Israel says it has eliminated leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah and identifies preparations for an attack “bigger” than the one in October: the 383rd day of war
Israel did it eliminate the entire chain of command of the Palestinian movement Hamas and its Lebanese ally Hezbollahboth supported by Iran, and dismantled a large part of its military capabilities, AFP reported citing a senior Tel Aviv official.
Israel, the same source said under the condition of anonymity, is not waging “a war against Gaza, or another war against Lebanon”, but rather “a war against Iran, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, through Iran’s allies.” .
“We are prepared for months and we will stay as long as necessary to guarantee our security,” said the same source, referring to ongoing military operations in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, as well as a potential Israeli response to the attack. Iranian October 1st.
O Hezbollah confirmed, this Wednesday, the death of Hashem SafieddineHassan Nasrallah’s presumptive successor at the head of the Lebanese Shiite movement, after the Israeli army announced that it had “eliminated” him earlier this month in an attack near Beirut.
In a statement, Hezbollah communicated the death of the head of the Executive Council of the pro-Iranian movement, Hashem Safieddine“in a Zionist attack”, adding that he had been killed along with other members of the pro-Iranian Shiite party, without specifying the date or place of his death.
Already tuesday nightthe Israeli army confirmed that it killed him “in an attack about three weeks ago” in the southern suburbs of Beirut, along with Ali Hussein Hazima, a senior Hezbollah official.
Hezbollah was preparing an “even bigger” attack than the one on October 7, guarantees the Israeli prime minister
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah was preparing an “even bigger” attack on his country than the one that the Palestinian group Hamas carried out on October 7, 2023.
“One hundred meters, two hundred meters from the border [israelo-libanesa]we found tunnels that prepared an invasion of Israel, an even bigger attack than the one on October 7th, with jeeps, with motorbikes, with ‘rockets’, missiles”, said Netanyahu, interviewed by the French news channel Cnews and Europe 1 radio.
In mid-October, following the intensification of Israel’s military operations and land invasion of Lebanon, the head of the Government had told the French daily Le Figaro that “a quantity of state-of-the-art Russian weapons” had been found by the Army in the armed group’s hideouts supported by Iran in the south of the country.
An Israeli army officer also assured that the Troops found numerous tunnels and arsenals of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah near UNIFIL positionsthe UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
“It is surprising that, despite the number of UN forces’ bases, we found so much Hezbollah infrastructure – such as tunnels and arsenals – under the noses of the blue helmets,” head of operations of the Israeli army’s second brigade, Ariye Hominer, during a visit of his troops to the Israeli town of Shlomi, on the border with Lebanon.
Other news that marked the day:
⇒ The conflict in Lebanon threatens to “further destabilize” the country’s weakened economy, the UN has warned, predicting a GDP drop of 9.2% in 2024 if the war continues until the end of the year. “The scale of military involvement, the geopolitical context, the humanitarian impact and the economic consequences in 2024 are likely to be much greater than in 2006, when the July-August war between Israel and Hezbollah began,” the United Nations Program highlighted. for Development in its first assessment of the economic impact on Lebanon.
⇒ The Israeli army confirmed that “tens of thousands” of people left the city of Jabalia (north of Gaza), the scene of a new military offensive in a demonstration that the “Hamas siege is being broken.”
⇒ Also this Wednesday, Israel asked residents of neighborhoods in Tire, in southern Lebanon, to leave their homesbefore a military operation against the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. The Israeli army later claimed to have attacked “several command and control centers” of the Shiite Hezbollah militia in the Tire area.
⇒ Israel accused six journalists from Al-Jazeera, a Qatari broadcaster, of being “agents of the military wing” of the Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, claiming to have found documents that allegedly prove their links to Palestinian militias. “Security forces discovered intelligence information and numerous documents found in the Gaza Strip that confirm the military affiliation of six Al-Jazeera journalists in Gaza with the terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” the army said in a statement, citing the names of journalists from the broadcaster banned in Israel since April.
⇒ The Palestinian Government held the United Nations Security Council responsible for the consequences of Israel’s “genocidal war” against the Gaza Strip, due to its “continuous inability to stop” the conflict. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the body to “assume its legal responsibility” and “exercise its powers” to protect the Palestinian people in the face of the “genocide” committed by Israeli troops.
