Israel extends its war fronts

Beirut. Yesterday, Israel bombed ports and power plants in Hodeida, Yemen, arguing that the target was infrastructure that served to transport Iranian weapons to the region; It maintained its offensive in Lebanon, leaving 105 dead and 359 injured, and in the Gaza Strip its attacks have already left 41,595 dead since this war began last October.

The Israeli armed forces confirmed “a large-scale air operation” against the Yemeni rebels, with dozens of combat aircraft and the support of resupply and spy aircraft, against “military objectives of the Houthi terrorist regime.”

However, the Houthi authorities, backed by Iran, assure that they are civilian facilities, and reported the death of three engineers from the Al Hali Electricity company and a port worker, in addition to the injury of 49 people.

The bombings were “in response to the latest attacks carried out by the Houthi regime against the State of Israel,” after several projectiles were fired, and the insurgents claimed responsibility for the launch of a missile against the Tel Aviv airport on Saturday. , when the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrived from New York, where he participated in the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization.

After the wave of attacks, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant published in X: “I followed the attack against the Houthis from the air force control room. The message is clear. There is no place that is too far”, and he accompanied the text with a biblical quote: “I pursue my enemies, I hunt them, I do not return until I have finished them off. Psalms 18, 38.”

Houthi authorities condemned the “brutal aggression” of Israel in Hodeida. “Although we know that this enemy overwhelms international laws and norms with total savagery, they expose themselves to responses that they cannot bear.”

Iraqi Shiites yesterday held a symbolic funeral for Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader assassinated by Israel. They carried a simulated coffin through the streets of Sadr City, in Baghdad. Ap Photo

All possibilities are considered: Iran

To all this, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, warned from New York that “all possibilities are open” in the conflict with Israel, including war after the assassination of cleric Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah (Party of God). ), according to the Iranian Fars news agency.

He stressed that the disappearance of Nasrallah “does not weaken the resistance” and that “the blood of the martyr increases the strength of Hezbollah, its momentum and the growth of its troops.”

Meanwhile, military pressure against the Shiite Hezbollah formation in Lebanon hit 120 targets, according to the Israeli army, in the Bekaa region, Balbek-Hermel, Ain Delb, Tyre, Burj al Shamali, Abasiya, Al Bazuriya, Tair Deba and Qana ; while the rubble of the attack in a suburb of Beirut in which the organization’s top leader died last Friday continued to burn and people flocked to the scene to see what remained of their homes, some to pay their respects or pray.

Syrian President Bashar al Assad claimed that the Shiite leader was a “path to resistance”; The Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Boutros Rai, offered his condolences for the murder of Nasrallah, whose remains were found without injuries and his death may have been the result of blast trauma, according to sources consulted by Reuters.

Hezbollah confirms death of another leader

On the other hand, Hezbollah confirmed yesterday the death of Nabil Kaouk, number two of its Central Council, in a bombing on Saturday, becoming the seventh high-ranking leader killed in Israeli attacks in just over a week. Among them are founding members who evaded death or arrest for decades.

Kaouk, a member of Hezbollah since the 1980s, was the group’s military commander in southern Lebanon. The United States approved sanctions against him in 2020.

The Lebanese government declared that 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 injured in the last two weeks, while a million people – a fifth of the population – fled their homes; The World Food Program announced an emergency operation to help the displaced.

Hundreds of families spent the night on the banks of Zaitunay Bay on Beirut’s waterfront.

The Lebanese armed forces asked to “preserve national unity” and not encourage actions that could “damage civil peace” in the face of “continuous attacks” by Israel.

At press time, an apartment building in Beirut’s Kola district was reported to have been hit by an Israeli airstrike, the first in the center of the Lebanese capital since hostilities began. The bombing hit the upper floor of the building, where three leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine died. Today, Israeli planes also attacked “dozens of launchers and buildings where weapons were stored in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon,” linked to Hezbollah, the army said in a statement posted on Telegram.

Likewise, in Gaza at least nine people died in the last 24 hours, 58 injured people arrived at hospitals and “there are still victims among the rubble and on the roads,” reported the strip’s Ministry of Health.

Four of the deaths, women and children according to medical sources, occurred during an Israeli aerial bombardment on the Um al Fahm school in Beit Lahiya, used as a shelter for displaced people, where, according to Tel Aviv, there was a command center of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas.

Israel stressed that before the operation measures were taken to reduce damage to civilians, and assured that Hamas “systematically violates international law” by using the population and civilian institutions as a human shield.

In Syria, 37 Islamic State militants were killed in two attacks by the US Central Command, in a blow that “will affect the organization’s ability to conduct operations against the interests of the United States, as well as our partners and allies,” the statement said. from Washington.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance of Iraq claimed responsibility for a drone attack against a target in the Israeli city of Eilat, in the south of the country.

In Iran, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi promised yesterday that the death of the General of the Revolutionary Guards, Abbas Nilforoushan, killed in an Israeli bombing in Lebanon, “will not go unanswered.”