Hezbollah claims attack on occupied Golan Heights

On Telegram, the Lebanese group says it launched a rocket salvo at the Israeli city of Katzrin in the Golan Heights, part of Syrian territory that Israel has occupied since 1967.

The group made no mention of a target in Katzrin belonging to the Israeli military.

The military has yet to comment on this attack.

Israel is not ‘letting up’ on Gaza

We haven’t seen any significant change in how this war is being conducted. From the very beginning, it has been largely one-sided, dominated by the Israeli military.

Every once in a while, we hear about the Israeli military slowing down in one area or others, but what we’re seeing on the ground here is completely the opposite: a surge in the attacks.

Despite the distraction created by the ongoing narrative that [Israeli forces] are busy on the northern front, particularly in Lebanon, they are still bombing across the Gaza Strip.

Unfortunately, the attacks – on the Nuseirat refugee camp, on the Bureij refugee camp, and on Khan Younis – have already killed 33 people.

And just within the past half an hour, we have received a confirmation from the hospital where the majority of casualties from an attack on residential homes in a camp arrived. It has risen to 11 people, and that includes the four children who were transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Any narrative about letting up the attacks or slowing the intensity of the attacks is not real.

What we’re seeing on the ground is more concentrated attacks on residential homes, and particularly we look at families.

Voices of Lebanon: People fleeing for their lives as Israel attacks

Twelve-year-old Zahra woke up afraid on Monday morning.

“I was so stressed because of the bombs,” the little girl from Borj Qalaouiye told Al Jazeera.

Zahra’s village lies between Nabatieh and Bint Jbeil in south Lebanon, but in October last year, she and her family fled to Laylaki in Beirut’s southern suburbs, shortly after Hezbollah and Israel began exchanging cross-border attacks.

On the same day, she got another fright.

“I was so scared and then I saw on the news they were going to bomb our building,” she said of the family’s refuge in Beirut.

On Monday morning, people around Lebanon – particularly in the southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley – received messages from unknown numbers warning them to leave their homes quickly.

Read the rest of our story to hear more voices from Lebanon as it reels from Israeli attacks.

Israeli military air raids on Lebanon ongoing

Just now, the Israeli military is still striking targets across south Lebanon. In the last hour, they have hit 20 villages. This comes after Hezbollah said it hit 16 sites across northern Israel, including the Atlit naval base, which is just south of Haifa. It also said it fired three drones at the base; the Israeli military said they intercepted two of those drones.

In turn, the Israeli military announced that it hit over 1,500 sites in 200 areas in the last two days. That includes the strike this afternoon on Dahiyeh, the southern suburb of Beirut which is densely populated and it’s a residential area. We understand from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, six people have died in that strike and 15 have been injured.

The Israeli military has said that its attack helicopters and fighter jets have flown 3,000 hours combined across Lebanon – a huge number of raids and military missions. The total number of dead has reached 569 and 1,850 injured.

Hezbollah says targeted Israel base near Safad with dozens of rockets

Hezbollah has said it targeted a military base in north Israel near Safad twice with salvos of rockets, as Israel pounded Lebanon with air raids.

“In defence of Lebanon and its people”, Hezbollah targeted “the Dado base” near north Israel’s Safad – the headquarters of the Israeli military’s northern command – with a total of 90 rockets, the group said in two separate statements.

UN Security Council to meet on Lebanon on Wednesday

The United Nations Security Council will meet at 22:00 GMT tomorrow on the escalation in fighting in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah, said Slovenia, president of the 15-member council for September.

How Biden emboldened Israel to attack Lebanon

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/disastrous-failure-how-biden-emboldened-israel-to-attack-lebanon

Beyond their uncompromising support for Israel’s war on Gaza, US President Joe Biden and his aides have been in near complete alignment with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to Lebanon.

Experts have said that unconditional US support for Israel, coupled with Washington’s failure to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, has emboldened the country to declare an apparent all-out war in Lebanon – and pushed the region to the edge of an abyss.

Borrell: ‘Some want’ further escalation in Middle East

The EU’s foreign policy chief says that the Lebanese are paying a “very high price” in this recent round of escalation between Hezbollah and Israel.

“Random attacks affecting civilians are inconsistent with the laws of war,” Borrell said in an interview with Spanish broadcaster RTVE. “Escalation in the Middle East is rising because some want it,” he added, without naming names.

Since yesterday, at least 569 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli attacks, according to the country’s Health Ministry. The EU has joined numerous other countries, including the US, in calling for de-escalation between Israel and Hezbollah after Israel ramped up its attacks on Lebanon.

UK urges nationals to leave Lebanon

The UK says that its nationals should leave Lebanon and continues to advise against all travel to the country, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said.

“Around 700 UK troops will move to Cyprus in the coming hours, as the Government continues to prepare its contingency plans following significant escalation between Israel and Lebanon in recent days,” the office said in a statement.

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank

Palestinian media has published footage, which we verified, of fires breaking out over large swathes of agricultural land owned by Palestinians in the town of Yasuf, east of Salfit in the occupied West Bank

The Salfit Governorate released a statement via Facebook saying that Israeli settlers from the Tapuach settlement burned dozens of olive trees in Yasuf.

Settler attacks on Palestinians and their property are frequent occurrences in the occupied West Bank, even as Western countries issue sanctions against those they deem to be leaders of the violence.

In mid-August, 23-year-old Mahmoud Abdel Qader Sadda was shot dead and another Palestinian suffered critical gunshot wounds to the chest in an attack on the village of Jit, east of Qalqilya.

Palestinian doctor critically injured by Israeli forces east of Qalqilya

A Palestinian doctor was seriously injured by live ammunition and a woman was detained during an Israeli military raid on the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports.

The official news agency said that Israeli forces raided the town, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas and sound grenades.

The doctor, who was shot and injured with live rounds, was taken to hospital in serious condition, according to the Ministry of Health.

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"Lebanese journalist Fadi Boudia was hit by an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) bomb on Monday while conducting a live broadcast in Baalbek, Lebanon. Mere seconds after Boudia could be seen setting up his camera for the broadcast, a bomb was caught on film detonating outside his window, spraying glass into his head as Boudia screamed."

Axis of evil, US, UK, Canada

Canada’s extraordinary reaction to Israel’s Lebanon carnage, BBC’s new spin | Janta Ka Reporter

Canada PM Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said that the targeting of women in children in Lebanon by Israel was extraordinarily concerning. However, BBC representative was caught giving spin, deemed favourable to Israeli PR. BBC as a whole called it Israeli attacks on Hezbollah without any attribution.

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Protests held in US cities against support for Israel

Protesters gathered in US cities, including Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC, on Tuesday to demonstrate against US support for Israel in the face of its mounting aggression in Gaza and Lebanon.

Antiwar activists – chanting slogans including “Hands off the Middle East” and “Free Palestine” – demanded an arms embargo against the US ally.

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