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Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2024 11:26:00 GMT
The Gaza Civil Defense Directorate says at least 17 people were killed, including women and children, in an Israeli missile strike Saturday in central Gaza.
The dead included eight children, and more than 30 people had been wounded, according to Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal, who added that people were still missing.
Basal said there was an Israeli missile strike on Al-Zaytoun School “which shelters thousands of displaced people from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.”
The Israel Defense Forces said that aircraft carried out a strike Saturday on a school compound in central Gaza being used by Hamas as a command center.
The military said its aircraft conducted a “precise strike on terrorists” who were operating inside a Hamas command and control center, and that numerous steps were taken to mitigate the harming of civilians.
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Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2024 18:12:12 GMT
The Israeli military is “prepared for the next steps” in its fight against Hezbollah and is planning to take them in “the next few days,” Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Sunday.
“We are well prepared for the next steps, and are planning them in a high-quality way for the next few days,” he said.
Halevi warned Hezbollah that it would be dealt another blow until it accepts that Israeli citizens who fled the region to escape violence will return to their homes in the north.
He also said that Israel’s attack on Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force is a message to anyone in the Middle East who threatens Israeli citizens.
On Friday, an Israeli airstrike hit a nine-story apartment building in a southern Beirut suburb, killing at least 45 people, among them 16 Hezbollah militants, including the Radwan Force leader Ibrahim Aqil and senior commander Ahmad Wehbe.
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2024 7:21:24 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2024 4:46:05 GMT
Lebanon’s foreign minister said he was disappointed with US President Joe Biden’s remarks at the United Nations on the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, adding he believes the United States “is the only country that can really make a difference” in the region.
Biden only briefly mentioned the widening of fighting in the Middle East in his final speech to the UN General Assembly, which came as cross-border strikes killed hundreds.
“It was not strong. It is not promising, and it would not solve this problem,” Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said of Biden’s speech during a virtual event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York on Tuesday.
Referring to the war in Gaza and fears of a wider regional conflict, Bou Habib said Israel’s government “cannot survive except with wars,” and he also criticized the killing of civilians in Lebanon.
An estimated half a million people have been displaced in Lebanon, Bou Habib added.
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2024 12:57:32 GMT
Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.
People in Tel Aviv and the central city of Netanya woke up to sirens on Wednesday as Israel said its air defenses intercepted a surface-to-surface missile – the first time ever a missile fired by Hezbollah has reached close to the city, the Israeli military said.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah confirmed it launched a Qadr 1 ballistic missile targeting the headquarters of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad, which it blames for attacks targeting its members, including the coordinated explosions of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies last week.
It is believed to be the first ballistic missile to be launched by Hezbollah toward Israel, and was fired “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza” and in “defense of Lebanon and its people,” Hezbollah said.
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