Another tragic night was experienced in the Middle East with Israel proceeding with a barrage of strikes on many fronts. The attack on Beirut was fierce where Israeli forces targeted Hezbollah warehouses.
“During the night, Air Force fighter jets under precise guidance of the Intelligence Directorate, carried out a series of targeted attacks across Beirut against several ammunition depots and other terrorist infrastructure in the area.
Before the attacks, many measures were taken to reduce the chance of harming those not involved, including warnings to the local population. The terrorist organization Hezbollah is placing its weapons and production facilities under residential buildings in the heart of Beirut and putting the local population at risk. The IDF will continue to vigorously attack, damage and degrade Hezbollah’s military capabilities and infrastructure in Lebanon.” the Israeli Air Force statement said.
A circulating video of the ongoing Israeli aggression against #Southern _ Suburbs to Beirut#Lebanon #Al-Mayadeen_Lebanon pic.twitter.com/XsJGOTAhEM
– Al-Mayadeen Lebanon (@mayadeenlebanon) October 5, 2024
Of course, for its part, the Lebanese organization claims that Israel’s strikes did not hit any of its warehouses, but natural gas pipelines. At the same time, Hezbollah announced that it pushed back an “attempt” to infiltrate the Israeli army into the border from Saturday night to Sunday, after several days of fighting on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
In a statement, the Shiite armed movement said that “a group of soldiers of the Israeli enemy tried to infiltrate (…) Blinda” but its fighters targeted them “with artillery fire” and “forced them to retreat”.
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that Hezbollah launched about 130 rockets against the country’s territory.
Struggle for the fate of Esmail Kani
At the same time, according to a New York Times report citing three anonymous Iranian sources, there is concern over the fate of Esmail Kani. He is the head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
He is reportedly in Beirut to help Hezbollah, but in recent days there have been rumors about his fate following Israeli airstrikes. At the same time, Iran’s silence on this particular issue throws more water into the mill of the scenarios that want Kani to be dead.
Three Iranian Officials have now confirmed that Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the Commander of the Quds Force under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG), did traveled to Lebanon last week following the Assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah; to… pic.twitter.com/QfpSCDxY0v
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 6, 2024
Heavy strike with 21 dead in Gaza
Civil protection in the Gaza Strip announced that at least 21 people were killed in today’s aerial bombardment of an Islamic mosque that had been converted into a shelter for internally displaced persons in Deir al-Bala (center), which the Israeli military confirmed, saying it hit “the center command and control’ of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
“The death toll stands at 21 and there is a large number of wounded” after the bombing of the mosque, which is located opposite the entrance “to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Bala, in the central part of the Gaza Strip,” a spokesman said. civil protection, Mahmoud Basal.
In a statement, Israel’s military said it “conducted a precision strike against Hamas terrorists operating inside a command and control center embedded in a structure that was formerly the ‘Suhada al-Aqsa’ mosque in the Deir al-Bala area.”
New strikes in Syria
Israel also carried out strikes on Syrian territory. In fact, Arab media report that it hit the Qusayr area with missiles.
This is an area near the border with Lebanon and it is believed that there are Hezbollah infrastructures there. In fact, it is from there that weapons are transferred from Iran through Syrian territory to Lebanon.
It is the second point inside Syria that hits Israel tonight after Deir al-Zor in the east of the country
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