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2024-09-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Day 2: Israel’s attack on Hezbollah’s Beirut HQ - is Nasrallah dead?
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From the Times of Israel liveblog for September 28. Hezbollah claims rocket attacks on northern Israel
Hezbollah claims responsibility for rocket fire earlier this morning on northern Israel, but the terror group appears to have missed its intended target. In a statement, its first today, the terror group says it launched a barrage of Fadi-1 rockets at Kibbutz Kabri in the Western Galilee.
Despite Hezbollah’s claims, no sirens sounded in Kabri this morning. 10 rockets were launched toward the Safed area this morning, and one long-range projectile landed in the central West Bank, according to the IDF.
Five more rockets were launched at areas deep within northern Israel moments before Hezbollah’s announcement, but none of them were aimed at Kabri.
New strike reported in southern Beirut
Smoke was seen rising from the Lebanese capital Beirut’s southern suburbs on Saturday after an apparent Israeli strike hit the area, a witness tells Reuters. The sound of a blast was heard across Beirut.
Top EU diplomat laments failure to ‘stop’ Netanyahu
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell voices regret that no power, including the United States, can “stop” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he appears determined to continue fighting in Lebanon and Gaza.
“What we do is to put all diplomatic pressure to a ceasefire, but nobody seems to be able to stop Netanyahu, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank,” Borrell tells a small group of journalists as he attended the UN General Assembly.
Israel has repeatedly sparred with the top EU diplomat, and Foreign Minister Israel Katz recently accused him of being antisemitic.
IDF says it’s again striking Hezbollah targets in Beirut after ordering evacuation
The IDF tweets that it is again striking Hezbollah targets in Beirut.
An hour ago, the IDF directed Lebanese civilians to evacuate from several buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, a known Hezbollah stronghold.
Airstrikes have continued almost nonstop tonight in Lebanon following a strike that targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
IDF conducts fresh wave of strikes in Beqaa Valley
The IDF tweets that it just finished conducting another series of strikes against Hezbollah sites, this time in the Beqaa Valley deep in Lebanese territory.
An hour earlier, IDF fighter jets struck other Hezbollah targets in Beirut, including munitions production sites, buildings where advanced munitions were stored and a command center, the army said.
For second time in hours, IDF urges civilians to move away from several sites in Hezbollah stronghold
The IDF is again calling on Lebanese civilians near several buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, a known Hezbollah stronghold, to evacuate immediately.
This is the second time tonight that Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, is making such an announcement.
In the previous one, the IDF published maps showing which sites would be targeted. This time Adraee suffices with describing the buildings that will be hit in two separate neighborhoods.
“We will continue operating to precisely dismantle Hezbollah’s offensive capabilities. Hezbollah has strategically embedded weapons in civilian areas, putting Lebanese civilians at risk in order to harm Israeli civilians,” the IDF says in a statement.
“Our war is with Hezbollah, not the people of Lebanon,” the army adds, echoing a statement it has used when describing its operations in Gaza — that its devastating war is not with Gazan civilians, rather Hamas, which carried out the October 7 onslaught.
IDF says it killed commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unite in south Lebanon strike
A recent Israeli airstrike in Lebanon killed the commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unit in southern Lebanon and other commanders, the IDF says.
Muhammed Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unit in southern Lebanon, his deputy Hussein Ismail, and other commanders were killed in the strike.
The military does not detail when or where the strike took place.
The Hezbollah rocket and missile commander was responsible for numerous attacks on Israel amid the war, including Wednesday’s ballistic missile fire at Tel Aviv, according to the IDF.
IDF says it targeted Hezbollah arms storage sites in Tyre; rockets fired from Lebanon at Safed
The IDF says it has completed a wave of airstrikes against buildings in southern Lebanon’s Tyre where Hezbollah had stored weapons.
Numerous buildings were hit in the strikes, according to the military.
Meanwhile, a barrage of three rockets was fired from Lebanon at the Safed area a short while ago, setting off sirens in the city.
At least two of the rockets were shot down by air defenses, the IDF says. There were no reports of injuries in the attack.
The military says that fighter jets struck the launchers used in the attack a short while later.
Iranian FM says US ‘complicit’ in Israeli strike on Hezbollah command post in Beirut
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi asserts Israel used several US “bunker buster” bombs to strike Tehran-backed Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday, accusing Washington of “complicity” in Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon.
“Just this morning, the Israeli regime used several 5,000-pound bunker busters that had been gifted to them by the United States to hit residential areas in Beirut,” he tells a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East.
“One cannot disregard the US complicity in the crime.”
IDF: Dozens of Hezbollah rocket launchers, weapons storage sites hit in tonight’s strikes
Dozens of Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon and buildings used by the terror group to store weapons were struck by Israeli fighter jets this evening, the IDF says.
IDF plans to intensify strikes on Hezbollah assets in Beirut, expects complex days ahead
The Israeli military plans to ramp up its strikes on Hezbollah assets in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
Earlier this evening, the IDF said it was striking three buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut where Hezbollah stored Iranian anti-ship missiles. Other Hezbollah sites will also be hit in the Dahiyeh, military sources say.
It comes after the military carried out massive airstrikes on Hezbollah’s main headquarters in the Dahiyeh earlier on Friday, in an attack that targeted Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said earlier this evening that the military is still looking into the results of its strike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut, and would not be drawn on whether Nasrallah was killed. “We will update as soon as we know. Our strike was very accurate,” he said.
Until now, IDF strikes in Beirut had been “targeted assassinations” of top Hezbollah commanders. The latest strikes have been larger, and aimed at taking out infrastructure, along with top officials.
The coming days are expected to be complex, the military has assessed.
Biden orders US forces in Mideast to be adjusted ‘as necessary’
President Joe Biden has ordered US forces in the Middle East to be adjusted “as necessary,” the White House says, after Israel launched a wave of strikes in Lebanon’s capital Beirut targeting Hezbollah’s headquarters.
“He has directed the Pentagon to assess and adjust as necessary US force posture in the region to enhance deterrence, ensure force protection, and support the full range of US objectives,” the White House says in a statement.
PM’s trip to NY ‘part of diversion’ so Nasrallah would think he was safe — report
Oh, those tricksy juices. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to go ahead with his trip to the UN General Assembly despite the escalating fighting with Hezbollah “was part of a diversion” to lull Hassan Nasrallah into believing Israel wouldn’t target him while the premier was in New York, a senior Israeli official tells the Telegraph.
Nasrallah unreachable after Israeli strike — source close to terror group
Hezbollah’s head Hassan Nasrallah was unreachable following Israel’s strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday evening, a source close to the Lebanese armed group tells Reuters. Hours after the strikes, Hezbollah hasn’t made a statement on the fate of Nasrallah.
Iran’s Khamenei said to convene emergency meeting after strike targeting Nasrallah
[IsraelTimes] As Tehran lambastes Israeli ’war crime’ in Beirut, top adviser to supreme leader says: ’With the liquidation of resistance leaders, others will take their place’
Israel goals in Lebanon much narrower compared to Gaza, official says
[AnNahar] An Israeli security official said he expects a possible war against Hezbollah would not last for as long as the current war in Gaza because the Israeli military’s goals are much narrower.
The official said Israel has vowed to dismantle Hamas' military and political regime in Gaza, but the goal in Lebanon is just to push Hezbollah away from the border with Israel. That is “not a high bar like Gaza” in terms of operational objectives, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military briefing guidelines.
The official said that no decision has been made on whether Israel will carry out a ground operation in southern Lebanon. But he stressed that the military is training for this possibility every day and is ready to implement it.
He added that Israel still sees Resolution 1701, the United Nations-brokered resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, as the best solution for lasting stability. But that the resolution must be enforced by an international force that is able to keep Hezbollah from setting up infrastructure close to the border with Israel. He said Israel’s fierce aerial bombardments this week, which killed more than 700 people in Lebanon, represent Israel’s decision to start enforcing the resolution on their own.
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