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Reuters witnesses reported hearing a blast and seeing a plume of smoke. Black smoke billowed from between buildings in Haret Hreik after the strike, AFP reported, before witnessing a second strike moments later.
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The strikes came after the IDF urged residents to immediately evacuate a specific building in the southern suburbs of Beirut early on Wednesday, warning in a statement on social media website X that it will hit Hezbollah targets there soon.
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“You are located near facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah, which the IDF will work against in the near future” the statement in Arabic said, addressing Haret Hreik residents.
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The Israeli military has repeatedly bombarded south Beirut in recent weeks, as well as carrying out deadly strikes elsewhere in the capital and across Lebanon.
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At least 1,356 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israel escalated its bombing last month, according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures, though the real toll is likely higher.
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🔴أنتم متواجدون بالقرب من منشآت ومصالح تابعة لحزب الله حيث سيعمل ضدها جيش الدفاع على مدى الزمني القريب
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A strike hit south Beirut early on Wednesday, Reuters and Agence-France Presse reported, after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for a specific building in Beirut’s southern suburbs, indicating it will hit Hezbollah targets there soon.
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Reuters witnesses reported hearing a blast and seeing a plume of smoke. Black smoke billowed from between buildings in Haret Hreik after the strike, AFP reported.
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Separately, Israel says it plans to address US concerns after the Biden administration warned Israel it risks losing access to US weapons funding if it does not improve the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza within the next 30 days.
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The warning came in the form of a four-page letter dated 13 October written jointly by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, to their Israeli counterparts.
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An Israeli official in Washington told Reuters that Israel was reviewing the letter.
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“Israel takes this matter seriously and intends to address the concerns raised in this letter with our American counterparts,” the official said.
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The letter, which restates US policy toward humanitarian aid and arms transfers, was sent amid deteriorating conditions in northern Gaza and an Israeli airstrike on a hospital tent site in central Gaza that killed at least four people and burned others. It came to light after being posted on social media by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who works for Axios, after apparently being leaked.
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Hezbollah’s acting leader said the Lebanese militant group is focused on “hurting the enemy” by targeting Haifa and other parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv. Sheikh Naim Kassem, Hezbollah’s deputy chief, vowed in a televised speech to “defeat our enemies and drive them out of our lands.” It was his third appearance since Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beiruts.
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that Israel will decide alone on the form of any retaliation to Iran’s missile attack earlier this month, although it would listen to advice from Washington. The comments came after reports that the Israeli prime minister had given an assurance to the US president, Joe Biden, that Israel would not attack sites associated with Iran’s nuclear programme or oilfields before the US presidential election. A statement from Netanyahu’s office on Tuesday denied any such commitment.
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Israel continued to press its offensive in Gaza, with airstrikes killing a further 50 Palestinians on Tuesday. Palestinian health officials said at least 17 people were killed by Israeli fire near Al-Falouja in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps, while 10 others were killed in Bani Suhaila in eastern Khan Younis in the south when an Israeli missile struck a house. Later on Tuesday, the Gaza health ministry said one doctor was killed when he tried to help the people wounded by Israeli strikes in Al-Falouja in Jabalia. It said Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 42,344 Palestinians and wounded 99,013 since 7 October 2023.
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The Israeli military said about 50 projectiles were fired from Lebanon at the country’s north early Wednesday, without any reports of casualties. “Some of the projectiles were intercepted and fallen projectiles were identified in the area,” a military statement said, while Hezbollah said it launched “a large salvo of missiles” at the town of Safed.
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The UN human rights office said on Tuesday the Israeli military appeared to be “cutting off North Gaza completely from the rest of the Gaza Strip.” Tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped in the densely populated northern Gaza neighbourhood of Jabaliya by a new Israeli military operation there. Most are suffering appalling conditions and mounting casualties from Israeli shelling, bombs and missiles. The director of Kamal Adwan hospital, one of the three hospitals in northern Gaza, said they were facing serious shortages of food, medication and fuel.
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In Lebanon, Israel’s military launched several strikes in eastern areas on Tuesday, a day after Netanyahu vowed to “mercilessly strike Hezbollah in all parts of Lebanon – including Beirut”. The Lebanese health ministry said 41 people were killed and 124 were injured by Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Monday, meaning a total of 2,350 people have been killed in Lebanon since the fighting began between Hezbollah and Israel last October and the number of wounded has risen to 10,906. A US state department spokesperson said Washington has “made clear to Israel that we oppose the bombing campaign that they have been launching in recent weeks in Beirut.”
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The UN rights office said an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in northern Lebanon that killed at least 22 people needs to be independently investigated. It said it had received reports that most of the victims of the Israeli airstrike on the northern Lebanon village of Aitou were women and children. “We have real concerns with respect to … the laws of war,” a UNHCR spokesperson said.
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More than a quarter of Lebanon is now affected by Israeli evacuation orders, according to the UN’s refugee agency. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate, and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” Middle East director Rema Jamous Imseis told journalists on Tuesday. More than 1.2 million people in Lebanon have been displaced over the past year. More than 400,000 children in Lebanon have been displaced in the past three weeks, a top official with the UN children’s agency said Monday, warning of a “lost generation”.
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Israeli troops cleared landmines and established new barriers on the frontier between the occupied Golan Heights and a demilitarised strip bordering Syria, according to a report, in a sign Israel may expand its ground operations against Hezbollah while bolstering its own defences. The move suggests Israel may seek to strike Hezbollah for the first time from farther east along Lebanon’s border, at the same time creating a secure area from which it can freely reconnoitre the armed group and prevent infiltration, security sources told Reuters.
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An assailant shot dead an Israeli policeman and wounded five other people near the southern city of Ashdod on Tuesday in what police called a “terrorist” attack. The gunman was killed during the attack at the Yavne interchange along the highway connecting Ashdod to Tel Aviv, authorities said.
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Netanyahu told Emmanuel Macron, the French president, in a phone call on Tuesday that he was opposed to agreeing to a “unilateral ceasefire” in Lebanon, his office said. The call came as Macron increased pressure on Israel to abide by UN decisions, telling his cabinet that the Israeli leader “must not forget that his country was created by a decision of the UN”, according to a report.
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Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said she will visit Lebanon on Friday as she demanded security guarantees from Israel for her country’s troops there just days after UN peacekeeper bases came under attack. Italy’s government has been a strong supporter of Israel in the year since Hamas’s 7 October attacks but has sharply criticised attacks on Unifil and Israeli calls for the peacekeepers to withdraw.
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The UK Foreign Office announced sanctions against seven organisations that support illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but held back from penalising two extremist members of the Israeli government, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and the national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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They reportedly attacked southern Beirut after receiving an evacuation warning from the Israeli military.
Strikes reportedly broke out in Beirut's southern suburbs early Wednesday morning, the first time the area had been targeted in several days.
Witnesses to Reuters reported hearing explosions and seeing plumes of smoke. After the strike, black smoke billowed between buildings in Hallett Lake, and a second strike was seen shortly afterward, AFP news agency reported.
The airstrikes came after the Israel Defense Forces early Wednesday called on residents to immediately evacuate certain buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs and warned in a statement on social media website X that it would soon attack Hezbollah targets there. I was disappointed.
“You are located near facilities and interests associated with Hezbollah, and the IDF will oppose them in the near future,” the statement said in Arabic to residents of Halet Lake.
Israeli forces have repeatedly shelled southern Beirut in recent weeks, carrying out deadly attacks elsewhere in the capital and across Lebanon.
At least 1,356 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israel escalated its bombing campaign last month, although the real death toll is likely higher, according to an AFP tally compiling statistics from the Lebanese health ministry.
#James ‼ ️ في الخرط ة والواقع في حارة حريك
🔴أنتم متواجدون بالقرب من منشآت ومصالح تابعة لحزب الله حيث سيعمل ضدها جيش الدفاع على مد ى الزمني القريب
🔴من أجل سلامتكم وسلامة أبناء عائلتكم عليكم اخلاء هذا… pic.twitter.com/cigjAse6iL
— Avichay Adraee (@AvichayAdraee) October 16, 2024
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#James ‼ ️ في الخرط ة والواقع في حارة حريك
🔴أنتم متواجدون بالقرب من منشآت ومصالح تابعة لحزب الله حيث سيعمل ضدها جيش الدفاع على مد ى الزمني القريب
🔴من أجل سلامتكم وسلامة أبناء عائلتكم عليكم اخلاء هذا… pic.twitter.com/cigjAse6iL— Avichay Adraee (@AvichayAdraee) October 16, 2024
Opening overview
Reuters and Agence France-Presse reported that the Israeli military launched airstrikes in southern Beirut early Wednesday after issuing an evacuation warning for certain buildings in the southern suburbs., It has indicated that it will soon attack Hezbollah targets there.
Witnesses to Reuters reported hearing explosions and seeing plumes of smoke. According to AFP news agency, black smoke billowed between buildings in Hallett Lake after the strike.
Separately, Israel announced that the U.S. It said it plans to address concerns.
The warning came in the form of a four-page letter dated October 13, jointly written by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to the Israeli side.
An Israeli official in Washington told Reuters that Israel was reviewing the letter.
“Israel takes this issue seriously and will work with its American side to address the concerns raised in this letter,” the official said.
The letter reiterates U.S. policy on humanitarian aid and arms transfers, citing the deteriorating situation in northern Gaza and Israeli airstrikes on hospital tent sites in central Gaza that have killed at least four people and injured others. It was sent to him while he was still suffering from burns. It was discovered after posted on social media It was apparently leaked by Barak Rabid, an Israeli journalist working for Axios.
In other developments:
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Hezbollah's acting leader said the Lebanese militant group was targeting Haifa and other parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv, with a focus on “hurting the enemy.” Hezbollah's deputy chief, Sheikh Naim Qassem, vowed in a televised speech to “defeat our enemies and drive them from our lands.” It will be his third appearance since Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern outskirts of Beirut.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israel would solely decide on the form of retaliation for the Iranian missile attack earlier this month.But he will heed advice from Washington. The comments came in the wake of reports that the Israeli Prime Minister assured US President Joe Biden that Israel would not attack Iran's nuclear facilities or oil fields before the US presidential election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied such promises in a statement Tuesday.
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Israel continues its offensive in the Gaza Strip, with another 50 Palestinians killed in airstrikes on Tuesday. Palestinian health authorities say at least 17 people have been killed by Israeli fire near al-Fallujah in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, and that Israeli missiles have killed at least 17 people in Bani Suhaira, east of Khan Yunis in the south. It was announced that 10 other people were killed in the collision. house. Later on Tuesday, the Gaza Health Ministry announced that a doctor had died while trying to save people injured in an Israeli attack in al-Fallujah, Jabalia. The newspaper said that since October 7, 2023, Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 42,344 Palestinians and injured 99,013 others.
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The Israeli military said about 50 projectiles were fired from Lebanon in the country's north early Wednesday, but there were no reports of casualties. A military statement said “some of the projectiles were intercepted and downed projectiles were observed in the area,” while Hezbollah announced it had fired “a large missile salvo” on the town of Safed.
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The U.N. human rights office said Tuesday that Israeli forces “appear to have completely cut off northern Gaza from the rest of the Gaza Strip.” A new Israeli military operation has trapped tens of thousands of civilians in the densely populated northern Jabaliya area of Gaza. Most of them have suffered dire conditions from Israeli artillery, bombs and missiles, leading to mounting casualties. Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three hospitals in northern Gaza, said it was facing severe shortages of food, medicine and fuel.
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In Lebanon, Israeli forces launched several attacks in the eastern region on Tuesday. The day comes a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “attack Hezbollah mercilessly throughout Lebanon, including Beirut.” The Lebanese Ministry of Health said: An Israeli attack in Lebanon on Monday left 41 people dead and 124 injured. That means a total of 2,350 people have been killed in Lebanon since fighting began between Hezbollah and Israel last October, and the number of injured has increased to 10,906. A US State Department spokesperson said the US government “has made clear its opposition to the bombing campaign that Israel has launched in Beirut in recent weeks.”
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The United Nations rights office says an independent investigation is needed into an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in northern Lebanon that killed at least 22 people. It said it had received reports that most of the victims of an Israeli airstrike on the village of Aitou in northern Lebanon were women and children. A UNHCR spokesperson said: “We have serious concerns about…the laws of war.”
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More than a quarter of Lebanon is currently affected by Israeli evacuation orders, according to the United Nations refugee agency. “People are heeding calls to evacuate and are fleeing with almost nothing,” Middle East director Rema Jamous Imseis told reporters on Tuesday. More than 1.2 million people have been displaced in Lebanon over the past year. More than 400,000 children have been displaced in Lebanon in the past three weeks, a senior official from the United Nations children's agency said on Monday, warning of the arrival of a “lost generation”.
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Israeli forces have cleared landmines and erected new barriers on the border between the occupied Golan Heights and the Demilitarized Zone on the Syrian border. According to one report, Israel could expand its ground operations against Hezbollah while strengthening its own defenses. The move signals that Israel may seek to attack Hezbollah for the first time from further east, along the Lebanese border, while also creating a safe area where the militants can freely scout and deter infiltration. a security source told Reuters.
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An assailant shot dead an Israeli police officer and wounded five others in the southern suburb of Ashdod on Tuesday. What police called a “terrorist” attack. The gunman was killed in the attack at the Yavne interchange along the Ashdod-Tel Aviv highway, authorities said.
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Netanyahu said in a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday that he opposes agreeing to a “unilateral ceasefire” in Lebanon. his office said. According to the report, the call was made by President Macron telling his cabinet that Israeli leaders “must not forget that their country was created by the decisions of the United Nations” and urging Israel to abide by the decisions of the United Nations. This was carried out under increasing pressure.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said he would visit Lebanon on Friday. Because she demanded guarantees for the security of her country's troops stationed in Israel. Just days after a UN peacekeeping base was attacked. The Italian government has strongly supported Israel in the year since the October 7 Hamas attack, but has harshly criticized the attack on Unifil and Israeli calls for peacekeepers to withdraw.
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UK Foreign Office announces sanctions against seven organizations supporting illegal Israeli settlers in the West BankHowever, the finance minister said he refrained from punishing two extremist members of the Israeli government. Bezalel Smotrich and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir.
