For the seventh consecutive day, Israel continues its attacks on Lebanese soil, Sunday September 29. The day before, the Israeli army announced the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, then confirmed by the Lebanese Shiite movement.
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What to remember
► Saturday September 28, the Israeli army announced that it had “ eliminated » the head of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike in Beirut. The Shiite movement confirmed the information.
► Lebanon, Syria andIran declared national mourning. Iran has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to “ take immediate and decisive action to stop Israeli aggression and prevent dragging the region into all-out war “. The head of the United Nations said: very worried “.
► Sunday morning, the Israeli army declared that it was carrying out “ dozens » raids against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
► Since they began on Monday September 23, these bombings have caused more than 700 deaths, the majority of them civilians, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, and around a million displaced people. In one year, the number of people killed rose to more than 1,500, a toll heavier than that of the 33 days of war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.
Times are in UT universal time (Paris – 2h)
04:46: Assessment of the situation in Lebanon in recent hours
The Israeli air force resumed its violent bombings at dawn, targeting in particular the Baalbek region, in the east of the country, with around ten raids. Three localities near the coastal city of Tyre, in the south of the country, were also targeted, explains our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh.
Shortly after midnight, the planes carried out four raids in the Choueifat region, at the southern entrance to Beirut, not far from the airport. Hours earlier, the Israelis had taken control of the airport’s control tower transmissions, threatening to use force to prevent an Iranian plane from landing. The Lebanese authorities asked the plane to turn back. In Syria, planes pounded the positions of pro-Iranian groups in the east of the country, near the border with Iraq. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports twelve deaths.
Despite the death of their leader Hassan NasrallahHezbollah military units remain operational. On Saturday during the day, they claimed six attacks against Israel. Overnight, Hezbollah launched a squadron of drones toward the coastal town of Nahariyya and fired a medium-range rocket at Israeli settlements in the Jerusalem area.
04:30: The Israeli army announces that it is carrying out “ dozens » raids against Hezbollah in Lebanon
Israeli aircraft attacked dozens of terrorist targets on the territory of Lebanon in the past hours “, an army spokesperson said on Telegram. He specified that these attacks targeted rocket launch sites towards Israel, military buildings and weapons depots.
Since Saturday, the Israeli army “ struck hundreds of Hezbollah terrorist targets across Lebanon “, further affirmed this spokesperson. These attacks come two days after the death of the leader of the pro-Iranian movement Hassan Nasrallah in Israeli bombings in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
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