While the head of French diplomacy landed in Beirut on Sunday evening, the Israeli army announced on Monday, September 30, that it had carried out a strike at dawn, for the first time since the start of the war, in the center of the capital. Beirut against Lebanese Islamist group, “the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine”. A few hours later, Hamas announced the death of its leader in Lebanon, Fatah Charif Abou al-Amine, in the south of the country, which Israel has been bombing relentlessly since Sunday and Monday morning. The death toll from Israeli army strikes on Sunday rose to 105 victims, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Information to remember
⇒ Hamas announces that its leader in Lebanon was killed in an airstrike
⇒ For the first time since the start of the war, Israel struck the heart of Beirut this Monday
⇒ The head of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot is in Beirut
07:45
Hamas leader in Lebanon killed in airstrike
“Fatah Sharif Abou al-Amine, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon and member of the movement’s leadership abroad”, was killed in a strike on his house in the Al-Bass camp in southern Lebanon , indicates a Hamas press release. The official Lebanese agency ANI reported an airstrike on the camp near the city of Tire, in the south of the country, while the Israeli army carried out dozens of strikes in the area this Monday morning since ‘dawn.
07:15
Saudi Arabia calls for respect for Lebanese “sovereignty”
Saudi Arabia called on Monday for respect for the “sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Lebanon. “The Kingdom calls on the international community to assume its responsibilities in protecting regional peace and security in order to preserve the region and its population from the dangers and tragedies of wars,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. . Riyadh “follows with great concern the ongoing developments in the Republic of Lebanon,” he added.
06:55
Dozens of Hezbollah targets struck at dawn
“Air Force combat planes attacked dozens of targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the Bekaa region of Lebanon,” a Civil Defense spokesperson said on Telegram, specifying : “among the targets attacked, dozens of launchers and buildings where weapons were stored”.
The death toll from the violent raids carried out the day before by the army against Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon, two days after the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah, now rises to 105 people according to the Ministry of Health. On Sunday evening, the Israeli army said it had carried out around 120 additional “large-scale” strikes in southern Lebanon, in the Bekaa plain and in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where Hassan Nasrallah died on Friday. In the last 48 hours, 14 rescuers have also been killed in Israeli strikes.
06:30
The head of French diplomacy in Beirut
The head of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot arrived in Lebanon on Sunday evening, the first senior Western diplomat to visit Lebanon since the intensification of Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah. He began by delivering emergency health aid to the Lebanese Minister of Health Firass Abiad, who “thanked” him for “a donation of eleven and a half tons which will strengthen the medical stock to treat emergency situations” and praised “his efforts to deal with the repercussions of the Israeli attacks.”
He will then begin a working meeting on the situation of French nationals, while his arrival coincides with the announcement on Sunday evening of the death of a second French person, after that of an 87-year-old French national last Monday after a ” strong explosion” in a village in the south of the country. After meetings with several ministers, Jean-Noël Barrot must also meet the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon and the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL).
06:10
First Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut
The Israeli army carried out this Monday, September 30, according to a Lebanese security source, a strike in the heart of the Lebanese capital Beirut, the first since the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah a year ago. According to this Lebanese security source, “at least four people were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting an apartment belonging to Jamaa Islamiya in Beirut intramuros.” This Lebanese Sunni Islamist group supports Hezbollah in its operations carried out in northern Israel “in support” of Hamas. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a left-wing secular Palestinian organization described as terrorist by Israel and the European Union, announced the death of three of its members in the strike.
06:05
“More than 20 terrorists” killed with Hezbollah leader
According to a statement from the Israeli army on Sunday, September 29, “more than 20 other terrorists” from Lebanese Hezbollah died in the airstrike that destroyed “the underground headquarters of Beirut located under civilian buildings” in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday. , which cost the life of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. It said it had also killed Nabil Qaouq, a senior official in Hezbollah’s central council, in an airstrike in the suburbs of Beirut, as well as Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, Samir Taoufiq Dib, Abed al-Amir Muhammad Sablini and Ali Naaf Ayoub.