Hezbollah threatens Israel with new offensives

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Hezbollah threatens Israel with new offensives

After deadly strikes in Haifa, Hezbollah threatens Israel with new offensives “if it decides to continue its attacks.” The recap of the last hours.

The essentials

  • This Monday, October 14, according to Palestinian doctors cited by Associated Press, the courtyard of a hospital in the Gaza Strip was bombed by the Israeli army, killing at least four people and causing a camp to burn. of displaced people. In the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, children were present at the time of the attack, four dead and forty injured have so far been recorded. The IDF, for its part, claims that it was targeting “terrorists”. “Hamas agents used the hospital compound to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against the IDF forces and the State of Israel,” said the Arabic-speaking spokesperson for the Israeli army, on X.

  • At the same time, Lebanese Hezbollah threatens Israel with new offensives in a press release. The organization says the attack “south of Haifa is only a taste of what awaits him if he decides to continue his attacks against our people.” As a reminder, a drone strike targeting a military position in Haifa killed at least four Israeli soldiers the day before.

  • On Sunday October 13, two Israeli tanks were accused of having “forced their way” into one of the UNIFIL positions, injuring peacekeepers. The Secretary General of the United Nations denounces these “attacks” against UN peacekeepers, which may amount to “war crimes”.

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21:54 – Netanyahu pleads for the withdrawal of UNIFIL, Paris, Berlin, Rome and London express their concern

Monday evening, the Israeli Prime Minister estimated in a second video that “the best way to ensure the safety of UNIFIL personnel is for UNIFIL to respond to Israel’s request and temporarily withdraw from danger”, assuring in passing , while the Jewish state is accused of “possible war crimes” by the UN after five peacekeepers were injured by Israeli strikes in recent days: “Israel is not fighting UNIFIL. It is not fighting the people Lebanese. It fights Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy which uses Lebanese territory to attack Israel.

A little later in the evening, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom expressed in a joint statement their “deep concern following the recent attacks of the Israeli army against the UNIFIL bases, which left several peacekeepers injured. Condemning “all threats to the security of UNIFIL”, they called for these “attacks to stop immediately” and brandished international law.

18:54 – Israel will continue “to mercilessly strike Hezbollah, including in Beirut”, promises Benjamin Netanyahu

While Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in open war since September 23, the Prime Minister of the Hebrew State once again made remarks that were, to say the least, offensive this Monday, in a video filmed during a visit in a military base struck the day before by a Hezbollah drone and published on social networks. Benyamin Netanyahu clearly assures that Israel will continue “to mercilessly strike Hezbollah in all parts of Lebanon, including in Beirut”.

09:55 – Bombing of a hospital in Gaza by the Israeli army: 4 dead and 40 injured

This Monday morning, according to Palestinian doctors cited by Associated Press, the courtyard of a hospital in the Gaza Strip was bombed by the Israeli army, killing at least four people and causing a fire in a camp. displaced. In the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, children were present at the time of the attack, four dead and forty injured have so far been recorded.

The IDF, for its part, claims that it was targeting “terrorists”. “Hamas agents used the hospital compound to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against the IDF forces and the State of Israel,” said the Arabic-speaking spokesperson for the Israeli army, on X. Un reason already mentioned by the Israeli army to target this type of establishment.

09:22 – A “painful” attack, according to the head of the Israeli army

“We are at war, and an attack on a training base on the home front is difficult and the consequences are painful,” said Israeli army chief of staff Herzi Halevi after the attack on Sunday. , from a military base south of Haifa, AFP said on Monday. Four IDF soldiers fell in this Lebanese Hezbollah raid.

09:03 – Hezbollah claims to have fired shells at the Israeli army in Lebanon

Lebanese Hezbollah indicates this morning that its soldiers fired shells very early on Israelis who were attempting an “infiltration” in southern Lebanon. “When an enemy infantry force attempted to infiltrate Lebanese territory,” toward Markaba, Hezbollah fighters targeted the force “with artillery shells,” a statement said. Israeli soldiers may also have been targeted elsewhere, in the Labbouneh region, with rockets.

08:50 – The French embassy “horrified” after the attack in Haifa

On Sunday, the French embassy said it was “horrified” by the Lebanese Hezbollah drone strike in Haifa. She denounces “intolerable violence, of which civilians are the first victims, [qui] must stop.” “Our thoughts are with the many injured and their loved ones. From Haifa to Safed, from Ashkelon to Netanya, Israeli territory has been the daily target of rockets, missiles and terrorist drones for a year,” the message published on X said.

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42,289. This is the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas terrorist offensive on October 7, 2023 in Israel. A figure communicated by the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government on Monday October 14, 2024 and which reveals the intensity of the fighting which has lasted for more than a year now. Over the months, tensions intensified, and as of October 27, 2023, Israel extended its ground operation to Gaza. The objective for Netanyahu and the IDF is clear: to “annihilate” Hamas. A one-week ceasefire nevertheless took place in November 2023. After a significant leap forward, on April 13, 2024, Iran launched its first massive attack on Israel. Hamas ally, Iran then fired nearly 350 explosive drones and missiles at the Jewish state. An attack in response to missiles fired at the embassy in Damascus, Syria on April 1, in which 11 people lost their lives, including seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Tuesday September 17, 2024, a new kind of attack broke into the war. Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies explode. Twelve deaths and nearly 3,000 injured have been recorded in Lebanon. Since its coordinated explosions, Israel has continued to strike Lebanon with air or ground raids. More than 1,000 people are killed in IDF strikes and thousands of Lebanese are forced to be displaced. On October 1, 2024, Iran responded by sending nearly 200 ballistic missiles directly to Israel. Since then, the two countries have been waging a merciless war. On October 8, 2024, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, threatened Lebanon with “destruction and suffering like those we see in Gaza” if the population of the country does not ” “liberated” not from Hezbollah. Comments described as “provocation” by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot.

Monday October 14, 2024, Lebanese Hezbollah threatened Israel with new attacks in a press release. As a reminder, Hezbollah had struck Haifa two days earlier, killing four Israeli soldiers and injuring no less than 60. At the start of the week, the terrorist organization indicated that “the resistance (…) promises the enemy”. The raid carried out “south of Haifa is only a foretaste of what awaits him if he decides to continue his attacks against our people”, she threatens. According to Palestinian doctors cited by Associated Press, the courtyard of a hospital in the Gaza Strip was then bombed by the Israeli army, killing at least four people and causing a fire in a camp for displaced people.



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