▲ More and more residential areas in Lebanon are reduced to rubble after airstrikes by the Israeli defense forces.Photo Ap
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La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 4, 2024, p. 17
Beirut. Yesterday Israel multiplied its attacks against suspected Hezbollah positions in Beirut, and one of the targets was Hachem Safieddine, who is presumed to be the successor of the assassinated leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, on a day in which Israeli troops and pro-Iranian militia held new fighting in the border area.
At press time it was not confirmed whether Saffiedine, who was attending a meeting in an underground bunker, was among the fatal victims of the bombing.
Israeli media, The New York Times, Guardian and Axios They claimed that attacks in the Dahiyeh neighborhood in the Beirut suburbs in the early hours of this Friday targeted Safieddine, Nasrallah’s cousin.
The attack occurred while Safieddine was attending a meeting with a counterpart of the group in a security underground, the newspaper reported. The New York Timeswhich cited three Israeli officials on condition of anonymity.
Israel also directed its offensive against what it described as Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut and fired on a residential building in the capital’s suburbs.
The Iranian-backed militia said it repelled two Israeli incursions near the border, detonating explosive devices against one of them, and added that it launched more than a hundred missiles against Metula, northern Israel.
After an intense bombing campaign against Hezbollah, the Israeli army began ground raids on Monday in several areas of the south, one of Hezbollah’s strongholds.
The head of the Israeli General Staff, Herzi Halevi, asserted that he will not allow the Islamist movement to return to power. settle in southern Lebanon, and acknowledged that nine of its soldiers were killed.
Israel launched an air offensive last night against an apartment in a residential building between the areas of Chiyah and Ghobeiry, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese television channel Al Jadeed reported.
He added that the bombing took place near a Civil Defense office; the number of victims is unknown.
More attacks followed in the Hay al Sellom neighborhood, also in the metropolitan area.
The Israeli military command indicated that it eliminated more than 60 fighters during attacks on more than 200 targets in the 24 hours prior to its report.
Israel ordered the evacuation of 25 towns there. The new warnings raised the number of cities subject to evacuation to 70 and included the provincial capital, Nabatieh, suggesting the imminence of another Israeli military operation against Hezbollah.
The World Health Organization stated that 28 hospital workers died in the recent day of war, while more than 40 rescuers and firefighters perished in three days in Israeli bombings in Lebanon. At least 37 people died and 151 were injured by the Tel Aviv attacks in 24 hours in Lebanese territory, where some 1,974 people have died, including 127 children and 261 women, and 9,384 have been injured in a balance of almost one year.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese army stated that, for the first time in 11 months, it responded to Israeli gunfire in the town of Bint Jbeil, after the death of two of its soldiers.
Lebanon’s acting foreign minister, Abdullah Bu Habib, said Nasrallah gave his approval to a ceasefire with Israel shortly before he was killed in a bombing.
Iran blames the G-7 for instability
Iran accused G-7 countries of having a vision biased and irresponsible in the face of tension in the Middle East and maintained that these powers, including the United States, have a special responsibility for aggravating insecurity and instability regional for their support political and military to Israel.
The president of Iran, Masud Pezeshkian, noted that support for the resistance groups in the Middle East it is a duty in order to achieve the liberation of Palestinewhile once again defending the need to put an end to more than seven decades of occupation of the Palestinian territories. The leader of the Islamic republic is on an official visit to Qatar along with other rulers of the region.
Bloody day on the strip: at least 100 dead
On the Gaza war front, about one hundred people were killed and another 170 were injured in the last day of Israeli bombing, bringing the number of Palestinian deaths so far in the war to 41,788.
The Israeli military command reported that three months ago it eliminated a senior Hamas leader, Rawhi Mushtaha, who maintained that he was the head of the Islamist group’s government in Gaza, and two other commanders of the insurgent group: Sameh Siraj and Sameh Oude.
The three were attacked and killed while taking shelter in a fortified and equipped underground complex in northern Gaza.
The head of Hamas in the town was identified as Zahi Yasser Abdel Razak Aufi. The diary Filastin confirmed the death of Zahi Awdi, alias The Floodleader of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
In Tulkarem, in the northern reoccupied West Bank, 18 people, including a Hamas commander, were killed after an Israeli bombardment, the number of wounded is unknown.
Syria’s air defense intercepted several drone gunship attacks on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Damascus.