Beirut was hit in the heart last night. An Israeli strike on a Hezbollah relief center left six people dead on the night of Wednesday October 2 to Thursday October 3, after a day marked by ground fighting in southern Lebanon where eight Israeli soldiers died. Israel continued its offensive in Lebanon overnight, with 17 raids on Beirut and its southern suburbs, according to the official Lebanese agency NNA.
Faced with a risk of widespread conflict in the region after Tuesday’s Iranian strikes on Israel, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was opposed to the idea of Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.
Information to remember
⇒ New deadly strike in the center of Beirut
⇒ Nasrallah’s son-in-law killed in Israeli strike in Damascus
⇒ 17 raids on Beirut and its southern suburbs
09:05
Yemen: Houthi rebels say they carried out drone attack against Israel
The Houthis carried out “a military operation targeting a major target in the Jaffa region (a district of Tel Aviv, editor’s note) in occupied Palestine with a certain number of drones”, declared this Thursday morning their military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, without specifying when the attack took place. “The drones reached their target without the enemy being able to intercept or shoot them down,” he added.
The Israeli army for its part claimed during the night to have “intercepted a suspicious aerial target off the coast of the Dan region, in central Israel”, without giving further details. On Wednesday, the Houthis had already said they had fired three missiles at Israel, the day after an Iranian missile attack against Israeli territory.
07:00
New deadly Israeli strike on Beirut
For the second time, a strike hit the very heart of the capital, reaching Hezbollah’s “civil protection center” in the Bachoura district, according to a source close to the pro-Iranian movement. The death toll stands at six dead and seven injured, the Ministry of Health said.
Israel continued its offensive in Lebanon overnight, with 17 raids in total on Beirut and its southern suburbs, according to the official Lebanese agency NNA. This is the second Israeli strike targeting the heart of the Lebanese capital since the start of the conflict between the pro-Iranian Islamist movement and Israel on October 8, 2023. The strike on the Bachoura neighborhood comes after a series of bombings targeting the southern suburbs on Wednesday evening, the third series of Israeli raids targeting this Hezbollah stronghold outside Beirut in less than 24 hours and regularly targeted for around ten days.
06:50
Nasrallah’s son-in-law killed in Israeli strike in Damascus
Four people were killed on Wednesday, including the son-in-law of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli raid targeting the Mazzé neighborhood in Damascus for the second day in a row, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) said.
“An Israeli raid targeted an apartment in a residential building in the Mazzé neighborhood, frequented by leaders of Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards,” leaving four dead: Hassan Nasrallah’s son-in-law, Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir , a young woman, a member of Hezbollah and an unidentified person, said the OSDH. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir was the brother of Jaafar al-Qasir, responsible for the transfer of weapons from Iran to Lebanon, whom Israel announced it had killed on Tuesday in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
06:45
New evacuation order for areas of southern Beirut
The Israeli army issued a new order to evacuate areas of southern Beirut overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, announcing strikes against Hezbollah. “You are near Hezbollah-linked facilities and interests, against which the Israeli army will act in the near future,” she said in a statement, pointing to buildings located in the Shiite areas of Haret. Hreik, Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath Gharb.
06:30
46 deaths in Lebanon in the last twenty-four hours
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, Israeli strikes on Wednesday caused the death of 46 people and injured 85 in several regions of the country. The Lebanese Crisis Center announced before the publication of this daily report that 1,928 people had been killed in Lebanon since Israel and Hezbollah began exchanging fire in October 2023.