Najib Mikati, the Lebanese Prime Minister, calls on the world this Sunday, October 6, to “put pressure on Israel” so that it “commits to a ceasefire”, after a night of intense bombing on the southern suburbs of Beirut, which caused significant damage. For its part, Hezbollah says it repelled an “attempt” to infiltrate the Israeli army on the Lebanese border during the night from Saturday to Sunday.
Information to remember
⇒ Violent bombings on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Saturday evening
⇒ Hezbollah says it has repelled an attempted Israeli incursion on the Lebanese border
⇒ Lebanese Prime Minister calls for pressure on Israel for ceasefire
10:05 a.m.
Israeli army surrounds Jabaliya in Gaza
The Israeli army announced this Sunday that it was “surrounding” the area of Jabaliya, in the north of the Gaza Strip, where it believes that Hamas is rebuilding its capabilities.
09:32
Lebanese PM calls for ‘pressure on Israel’ for ceasefire
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called on the world this Sunday to “put pressure on Israel” to “commit to a ceasefire”, after a night of intense Israeli bombardments on the southern suburbs of Beirut , Hezbollah stronghold. Najib Mikati also welcomed, in his press release, French President Emmanuel Macron who “once again supported Lebanon” by evoking an upcoming international summit, repeating his “support for the call of France and the United States” for a truce.
08:12
21 dead in Israeli strike on mosque
Gaza Civil Defense reported this Sunday that 21 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a mosque transformed into a shelter for displaced people in Deir al-Balah (center), the Israeli army explaining for its part that it had targeted fighters from the Palestinian movement Hamas. “The death toll rises to 21 and there are a large number of injured following the bombing by the (Israeli) army of a mosque sheltering displaced people in front of the entrance to the Martyrs’ Hospital in “Al-Aqsa in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip,” Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said.
07:46
The Lebanese continue to flee Beirut en masse
Following the strikes, an AFP correspondent near Sabra, near the southern suburbs of Beirut, saw dozens of people in the streets, some carrying bags and fleeing on foot or on motorbikes as explosions rang out. in the background. Air traffic at Lebanon’s only airport, near the southern suburbs of Beirut, “continues despite the aggression of the Israeli enemy” against this area, ANI said. The news agency added that several planes from Middle East Airlines (MEA), the only company that continues to serve Beirut, had just landed.
The southern suburbs of Beirut have been regularly shelled for several days, especially at night, by the Israeli army which generally issues calls to evacuate beforehand. “For your safety and that of your family members, you must immediately evacuate the designated buildings and those adjacent to them and move away from them at least 500 meters,” wrote the army spokesperson for the Arabic-speaking public, Avichay Adraee, on his X account, mentioning several neighborhoods in the southern suburbs.
07:44
“Very violent” Israeli strikes south of Beirut
The Lebanese national news agency ANI reported on the night of Saturday to Sunday five Israeli strikes targeting the southern suburbs of Beirut and its surroundings, including four “very violent”, after Israeli calls to evacuate several neighborhoods of this stronghold of Hezbollah.
AFP journalists heard several detonating explosions and saw smoke rising from the southern suburbs of Beirut. Ambulances rushed to the scene, according to ANI, which had also reported the presence of Israeli reconnaissance drones flying at low altitude, before these strikes. “It was the most violent night we had ever experienced. There was so much bombing that it looked like an earthquake,” said a resident of the southern suburbs of Beirut, who still refuses to leave his house. . In this area, the destruction is enormous and affects many buildings.
06:36
Hezbollah says it repelled Israeli “infiltration attempt”
Hezbollah said it had repelled during the night from Saturday to Sunday an “attempt” to infiltrate the Israeli army, which has been carrying out incursions into southern Lebanon for several days where it is fighting the pro-Iranian movement.
In a statement, the Lebanese Islamist movement said that “when a force of Israeli enemy soldiers attempted to infiltrate […] in Blida” and that its fighters “targeted it with artillery shells and forced it to retreat”. Furthermore, he claimed to have targeted a group of Israeli soldiers “with a salvo of rockets” during “the evacuation of wounded and dead soldiers” in the border region of Manara at 12:45 a.m. local time on Sunday, and also claimed responsibility for a drone attack on an Israeli military base in northern Israel.
06:00
Iran promises ‘even stronger’ retaliation in case of Israeli attack
The head of Iranian diplomacy promised, Saturday October 5, that Tehran would react “even stronger” if Israel responded to the Iranian missile attack. “Our reaction to any attack by the Zionist regime (Israel) is completely clear,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in the Syrian capital Damascus, where he met with ally President Bashar al-Assad. from Tehran.
“For every action, there will be a proportional and similar reaction from Iran, and even stronger,” he assured. Previously, he had renewed from Damascus his call for a ceasefire in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. “There are initiatives, there are consultations, which we hope will be successful,” he said, without further details. The statement comes after an Israeli military official said Saturday that the Israeli army was “preparing a response” to Tuesday’s Iranian strikes.