The Israeli army carried out new air strikes this Saturday, October 5, in Lebanon, particularly in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the armed Hezbollah movement, which claimed to be engaged in clashes with Israeli troops on the border. Lebanese.
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⇒ Hamas commander killed in strike near Tripoli
⇒ Ground clashes between Hezbollah and the Israeli army on the Lebanese border
⇒ Hezbollah rocket fire at an Israeli air base
10:17 a.m.
Rocket fire at Israeli airbase near Haifa
Lebanese Hezbollah announced this Saturday that it had fired rockets at the Ramat David air base, not far from Haifa, Israel, located approximately 45 km from the border with Lebanon. In a statement, the pro-Iranian Islamist movement also claims to have hit an Israeli Merkava tank with a missile in southern Lebanon, near the border.
09:51
Israeli strikes on mosque in southern Lebanon
The Israeli Air Force claimed to have attacked Hezbollah members “who were operating in a headquarters established in a mosque near Salah Ghandour hospital” in South Lebanon during the night. Mohammed Sleiman, director of the facility run by the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee, said seven medical staff were injured by gunfire at the hospital, adding that the facility had been evacuated.
09:33
In Gaza, a new report shows nearly 42,000 dead
The Hamas government’s Ministry of Health announced this Saturday a new death toll of 41,825 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel almost a year ago. At least 23 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, it said in a statement, adding that 96,910 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.
09:00
UN force maintains positions in Lebanon against Israel’s advice
The United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) deployed along the border between Israel and Lebanon announced on Saturday “to maintain its positions”, despite a request from the Israeli army on September 30 to “withdraw the Blue Helmets from some of their positions”, informing him “of his intention to carry out limited ground incursions into Lebanon”. “Peacekeepers, however, maintain their presence on all sites,” she added.
“We urge Lebanon and Israel to implement Security Council Resolution 1701, the only viable solution to bring stability to the region,” insists UNIFIL. This 2006 resolution stipulates that only peacekeeping forces and the Lebanese army be deployed in southern Lebanon.
08:58
Hamas commander killed in strike near Tripoli
Palestinian Hamas announced the death this Saturday of one of its commanders and his family in an Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli, in northern Lebanon. Said Attallah Ali, his wife and two of his daughters, were killed in a strike in the Beddawi camp, according to a Hamas statement. This is the first Israeli strike in this region since the start of the conflict between the Islamist movement and Israel almost a year ago.
07:40
Drone attack kills two Israeli soldiers
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in an overnight drone attack from Iraq on a military base in the Golan, occupied and annexed by Israel, according to Israeli Army Radio.
06:30
Clashes between Hezbollah and the IDF in southern Lebanon
In southern Lebanon, “Israeli enemy soldiers tried again to advance towards the surroundings of the village of Adaysseh” and “the clashes continue,” Hezbollah said early Saturday in a communicated, after having assured to have forced the Israeli soldiers to “beat a retreat” in this area. The powerful movement also claimed to have targeted troops in the Yarun region also in the south, with a “salvo of rockets” as well as soldiers in two places on the Israeli side.
06:15
A series of explosions on the southern suburbs of Beirut
At the same time, a series of explosions rocked the southern suburbs of Beirut, where images showed columns of smoke rising from the area near the airport. The Israeli army had previously issued evacuation orders for certain areas there.
06:00
UN condemns Israeli strike that killed 18 in West Bank
The United Nations on Friday condemned the Israeli air raid that killed 18 people the day before in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, calling it an “illegal air strike”. According to Palestinian security services, it was the deadliest strike in the West Bank since 2000.
“This attack takes place in a very worrying context of illegal use of force by Israeli security forces during military-type operations in the West Bank, which caused numerous harm to Palestinians and significant damage to buildings and infrastructure,” said a statement from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for the Occupied Palestinian Territory.