An Israeli strike hit south Beirut on Sunday the place the army stated it focused Hezbollah, hours after the Iran-backed group stated it fired on Israeli bases across the metropolis of Haifa.
A column of smoke rose over the capital’s southern suburbs, AFPTV footage confirmed, following a warning from the Israeli army for residents to evacuate three areas.
Additional south, in a single day Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling hit the flashpoint southern city of Khiam, some six kilometres (4 miles) from the border, Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company reported early Sunday.
The bombardment got here after Israel’s army reported a “heavy rocket barrage” on Haifa late Saturday and stated a synagogue was hit, wounding two civilians.
Israel has escalated its bombing of Lebanon since September 23 and has since despatched in floor troops, following nearly a yr of restricted, cross-border exchanges of fireplace begun by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in assist of Hamas in Gaza.
Within the Palestinian territory, the place Hamas’s assault on Israel triggered the battle, the civil defence company reported 24 individuals killed in strikes Saturday.
Police in Israel stated three suspects have been arrested after two flares landed close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence within the city of Caesarea, south of Haifa, however he was not dwelling.
The incident comes a couple of month after a drone focused the identical residence, which Hezbollah claimed.
Israel’s army chief stated Saturday Hezbollah had already “paid a giant worth”, however Israel will maintain preventing till tens of hundreds of its residents displaced from the north can return safely.
Beirut’s southern suburbs have been veiled in smoke Sunday, following repeated Israeli bombardment a day earlier of the Hezbollah stronghold.
The Israeli army stated plane had focused “a weapons storage facility” and a Hezbollah “command centre”.
Hezbollah fired round 80 projectiles at Israel on Saturday, the army stated.
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Israeli forces additionally shelled the realm alongside the Litani River, which flows throughout southern Lebanon, NNA stated Sunday.
The company earlier reported strikes on the southern metropolis of Tyre, together with in a neighbourhood close to UNESCO-listed historical ruins. Israel’s army late Saturday stated it had hit Hezbollah services within the Tyre space.
In Lebanon’s east, the well being ministry stated an Israeli strike within the Bekaa Valley killed six individuals together with three youngsters.
Hezbollah stated it fired a guided missile that set an Israeli tank ablaze within the southwest Lebanon village of Shamaa, about 5 kilometres from the border.
Late Saturday, Hezbollah stated it had focused 5 army bases together with the Stella Maris naval base.
In jap Lebanon, funerals have been held for 14 civil defence workers killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday.
“They weren’t concerned with any (armed) occasion… they have been simply ready to reply requires assist,” stated Ali al-Zein, a relative of one of many lifeless.
Lebanese authorities say greater than 3,452 individuals have been killed since October final yr, with most casualties recorded since September.
Israel introduced the demise of a soldier in southern Lebanon, bringing to 48 the quantity killed preventing Hezbollah.
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In Hamas-run Gaza, the Israeli army stated it had continued operations within the northern areas of Jabalia and Beit Lahia, the targets of an intense offensive since early October.
Israel stated its renewed operations have been aimed toward stopping Hamas from regrouping.
A UN-backed evaluation on November 9 warned famine was imminent in northern Gaza, amid the elevated hostilities and a near-halt in meals help.
Israel has pushed again in opposition to a 172-page Human Rights Watch report this week that stated its mass displacement of Gazans quantities to a “crime in opposition to humanity”, in addition to findings from a UN Particular Committee pointing to warfare practices “in step with the traits of genocide”.
A overseas ministry spokesman dismissed the HRW report as “utterly false”, whereas america — Israel’s major army provider — stated accusations of genocide “are actually unfounded”.
The Gaza well being ministry on Saturday stated the general demise toll in additional than 13 months of battle had reached 43,799.
Nearly all of the lifeless are civilians, based on ministry figures, which the United Nations considers dependable.
Hamas’s October 7, 2023 assault that sparked the battle resulted within the deaths of 1,206 individuals, largely civilians, based on an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Demonstrators in Tel Aviv on Saturday reiterated calls for that the federal government attain a deal to free dozens of hostages nonetheless held in Gaza.
The protest got here every week after mediator Qatar suspended its function till Hamas and Israel present “seriousness” in truce and hostage-release talks.
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