Israel's conflict with its neighbours

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This is really beginning to spiral out of control. Death toll now almost 500, according to BBC. Deadliest day of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict since 2006.

I would call it almost a war by now, depends on Lebanon and Israel if it escalates into one.

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Israeli strikes kill 492 in heaviest daily toll in Lebanon since 1975-90 civil war

Source: The Guardian

At least 492 people have been killed and 1,645 injured, Lebanon’s health ministry has said, after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on alleged Hezbollah targets that left the country with its highest daily death toll since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.

Tens of thousands of people fled from south Lebanese towns and villages along the main road towards the capital, Beirut, in Israel’s most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes, as sirens were also heard in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The Lebanese health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed.
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The IDF said it had hit more than 1,300 Hezbollah targets in the previous 24 hours, in its biggest attack on the militant group since the Gaza war began last October, when Hezbollah began strikes in Israel in support of Hamas. Israel also carried out airstrikes in the Beqaa valley and its second airstrike on Beirut in a week, with what it said was a “limited” airstrike in the southern suburb of Dahieh. Israeli media reported that the target of the strike was Ali Karaki, Hezbollah’s number three military commander, although the group said he was in a safe location and unharmed by the attack.

About 35 rockets were meanwhile fired from Lebanon towards the Safed area of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said, with some coming down in open areas close to the community of Ami’ad.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... -hezbollah

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Israel prepares for potential ground invasion of Lebanon

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is ... r-AA1rcfQa

Basically confirmed at this point

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More on that by JPost:

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-812481

Nearly a month ago Turkey threatened war with Israel. A former envoy pointed out the possibility of Turkey coming to the defense of Lebanon. This is deeply concerning

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Israel says it struck Hezbollah's headquarters in huge explosion that shakes Lebanese capital

Source: AP via Yahoo News

The Israeli military said Friday it struck the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, where a series of massive explosions leveled multiple buildings, sending clouds of orange and black smoke billowing in the skies.

The strikes in the suburbs south of Lebanon's capital came shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the U.N., vowing that Israel's campaign against Hezbollah would continue. His comments further dimmed hopes for an internationally backed cease-fire aimed at preventing a spiral into all-out war.

Three major Israeli TV channels said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was the target of the strikes. But the unsourced reports could not immediately be confirmed by The Associated Press, and the army declined comment. But given the size and timing of the blasts, there were strong indications that a high-value target may have been inside the buildings struck.

To a degree unseen in past conflicts, Israel this past week has aimed to eliminate Hezbollah’s senior leadership. In another sign of the strike's importance, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s office said he was huddled with the head of Israel’s air force and other top commanders at military headquarters, following updates.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-explosi ... 21109.html

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Hostility at the UN will not trouble Netanyahu, but now he’s angered the US

Fri 27 Sep 2024 13.37 BST

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has for decades used set-piece speeches to the UN to denounce it. In 2017, he said it had been “the epicentre of global antisemitism” and there was “no limit to the UN’s absurdities when it comes to Israel”, but never have the tensions between him and the body he reviles reached such a pitch.

Since the 7 October massacre by Hamas, Israel has ignored four UN resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and has not just described the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa as a terrorist state, but launched a campaign to bankrupt it. Arab envoys have walked out when the Israeli ambassador has started to speak.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, now itself a near full member of the UN, told the general assembly in his speech on Thursday that Israel no longer deserved to be a member, since it flouted its resolutions.

It is the UN’s historic role in the birth of the state of Israel, alongside a state for Palestinians, with the partition resolution of November 1947 that makes Israel such a central and difficult issue for the organisation. Having blessed Israel’s creation, by 1975 the UN general assembly was passing a resolution saying Zionism was a form of racism and racial discrimination.

History is catching up with both sides. When the UN’s premier court, the international court of justice, in July found Israel’s extended occupation of the Palestinian territories discriminatory, the UN’s role in the birth of the state of Israel was the cornerstone of its wider judgment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... -ceasefire

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Israel now claiming that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the overnight strikes, which used 5,000-pound "bunker busters".

This latest attack, if verified, means that Hezbollah's entire leadership has now been eliminated:

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Israel now claiming that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the overnight strikes, which used 5,000-pound "bunker busters".

This latest attack, if verified, means that Hezbollah's entire leadership has now been eliminated:

Nasrallah is indeed dead. However, head of Hezbollah's executive council and cousin of Nasrallah Hashim Safi Al Din is still alive and is ready to take the reins.

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MSNBC Breaking: Iranian Missiles launched at Tel Aviv
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-1-2024/
Live Now Updated 9min ago

IDF says Iranian missile attack has been launched as sirens sound throughout Israel
Multiple people reported wounded in Jaffa shooting attack * PM warns of challenging days ahead * IDF: 3,000 terrorists were waiting to attack north after Oct. 7

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Yikes, Israeli direct attack on the Iranian leadership is now highly likely.

[Powers]

Yikes, Israeli direct attack on the Iranian leadership is now highly likely.

Only in Lebanon right?

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