Jordan’s foreign minister arrives in Beirut

Ayman Safadi has landed in the Lebanese capital on a “solidarity” visit, according to state media. The foreign minister arrived on a plane carrying 13 tonnes of food supplies, relief materials, medication, and medical equipment.

While in Beirut, Safadi will meet Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Lebanese Army Commander General Joseph Aoun.

‘Israel bears responsibility for this aggression’: Jordan

During a news conference, Safadi said Jordan’s efforts are continuing to stop “the Israeli aggression on Gaza and Lebanon”.

“We will provide urgent aid to Lebanon and confirm our solidarity with our brothers against the Israeli aggression,” Safadi said, adding Jordan won’t “allow anyone” – including Iran and Israel – to threaten its security or “violate” Jordanian airspace.

“Israel bears responsibility for this aggression and escalation in the region and any new escalation.”

Death toll in Israeli attack on fire station rises to 10: Lebanese ministry

Ten firefighters have been killed after Israeli soldiers targeted a fire station affiliated with the Islamic Health Authority in the town of Baraachit, according to officials. The death toll in the attack earlier stood at eight.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency cited the Health Ministry as saying the killed firefighters were “in the building ready to go out on rescue missions”, adding efforts to remove the rubble were ongoing.

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon at risk as Israeli forces ‘move very close’

Andrea Tenenti, a spokesman for the UN’s peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, says the safety of its troops is at risk during the ongoing border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

“We have been seeing in recent days heavy shelling throughout the area of operations,” Tenenti told Al Jazeera. “The fact [Israeli] troops have moved very close to our position, the Irish contingent, at the moment is also a concern.”

UNIFIL soldiers are caught in the crossfire, he said.

“Definitely also concerning is the fact we were told to move from certain positions along the Blue Line, but we are staying because we want the UN flag to fly in all these positions close to the Blue Line.”

Tenenti was referring to the UN-drawn “provisional border of withdrawal” between Israel and Lebanon established in 2000.

Number of people killed across Lebanon rises

Lebanon’s Health Ministry has issued updates about a number of Israeli attacks:

New air attack on Beirut

We’re getting reports of a new Israeli air attack on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.

UK withdraws family members of embassy staff from Israel

The move comes because of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and the risk of a wider regional conflagration, according to the British foreign office.

“As a precautionary measure following escalation in the region, family members of British Embassy staff have been temporarily withdrawn. Our staff members remain,” it said in a statement.

Hezbollah rockets hit Israel’s third-largest city Haifa early on Monday and shrapnel from rockets launched from Gaza landed in central Israel earlier today. The attacks wounded at least 12 people in total.

The UK advises citizens against all travel to the area close to the border with Gaza and “all but essential travel” to other parts of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.


_{Israeli border police officers attend the scene where a rocket, fired from Lebanon, landed in Maalot, northern Israel, Monday}

I wonder what happened a year ago that led to Israel conducting military operations in Gaza?

You're likely trolling but here you go



Or look at the OP if you're actually asking a question....

You could also look a few pages back at all the memorial posts for October 7 victims and hostages.
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/247941/israel-hamas-war-gaza-genocide/483/

Israel is not conducting 'military operations' as much as Russia is conducting a 'special operation', or what would you call this.

One year of Israel’s war on Gaza: A simple guide

For a year now, horrific scenes have come out of Gaza as Israel’s war on the besieged and bombarded territory continues.

Our colleagues have put together a simple guide with 10 key moments since the start of the war.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/7/one-year-of-israels-war-on-gaza-a-simple-guide

Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israel strikes again


<sub>Israeli forces attack as displaced Palestinians make their way out of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on October 7


A Palestinian family takes shelter in a damaged car as they flee Khan Younis</sub>

_{Palestinians again on the move after an Israeli evacuation order for Gaza’s second largest city}

Palestinian rescuers recover bodies of 2 people killed in south Gaza

The Palestinian Civil Defence agency says its teams have recovered the bodies of two women killed in an Israeli air attack on al-Nasr neighbourhood north of Rafah city.

The rescuers are still looking for possible survivors – a boy and a man – under the rubble.


_{Palestinians walk past the rubble of houses destroyed in Israel’s military offensive in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip}

‘Destruction and misery’: About 50% of Gaza uninhabitable

Even after the fighting stops, hundreds of thousands of people could be stuck living in squalid tent camps for years. Analysts say reconstruction could take decades.

“This war is destruction and misery. It would make the stones cry out,” said Shifaa Hejjo, a 60-year-old housewife living in a tent pitched on land where her home once stood. “Whoever sees Gaza, … it will make them cry.”

Alison Ely – a Gaza-based coordinator with the Shelter Cluster, an international coalition of aid providers led by the Norwegian Refugee Council – said even if the war stops, there’s nothing left for many of the displaced to return to.

If there’s a ceasefire, about half of all families “have nowhere to go back to”, she said.

UNRWA chief says region ‘sinking deeper into conflict’

In a post on X, Philippe Lazzarini has said a year of “brutal war” has made Gaza unrecognisable and “a graveyard for tens of thousands of people, among them far too many children”.

“One year has passed and not a day goes by without families in Gaza being subjected to unspeakable suffering, as forced displacement, disease, hunger, and death have become the daily norm for two million people trapped in a bombed-out and besieged enclave,” said Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

He added that “more than 220 UNRWA team members” have been killed.

“It is time for courage: a deal that would finally bring a ceasefire and respite to people in Gaza, Lebanon, Israel and the wider region,” he urged, warning of the danger of “sinking deeper into conflict, killing and sheer horrors”.

One year on the horrendous massacre carried out by Hamas & other Palestinian armed groups on southern Israel, killing more than 1,250 people and taking 250 hostages.

Since that day, the Middle East is sinking deeper into conflict, killing and sheer horrors.

Twelve months of…

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) October 7, 2024

One year of fighting an unbalanced battle: Qassam Brigades spokesman

In a televised statement, the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing has said the group waged a “pre-emptive strike” on October 7 against what he claimed was a “major attack” planned by Israel “against the resistance in Gaza”.

He also said the attack came “after the occupier’s aggression against Al-Aqsa [Mosque] reached an unprecedented dangerous stage”. “And now, for a year, fighters have been waging an unequal battle with a criminal enemy,” Abu Obeida said.

The spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing has vowed that the group will keep fighting a “long war of attrition”. “We choose to keep up the fight in a long war of attrition, one that is painful and costly for the enemy,” said Abu Obeida, in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera.

Pre-emptive strike? How did that work out for you... That's nonsense and counter to what Hamas stated before.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-record-with-hamas/


Proof taking out the leaders is counter productive, only more radical idiots see their chance to spew hatred.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-spokesman-abu-obeida-hails-oct-7-attack-and-unity-of-fronts/

Abu Obeida boasts that October 7 was “the most professional and successful commando operation in the modern era,” and adds that it inflicted a “humiliating defeat” on the IDF. He makes the baseless allegation that it was a “preemptive strike” to avert a major operation planned by Israel against Hamas in Gaza.

It was clearly unprofessional and quickly devolved into chaos, wanton murder and other war crimes.

Surface-to-surface missile from Yemen fired at central Israel

The Israeli army says a surface-to-surface missile from Yemen has been fired at central Israel.

The missile set off air raid sirens across parts of central Israel.

The Israeli army says the missile that was fired from Yemen was intercepted over central Israel.

Hezbollah says it targets Israeli soldiers in Lebanon border villages

Hezbollah says it has targeted Israeli forces in two border villages in southern Lebanon.

Fighters “bombed … a gathering of Israeli forces” in Maroun al-Ras with “a rocket salvo”, the group said.

Hezbollah later said its fighters had also attack Israeli soldiers in the nearby village of Blida “with a barrage of rockets and artillery shells”.

Israeli military says 135 rockets crossed from Lebanon today

In a statement, the army has said that about 135 rockets fired from Hezbollah had crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory as of 5pm local time (14:00 GMT). It added it would continue to operate against Hezbollah.

Earlier today, the Lebanese Health Ministry said a year of Israeli attacks had killed at least 2,083 people and wounded 9,869 others in Lebanon.

_{Israeli border police officers attend the scene where a rocket, fired from Lebanon, damaged a house when it landed in Israel}

Hezbollah says it launches rockets at area north of Haifa

Hezbollah says it has launched “a large rocket barrage” at the area north of the city of Haifa in Israel.

This comes almost 24 hours after the Lebanese armed group fired rockets at the Israeli port city with a number of them evading air defence systems and causing damage on the ground and injuring at least 10 people.

Israeli army says it hits more than 120 Hezbollah targets ‘within an hour’

The Israeli military says the targets were Hezbollah units, including the Lebanese armed group’s elite Radwan Force and Southern Front.

_{Smoke billows from the site of Israeli strikes in Tyre in southern Lebanon on October 7}

Israeli army issues new evacuation orders in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army has now issued a new set of evacuation orders, bringing the total to 130 towns and villages across southern Lebanon.

It’s a significant chunk of the territory.

Now the Lebanese are very concerned about this because they heard reports of the Israeli army massing at its border, including reserve brigades being called up, and they are now looking at the width of these Israeli evacuation orders and wondering what the actual definition of “limited” is to the Israelis.

Remember, at the very beginning of the ground offensive, the Israelis said this was going to be “limited” in their words.

Air strikes continue to come in, several today where I am, and that’s being repeated in other parts of southern Lebanon. Hezbollah says they’ve launched major attacks against Israeli soldiers who are across that border.

Unsafe zones in Beirut’s southern suburbs include at least 7 hospitals, CNN analysis finds

At least seven hospitals are in the no-go zones imposed by the Israeli military in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, including Al Rassoul Al Azam Hospital and St. Therese Hospital, CNN analysis of Israeli military evacuation orders found.

The unsafe zones in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a group of residential neighborhoods that also house Hezbollah’s seat of power, encompass nearly 9 square kilometers (3.4 square miles).

CNN analyzed a total of 39 evacuation orders up to and including the night of October 6, which have been issued almost daily since September 27 by Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee in posts on X.

CNN also found that infographics shared early on by the Israeli military alongside its evacuation orders were inaccurate in some cases. The graphics appear to illustrate the 500-meter zone around target buildings from which residents must evacuate for their safety – showing a red circle around the highlighted building, and a dotted line annotated with “500 meters” in Arabic. In actuality, the radiuses of the highlighted buffer zones in those cases only measured around 100 meters. This was the case for six separate evacuation orders before the IDF stopped including illustrations of the no-go-zones in their graphics. CNN has contacted the IDF for comment.


Downed missile shrapnel causes fire in Beit Shemesh, Israel

A fire has erupted at Beit Shemesh, 30km (19 miles) west of Jerusalem, due to shrapnel from a downed ballistic missile that the Israeli military says was launched from Yemen.

Panicked Israelis filmed the fire as it burned through a large tree.

As we earlier reported, the Israeli air force announced that it “successfully intercepted” the missile, which had set off air raid sirens across central Israel.

Fire erupted at Beit Shemesh as a result of shrapnels from the Israeli air defense systems intercepting Yemen Ballistic missile fired at Central Israel pic.twitter.com/te0G2qScW4

— Local Focus - Security Alerts (@LocalFocus1) October 7, 2024

Houthis fired missiles and drones at Tel Aviv

Houthi military spokesman General Yahya Saree says that the group targeted two military targets in Tel Aviv with “two missiles”. He said the first was a “Palestine 2 type” missile, which succeeded in hitting its target.

He added that earlier today, the Houthis launched several drones at Tel Aviv and Eilat, with a number of them successfully reaching their targets.

Israel issues evacuation warnings for southern Lebanon

The Israeli military has issued a warning in Lebanon to anyone who is near the coastline from the Awali River southwards.

That river is about 30km (19 miles) from Beirut along the country’s coastline. We understand that intense fighting continues in the town of Naqoura, in southwestern Lebanon, and this is the first time the coastline is getting any warning from the Israeli military.

It essentially means that a third of the Lebanese coastline is now off limits to people and residents.

It’s not clear where these people are supposed to go, but what is clear is that the Israeli military is expanding its targets. It says that it’s going to be hitting Hezbollah interests along the coastline.

This also comes as Israel has essentially carried out an air campaign waged against what it says are Hezbollah targets across Lebanon.

The Israeli military has also added another division of its forces, so they’re clearly increasing their presence on the ground.

_{A plume of smoke billows following an Israeli air strike on the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on Monday}

Widespread devastation after Israeli strikes on southern Beirut

_{Smoke rises from destroyed buildings at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit Choueifat, southeast of Beirut, Lebanon}

_{A man walks as smoke rises from destroyed buildings after an Israeli air strike in Choueifat}

_{A man surveys the rubble after an overnight Israeli air strike on the neighbourhood of Kafaat in Beirut’s southern suburbs}

Israeli military says it struck Hezbollah intelligence HQ in Beirut

The Israeli military claims it attacked the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon. It said its air force carried out the mission under the direction of Israeli intelligence.

Hezbollah has not commented on the claims yet.

_{Flame and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday}

Hezbollah says it fired missiles at military target near Tel Aviv

Hezbollah says it targeted an Israeli military intelligence unit located in the suburbs of Tel Aviv with missiles.

The Israeli military said that about five missiles were detected as crossing from Lebanon, with some of them intercepted and the rest falling in an open area.

West Bank rally marks one year since war on Gaza began

About 400 people have rallied in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, waving Palestinian flags and carrying portraits of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The protesters of all ages and representing various political factions marched through the city, calling for an end to the Israeli wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Beyond the yellow and green flags of Hezbollah and Hamas, demonstrators also waved the flags of Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.

Other participants held up a box shaped like a coffin that bore the words “international law” and “Arab League” on its sides.

Protesters, families of captives block Tel Aviv highway

Police arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators in Amsterdam

Police arrested several pro-Palestinian protesters in Amsterdam in the Netherlands as tensions erupted around events in the city to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack.

Riot officers carrying shields and batons deployed in force in the Dutch capital as people gathered in the central Dam Square to mourn those killed one year ago. While the pro-Israeli group was listening to speeches and concerts, counter-demonstrators began to shout slogans. Police grabbed one middle-aged woman and hauled her into an armoured van, AFP news agency reported.

Nearby, police surrounded several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators with faces covered and flags waving, to keep them separated from the Israeli gathering.

Police warned them to disperse but later announced they had arrested the group “for breaking the law on public gatherings”.

_{Police seize a protester during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack}

Large pro-Palestine demonstration held in Amman

_{People in Amman hold up their phones with flashlights on as they attend a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza}

Columbia University protesters mark one year since Israel’s war on Gaza began

Pro-Palestine demonstrators have marched on campus at Columbia University in New York City, chanting “Free, free Palestine” on the one-year anniversary of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Just outside the US university’s campus, pro-Israel protesters also gathered, holding placards with captives’ faces and names and saying “Bring them home now”.

Israel’s war on Gaza, which has claimed the lives of close to 42,000 Palestinians, has unleashed the biggest outpouring of US student activism since the anti-racism protests of 2020.

Protests against the Gaza war began on Columbia’s campus in April, inspiring similar encampments at other institutions across the United States and beyond.

Minouche Shafik, the then-president of Columbia University, resigned after she allowed New York City police onto the campus to clear the protests, triggering outrage from protesters and some academics and calls for her ouster.

Now, as those student protesters return for a new year of learning, they are facing a landscape transformed by updated restrictions, heightened security measures and increased scrutiny of pro-Palestine movements.