The Israeli army carried out several attacks today on the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanese state media reported, after the Israeli authorities called for the evacuation of certain areas considered to be a stronghold of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, a movement in open war with Israel for two months.
"There was a series of violent attacks targeting Haret Hreik, Bir al-Abed and Gobiri in the southern suburbs of Beirut," the Lebanese news agency Ani reported.
That agency reported during the day that there were two attacks by "Israeli fighter planes" on the Kafat sector, also in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Those attacks caused a lot of damage.
The spokesman of the Israeli army, Avichai Adrea, warned today in Arabic on the X platform that the army will attack "Hezbollah installations and interests" in the settlements of Hadat and Bourj al-Barajneh.
Tonight, he repeated calls for the evacuation of those two settlements, citing other settlements in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital.
On September 23, Israel launched massive attacks on Lebanon against Hezbollah, which, after the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israeli soil, opened a "front of support" for the Palestinian movement by firing rockets into Israeli territory.
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The Lebanese Hezbollah movement fired heavy rocket barrages at Israel today, and the Israeli army said that houses were destroyed or set on fire near Tel Aviv, after a powerful Israeli airstrike killed at least 29 people in Beirut a day earlier, Reuters reports.
Israel has also hit the southern suburbs of Beirut controlled by Hezbollah, where bombardment has intensified over the past two weeks, coinciding with signs of progress in the United States (US)-led ceasefire talks.
Hezbollah, which has previously vowed to respond to attacks on Beirut by targeting Tel Aviv, said it launched precision missiles at two military sites in and near Tel Aviv.
Police said there were multiple impact sites in the Petah Tikvah area, on the east side of Tel Aviv, and that several people suffered minor injuries.
The Israeli military (IDF) said the direct hit left "houses in flames and rubble."
Television footage shows an apartment damaged by rocket fire.
The IDF said Hezbollah fired 240 rockets at Israel, many of which were intercepted, and sirens sounded across much of the country. At least four people were injured by shrapnel.
Footage obtained by Reuters shows a missile exploding when it hit the roof of a building in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya.
The army warned on social media that it planned to target Hezbollah facilities in southern Beirut ahead of the strike, which demolished two apartment blocks, according to security sources in Lebanon.
Afterward, the IDF said it hit command centers "deliberately embedded between civilian buildings."
The Lebanese pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah, in an open war against Israel for two months, announced this evening that it had destroyed six Israeli tanks in the south of Lebanon, five of them in the sector of the coastal city of Bayad.
Hezbollah fighters "destroyed" five tanks of the Merkava type "on the eastern outskirts of the city of Bayada" and one in the region of Deir Mimas, about 2,5 kilometers from the Israeli-Lebanese border, according to the announcement of the Lebanese movement.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced today that the number of victims rose to 29 in an Israeli attack on a residential neighborhood in Beirut on Saturday.
"In the attack of the Israeli enemy on Beirut, according to the updated but not final report, 29 people were killed and 67 were injured," the statement said, adding that the search for survivors under the ruins has not yet been completed.
In support of the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah opened a front against Israel on October 8, 2023, targeting Israeli territory daily from southern Lebanon.
On September 23 of this year, those hostilities turned into an open war with intense Israeli attacks, supposedly only against the strongholds of the Lebanese movement, but still with many civilian casualties.
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One Lebanese soldier was killed today and 18 were wounded in an Israeli attack on a Lebanese military center, the Lebanese army announced.
The extremist Lebanese Hezbollah, meanwhile, fired a barrage of rocket fire at northern and central Israel, wounding at least five people.
Israeli strikes have killed more than 40 Lebanese soldiers since the start of the Israel-Hezbollah war, although the Lebanese army has largely stayed out of the conflict.
The Israeli military expressed regret for the casualties, saying the attack took place in an area where combat operations against Hezbollah are underway.
The statement stated that the Israeli army's operations were directed only against Hezbollah, and not against the Lebanese army, and that it was being considered how the aforementioned attack took place.
Lebanon's interim prime minister, Najib Mikati, condemned it as an attack on US efforts to achieve a ceasefire and a "direct bloody message of rejection of all efforts and ongoing contacts" to end the war.
The attack took place in southwest Lebanon, on the coastal road between Tire and Nakura, where fierce fighting is taking place between Israel and Hezbollah.
Hezbollah started firing rockets, missiles and launching drones at Israel after the Palestinian Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 from Gaza to the south of Israel, which caused a war in that enclave.
The Lebanese organization presented its attacks as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas. Iran supports both of these extremist organizations.
Israel responded with airstrikes at the start of rocket fire from Lebanon, and in September the conflict escalated into an all-out war.
The Israeli army carried out a series of airstrikes in large parts of Lebanon, killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and several senior commanders of the organization.
Today, Hezbollah launched a barrage of rocket fire at northern and central Israel.
Some of the rockets were intercepted, and Israel's rescue service said it treated a slightly wounded man and an elderly woman who inhaled smoke near a vehicle engulfed in fire in Petah Tikva.
Three people were wounded in northern Israel, including a 60-year-old man who is in serious condition.
It is unclear whether the injuries and damage were caused by rockets from Lebanon or Israeli interceptors.
Early Saturday, Israeli airstrikes targeted central Beirut. At least 20 people died and 66 were wounded, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
More than 3.500 people died in the Israeli attacks in Lebanon, and around 1,2 million, or a quarter of the population, were displaced.
About 90 soldiers and almost 50 civilians died on the Israeli side, and about 60.000 Israelis were displaced from the north of Israel.
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The Health Ministry of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip announced today that since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023, 44.211 people have died in the area.
At least 35 people died in the last 24 hours, according to the statement.
It added that 104.567 were injured in the war that began with an attack by members of the Palestinian movement Hamas on Israeli soil.
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The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for foreign policy and security, Josep Borelj, called today, during his visit to Beirut, to put pressure on the Israeli government and the Lebanese Hezbollah to accept the American proposal on a ceasefire.
At a press conference in Beirut, Borelj also called on Lebanese leaders to elect a president in order to end the two-year power vacuum in that country, reports Reuters.
He promised 200 million euros to support the Lebanese armed forces.
On October 1, Israel launched what the Israel Defense Forces said was a limited and targeted ground operation in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah.
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The Israeli military said about 160 missiles were fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into northern and central Israel on Sunday, some of which were intercepted.
Medical agencies reported that several people were injured, including a man in "moderate to serious" condition.
At least 44.211 Palestinians have been killed and 104.567 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Of that number, 35 Palestinians were killed and 94 were injured in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
Gaza's health ministry previously said thousands of other dead were believed to be most likely trapped under the territory's rubble.
In northern Gaza, health officials said an Israeli drone dropped bombs on Kamal Advan Hospital, injuring director Hussem Abu Safia, the Guardian reports.
"This will not stop us from completing our humanitarian mission and we will continue to do this work at any cost," Abu Safiya said in a video statement released by Gaza's health ministry on Sunday.
"We are targeted every day. They also targeted me recently, but that will not discourage us...", Safija added from his hospital bed.
Israeli forces claim that armed militants are using civilian facilities, including residential buildings, hospitals and schools, for operational cover. Hamas denies this, accusing Israeli forces of randomly targeting populated areas.
The Lebanese Hezbollah announced today that it carried out an attack with drones and rockets on military bases in Tel Aviv and in the south of Israel, France Press reported.
Describing it as a complex operation, the pro-Iranian organization said it had fired "barrages of rockets and launched swarms of drones" at a military base in Tel Aviv.
A separate statement added that drones with explosives were launched at the naval base in Ashdod in southern Israel.
Israeli media reported that sirens sounded in central Israel as long-range rockets were fired from Lebanon, adding that the Israeli military is verifying the details.
It was later reported that about ten rockets were fired from Lebanon at central Israel, and that several were intercepted. There were no immediate reports of possible injuries.
A little earlier, on Hezbollah's claim that the naval base in Ashdod in the south of Israel was targeted by drones at 9.00:XNUMX a.m., it was announced that no drone warnings were heard at that time neither near the border with Lebanon in the north, nor near Ashdod, and that the army did not knows about it.
Sirens were heard in Haifa and the northern cities of Israel. Before that, sirens were activated in Tel Aviv and the surrounding cities and towns.
One attacker was killed and three policemen were wounded in a shootout outside the Israeli embassy in Jordan, a security source said, as reported by state media on Sunday.
Police shot an attacker who opened fire on a police patrol in Amman's Rabiya district, the state-run Petra news agency reported, citing statements from the security sector, adding that an investigation was ongoing.
The Jordanian government's communications minister, Mohamed Momani, described the shooting as a terrorist attack that targeted the country's peacekeepers. In a statement, he stated that the investigation into the attack is ongoing.
Jordanian police had earlier blocked off the area near the embassy after gunshots were heard, witnesses said. Two witnesses stated that police and ambulances rushed to the Rabija quarter, where the embassy is located.
The area is often the site of anti-Israel protests. Jordan has witnessed some of the largest peaceful demonstrations in the region, as anti-Israel sentiment runs high due to the war in Gaza.
Police have urged residents to stay in their homes while security forces search the area for the perpetrators, a security source said, according to the Guardian.
Many of Jordan's 12 million citizens are of Palestinian descent; they or their parents were expelled or fled to Jordan during the conflict that followed the creation of Israel in 1948. Many have family ties to people from the Israeli side of the Jordan River.
Jordan's peace agreement with Israel is unpopular among many citizens, who see normalization of relations as a betrayal of the rights of their Palestinian compatriots.
The US, France, Great Britain and Germany today expressed "deep concern" over the commissioning of "new, advanced centrifuges" in Iran in response to a resolution in Vienna condemning the country's nuclear activities.
"Instead of responding to the resolution with cooperation, (Iran) plans to respond with a new expansion of its nuclear program in ways that have no credible peacetime justification," the US State Department said in a joint statement.
The resolution was adopted on Thursday by 19 of the 35 member states of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is sitting in Vienna.
The document reminds Iran of its "legal obligations" under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ratified in 1970.
Russia, China and Burkina Faso voted against the resolution, while 12 countries abstained.
In response to that resolution, Iranian authorities ordered "the commissioning of a series of new advanced centrifuges of various types."
More than 50 people died yesterday in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, especially in Beirut, the Ministry of Health said.
At least 15 people were killed and 63 were injured in Beirut, where the search for victims under the ruins of the affected residential building continued, according to the statement.
At least 38 people were also killed in Israeli attacks in eastern and southern Lebanon.
In support of the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese, pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah opened a front against Israel on October 8, 2023, targeting Israeli territory daily from southern Lebanon.
On September 23 of this year, those hostilities turned into an open war with intense Israeli attacks, supposedly only against the strongholds of the Lebanese movement, but still with many civilian casualties.
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The armed wing of Hamas said on Saturday that an Israeli woman taken hostage during an attack in October 2023 was killed in the conflict zone in northern Gaza, while the Israeli military said it was investigating the case.
The spokesman for the Iz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade, Abu Obeida, said that contact had been re-established with the woman's abductors after several weeks of interruption and that it was determined that she had been killed in the northern Gaza area where the Israeli army operates.
Abu Obeida did not provide additional information about the hostage or details about how and when she was killed.
The Israeli military told AFP it was investigating the claims.
Abu Obeida stated that the woman was imprisoned along with another woman, whose life was also in danger.
During last year's attack by Hamas, which sparked the Gaza war, the militants captured 251 people, 97 of whom are still in Gaza, including 34 the army says are dead.
According to AFP, before Abu Obeida's statement, ten other women, including five soldiers, were believed to be alive in captivity.
During a month-long ceasefire last November, 105 hostages were freed, including 80 Israelis who were exchanged for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli government is under enormous public pressure to reach a new deal to bring the remaining hostages home while they are still alive.
The group "Forum of Families of Hostages and Missing Persons" did not want to comment on the claims published on Saturday.
"Nothing is known except what Hamas claims. Our only reliable source is the Israeli army," the group told AFP.
A Hamas attack on October 7 last year resulted in the deaths of 1.206 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli officials and recorded by AFP.
Israeli retaliation killed 44.176 people in Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas-controlled health ministry, which the UN considers reliable.
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