[🇱🇧] Lebanon - Israel Conflict -2024

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Six injured in stabbing attack in Israel
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Image source,MDA

A stabbing attack in the city of Hadera, northern Israel, has injured six people, with at least two in a serious condition.

Israeli police call the incident a "terrorist attack".

According to Israeli media, the suspect was on a scooter when he stabbed passers-by in four different locations. He was later shot dead by the police.

Among the six victims, one is in critical condition, one in serious condition, and another four in moderate condition, KAN reports.

Hadera is about 40km (25 miles) north of Tel Aviv.

At the weekend, an Israeli policewoman was killed and 10 others injured in a shooting in Beersheba, in what police called a suspected terror attack.

On 1 October, seven people were killed a shooting and knife attack in Tel Aviv - Hamas said it was behind the attack.

 

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Israel says it's hit 185 Hezbollah sites in past 24 hours​

The Israeli army this morning gave an update on fighting in the past 24 hours, saying it hit approximately 185 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces says its soldiers engaged in "close-quarter encounters" with Hezbollah fighters on the ground in southern Lebanon, as well as carrying out more air strikes.

During the on-the-ground fighting, an Israeli commander was killed in an exchange of fire, the IDF says.

As a reminder, Hezbollah earlier claimed it has repelled Israeli incursions in eastern and western parts of the Lebanese border.

The IDF also says it targeted 45 Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.

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Rubble from a damaged building in Beirut's southern suburbs, as seen on Tuesday

 

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More blasts seen in southern Lebanon this morning​

We've been seeing pictures of some of the explosions being reported this morning in southern Lebanon, including in the town of Khiam and a village near Tyre, Lebanon's fourth-largest city.

The town of Tayr Debba near Tyre was hit in a strike, resulting in six injuries, reports Lebanese state news agency NNA.

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Smoke rises in Khiam near the Lebanese-Israeli border, an area which has been targeted by Israeli raids in recent days

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Plumes of smoke erupt following an Israeli air strike on a village near Lebanon's southern city of Tyre

 

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Netanyahu calls for 'immediate' removal of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon​

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the UN chief Antonio Guterres to remove peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon "immediately".

"Mr Secretary General, get the UNIFIL forces out of harm's way. It should be done right now, immediately," Netanyahu said in a video statement issued by his office.

Earlier this month, Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz declared Guterres persona non grata following Iran's attack on Israel.

 

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40 nations 'strongly condemn' attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
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The UK is among 40 nations to "strongly condemn" attacks on United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in Lebanon.

On Thursday, two Indonesian peacekeepers were injured falling from an observation tower after Israeli tanks fired towards it.

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged that its troops were responsible for an incident in which two Sri Lankan soldiers, in Naqoura, were injured and that it would be investigated.

And the United Nations, on Saturday, said another peacekeeper was injured by gunfire in the south on Friday, though added it did not know the origin of the fire.

In a joint statement posted on X, external by the Polish UN mission, the countries say attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) "must stop immediately and should be adequately investigated".

"We consider Unifil's role as particularly crucial in light of the escalating situation in the region," the statement adds.

 

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Fighting in southern Lebanon intensifies​

Sebastian Usher
Middle East editor

Hezbollah says that its fighters have been involved in combat at point-blank range with Israeli troops in a village near the border with Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that in addition to two severely wounded soldiers, many others have been evacuated to hospital with light and moderate injuries.

The fighting in south Lebanon is intensifying, as Lebanese officials say that Israel has widened its target area in the country.

The IDF says that it's carried out airstrikes on around two-hundred Hezbollah targets in the past twenty-four hours.

In one incident, the Lebanese Red Cross says its volunteers suffered injuries as an Israeli strike hit a building they were searching for casualties in south Lebanon.

The IDF has accused Hezbollah of using ambulances to transport weapons and fighters, without providing any evidence.

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Smoke rising from the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted the Kfar Tibnit in Lebanon on Sunday

 

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Israeli media reports US considering sending THAAD air defence system to Israel
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Wyre Davies
Reporting from Jerusalem

Several reports in Israeli media today suggest the United States is considering transferring an advanced missile defence system, known as THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence), to Israel.

The system, specifically designed to intercept high altitude ballistic missiles, would add to Israel’s already sophisticated multi-layered missile defence capability. That has been repeatedly deployed with a high level of success against rockets, projectiles and missiles fired from Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

It is the prospect of conflict with Iran escalating into a wider regional war that has prompted more talk of THAAD being deployed.

Israel is soon expected to respond to Iran’s unprecedented launch of 180 missiles against Israel earlier this month. Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has promised a strike against Iran will be "lethal, precise and surprising".

If president Biden were to approve sending the mobile THAAD system to Israel, from one of the US military bases in the region, it would reportedly require numerous American military personnel to operate the system.

Although the US is already deeply involved in this conflict, supplying much of Israel’s heavy and sophisticated weaponry, the prospect of American military “boots on the ground” would underline just how reliant Israel has become on US military support.