israel’s Golani Brigade, an infantry brigade, and the headquarters of its Egoz Unit, an elite commando unit, located in the Shraga barracks near the Lebanese border.

The attacks “hit their targets accurately and achieved casualties”, said the group, adding that its response for the killing of Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander, in an Israeli strike on Beirut last week is “yet to come”.

Meanwhile, The Times of Israel reports that two people have been injured, one critically, in the nearby town of Mazra’a from drone impact.