Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, on September 27, 2024.
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The Israeli government said a drone launched at the prime minister’s office on Saturday caused no casualties, and Iran’s supreme leader vowed that Hamas would continue to attack Israel in the aftermath. Kill the mastermind The fatal attack took place on October 7 last year.
Israel sounded the alarm on Saturday morning warning of artillery fire from Lebanon, including a drone fired at the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s The Israeli government said the home was located in Caesarea. Neither he nor his wife were home and there were no injuries, his spokesman said in a statement.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, multiple Israeli attacks killed more than 50 people, including children, in less than 24 hours, according to hospital officials and an Associated Press reporter.
In September, Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile at Ben-Gurion Airport as Netanyahu’s plane was landing. The missile was intercepted.
Lebanese artillery strikes northern Israel
The Israeli military said that in addition to the drone fired at Netanyahu’s official residence, some 55 artillery shells were fired from Lebanon at two separate sites in northern Israel on Saturday morning. Israeli medical authorities said four people were injured, including one who suffered moderate injuries from falling shrapnel.
A 50-year-old man has died after being hit by shrapnel in his car in northern Israel, Israeli emergency services said. Emergency services said in a separate statement that four people were injured in the attack. It was unclear whether the man who was killed was among the injured.
Israeli War with Lebanese Hezbollah – an Iran-backed ally of Hamas – has intensified in recent weeks. Hezbollah said on Friday it planned to launch a new phase of the fighting by firing more missiles and exploding drones at Israel. Hassan Nasrallah, the militant group’s longtime leader Killed in Israeli airstrike In late September, Israel sent ground troops to Lebanon in early October.
Israel also said on Saturday it had killed a deputy Hezbollah commander in the southern town of Bint Jubail. Military says Nasser Rashid oversaw attacks on Israel
In Lebanon, the health ministry said an Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit a car on the main highway north of Beirut, killing two people. It’s unclear who was in the car when it was hit.
Hamas refuses to release hostages, Israel strikes Gaza
Deadlock ensues between israel and hamaswhich is fighting in Gaza, both sides have signaled their opposition to ending the war Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar dies This week. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Sinwar’s death was a painful loss, but noted that Hamas remains committed despite the killings of other militant Palestinian leaders before him. Moving on.
“Hamas is alive and will continue to be alive,” Khamenei said.
since Israel announced Sinwar’s death on Thursday, Senior Hamas official confirms On Friday, Hamas reiterated its position that hostages taken from Israel a year ago would not be released until a ceasefire in Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops. The firm stance counters Netanyahu’s statement that his country’s military will continue to fight until the hostages are freed and will stay in gaza to prevent a severely weakened Hamas from rearming.
Sinwar was the main architect of the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, which killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped another 250 people. Gaza attack The attack has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who did not distinguish between combatants and civilians but said more than half of the dead were women and children.
More attacks hit Gaza on Saturday. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Israel attacked the upper floors of the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahiya, and troops fired into the hospital building and its courtyard, causing panic among patients and medical staff.
Al-Awda Hospital in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, said in a statement that the top floor of the building was attacked, injuring several staff. Fares Abu Hamza, head of the health ministry’s ambulance and emergency services, said at least 30 people were killed, more than half of them, in attacks on three houses in Jabaliya on Friday night. It’s women and children. At least 80 people were injured.
At least 10 people, including two children, were killed when a house was hit in the town of Zaveida in central Gaza, according to Deir el-Balah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which treats the wounded. Another attack killed 11 people in the Maghazi refugee camp, all from the same family, the same hospital said. Associated Press reporters counted bodies from two attacks on the hospital.
Palestinian communications company Paltel said on Facebook on Saturday that the attack knocked out internet networks in northern Gaza.
war Destroyed large areas of GazaAbout 90% of the 2.3 million people have been displaced, leaving them struggling to find food, water, medicine and fuel.
chance of sinwar’s death
Sinwar’s killing appears to have been a chance encounter with Israeli forces on the front lines on Wednesday, which could change the dynamics of the Gaza war even as Israel applies pressure. Attack on Hezbollah with ground forces in southern Lebanon and Air strikes in other areas national.
Israel has pledged to destroy Hamas in Gaza politically, while killing Sinwar is a military priority. But Netanyahu said in a speech announcing the killings on Thursday that “our war is not over yet”.
Still, Israeli-allied governments and exhausted Gaza residents expressed hope that Sinwar’s death would turn the tide. paving To end the fight.
In Israel, families of hostages remain detained in Gaza Call on the Israeli government to capitalize on the Sinwar killings As a way to restart negotiations to bring loved ones home. There are still about 100 hostages in the Gaza Strip, and Israel says at least 30 of them are dead.
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