Netanyahu’s new threats to Hezbollah – “Unspeakable horror” in Gaza, dozens dead –

An Israeli aerial bombardment on Saturday night killed at least 73 people in the <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/us-wing-movement-allegedly-provides-arms-to-hamas-page-all/" title="US Wing Movement Allegedly Provides Arms to Hamas Page all”>Gaza Strip, the civil protection of the small Palestinian enclave announced, on the day a drone targeted the private residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in central Israel, during which there was an assassination attempt. of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

At least 73 dead from shelling in Gaza

The Israeli army has bombed a residential area in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where it has launched a new attack against elements of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

“Civil protection teams found 73 dead and a large number of wounded” in Beit Lahia and “there are still dead under the debris,” civil protection spokesman Mahmoud Basal told AFP.

The Israeli military countered that the numbers released by the authorities in the Gaza Strip “do not correspond” to the information in its possession, assuring that “precision” munitions were used against a “target” belonging to Hamas.

Even before this bombardment, civil protection spoke of “more than 400 dead” in the northern Gaza Strip since October 6, when the new Israeli operations began with the declared aim of preventing the regrouping of units of the military arm of Hamas.

“Unspeakable horror in Gaza under Israeli siege”

“Horrifying news from northern Gaza, where Palestinians continue to suffer unspeakable horrors under siege by Israeli (armed) forces,” Joyce Mizuya, interim head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said via X.

Earlier yesterday, a drone was launched against Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea (central), however, neither the Israeli prime minister nor his wife were there, as his office assured. The Israeli military announced for its part in the evening that Hezbollah had fired at least 200 rockets and/or drones from Lebanon against Israeli territory.

“Hezbollah tried to assassinate me. Serious mistake” – Threatens Netanyahu

“Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, who tried to assassinate me and my wife, committed a grave mistake,” Mr Netanyahu said in a statement. “I say to the Iranians and their allies in the axis of evil: anyone who tries to harm the citizens of Israel will pay a high price,” he added.

His accusations heighten concern about further military escalation in the Middle East, as Israel threatens to retaliate with an attack of some 200 missiles on October 1 by arch-enemy Iran, as it continues its war against both Hamas in the Strip of Gaza as well as against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Despite the blows he managed to the two Islamist movements, killing their leaders, the two factions, characterized as allies of Tehran, vow to continue their fight against Israel.

Hezbollah has not yet claimed responsibility for the drone attack on Mr Netanyahu’s residence, however Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations said the Lebanese movement was behind the attack.

The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered by Hamas’ unprecedented raid against southern sectors of Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. In retaliation, Israel launched devastating, large-scale military operations in the enclave, where Hamas has ruled since 2007. The next day, Hezbollah opened a front with Israel to support Hamas.

The Israeli army has announced the deaths of two of its members in northern Gaza, bringing to 357 the officially known number of soldiers killed in the enclave since it began ground operations there on October 27, 2023.

The battle against Israel will continue “until the liberation of Palestine”

After the death of Hamas leader Yahya Shinwar by Israeli military fire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, his movement assured that the fight against Israel will continue “until the liberation of Palestine”.

Yahya Sinuar was said by Israel to be the mastermind of the October 7, 2023 raid, which killed 1,206 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official data, which includes hostages who died in captivity .

Of the 251 people abducted that day, 97 are still being held hostage in the Gaza Strip, however 34 of them have been declared dead by the army.

Hamas has stressed that hostages held in the Palestinian enclave will not be freed until “the attack on the Gaza Strip stops”, which has claimed the lives of at least 42,519 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to its latest figures. of the Ministry of Health in the enclave, which were made public yesterday at noon.

After roughly a year of exchanging fire with Hezbollah, and after believing it had weakened Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military shifted the focus of the war to Lebanon in mid-September, carrying out intensive bombing against Hezbollah.

Israel, which has been waging a ground offensive in southern Lebanon since September 30, says its aim is to neutralize the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in areas near the border between the two states, to allow the safe return of some 60,000 residents of border areas in the north who were forced to flee their homes due to incessant rocket fire by Shia militants.

UN outrage over Israeli attacks on peacekeeping mission

The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (FINUL in French, UNIFIL in English), which is deployed in the south, accuses the Israeli armed forces of targeting its positions.

A position of the blue helmets, which “had not been supplied since September 29 due to blocked roads” and no longer had drinking water since Friday, managed to be supplied last night, the force announced.
Yesterday the Israeli army announced that it had bombed Hezbollah weapons depots in a southern suburb of Beirut. Bombing also took place in eastern and southern Lebanon, as well as in an area south of the Lebanese capital.

Hezbollah claimed responsibility for firing rockets into northern Israel. Israel’s emergency services reported one death near Akrich.

At least 1,454 people have been killed in Lebanon since September 23, when Israeli airstrikes intensified, according to an AFP tally based on official data. As of mid-October, the UN counted nearly 700,000 internally displaced Lebanese citizens.