Israel says bid to kill ex-senior official foiled

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******* says bid to ***** ex-senior official foiled

*******’s internal security agency says it foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to ***** a former senior ******** security official as the militant group accused ******* of being behind hundreds of pagers that exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria.

The Shin Bet agency said in a statement that it had found an explosive device fitted with a camera and a mechanism that would allow it to be activated by Hezbollah from Lebanon.

It said the ******* was to be carried out in the coming days.

The Shin Bet did not provide evidence linking the device to Hezbollah, which has been trading ***** with ******* along the Lebanese border since the outbreak of the war in Gaza.

It did not say where the device was found or identify the target of the ******* but said the official had been notified.

It said the device was similar to one found in a park in Tel Aviv in September 2023 that it said was intended to target a senior ******** official.

The device last year went off without causing any injuries.

The Shin Bet said Hezbollah was behind both planned attacks.

In recent days ******** officials have warned of a wider military operation to halt Hezbollah rocket attacks and allow tens of thousands of Israelis to return to their homes in the north.

The Security Cabinet has updated the objectives of the war to include the following: Returning the residents of the north securely to their homes.******* will continue to act to implement this objective.— Prime Minister of ******* (@IsraeliPM) September 17, 2024

Hezbollah on Tuesday promised to retaliate after blaming ******* for detonating pagers that ******* at least eight people and wounded 2750 others, including many of the militant group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy in Beirut.

Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary condemned the detonation of the pagers – used by Hezbollah and others in Lebanon to communicate – as an “******** aggression”.

Hezbollah said ******* would receive “its fair punishment” for the blasts.

Returning residents who fled *******’s north due to cross-border fighting with Hezbollah is now an official war goal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

******** officials have long said they aim to return the tens of thousands of displaced Israelis to their homes, so it was not immediately clear how the announcement would affect the conduct of the war.

************ officials said on Tuesday ******* had struck a number of homes in the central Gaza Strip, ******** at least four people including a child.

The Civil Defence first responders said more people were trapped under the rubble and the toll was likely to rise after the strikes early in the day.

Another strike late on Monday in Gaza City ******* a man, his wife and child, according to the Civil Defence.

******* says it only targets militants and tries to avoid harming civilians.

It accuses ****** and other armed groups of endangering civilians by operating in densely populated areas.

The Civil Defence said that their rescue crews came under ******** ***** as they arrived in the area, injuring one.

The ******** military said it was targeting militants preparing to ***** at troops and was reviewing “reports regarding harm to uninvolved civilians”.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 41,000 Palestinians have been ******* since the start of the war, which was ignited by ******’ October 7 ******* into *******.

It does not differentiate between civilians and combatants but says more than half of those ******* were women and children.

The ******** military says it has ******* more than 17,000 militants.

******-led militants ******* 1200 people in the October 7 attacks and took another 250 ********.

They are still holding about 100 captives, a third of whom are believed to be *****, after most of the rest were released during a ceasefire in November.

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