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2024-10-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Two IDF reservists killed as Hezbollah rockets pound north, drone triggers alarms, more IDF attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hashem Safieddine death confirmed
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[IsraelTimes] A million Israelis spend an hour in shelters as IDF chases UAV; Beirut hospital tries to prove no Hezbollah cash bunker is inside, as army gives directions to hard-to-find bunker
Two Israeli reservists were killed and three others were maimed on Tuesday, as the Israeli military battled Hezbollah in Leb
 ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and the Iran-backed terror group fired dozens of projectiles at north Israel, with a drone infiltration sending a million people to bomb shelters for an hour.
One of the slain soldiers — named as Maj. (res.) Aviram Hariv, 42, the deputy commander of the Alon Brigade’s 9308th Battalion, from Dolev — was killed during fighting in southern Lebanon.
Another — named as Master Sgt. (res.) Saar Eliad Navarsky, 27, of the 7338th "Adirim" Artillery Regiment’s 508th Battalion, from Tel Aviv — was killed in a rocket barrage on northern Israel.
Three other soldiers of the artillery battalion were seriously maimed in the rocket barrage, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Ten rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Neot Mordechai area in the Galilee Panhandle amid the attack.
In the afternoon, a separate barrage of some 30 rockets was launched from Lebanon at the Upper and Western Galilee, the IDF said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said glass shards lightly injured a 32-year-old man. He was taken to a hospital.
The military said some rockets were intercepted, and impacts were identified in the area.
Hezbollah fired at least 65 rockets at Israel on Tuesday, including at central Israel in the morning.
In the evening, sirens warning of a suspected drone infiltration sounded along Israel’s northern coast, sending around a million Israelis into shelters. The IDF Home Front Command said the incident ended after over an hour.
The IDF said the drone was launched from Lebanon and likely impacted an open area, although it hadn’t located it.
According to the military, the drone was first spotted near Rosh Hanikra, and it was tracked as it flew toward the Yokne’am area, amid attempts to intercept it.
From there, the Israeli Air Force lost contact with the drone, but the Home Front Command continued to activate sirens in several towns based on the predicted south-bound route of the drone, including in Haifa and the Krayot area and as far south as Zichron Yaakov and Harish.
Hezbollah later claimed it launched attack drones at an Israeli military base south of the coastal city of Haifa, with the group also saying it fired on a total of five Israeli tanks inside Lebanese territory and two across the border in Israel’s north.
There was no Israeli confirmation of such attacks.
JOURNALISTS TOUR BEIRUT HOSPITAL ALLEGEDLY HIDING HEZBOLLAH BUNKER
Also Tuesday, the Lebanese Sahel Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs opened its doors to journalists for an unrestricted tour after the IDF claimed that a Hezbollah cash bunker is located beneath it.
The IDF had ordered that the hospital be evacuated Monday night along with other sites across Beirut that wound up being struck during a series of air raids.
Journalists who toured Sahel said they saw no evidence of a Hezbollah cash bunker.
But the IDF’s Arabic spokesperson issued a tweet addressed to those touring Sahel hospital, offering specific directions for where the bunker is located, "according to the information available to us."
"We would like to emphasize that the entrance may be hidden using various means that may make it difficult to find," the spokesperson added.
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Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking...
the Israeli fighter jets continued to pursue Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, striking around a dozen command rooms near Tyre, the military said.
The IDF said some of the command rooms belonged to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force.
Israel accused Hezbollah of placing its command centers and other infrastructure within civilian areas of Lebanon.
The IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strikes, including using precision munitions and issuing evacuation warnings in advance.
The IDF also released drone footage showing members of the Radwan Force being targeted in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
in southern Lebanon.
Using a drone, soldiers of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade spotted the two operatives, who were seen armed with an RPG and an assault rifle. The soldiers returned fire, hitting the Radwan members.
The paratroopers then directed an airstrike against the building where the operatives were holed up, killing them, the IDF said.
Additionally, Lebanon’s health ministry said Tuesday that at least 18 people had been killed in an Israeli strike near the Rafic Hariri Hospital, Lebanon’s biggest public health facility, located a few kilometers from the city center.
The IDF said early Tuesday that it did not target the hospital but, rather, struck a Hezbollah terror target.
The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said he was "appalled" by the strike, demanding a "prompt and thorough investigation."
"The fundamental principles of international humanitarian law concerning the protection of civilians must be respected."
Touting Israel’s operations, the chief of the IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin said that Hezbollah’s defensive forces have been defeated in every area that troops have so far operated in.
"Since we started [Operation] Northern Arrows, we have dealt a very serious blow to Hezbollah’s command and control. Most of [Hezbollah’s] brigade commanders have already been [eliminated] for the third time," Gordin said during a visit to southern Lebanon this week, in a video distributed by the IDF.
"All the defensive areas we attacked have been defeated. We are determined to reach every [tunnel] shaft, every underground site, every stockpile of weapons," he added.
HEZBOLLAH STOPS PRESS CONFERENCE DUE TO IDF EVACUATION ORDER
Also Tuesday, a Hezbollah front man acknowledged that some of the group’s operatives were captured by the Israeli army, without giving numbers, adding that Israel "bears responsibility" for their lives.
Spokesman Mohammed Afif also called on the International Committee of the Red Thingy to ascertain their safety, before he was forced to interrupt the presser after the IDF’s Arabic language front man Avichay Adraee issued an evacuation order for residents of the area.
Afif was filmed as he hastily wrapped up his speech and got up to leave the stage while his assistants removed the microphones. As he left, he was heard saying: "The bombing does not scare us, nor the threats. Our will is firm and our determination is strong."
Later, an News Agency that Dare Not be Named photographer captured the exact moments of an IDF airstrike at the building in Beirut where the presser had been held.
Channel 12 news reported that a Hezbollah bunker holding weapons was located underneath.
At least 63 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon over the last day, bringing the total corpse count to 2,530, the Lebanese government said Tuesday, while not differentiating between civilians and combatants.
More: IDF says it confirmed Nasrallah’s presumed successor was killed in Oct. 4 strike
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah has yet to announce death of Hashem Safieddine, who was targeted in Beirut as he met with terror group’s intel chief and other top commanders.
The IDF on Tuesday announced that top Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut earlier this month.
Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, was presumed to be the successor of Hassan Nasrallah following his assassination in late September.
According to the military, Safieddine was killed alongside the head of the Lebanese terror group’s intelligence division, Hussein Ali Hazima, during the strike on October 4.
The strike had targeted Hezbollah’s underground intelligence headquarters in Beirut, which the army says was “in the heart of a civilian population” in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburb, known as Dahiyeh.
The IDF says that more than 25 members of Hezbollah’s intelligence division were at the headquarters when the strike was carried out, including other top commanders.
Safieddine had been out of contact since the strike, but only on Tuesday the IDF said it could confirm his death. Hezbollah has not yet announced his death.
“We reached [Hassan] Nasrallah, his replacement, and most of Hezbollah’s leadership. We will know how to reach anyone who threatens the security of Israel’s citizens,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said in remarks provided by the military.
Safieddine, whom the US State Department designated as a terrorist in 2017, was a cousin of Nasrallah and, like him, was a cleric who wore the black turban denoting ostensible descent from Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. Grey-bearded and bespectacled, Safieddine bore a striking resemblance to Nasrallah, but was several years his junior, aged in his late 50s or early 60s.
IDF says its fighter jets struck a dozen Hezbollah command rooms near Tyre in south Lebanon
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