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30-09-2024
JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel says it killed 20 other Hezbollah leaders of varying ranks when they killed Hassan Nasrallah at the group’s headquarters on Friday.
As we’ve reported, the names include Ali Karaki, leader of its southern front.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also says it killed Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Nasrallah’s security unit, and Samir Tawfiq Dib, who the IDF describes as “Nasrallah’s long-time confidant and adviser”.
The military adds that Hezbollah’s headquarters were embedded beneath several civilian buildings.
Dozens of media workers reported, Hezbollah attacks on Israel have not stopped.
In the past hour, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says 10 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon and sirens have sounded in the western Galilee region.
Some of those rockets were intercepted by Israel’s missile defence system, the statement adds.
Some more now on the latest Israeli air strike on Dahieh.
A witness tells media that a rocket hit a building, which “instantly collapsed”.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that ambulances rushed to the area after the “violent raid”.
Israel has launched a new strike on Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold, Dahieh, its military says.
Local media says its correspondents heard a loud explosion and saw smoke billowing from the area.
In a new update, the Israeli military says it has struck several Hezbollah targets in Lebanon during the past few hours.
The military says the strikes aimed to destroy Hezbollah rocket launchers and weapons warehouses.
Hezbollah has just confirmed the death of Ali Karaki, the commander of the group’s southern front.
It follows the IDF saying yesterday that he had been killed in the same “targeted strike” that killed Nasrallah.
The Iran-backed group has now confirmed Karaki’s death via Telegram.
Some in Lebanon are fleeing across borders looking for safety including Syrians returning to their war-torn homeland.
We passed a group of about 50 Syrians sitting by the side of the road, beside a broken-down bus. They were waiting for an engine part to arrive so they could continue their journey to the Syrian region of Aleppo.
There were young men, women and many children, including a baby boy of 4 months old. No-one wanted to be identified.
One young man told us that when the Israeli warnings were issued on Friday night (to get out of the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh), they left immediately with just the clothes on their back.
They spent two nights sleeping on the street.
“We didn’t care if anyone gave us food or aid,” he said, “we just wanted to be safe with the kids”.
Earlier we heard a Lebanese government minster say that ceasefire talks with Israel were “still under way” and now Lebanese PM Najib Mikati tells reporters that he “welcomes” a ceasefire, adding that if such a development went ahead, it must apply to both Gaza and Lebanon.
He says there is “no option but the diplomatic option” when asked about talks to end the cross-border conflict with Israel. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
