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Israeli strikes on Beirut after evacuation warning: state media

Netanyahu’s office on Saturday said a drone was launched towards his residence in the central town of Caesarea but he and his wife were not home and there were no injuries

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Israeli strikes on Beirut after evacuation warning: state media
AFP
Published: 20 Oct 2024, 13: 24

A cloud of smoke erupts following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on October 19, 2024. Israel expanded operations in Lebanon nearly a year after Hezbollah began exchanging fire in support of its ally, Hamas, following the Palestinian group's deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 AFP

Two Israeli air strikes targeted south Beirut on Sunday after the Israeli army warned civilians to evacuate the stronghold of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, state media said.

The reported strikes came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement of trying to assassinate him by attacking his residence.

“Enemy (Israeli) airplanes carried out two strikes this morning on Beirut’s southern suburbs, one of them hitting a residential building in Haret Hreik” near a mosque and a hospital, the National News Agency reported.

The Israeli military had earlier issued an “urgent warning” for civilians living near buildings it said were affiliated with Hezbollah in the neighbourhood to immediately evacuate.

“You are located near facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah, which the IDF (Israeli army) will work against in the near future,” the military’s Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee said on Telegram.

Netanyahu’s office on Saturday said a drone was launched towards his residence in the central town of Caesarea but he and his wife were not home and there were no injuries.

“The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

“Anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price,” he said in comments directed at Tehran and “its proxies”, which include Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a group Israel has been at war with since late September.

Iran said Hezbollah, which it arms and finances, was behind the attack on Netanyahu’s residence.

“This action was taken by the Lebanese Hezbollah,” Iran’s mission to the United Nations said in response to a question about its role in the attack, according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency.

Hezbollah has not claimed the attack.

Israel has vowed to retaliate against Iran, its regional arch-foe, for an 1 October missile barrage. Iran has warned it will hit back.​

 

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Nasrallah killing sets a dangerous precedent

The killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, along with many of his close associates, in an Israeli raid in Lebanon certainly does not end the crisis in the Middle East. Much as Benjamin Netanyahu would like the world to know, the activities of the Israeli military in this past year hav

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Nasrallah killing sets a dangerous precedent
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Published :
Oct 02, 2024 21:35
Updated :
Oct 02, 2024 21:35

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The killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, along with many of his close associates, in an Israeli raid in Lebanon certainly does not end the crisis in the Middle East. Much as Benjamin Netanyahu would like the world to know, the activities of the Israeli military in this past year have only exacerbated conditions in the region. And now, with Nasrallah's death, a greater danger is what the wider world confronts.

There are the reasons why the world should be concerned about what has been going wrong in the Middle East. Israel's pounding of Gaza and the West Bank in the past twelve months, the consequence being the death of nearly 42,000 Palestinians and survivors forced into internal exile of the worst sort, has gone on unchecked. The international community has been unable to either restrain Netanyahu or to censure him, that last bit owing to the strong levels of support he yet enjoys in such capitals as Washington.

The consequences of inaction against Netanyahu and his extremist government are now out there for all to see. Israeli intelligence has tracked senior military commanders of Hamas and Hezbollah --- and add to that number the high-level Iranians who have been victims of targeted killings --- and put an end to their lives. But such action has only emboldened Israel's enemies into deepening their operations against Tel Aviv. Netanyahu's consistent claim that he would destroy Hamas has been followed by renewed assaults, through missile attacks on Israeli towns, by Hamas.

Israel has clearly been unable to subdue Hamas. It should have been for Israel's embattled leadership to opt for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. A refusal to take that path has only widened the theatre of conflict, with the Israelis now embroiled in fresh crises in southern Lebanon and Yemen. Israel's bizarre ability to create new enemies has now made it hard for it to set a course toward a rolling back of the situation. It was a blunder taking out Nasrallah and his team in Beirut. It does not help that Joe Biden, rather than taking Netanyahu to task over the action, chose to describe the killing operation in Beirut as a measure of justice for the Hezbollah leader.

All of this has pushed geopolitics into a condition where niceties and respect for territorial integrity have been pushed to an extreme by Israel's leaders. With Israel freely and without any demonstration of respect for international law having its air force rain down missiles on Beirut in search of Hezbollah, worries assume a horrendous dimension. And that is largely the creation of a precedent that in future will allow states to send in their forces into countries they might feel will be necessary to bomb, kill or flush out their enemies. Lebanon is no stranger to such external violence. In the 1980s, Israeli troops and Palestinian guerrillas fought it out in the country, ruining the very fabric of Lebanon's political system. Now the assault on Beirut and on southern Lebanon throws up the very real possibility of the Middle East crisis not only broadening out but also of states not involved in the crisis bearing the brunt of external assault.

Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran's leadership that Israel has the ability to reach deep into Iran, a statement grounded on the understanding that the Hezbollah has long enjoyed Tehran's support in its operations against Tel Aviv. Now 200 Iranian missiles hitting Tel Aviv have given Netanyahu a taste of his own medicine. Netanyahu's bellicosity should raise alarm bells around the world, for it is patently dismissive of international law. A rules-based world is clearly under threat, for other nations might now begin to feel the need to assert their authority over nations they consider enemies by simply bombing them into submission or having their soldiers march into them as a way of achieving their questionable purposes. It is a precedent which someday might have Pakistani soldiers go into Afghanistan to subdue the Taliban forces responsible for trouble at the frontier between the two countries.

Israel's violation of Lebanese sovereignty, together with its refusal to draw an end to the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, is stark warning for the world of the terror that might threaten the future of nations. Iran will, in light of Netanyahu's bombast, be under threat of an Israeli assault. And one can be sure that no leaders in the West will condemn such a move if it comes to pass. The irony is that while large sections of the western leadership were quick to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one does not seriously expect them to do a similar act if Iran falls under Israeli aggression. They will be happy to see regime change in Tehran through Israeli military action. And out of that situation will emerge a new crisis, with Turkey's Recep Tayyep Erdogan not willing to remain quiet when his own borders come under threat as a result of Israeli action against Iran.

Nations around the globe have a right to be concerned about the impunity with which Israel's leadership has been vitiating the scene over the past year. Its bombing of Beirut has pushed Lebanon to a fresh spate of instability, given that it already suffers from issues of governance. If Israel's leadership remain unleashed in their violence, other leaders around the world, their own motives at work, might be inspired into taking a leaf out of the Israeli playbook. Rwanda could decide to march into Congo in force to subdue elements it considers a threat to its security. With the Chinese laying claims to chunks of Indian territory, the leadership in Delhi will be properly and justifiably worried about the threat. The 1962 border clashes have not been forgotten by Indians. A new Trump administration could be tempted to send American troops into Mexico to force an end to the influx of refugees into the United States. With belligerence permeating policy-making in the new Nato member states along its border, a resurgent Russia might someday decide to teach them a lesson by direct military means. Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 remain unforgotten.

The danger is therefore hard to ignore. The state of Israel is a threat to global stability in these times. More pertinently, Netanyahu symbolises this danger. As long as he clings to power, people around the world will not sleep well at night. War criminals on the loose are a risk to lives everywhere.​

When you kill 1200 innocent civilian including women and Children in peace time and pared girls naked, scope of good precedent, bad precedent, negation, talks etc. ends. You cannot complaint anything after such genocide, rapes and oppression. Now face whatever comes in retaliation, whether in your favor and against, whether good or bad.

 

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US wants end to conflict ‘for good’

The United States said yesterday that it was working on a formula to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah “for good”, and that merely committing to a previous UN resolution would not be enough.

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US wants end to conflict ‘for good’

The United States said yesterday that it was working on a formula to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah "for good", and that merely committing to a previous UN resolution would not be enough.

US envoy Amos Hochstein held talks in Lebanon's capital with parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, in a push for an end to a nearly month-long war that has killed more than 1,470 people in Lebanon.

UN resolution 1701, which ended the last round of conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in 2006, calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.

The Iranian-backed Shi'ite movement did not end its presence, however.

Committing to a previous UN resolution would not be enough: US envoy

Continued cross-border tensions culminated in Hezbollah missile attacks on northern Israel in support of the Palestinian militant group Hamas after it staged a bloody killing spree in Israel from Gaza just over a year ago. Israel began a large-scale onslaught on Hezbollah last month.

Hochstein, visiting Lebanon for the second time in two months, was holding talks with Lebanese officials in a new US mediation push to bring peace to the Middle East after Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last week.

"Both sides simply committing to (UN resolution) 1701 is not enough," Hochstein told a press conference.

While the resolution remained as a basis for ending the conflict, additional measures were needed to ensure it was implemented "fairly, accurately and transparently".

"We are working with government of Lebanon, the state of Lebanon, as well as the government of Israel to get to a formula that brings an end to this conflict once and for all," he said.

Israel's assault on Hezbollah has raised fears of a wider regional conflict between Israel and Hezbollah's patron, Iran.

After what he called a "very constructive" meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a close ally of Hezbollah who has been engaging in diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, Hochstein said: "The United States wants to end this conflict absolutely as soon as possible. That is what President Biden wants, that is what we all are working towards."​

 

[Saif]

Mideast on a tripwire

After assassinating Lebanese Shiite militia leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27 and the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Palestinian militia group Hamas on October 17, Israel is now in a state of what in military jargon is called 'escalation dominance'. This is what Israel and its wes

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Mideast on a tripwire
SYED FATTAHUL ALIM
Published :
Oct 21, 2024 21:47
Updated :
Oct 21, 2024 21:47

After assassinating Lebanese Shiite militia leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27 and the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Palestinian militia group Hamas on October 17, Israel is now in a state of what in military jargon is called 'escalation dominance'. This is what Israel and its western allies believe. Escalation dominance refers to a state when a nation can demonstrate its ability to control and dictate the pace and intensity of conflict with its adversaries. In the earlier months, too, senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders were assassinated by Israel. Senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr was murdered by Israel in the south suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese capital on July 30. The very next day, Ismail Haniyeh, chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, was assassinated in Tehran, capital of Iran. Clearly, it was a violation of Iran's national sovereignty and a strong enough provocation for Iran to retaliate. And to save face, if not to take the promised revenge against the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and Ismael Haniyeh, Iran was bound to retaliate and it did so on October 1, though in a rather restrained manner by firing some 180 ballistic missiles that targeted military installations without causing any intended civilian death, though Israel never reciprocates with such restraint.

Obviously, Israel is now in the driving seat, escalating and expanding the war in the Middle East (ME) at will. So, will it now carry out its promised tit for tat retaliatory strike against Iran, which Israel thinks its existential threat? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's repeated threats that it will, have kept the rest of the world and Iran guessing when and how that is going to happen. Perhaps, this is also part of Israel's policy of escalation dominance. But despite the US President Joe Biden's so-called 'ironclad' support for Israel, can this small country with a population of around 9.4 million afford a protracted and expanded war in the ME?

Some experts on war and military issues are of the view that tired of yearlong campaign against the Hamas militants in Gaza, the members of IDF (Israeli Defence Force) are not in a proper mood to engage in a protracted war against Hezbollah militias in Lebanon. Now that Hezbollah leadership is decapitated, it has breathed new life into war-weary members of IDF to launch the long-awaited ground invasion in Lebanon. But so far, the much-touted land offensive, which started on October 1, could not produce anything substantial. Rather the 'decapitated' Hezbollah militia have been able to demonstrate remarkable resilience in the face of Israeli carpet-bombing of Lebanon and failed attempts by the IDF to cross into southern Lebanon. Not only have the Hezbollah fighters been able to repulse IDF incursions into southern Lebanon, they have increased their attacks on military installations deep into Israel with the help of rockets, missiles and drones. Similarly, after assassination of their top leaders, Palestinian militia, too, do not seem to have been demoralised.

To all appearances, the assassination and bombing missions that Israeli military excels in, thanks to the unlimited military, financial and moral support extended by the US and its European allies, have not been able to effectively silence the resistance fighters in Lebanon and Gaza in Palestine. True, Israel has succeeded in killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children in Gaza, and thousands of civilians in Lebanon. But history has ample proof that by just launching bombing campaigns and sending killing missions to deprive guerrilla fighters who are defending their homeland of their leadership cannot extinguish the spirit of resistance. American experiences in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan support this view.

So, by expanding the war in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria in the northeast or, perhaps, farther east into Iran, can Israel sustain a long-drawn and unpredictable war?

Only time will tell if it can.​

 

[Saif]

When you kill 1200 innocent civilian including women and Children in peace time and pared girls naked, scope of good precedent, bad precedent, negation, talks etc. ends. You cannot complaint anything after such genocide, rapes and oppression. Now face whatever comes in retaliation, whether in your favor and against, whether good or bad.

Krishna, you have to remember that Israel was created by carrying out genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians have been evicted from their own country to form Israel.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Krishna, you have to remember that Israel was created by carrying out genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians have been evicted from their own country to form Israel.

This is the Problem with Indian Muslims as well. They tell Hindus that they Destroy Babari Mosque to build Ram Temple. At this time, they conveniently keep mum on the fact that Mosque itself was built by destroying Temple which is now reclaimed. Israelis reclaimed their land. As per your logic, now Parasis from India should go to Iran and ask them to vacate the land as it originally belongs to Parasis.

 

[Saif]

This is the Problem with Indian Muslims as well. They tell Hindus that they Destroy Babari Mosque to build Ram Temple. At this time, they conveniently keep mum on the fact that Mosque itself was built by destroying Temple which is now reclaimed. Israelis reclaimed their land. As per your logic, now Parasis from India should go to Iran and ask them to vacate the land as it originally belongs to Parasis.

You need to learn the history before making anti Muslim comments. Your RSS trained skull will not take anything that is against Jewish and Hindus. You are here to prove that it is the Muslims who are bad and the Hindus and Jewish are all Avatars. Could you please tell me why the entire South Asia hates India? Why the entire Middle East and even many Western countries like Spain hate Israel? There are some Muslim countries who have diplomatic relations with Israel but that is for the machinations of America. By the by, as per your logic we should reclaim West Bengal, Bihar and Assam as these regions were under Bengal rule in the past.

 

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You need to learn the history before making anti Muslim comments. Your RSS trained skull will not take anything that is against Jewish and Hindus. You are here to prove that it is the Muslims who are bad and the Hindus and Jewish are all Avatars. Could you please tell me why the entire South Asia hates India? Why the entire Middle East and even many Western countries like Spain hate Israel? There are some Muslim countries who have diplomatic relations with Israel but that is for the machinations of America. By the by, as per your logic we should reclaim West Bengal, Bihar and Assam as these regions were under Bengal rule in the past.

First of all Entire South Asia does not hate India. People who hate India are Mainly from Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is holy books teaching behind that. I wish RSS and BJP be like the Muslims of BD and Pakistan so that we can Manage Muslim population in India like BD and Pakistan has successfully managed Hindu population in their country. RSS and BJP are so radical that a huge number of illegal immigrants from BD who have infiltrated into India do not want to go back to their own country. Neither Rohingyas want to go back. It is a surprise that any Muslim who migrate from their country goes to all non-Muslim countries but do not prefer to go to any brother Muslim country out of about 56 Muslim countries.

 

[Saif]

First of all Entire South Asia does not hate India. People who hate India are Mainly from Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is holy books teaching behind that. I wish RSS and BJP be like the Muslims of BD and Pakistan so that we can Manage Muslim population in India like BD and Pakistan has successfully managed Hindu population in their country. RSS and BJP are so radical that a huge number of illegal immigrants from BD who have infiltrated into India do not want to go back to their own country. Neither Rohingyas want to go back. It is a surprise that any Muslim who migrate from their country goes to all non-Muslim countries but do not prefer to go to any brother Muslim country out of about 56 Muslim countries.

Nepal is a Hindu country but hates India from the core of its heart. Sri Lanka does not like you because of India's support for Tamil Tiger and forceful deployment of the Indian army within Sri Lanka. Bhutan is getting cozier with China. Maldives has severe anti India feeling towards India. Ask President Moijju. I don't need to talk about Bangladesh and Pakistan. Muslims from Bangladesh migrate to USA, European countries and the Middle East. We have 2.5 million Bangladeshis working in Saudi Arabi alone. So your assertion about Muslims don't migrate to Muslim countries is not correct.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Nepal is a Hindu country but hates India from the core of its heart. Sri Lanka does not like you because of India's support for Tamil Tiger and forceful deployment of the Indian army within Sri Lanka. Bhutan is getting cozier with China. Maldives has severe anti India feeling towards India. Ask President Moijju. I don't need to talk about Bangladesh and Pakistan. Muslims from Bangladesh migrate to USA, European countries and the Middle East. We have 2.5 million Bangladeshis working in Saudi Arabi alone. So your assertion about Muslims don't migrate to Muslim countries is not correct.

I have many Nepalis working here with me in my office. India, Nepal has visa less commutation. Only, both government has some issues. Basically, Nepalis and Indias are brothers with same culture. We love one other. I do not remember any conflict between Nepalis and Hindus ever like what I have seen between Hindus and Muslims and Among Differant groups of Muslims Themselves. Lucknow has a long history of Riots between Shias and Sunnis. In Kashmir, Wahabis did not spare any Sufi Shrine. Forget about Hindu temples. Security gus in our flat is a Nepali guy. The guy who cleans my car is a Nepali. They are very happy to work with Hindus in India. We have over 5 million Nepalis working in India. Infact, they are given preferential treatment over other locals.

 

[Saif]

I have many Nepalis working here with me in my office. India, Nepal has visa less commutation. Only, both government has some issues. Basically, Nepalis and Indias are brothers with same culture. We love one other. I do not remember any conflict between Nepalis and Hindus ever like what I have seen between Hindus and Muslims and Among Differant groups of Muslims Themselves. Lucknow has a long history of Riots between Shias and Sunnis. In Kashmir, Wahabis did not spare any Sufi Shrine. Forget about Hindu temples. Security gus in our flat is a Nepali guy. The guy who cleans my car is a Nepali. They are very happy to work with Hindus in India. We have over 5 million Nepalis working in India. Infact, they are given preferential treatment over other locals.

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Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura: The border areas which stoked India-Nepal currency row

India reacted to the row, stating Nepal’s actions will not change the ground reality

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Read the entire article below:

Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura: The border areas which stoked India-Nepal currency row

India reacted to the row, stating Nepal’s actions will not change the ground reality

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It proves nothing, This sort of Small issues keep happening and gets resolved. Haven't Muslims in BD have killed fellow Muslims of same country? Hindus and Nepalis have far better relations than what Sia -Sunnis have amongst themselves. Nepalis and Hindus have far superior relations than any Muslim groups have amongst themselves.

 

[Saif]

It proves nothing, This sort of Small issues keep happening and gets resolved. Haven't Muslims in BD have killed fellow Muslims of same country? Hindus and Nepalis have far better relations than what Sia -Sunnis have amongst themselves. Nepalis and Hindus have far superior relations than any Muslim groups have amongst themselves.

Small issue? You think territorial dispute is a small issue. Territorial dispute challenges your sovereignty.

 

[Saif]

1,552 killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since Sept 23

More than 1,550 people have been killed in bombardment by Israel since it intensified its air campaign on Lebanon last month, according to an AFP tally updated with...

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1,552 killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since Sept 23
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 23 October, 2024, 01:39

More than 1,550 people have been killed in bombardment by Israel since it intensified its air campaign on Lebanon last month, according to an AFP tally updated with new figures released on Tuesday.

Lebanon’s health ministry reported 63 killed in ‘Israeli enemy strikes on Lebanon’ Monday, raising the death toll from an strike near a south Beirut hospital to 18. The real toll is likely to be higher due to data gaps.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken was in Israel Tuesday to push for a ceasefire in Gaza after his administration called for an end to the war in Lebanon ‘as soon as possible’.

It is his 11th trip to the Middle East since Hamas’s attack on Israel more than a year ago triggered the Gaza war, and his first since Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah escalated late last month.

He is due to meet prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, as Israel weighs its response to Iran’s October 1 missile attack.

In Lebanon, Israel hit an area of south Beirut housing the country’s largest public health facility, killing 13 people, according to the health ministry.

The Rafic Hariri Hospital, located outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds, sustained minor damage in the strike which flattened four buildings in its vicinity, said an AFP correspondent in the area.

Previous US efforts to end the Gaza war and contain the regional fallout have failed, as did a bid spearheaded by president Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to secure a temporary ceasefire in Lebanon.

After Israel, Blinken will visit Jordan on Wednesday and discuss humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip, an official on the plane with him said.

Blinken also plans to speak to Israeli leaders about the expected strike on Iran and discourage any move that could massively escalate regional conflict, the official said.

On Monday, US envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein said his administration was seeking an end to the war ‘as soon as possible’ as he pushed for a ceasefire based on a UN resolution that had ended an earlier Israel-Hezbollah war.

Under resolution 1701, Hezbollah should have withdrawn from areas in south Lebanon near the Israeli border, leaving only the country’s weak military and UN peacekeepers deployed there.

But Hezbollah remained south of Lebanon’s Litani River, and in October last year began launching low-intensity cross-border strikes into Israel, in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas.

After nearly a year of war in Gaza, Israel shifted its focus to Lebanon, vowing to secure its northern border to allow tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by the cross-border fire to return to their homes.

The strike on Monday night came as Israel targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs with heavy fire following evacuation warnings.

The densely populated Ouzai neighbourhood a few kilometres from the city centre was hit for the first time in the conflict, sparking an exodus of residents.

The Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah’s naval unit, and that it had issued an evacuation warning.

A Lebanese security official said that the country’s national airline had to switch landing strips after Israeli strikes near Beirut’s only international airport hit close to the main runway.

Hezbollah on Tuesday said it launched rockets targeting two positions in the suburbs of Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv, including an intelligence base.

It also said it targeted Israel’s ‘Stella Maris naval base’ near the northern city of Haifa, and that its militants had clashed with Israeli troops near a village at the border.

In a war-hit area along the Lebanese border, AFP footage showed huge clouds of smoke rising following Israeli strikes on the village of Khiam, as trails of smoke from Hezbollah rockets fired towards Israel could also be seen.

The wars in Gaza and Lebanon have also drawn in other Iran-aligned armed groups, including in Yemen, Syria and Iraq.

Iran on Tuesday said it had received assurances from its neighbours that they would not allow the use of their airspace for any attack against it, after Israel pledged to hit back against its October 1 missile attack.

In the Gaza Strip, Israel launched a major air and ground assault in northern Gaza earlier this month, vowing to stop Hamas militants from regrouping in the area.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said four Palestinians were killed in strikes on Monday, while several homes were blown up in the northern area of Jabalia, a focal point of the recent fighting.

A displaced resident said Jabalia ‘is being wiped out’.

‘If we don’t die from the bombing and gunfire, we will die of hunger,’ said 42-year-old Umm Firas Shamiyah, demanding aid be sent to the north.

Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have fled the assault on northern Gaza, and according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees around 4,00,000 people were trapped in the area last week.

The UN has warned of the risk of famine in Gaza, its figures showing that 396 aid trucks have entered the territory so far this month — far below the 3,003 seen in September.

The war was sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 last year, which resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures.

Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed 42,718 people, a majority civilians, according to data from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, figures the UN considers reliable.​

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Small issue? You think territorial dispute is a small issue. Territorial dispute challenges your sovereignty.

Small issue for big and powerful country. May be big issue for small and weak country.