Middle East: ‘Nasrallah killed by Israel with US bomb’, Safieddine is Hezbollah’s new leader – Middle East

The bomb that Israel used to kill former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut last week was an American guided missile: Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee on weapons of the SA. According to Kelly, Israel used a 900kg Mark 84.

Israel carried out an air strike overnight near the Kola intersection in central Beirut. The Guardian reports this, specifying that this is the first time Israel has hit Beirut outside the southern suburbs since the war began. The sound of the explosion could be heard throughout the city. Kola Crossing is a popular landmark in Beirut, where taxis and buses gather to pick up passengers. The first images of the attack show two floors of an apartment building completely destroyed. Until now, Israel had limited its attacks on the Lebanese capital to the southern suburbs. A Lebanese security source said at least two people died in the attack. According to this source, “they were killed in an Israeli drone attack that targeted an apartment belonging to Jamaa Islamiya.

The Hezbollah Shura Council, the main decision-making body of the Lebanese Shiite group, elected Hashem Safieddine to replace Hassan Nasrallah as the leader of Hezbollah. Haaretz and Al Arabya wrote it. Safieddine comes from Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, a small town in southern Lebanon, born to a Shiite family known for producing influential clerics and parliamentarians. He is Nasrallah’s cousin and has family ties to Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran’s Quds Force who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in 2020.

Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral, scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed at the same time.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US military to strengthen its presence in the Middle East with “defensive” air support capabilities and put other armed forces on a higher state of readiness. Austin “increased US readiness to deploy additional forces, increasing our readiness to respond to various contingencies,” the Pentagon said. “Austin made it clear that if Iran, its partners or allies use this level to target American personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take all necessary steps to protect our people.”

The Israeli army today carried out brutal attacks against Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in which at least 105 people were killed. The Lebanese Ministry of Health found the new death toll in the evening. 359 are injured.

Statement of the day:

“Whoever wants to harm the Jewish state will pay a heavy price.” The words that have been repeated for some time by the Israeli prime minister, his defense minister and the army chief have come true: on the night between Saturday and Sunday, the planes with the Star of David (IAF) hit the ring of fire. ​Hardly’, the strategy designed to suppress the Jewish State by the Iranian general Soleimani, killed by the US in 2020. A plan above all inspired by Hassan Nasrallah and followed by militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the West Bank, Gaza and Yemen.

On Sunday came the response against the Houthis, expected for days, after they fired surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and drones in September. The army (IDF) has dealt a new, powerful blow to Tehran’s allies in Yemen: dozens of planes flew up to 1,800 kilometers away from the Israeli border to hit the ports of Hodeidah and Ras Issa, used for weapons and give oil. The IAF confirmed that it had launched strikes against sites used by the group for military purposes in the main Red Sea port and the nearby Ras Issa terminal. Four dead and injured according to local authorities. Hodeidah international airport was also targeted, where the Ayatollah’s cargo ships arrive loaded with weapons. The same ones with which the Houthis have been attacking commercial ships have been in motion for almost a year.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant emphasized that “no place is too far for Israel.” And this is the second attack in Yemen, following on July 20, responding to a drone launched over Tel Aviv, which caused one casualty, the Tsahal bombing of the port of Hodeidah which caused a fire. big. Benyamin Netanyahu’s revenge continued throughout the day in Lebanon where, since the 17th of this month, almost all of Hezbollah’s leadership has been ‘eliminated’. The IDF announced that 20 leaders were also killed in Friday’s attack on the Beirut headquarters of the Lebanese fundamentalist group, as well as the leader of the God Party, including Ali Karaki, the leader of the southern front, Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, the army chief . Nasrallah’s personal security, Samir Tawfiq Deeb’s adviser, Abd al-Amir Muhammad Sablini, responsible for the strengthening of the military forces, Ali Nayef Ayoub, the head of firepower ​​​​​​​​​Hezbollah. The IDF released a map of the bombed area where a school run by the United Nations was located just 53 meters away. Instead the Lebanese media showed the video of the recovery of Nasrallah’s body, ‘whole’, pulled out of the crater left by bombs against the IDF bunker. Not only that: on the night between Saturday and Sunday, Israeli fighters again targeted the Shiite stronghold, killing Nabil Kawak, the head of the militia’s security unit and a member of the Central Governing Council. The IAF pilots then turned their sights on Syria, in Homs, where they hit, according to the Human Rights Research Center, a vehicle with Iraqi militias who were against Iran.

On the Gaza front, a new attack destroyed the Hamas command center in an old school in the northern part of the Strip with precision missiles. At the same time, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has warned again about the “dangerous consequences” of the attacks in Lebanon. And he said: “The Israeli regime will never find peace and tranquility.” The US responded indirectly to Tehran’s threats with its position: “Support for Israel’s security is unquestionable and this will not change,” said national security spokesman John Kirby, repeating the alliance’s right to to defend himself “from newspaper attacks”. “Biden and Netanyahu have known each other for 40 years, they never agree on anything but they agree on one thing: Israel’s security,” he said. Meanwhile, US officials told ABC News that “small-scale” IDF operations in Lebanese territory “may have begun on the border with Lebanon, or may be about to begin” to eliminate Hezbollah positions. It seems, however, that Israel has not yet made any decision about a possible land invasion. But if they decide to move their troops across the border, the US says “the scope will probably be limited.”