The Israeli army affirmed this Saturday that “most” of the senior leaders of Lebanese Hezbollah had been “eliminated”, after the announcement of the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli strike the day before on the HQ of the Islamist movement in Beirut.
Hassan Nasrallah, Israel’s sworn enemy, was targeted by an air raid of unprecedented violence on Friday in a densely populated neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Information to remember
⇒ The Israeli army announces having “eliminated” the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah in a strike in Beirut
⇒ Dozens of buildings in Beirut shelled by Israel overnight
⇒ Israel strikes eastern and southern Lebanon on Saturday, Hezbollah retaliates on northern Israel
12:45 p.m.
New Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut
A new Israeli strike targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah, this Saturday, a Lebanese security source told AFP, after a night of intense bombing. According to the security source on condition of anonymity, a building was hit. Friday’s strikes on the southern suburbs, in which Israel claims to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, stopped at dawn on Saturday.
12:35 p.m.
Iran’s supreme leader denounces ‘short-sighted’ Israeli vision
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced this Saturday a “short-sighted” Israeli political vision, after Israel announced the elimination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, without mentioning the name of the Lebanese leader. . “The massacre of defenseless people in Lebanon has once again revealed the ferocity of the Zionist mad dog, proven the short-sighted and stupid policy of the leaders of the usurper regime,” castigated the guide, in a press release published on its site .
12:20 p.m.
Barnier considers the situation in Lebanon “extremely serious” and says he is “concerned” about the “security” of the French there
Prime Minister Michel Barnier described the situation in Lebanon as “extremely serious” and said he was “concerned about the security” of the French there. The situation in Lebanon, affected by Israeli strikes, “remains extremely serious and I am not going to make any further comments because this is not the place today”, affirmed the head of government on the sidelines of a trip to the fire brigade congress in Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire). “We are following these tragic situations and also we are concerned about the safety of our compatriots there,” he added.
The leader of the radical left La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, said for his part, on the social network Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin “Netanyahu is violating the sovereignty of States throughout the region with the complicity of Europe and the USA. The genocide in Gaza is spreading without limit,” he added.
12:10 p.m.
European authorities recommend companies to avoid the airspace of Lebanon and Israel
European authorities are recommending that airlines avoid the airspaces of Lebanon and Israel due to an “intensification of airstrikes and a deterioration of the security situation”, they announced on Saturday. The European Commission and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have issued a bulletin “recommending not to operate within the airspaces of Lebanon and Israel, at all flight levels”, a recommendation “valid until ‘by October 31’ at this stage, the EASA said.
11:50 a.m.
Israel still has a way to go in its fight against Hezbollah
Israel has “still a long way to go” in its fight against Lebanese Hezbollah, an army spokesperson told journalists, shortly after the announcement of the death of the leader of the armed Islamist movement, killed in a strike Israeli the day before in Beirut. “Hezbollah still has rockets and missiles and has the capacity to fire several simultaneously,” said Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, still estimating the movement’s arsenal at “tens of thousands of rockets”.
10:25 a.m.
Israeli army chief vows to ‘reach’ anyone threatening Israel after Nasrallah’s death
The chief of staff of the Israeli army, General Herzi Halevi, promised on Saturday to “reach” anyone threatening Israel, shortly after announcing the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday in Beirut.
“We have not exhausted all the means at our disposal. The message is simple: whoever threatens the citizens of Israel, we will know how to reach them,” General Halevi said in a statement.
10:15 a.m.
A source close to Hezbollah admits that “contact is lost” with Nasrallah
“Contact with Hassan Nasrallah has been lost since Friday evening,” a source close to Hezbollah told AFP on Saturday, while Israel claimed on Saturday to have killed the leader of the Lebanese movement in a massive strike on Friday on the southern suburbs of Beirut. This source, on condition of anonymity, did not confirm the death of Hassan Nasrallah.
Israel’s sworn enemy, Hezbollah has still not made an official announcement on the fate of its leader, more than 15 hours after a devastating Israeli raid on its stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut which targeted “the headquarters headquarters of Hezbollah”, according to the Israeli army.
10:05 a.m.
Israeli army announces it has “eliminated” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in strike in Beirut
The Israeli army announced this Saturday that it had “eliminated” the leader of the Lebanese armed Islamist movement, Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike the day before on the organization’s HQ in Beirut. “Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” army spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said. on the social network.
Another army spokesperson, Captain David Avraham, confirmed to AFP that the Hezbollah leader had been “eliminated”.
08:55
Israel announces “major strikes” in east and south of Lebanon
The Israeli army said on Saturday that it had carried out “major strikes” on “dozens of targets” of the armed Islamist movement Hezbollah in Lebanon, adding that a surface-to-surface missile fired from Lebanon had fallen in an uninhabited area from central Israel.
“Over the past two hours, [l’armée] carried out major strikes on dozens of targets […] belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Bekaa region [est] and in different areas of southern Lebanon,” she said in a statement.
07:25
In response, Hezbollah announces having bombed northern Israel
Hezbollah announced Saturday that it had fired rockets into northern Israel, the first attack after intense Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut overnight.
The pro-Iranian movement said in a statement that it had targeted Kibbutz Kabri in northern Israel with Fadi-1 rockets in response to Israel’s “barbaric” attacks “on towns, villages and civilians” in Lebanon.
06:50
Evacuation of hospitals in the southern suburbs of Beirut after Israeli strikes
Hospitals in the southern suburbs of Beirut will be evacuated, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said on Saturday after a night of unprecedented Israeli strikes against this Hezbollah stronghold.
Patients from these hospitals will be evacuated to other establishments “not affected by Israeli aggression”. The latter for their part are called to “stop receiving non-urgent cases until the end of next week”, ordered the Ministry of Health, which has not yet given an updated assessment of the victims of the strikes.