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06-10-2024
JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel and Hezbollah report more fighting in southern Lebanon, as Israel’s ground offensive continues.
Hezbollah claims it repelled an Israeli offensive overnight, with fighting “ongoing” on Saturday, while Israel says it’s carrying out “targeted” raids.
More Israeli air strikes hit Beirut after the Israeli military warned people in a southern suburb to evacuate.
Further north, in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, Israeli air strikes reportedly kill a Hamas leader.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah says it fired rockets at an Israeli air base near Haifa.
From Beirut: The city is now a war zone, no matter if we want to believe it or not, writes Nafiseh Kohnavard.
Recent pictures from Beirut’s southern suburbs reveal the damage from overnight strikes.
As we reported earlier, the Israeli military issued several warnings in the early hours telling people to move away from what it said were Hezbollah facilities in the area.
Israel says it is continuing its ground operation in southern Lebanon, with raids on “terrorist infrastructure” taking place above and below ground, according to a new update.
The IDF says it has destroyed Hezbollah weapons caches which were “embedded in mountainous, thicketed, and densely built-up areas” – as well as being “rigged with explosives”.
It also says it has “dismantled tunnel shafts used by Hezbollah terrorists” in underground combat near the border.
In recent raids, ground forces and the air force have worked together to kill “dozens” of Hezbollah fighters, the IDF says.
As we reported earlier, Hezbollah said it was fighting with Israeli troops in the Adaisseh area.
Meanwhile, more than 200,000 people have fled Lebanon into neighboring Syria “as a result of Israeli air strikes”, according to the UN.
An update from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, says this number includes both Lebanese citizens and Syrians who were living in Lebanon. Figures from the Lebanese government put the total higher, at 300,000.
Yesterday, an Israeli air strike hit near the main border crossing point between the two countries, effectively cutting off vehicle access.
Israel’s military claimed it hit Hezbollah targets near the Masnaa crossing, and earlier claimed the group was using it to smuggle weapons into Lebanon.
People continued to make the journey across the border on foot, with pictures showing families clambering over rubble to leave the country.
Hezbollah says it’s fired rockets at the Ramat David airbase near the city of Haifa in northern Israel. In recent updates, the militant group also says it hit an Israeli tank with a missile near the Lebanon-Israel border.
Israel has not commented, but sirens have sounded across northern Israel this morning. We’ll bring you more when we have it.
Images from the site of an apparent Israeli strike on Tripoli, northern Lebanon, which reportedly killed a Hamas commander. People were seen gathering next to cars covered in rubble beneath a damaged apartment block, which is within a Palestinian refugee camp.
Saeed Atallah was reportedly killed alongside his wife and two daughters. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
