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SvennoJ 4 days ago

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.


Hezbollah attacks Israeli military base

On Telegram, Hezbollah says it fired 50 missiles at the Dado base of the Israeli military, near the city of Safed.

It said that this base is the operational headquarters of the Israeli army’s Northern Comand. The army has yet to comment on this attack, but an hour ago, it said it was launching an “extensive” wave of strikes against Lebanese territory.


Fires erupt in Safad due to rocket fire from Lebanon: Israel

The Israeli Fire and Rescue Authority has published footage on X it said shows fires raging in several areas in forests near Safad in the northern part of the country. Israeli news outlets also published footage of similar fires erupting in Safad.

Translation: A number of fires in the forests near Safad as a result of firing into the area.


Hezbollah target Israeli naval base near Haifa

The group says in a statement that it unleashed a squadron of attack drones on the headquarters of the Israeli army’s Special Naval Task Force at the Alit Base.

The base is south of the major northern city of Haifa, the area of which was first targeted by Hezbollah over the weekend in response to an Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut that killed over 40 people.

Hezbollah said that this attack on the Alit base targeted “the locations of [Israeli] officers and soldiers” and achieved direct hits.


Several killed across southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh as Israeli attacks continue

At least 13 people have been killed in the last few hours as Israeli warplanes continue to pound areas in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency reports.

Here is the breakdown of attacks, according to NNA:

  • Five people, including a Syrian refugee, have been killed in attacks on residential homes in the village of Doueir.
  • Two people have been killed in an attack on Charqiyeh, a town slightly north of Doueir.
  • Six people have been killed in attacks on the village of Nabatieh Fawqa – also known as Upper Nabatieh.


Israel says seeking short operation against Hezbollah, but could take time

Military spokesperson Daniel Hagari says Israel is striving for the campaign against Hezbollah to be as short as possible but is prepared for it to take time.

He told reporters Hezbollah fired approximately 300 rockets at Israel today, as Israeli warplanes pounded Lebanon’s southern towns and villages, rising a two-day death toll to 569 – according to Lebanese health officials.



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SvennoJ 4 days ago

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.


Four Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City

Among those killed in the attack on a residential home are two children, Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Basal, said. He added the attack in the al-Tawam area, northwest of Gaza City, targeted a home that belonged to the Ahmed family.


Palestinians killed by Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya, bodies recovered in Gaza City

The Palestinian Civil Defence has said four people’s bodies were recovered from a residential building that was destroyed in an Israeli air raid west of Gaza City. According to the Civil Defence’s spokesperson Mahmoud Basal, nine people remain missing under the rubble.

Bassal also said another two people were killed in an Israeli air raid on Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.


Fourteen Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on central Gaza Strip

Eleven people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Civil Defence has said. Its spokesman Mahmoud Bassal also said that three others were killed in Israeli shelling of an area west of the refugee camp.


Five Palestinians killed in Israeli air raid on Rafah

The Palestinian Civil Defence has said that a family of five was killed in an Israeli air raid on Rafah. Civil Defence Spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said that a woman and her four children were killed when Israeli forces struck a house in al-Nasr area, northeast Rafah City.

At least 37 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip today.



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SvennoJ 4 days ago

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.




"Dead bodies strewn on the side of the road": Displaced people describe fleeing south Lebanon

A day after fleeing Israel’s bombardment of southern Lebanon, one man is still shaken by what he witnessed there.

“There were dead bodies strewn on the side of the road, people with their arms blown off. Even the ambulances that tried to reach them were struck,” the man, who said his name is Ali, told CNN in Beirut.

His elderly parents tried to calm him down and his father picked up the conversation.

“Yesterday was non-stop bombardment from every direction. Barbaric and indiscriminate bombing. They have no mercy for animals, children or humans,” his father said.

Asked about Israeli claims that the targets were Hezbollah positions, the father said: “They are liars. Entire families gone. These are not Hezbollah targets. We live in the south, we don’t know where Hezbollah is and I don’t know where the Hezbollah fighters are. (Israel) destroyed houses and farms instead.”

Om Hussein’s family were also among the thousands who fled southern Lebanon. They spent 14 hours on the road to Beirut, stuck in congested roads, and reached the Lebanese capital at 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday. “We had no food or water, but volunteers on motorcycles distributed water to those stranded in cars,” she told CNN.

“We didn’t bring anything with us, no clothes, no medicine, nothing,” her mother said, describing how quickly they fled the Israeli bombardment. The family of eight is now in one of the numerous Beirut schools sheltering the displaced.


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.

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SvennoJ 4 days ago

Israeli forces bomb ambulance in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh

Several medics were injured in the attack “while carrying out their duties” in the village of Habbouch, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports. Those who were wounded were treated “in the field” and most of them returned to work, the NNA added.

It said that the ambulance belonged to the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.


Hezbollah confirms killing of its commander in Beirut

On Telegram, the Lebanese group says that the “mujahid leader” Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi “Hajj Abu Musa” was killed today.

Hezbollah made no mention of the location or manner of his death, but Israel earlier claimed to have targeted and killed him in a strike on a residential area in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The strike killed six people in total and wounded at least 15 others, according to the Lebanese government. The Israeli military said that Qubaisi was responsible for recent rocket attacks on Israel.


Syrian air defences intercept missiles in Tartous, army sources say

Syrian air defences intercepted suspected Israeli missiles targeting the Mediterranean port city of Tartous, Syrian army sources told Reuters news agency, after witnesses said they heard multiple explosions.


Israeli bombs seaside town south of Beirut: Report

The Reuters news agency, citing two unnamed security sources, reports that Israeli warplanes have hit the town of Jiyeh, nearly 75km (about 46.5 miles) north of the country’s border with Israel, for the first time.

The town, a popular destination for beachgoers, is only about 25 minutes drive from Beirut. We do not know at this time if there are casualties from the attack on Jiyeh.


‘Very tense’ situation in Beirut as thousands flee fighting in south

It’s a very tense situation here in Beirut this evening. It’s got a bit calmer over the last few hours as the evening has gone on, there is a sort of cautious calm.

I’ve been speaking to people who are thinking of leaving Beirut. They are moving up to the mountains, possibly moving further north. Obviously, this comes after a huge influx of tens of thousands of people who’ve been displaced from the south following this campaign over the last two days.

Last night, I witnessed people coming in… just a constant stream of families coming into Beirut and coming into hotels around here in downtown Beirut. This also comes after Lebanese Environment Minister Nasser Yassin announced the opening of 252 schools to shelter these people who’ve been displaced.

And so far, 27,000 people are making use of these makeshift shelters. So the number of people displaced in total during this conflict is well surpassing the over 110,000 people that it was just before two days ago.


Video shows huge explosion from Israeli strike south of Beirut

Surveillance video captured the massive explosion from an Israeli strike on a building in Lebanon’s Saadiyat, just south of the capital Beirut. Initial reports say Israel allegedly targeted a Hezbollah weapons warehouse.



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SvennoJ 4 days ago

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.


Rescuers rush to the scene of an Israeli air raid in the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh, September 24

Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, says US President Joe Biden has “run out of time” and will not be able to secure a lasting ceasefire deal in Gaza before his presidency ends.

Biden “should have been able to put an end to this war in the very first few days, weeks, even months – but he didn’t,” Bishara said, He “never used the leverage the US had”, he added. Instead, Biden continued to provide Israel with “arms, finance and diplomatic shield”.It’s been almost one year since Israel launched its assault on the enclave, killing more than 41,000 people.

Bishara said the US is “a party to the ongoing genocide” in Gaza, as well as the ongoing war in Lebanon.


Lebanon’s FM says US only country that can make ‘difference in the Middle East’

But Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said Biden’s address was “not strong, not promising” and the US was the only country “that can really make a difference in the Middle East”.

Washington is Israel’s longtime ally and biggest arms supplier.

The United States “is the key … to our salvation”, he told an event in New York City hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Half a million people are estimated to have been displaced in Lebanon, he said. He said Lebanon’s prime minister hoped to meet with US officials over the next two days.

Israel has drastically ramped up attacks on Lebanon in recent days, killing at least 569 people since yesterday, according to the country’s Health Ministry. Top US officials have repeatedly said that they do not want to see an all-out war in Lebanon, but have not announced concrete steps towards that goal.



SvennoJ 4 days ago

Israel has right to ‘exist,’ not to ‘collective punishment’: EU’s Michel

European Council President Charles Michel has said that Israel had the right to exist and defend itself without inflicting “collective punishment” on civilians living in areas targeted by its military.

Western leaders have used the UN’s centrepiece annual gathering in New York to call on Israel to exercise restraint in its military assaults on Lebanon and Gaza to prevent the eruption of a regional war.

"Israel has the right to defend itself. Israel has the right to exist, and we support the right of Israel to exist and to defend itself,” Michel said at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

“But defending itself, it doesn’t mean collective punishment. It needs a principle of proportionality.”


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.


Amnesty chief says Israel committing ‘violation of international law after violation’

Agnes Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, told Al Jazeera that Israel is committing “violation of international law after violation”.

“Beginning with the indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, all the way to the buffer zone that has been established in Gaza over the last few months, to the killings of the humanitarian workers, to the killings of journalists,” she said.

“Many governments continue to arm Israel in contradiction with what they may say,” she added.

“In particular, the United States has enabled Israel to continue in the same direction.”



SvennoJ 4 days ago

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.


Four Palestinians shot and wounded by Israeli forces near Hebron

One of those wounded, a 29-year-old man, is in serious condition after he was shot in the chest with a live bullet by Israeli forces during a raid on the Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports.

The other wounded people were shot in the shoulder, foot, and back, the official news agency said, citing local medical sources. Wafa said that Israeli forces raided several neighbourhoods in the camp, firing live ammunition and sound grenades. Soldiers searched multiple homes, it added.


Four Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on central, northern Gaza

Three Palestinians were killed in an attack on a residential building on Maghrabi Street, south of Gaza City, the enclave’s Civil Defence said in a statement.

Another Palestinian was killed in an attack on a home in an open field in the al-Sawarha area, west of Nuseirat refugee camp, it said in a separate statement. Several others have been wounded.

This brings the total number of Palestinians killed in the enclave in the past 24 hours to 56.



SvennoJ 4 days ago
LegitHyperbole said:

Here's a full version with background

"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.


Starmer's VILE Response As Slaughtered Palestinian Kids Raised By Protester



SvennoJ 4 days ago

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.


Demonstrators in Los Angeles, California hold signs as they protest Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon


People protest the escalation of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in New York


Demonstrators gather near the White House in Washington, DC