Israel strikes power plant in Yemen in revenge for Houthi missile attacks

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******* strikes power plant in Yemen in revenge for Houthi missile attacks

******* opened up a war on three fronts with major airstrikes on Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen on Sunday.

Huge explosions rocked the Red Sea state as

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launched by the Iran-backed group.

“The explosions shook the city,” said reports from Hodeidah, with social media posts showing major blasts and what appeared to be extensive damage.

The ******* Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed the strikes, describing them as “extensive, intelligence-based aerial operation” involving dozens of aircraft.

“The targets included power plants and a seaport used to import oil, which were used by the Houthi ********** regime to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil,” said an IDF statement.

The Iranian-backed Houthis launched three ballistic missiles at southern and central ******* this month, together with several drones, at least two getting through air defences.

The ******* group, who seized the Yemeni capital Sanaa in 2014 and is extensively funded and armed by Iran, has also harried shipping in the area for more than a year, all but closing the Suez Canal in what it calls a response to *******’s war in Gaza.

Britain and the ******* States began an ongoing air campaign against Houthi targets in a bid to suppress attacks on shipping in January this year.

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******* struck Yemen directly for the first time in July

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The latest strike on Yemen comes as ******** officials briefed that there had been a “limited” ground incursion into southern Lebanon, involving special forces troops.

******** media also reported that tanks were being gathered on the ******** side of the border, indicating a wider ground incursion may be imminent.

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*******’s official war aims now include returning some 60,000 citizens in the north to their homes along the border, something most analysts believe will not be possible without troops on the ground in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah has continued to bombard ******** border communities for nearly a year with over 8,000 projectiles launched since October 8, in allegiance with Iran-backed ****** in Gaza following its invasion of ******* on October 7.

Adding Yemen to Lebanon and Gaza brings a clear third front to *******’s war with Iran-backed enemies.

On Saturday night, Benjamin Netanyahu, the ******** prime minister, warned Iran and its proxies that it would respond to all future attacks on its territory

“If someone rises up to ***** you, ***** him first”, he said, adding: “There is no place in Iran or the Middle East that the long arm of ******* cannot reach.”

Yemen expert, Thomas Juneau, from the University of Ottawa, a former national defence analyst, said it is too early to assess the impact of the ******** strikes on Houthi targets.

“******* seems to want to send a message to the Houthis that any strikes on ******* will be met with strong counter-strikes. ******* has far more firepower than the Houthis, so it wants to signal to the Houthis that they will suffer a much greater cost,” he told The Telegraph.

The strikes in Yemen came as preparations were being made in Beirut for the burial of Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, ******* by an ******** airstrike Friday.

There are fears that the ******** will stoke sectarian tensions in the Lebanese capital and possible wider conflict.

05:08 PM BSTThat’s all for today

Thank you for following our live coverage. The latest developments from the day were:

The ******** army targeted a power plant and ports in Yemen in revenge for Houthi missile attacks, marking a fresh exchange in another front of the regional conflict. In a statement, the IDF said it had conducted a “large-scale air operation” with dozens of air force aircraft, including fighter jets and intelligence planes.

The body of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was recovered from the site of an ******** air ******* on Beirut’s southern suburbs, a day after his ****** was confirmed. The ******** military said on Sunday the strike also “eliminated” more than 20 other members of the Lebanese armed group.

Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, another of its senior leaders who had been tipped as one of Nasrallah’s successors, was ******* in an ******** airstrike. He is the seventh senior leader of the Lebanese militant group to be ******* since Sept 20.

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said that the ****** of a senior Iranian general, ******* alongside Nasrallah “will not go unanswered”.

Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, authorised the military to reinforce its presence in the Middle East with “defensive” air-support capabilities and put other forces on a heightened readiness status, the Pentagon said on Sunday.

Fourteen medics have been ******* over the course of two days of ******** strikes, the Lebanese health ministry said.

Lebanon’s prime minister Najib Mikati told reporters on Sunday that *******’s intensifying attacks on the country may have displaced up to one million people.

The World Food Programme launched an emergency operation to provide meals for one million people affected by the escalating conflict in Lebanon.

04:58 PM BSTIsrael likely used US-made 2,000-pound ****** in Nasrallah strike

******* probably employed US-made 2,000-pound munitions in its strike that ******* Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, according to a review of visuals released by the IDF.

Analysts who examined videos of the strike and its aftermath at The Washington Post’s request said the damage was consistent with the use of multiple 2,000-pound ******.

04:46 PM BSTUS Centcom involved in strikes, says ******** official

Axios reports an ******** official saying that the ******** strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port was carried out with US Central Command (Centcom).

04:06 PM BSTIsrael army says striking Houthi rebel targets in Yemen

The ******** military said on Sunday it was striking several Houthi rebel targets in Yemen using dozens of aircraft.

“In a large-scale air operation today, dozens of Air Force aircraft, including fighter jets, refuelling planes, and reconnaissance aircraft, attacked military-use targets of the Houthi ********** regime in the Ras Issa and Hodeida areas of Yemen,” military spokesman Captain David Avraham said in a statement to AFP.

03:53 PM BSTPope Francis, asked about ******** strikes, slams attacks that go ‘beyond morality’

Pope Francis, asked on Sunday about ******** airstrikes in Lebanon that ******* Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as well as non-combatants, criticized military attacks that he said go “beyond morality”.

On the flight back to Rome from Belgium, the pontiff said countries cannot go “over the top” in using their military forces. “Even in war there is a morality to safeguard,” he said. “War is immoral. But the rules of war give it some morality.”

03:40 PM BSTAirstrikes launched at Yemen’s Hodeidah port

Airstrikes were launched at Yemen’s Hodeidah port on Sunday, with targets including fuel tanks, two sources at the port told Reuters.

Asked whether the ******** military was carrying out an ******* in Yemen, a military spokesperson declined to comment.

03:32 PM BSTIsrael says striking more Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

The ******** military said it was carrying out fresh strikes on Sunday targeting Hezbollah’s weapons storage facilities and infrastructure sites in Lebanon.

“Over the last few hours, IDF (military) fighter jets struck Hezbollah ******* targets in Lebanon, including launchers directed toward ******** territory, weapons storage facilities, and ********** infrastructure sites,” the military said in a statement.

A separate statement later said it had hit approximately 45 Hezbollah targets in the area of Kafra in southern Lebanon.

Among those targets struck were weapons storage facilities and infrastructure sites belonging to the group, it said.

03:23 PM BSTHezbollah says launched ‘rocket salvo’ towards north ******** town

Hezbollah said on Sunday that it had targeted two north ******* locations including the town of Safed, an area it has fired at several times over the past week.

The Iran-backed group, whose leader ******* ******* in an air strike on Friday, said its fighters launched a “rocket salvo” at Safed and a smaller location “in defence of Lebanon and its people and in response” to ******** attacks on cities, villages and civilians.

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Kashmiri Shia ******* women protest against ******* in Srinagar – REUTERS/Sharafat Ali

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The ******** Air Force strikes southern Lebanon villages – REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

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Injured Palestinians are brought to al-Ahli ******** Hospital after an ******** ******* on az-Zahra school in Gaza City – Dawoud **** Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images

02:59 PM BSTFourteen medics ******* in two days of ******** strikes, Lebanese ministry says

Fourteen medics have been ******* over the course of two days of ******** strikes, the Lebanese health ministry said in a statement.

02:53 PM BSTUS boosts air support and hikes troops’ readiness to deploy for Middle East

Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, has authorised the military to reinforce its presence in the Middle East with “defensive” air-support capabilities and put other forces on a heightened readiness status, the Pentagon said on Sunday.

”(Austin) increased the readiness of additional US forces to deploy, elevating our preparedness to respond to various contingencies,” Pentagon spokesman Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder said in a statement.

The statement did not detail what new aircraft would be deploying to the region.

“Secretary Austin made clear that should Iran, its partners, or its proxies use this moment to target ********* personnel or interests in the region, the ******* States will take every necessary measure to defend our people,” Maj Gen Ryder added.

02:09 PM BSTIsraeli strike ****** senior figure in Lebanon’s Jama’a Islamiya, sources say

An ******** strike on Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Sunday ******* a senior figure in the Sunni Jama’a Islamiya group, Mohammad Dahrouj, two security sources told Reuters.

The group has fired rockets on ******* over the past year and ******* has previously conducted strikes targeting other leading figures from the group.

01:57 PM BSTHezbollah confirms ****** of seventh senior leader

Hezbollah has confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, another of its senior leaders, was ******* in an ******** airstrike.

The ******** military said earlier Sunday that it had ******* Kaouk in an airstrike the day before.

He is the seventh senior leader of the Lebanese militant group to be ******* since Sept 20, including leader Hassan Nasrallah.

01:54 PM BSTDamage and rubble on site of ******** strike that ******* Hezbollah’s Nasrallah01:46 PM BST‘More than 20’ Hezbollah members ******* alongside Nasrallah

The ******** military said on Sunday the strike that ******* Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah this week in Beirut also “eliminated” more than 20 other members of the Lebanese armed group.

“More than 20 other terrorists of varying ranks, who were present at the underground headquarters in Beirut located beneath civilian buildings, and were managing Hezbollah’s ********** operations against the state of *******, were also eliminated,” the military said in a statement.

01:44 PM BSTUS military says ******* 37 militants in separate Syria strikes

US forces conducted two separate strikes in Syria, ******** 37 “********** operatives” including members of the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din, the military’s Central Command (Centcom) said Sunday.

A September 24 strike in northwest Syria ******* nine “********** operatives,” including senior Hurras al-Din leader Marwan Bassam ‘Abd-al-Ra’uf, the US military said.

A September 16 strike in central Syria targeted an IS training camp and ******* at least 28 people, including four senior leaders, the statement said. It did not identify the leaders.

The US military has around 900 troops in Syria as part of the international coalition against the Islamic State group. The coalition was established in 2014 to help combat the armed group, which had taken over vast swaths of Iraq and Syria.

01:21 PM BSTBlasts heard in vicinity of Syria’s Damascus, state news agency says

Blasts were heard in the vicinity of Syrian capital Damascus, state news agency SANA reported on Sunday, adding that an investigation was being conducted to establish the cause.

01:18 PM BSTIDF carries out ‘precise strike’ in Dahiya

The IDF said it had carried out a “precise strike” in Dahiya, the densely populated area south of Beirut where it assassinated Hassan Nasrallah on Friday.

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Smoke billows over Beirut’s southern suburbs after a strike – REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

The ******** military said it was carrying out fresh strikes Sunday targeting Hezbollah’s weapons storage facilities and infrastructure sites in Lebanon.

“Over the last few hours, IDF (military) fighter jets struck Hezbollah ******* targets in Lebanon, including launchers directed toward ******** territory, weapons storage facilities, and ********** infrastructure sites,” the military said in a statement.

12:49 PM BSTHezbollah confirms senior leader Ali Karaki ******* in ******** strike

Hezbollah confirmed on Sunday that its senior leader Ali Karaki was ******* in an ******** strike that targeted some of the group’s other senior figures including its chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon.

Karaki was a member of the group’s ****** Council and the commander of the organisation’s southern front.

“[Karaki] was directly and on the ground responsible for leading the southern front with all its axes and units in the support front from 8 October, 2023, until his blessed martyrdom”, a statement from Hezbollah read announcing his ******.

Karaki was the latest in a series of military commanders to be ******* by *******, leaving Hezbollah’s senior military leadership almost completely wiped out.

12:35 PM BSTIsraeli military says it has dismantled a ****** tunnel in central Gaza

The ******** military says it has uncovered and dismantled a ****** tunnel in central Gaza that was over a kilometer (0.6 miles) long.

It said Sunday that the tunnel ran near residential buildings, and that inside were several rooms and equipment used by militants for prolonged stays.

The military released footage showing the entrance to the tunnel, a long staircase leading down and what appeared to be an iron blast door.

****** is believed to have built hundreds of kilometers (miles) of tunnels across Gaza to evade ******** airstrikes. The militants have also used the tunnels to hold hostages captured in the Oct 7 ******* that triggered the war and to launch ambushes against ******** forces.

12:17 PM BSTMore on Iran vowing response to *******’s ******** of Guards generaldata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Abbas Nilforushan – Elaheh Javan, Fars News Agency via A

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that the ****** of a senior Iranian general, ******* alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an ******** strike on Beirut, “will not go unanswered”.

Mr Araghchi’s remarks came two days after the Friday strike on Iran-backed Hezbollah’s bastion in the Lebanese capital that ******* General Abbas Nilforoushan, a top commander of the Quds Force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps foreign operations arm.

“This horrible ****** of the aggressor Zionist regime will not go unanswered,” the top diplomat said, according to a foreign ministry statement.

“The diplomatic apparatus will also use all its political, diplomatic, legal and international capacities to pursue the ********** and their supporters,” he added.

Iranian officials have strongly condemned the ******** of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah, whose powerful Lebanese movement has been armed and financed by the Islamic republic for years.

On Sunday, Iran’s vice president for strategic affairs, Javad Zarif, said a response “will occur at the appropriate time and at Iran’s choice, and decisions will definitely be made at the leadership level, at the highest level of the state,” official news agency IRNA reported.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all matters of state, has offered his condolences for Nasrallah’s “martyrdom” and declared five days of public mourning.

Iranians on Sunday took to the streets of several cities across the country to express their anger at the killings of the Guards’ Nilforoushan as well as Hezbollah’s Nasrallah.

The secretary of Iran’s guardian council, Ahmad Jannati, said ******* will “receive a forceful answer”, threatening with “the destruction of the Zionist regime,” according to Fars news agency.

12:05 PM BSTBody of Hezbollah leader has been recovered, sources say

The body of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been recovered from the site of an ******** air ******* on Beirut’s southern suburbs, a day after his ****** was confirmed.

The ******** military said it carried out a precise airstrike on Friday while Hezbollah leaders were meeting at their headquarters in Dahiyeh.

Nasrallah had led the group for more than 30 years and was a hugely influential figure in the region. His body is intact, sources told Reuters on Sunday, and it appeared the cause of ****** was blunt trauma from the force of the blast. His ******** is expected to be held soon.

The recovery of Nasrallah’s body came as Hezbollah confirmed the ****** of Ali Karaki, one of the armed group’s remaining top military commanders, and as the IDF said it had also “eliminated” Nabil Kaouk, who had been tipped as one of Nasrallah’s successors.

Hezbollah’s senior military leadership has now been almost completely wiped out since ******* escalated its attacks on Lebanon earlier this month.

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A woman cares for her newborn girl, Fatima, in Beirut’s Martyrs’ square after fleeing ******** airstrikes – AP Photo/Bilal Hussein

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Portraits of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah are hung in the southern suburbs of Beirut, one day after the announcement of his ****** – WAEL HAMZEH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

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Demonstrators ***** an ******** flag in front of the parliament building in Rabat – AFP via Getty Images

11:41 AM BSTGaza ****** toll climbs to 41,595 Palestinians ******* since Oct.7, ministry says

At least 41,595 Palestinians have been ******* and 96,251 others injured in *******’s military offensive in Gaza since Oct 7, the ******-run Gaza health ministry said on Sunday.

11:30 AM BSTPope urges immediate ceasefire in ‘martyred’ Lebanon

Pope Francis called for an immediate ceasefire in “martyred” Lebanon and the wider Middle East on Saturday as he ended a three-day visit to Belgium.

“I call on all parties to immediately cease ***** in Lebanon, Gaza, the rest of Palestine and *******,” the Argentinian pontiff, 87, told an open-air mass in Brussels, as ******* continued to target the Hezbollah armed group in Lebanon.

11:18 AM BSTFears Nasrallah’s ****** could tip Lebanon back into sectarian strifedata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

There is a mood of grave apprehension in Beirut this morning. Not only is Lebanon still reeling from the ferocity of ******** airstrikes, there is also concern that the ****** of Hassan Nasrallah could tip this deeply fragile country back into sectarian strife.

Streets in much of the Lebanese capital remain pretty deserted, with virtually all shops and cafés closed. “Due to the current situation this establishment will be closed until further notice… Stay safe,” reads one notice in a restaurant window in predominantly ********** eastern Beirut.

Lebanese soldiers took up positions yesterday on a bridge separating ********** districts from Shia ******* ones, fearful that underlying tensions could spill over into *********. Shia Muslims were long marginalised in Lebanese society and they regarded Nasrallah not only as the leader of the resistance against ******* but as their domestic political champion.

Many are suspicious that Lebanon’s other sects – the Christians, the Druze and the Sunni Muslims – will somehow take advantage of Hezbollah’s disarray to sideline the movement. Lebanese Shia men made their feelings clear yesterday when they fired their weapons into the air across the city.

Non-Shia Lebanese interpreted this not just as a display of raw emotion, but a warning to others as well. Little wonder that, as Lebanon awaits Nasrallah’s ********, the country feels so fraught. From 1975 to 1990, the country was mired in a vicious civil war fought on confessional lines and Lebanon’s traumatised people have always lived in ***** of a repeat.

“I can’t remember the city feeling this on edge for years and years,” says Georges Tannous, a Lebanese ********** man as he unloaded shopping from the boot of his car in eastern Beirut. “We’ve been to stock up on supplies – just in case of the worst.”

11:06 AM BSTLebanon says up to 1 million may be displaced by ******* attacks

Lebanon’s prime minister Najib Mikati told reporters on Sunday that *******’s intensifying attacks on the country may have displaced up to one million people.

“The number of displaced people… could reach a million. Let’s not forget the large influx from the south and the Bekaa” region in Lebanon’s east, Mr Mikati said following an emergency cabinet meeting.

10:56 AM BSTIsraeli strikes ***** at least 4 people in Gaza Strip

************ officials say ******** strikes have ******* at least four people in the Gaza Strip.

Two people were ******* in separate strikes early Sunday in the built-up Nuseirat ******** camp in central Gaza, according to the nearby Awda Hospital, which received the bodies. It said another six people were wounded.

In northern Gaza, first responders recovered two bodies after a strike on a house early Sunday, according to the Civil Defense, which operates under the ******-run government.

The ******-run health ministry says over 41,000 Palestinians have been ******* in the *******-****** war, more than half of them women and children.

10:49 AM BSTPictured: ******** tanks deployed near border with Lebanondata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

******** army tanks deployed in the Upper Galilee region of northern *******, near the border with Lebanon – MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images

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******* has raised the prospect of a ground operation against Hezbollah – MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images

10:44 AM BSTKilling of Iran’s Guards deputy commander in Lebanon ‘will not go unanswered’

*******’s ******** of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards deputy commander Abbas Nilforoushan in Lebanon “will not go unanswered”, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said in a statement on Sunday.

Nilforoushan was ******* during a meeting with the Hezbollah leader in Beirut on Friday. His ****** marks Iran’s most significant loss since April, when his predecessor, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, was ******* in an ******** airstrike in Damascus.

In response to Zahedi’s ******, Iran launched around 300 ******** drones and missiles at *******.

10:38 AM BSTGovernment has contingency plans in place for evacuating British nationals

The Government has contingency plans in place for evacuating British nationals from Lebanon, but citizens should still try to leave the country on commercial flights, Pat McFadden has said.

He told the BBC: “This is a very serious situation right now.

“Our advice for some time now to British citizens in Lebanon is to leave now. There are commercial flights available, the Foreign Office is working with commercial airlines to make sure more are available.

“We will plan for every contingency but it is really important given the seriousness of the situation that British people in the area make what arrangements they can to leave now.”

He urged those British nationals still in Lebanon to register their presence with the Foreign Office and repeated the Government’s plea for a diplomatic solution to the conflict “no matter how difficult that sounds in the light of what’s happened in recent days”.

10:27 AM BST‘We don’t know where to go’, says Syrian ******** displaced in Beirut10:19 AM BSTIsrael strikes ‘dozens of Hezbollah targets’

******* said it was carrying out new air raids against “dozens” of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Sunday, pressing the Iran-backed group as it mourns its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

The ******** military said its air force had “struck dozens of Hezbollah ******* targets in Lebanon, including launchers that were aimed toward ******** territory, structures in which weapons were stored and additional Hezbollah ********** infrastructure”.

10:13 AM BSTA missile falls in Jordan

Jordan’s military says a Grad missile fired from Lebanon fell in an open area without causing casualties or damage.

The missile was likely fired at ******* by Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, which has intensified its rocket attacks after its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was ******* in an ******** airstrike on Friday.

Jordan and *******, which share borders, signed a peace treaty in 1994. The Western-allied ***** country also helped intercept missiles fired at ******* by Iran in April.

Jordan has been fiercely critical of *******’s policies toward the Palestinians and has repeatedly called for a cease-***** in Gaza. It has also said it will not allow its territory to become a battlefield as tensions mount between ******* and Iran.

09:59 AM BSTIsraeli airstrike ****** 11 in northeast Lebanon

Lebanon’s state news agency says an ******** airstrike early Sunday on a village in northeast Lebanon destroyed a home, ******** 11 people.

Six of the bodies were recovered from under the rubble as the search continued for the remaining five in the village of al-Ain, reported National News Agency.

In southern Lebanon, the Islamic Risala Scout Association said five of its members were ******* while performing their duties. It said four of the men ******* were from the southern village of Tayr Debba while the fifth was from nearby Kabrikha.

More than 700 people have been ******* in Lebanon since Sept. 23 when ******* intensified its airstrikes around the country forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes in south Lebanon, the eastern Bekaa Valley and Beirut’s southern suburb known as Dahiyeh.

09:53 AM BSTDiplomatic efforts for ceasefire with ******* underway, Lebanese minister says

Lebanon’s Information Minister said during a cabinet session on Sunday that diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire with ******* were still “underway”.

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A woman reads the Quran at the site of the ************** of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

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People gather at the site of the ************** of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

09:40 AM BSTPotential Nasrallah successor ‘******* by *******’data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

Sheik Nabil Kaouk, right, pictured in 2010 – AP Photo/Hussein Malla

A senior Hezbollah figure, tipped as one of Hassan Nasrallah’s successors, has been ******* in Lebanon, according to *******’s military.

The ******** military said on Sunday that it ******* Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council, amid an ongoing exchange of strikes between the two sides.

Kaouk had been tipped as one of Nasrallah’s potential successors after playing a pivotal role in military operations against *******. He was a veteran member of Hezbollah going back to the 1980s and had previously served as Hezbollah’s military commander in southern Lebanon. The ******* States had announced sanctions against him in 2020.

Hezbollah has not yet commented, but supporters have been posting mourning messages for him since Saturday

09:39 AM BSTLebanese military calls for calm

In its first statement since the ******** of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanon’s military called for calm among its people “at this dangerous and delicate stage.”

Government officials ***** that the country’s deep political divisions at a time of war could rekindle sectarian strife and ********* in the small Mediterranean country.

“The ******** ****** is working to implement its destructive plans and spread division among the Lebanese,” the military said.

Military vehicles have been deployed in different parts of the capital as thousands of displaced people continue moving from the south to Beirut.

09:37 AM BSTIsraeli army says it strikes Hezbollah launchers, armouries and infrastructure in Lebanon09:32 AM BSTThousands gather across Iran

Thousands of people have gathered across Iran to protest the ******** of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an ******** airstrike.

State TV aired footage of protests in several major cities on Sunday. At Iran’s parliament, lawmakers chanted “****** to America” and “****** to *******.”

Iran helped establish Hezbollah in the 1980s and has provided the Lebanese militant group with sophisticated weaponry and training.

09:24 AM BSTUN sends emergency food aid for one million Lebanesedata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

A woman watches over sleeping children at an outside shelter after being displaced by ******** airstrikes in Beirut – Carl Court/Getty Images

The World Food Programme on Sunday said it had launched an emergency operation to provide meals for one million people affected by the escalating conflict in Lebanon.

“A further acceleration of the conflict this weekend underscored the need for an immediate humanitarian response,” the Rome-based agency said in a statement, announcing that it was distributing ready-to-eat food rations, bread, hot meals and food parcels to shelters across the country.

Ongoing ******** in Lebanon is “compounding the fragility of a population burdened by accumulated crises”, the WFP said.

“In just a few days, WFP assistance has reached thousands of newly displaced people,” the programme’s country director for Lebanon, Matthew Hollingworth, said in the statement.

“As the crisis deepens, we are preparing to assist up to one million people through a mix of cash and food support,” he added, calling on the international community to mobilise $105 million to fund the operation through to the end of the year.

09:18 AM BSTDisplaced families sleep on benches

In Beirut, displaced families spent the night on the benches at Zaitunay Bay, a high-end string of restaurants and cafes on Beirut’s waterfront.

Families with nothing more than a duffle bag of clothes had rolled out mats to sleep on and were pouring tea for themselves.

“You won’t be able to ******** us, whatever you do, however much you *****, however much you displace people – we will stay here. We won’t leave. This is our country and we’re staying,” said Francoise Azori, a Beirut resident jogging through the area.

09:16 AM BSTEl-Sissi warns ******** operations threaten the region

Egypt’s president warned that ******** military operations in the ************ territories and Lebanon are pushing the region to the brink and called for international action.

Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, one of the mediators between ******* and ******, called for “an immediate and comprehensive cease-*****” in both Gaza and Lebanon amid an unprecedented escalation between ******* and Hezbollah. His remarks came after Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was ******* in an ******** airstrike.

El-Sissi’s comments came in a phone call late Saturday with Lebanese caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati, according to a statement from the Egyptian president’s office. He also gave orders to send medical and humanitarian aid to Lebanon immediately.

Along with the ******* States and Qatar, Egypt has for months spearheaded negotiations between ******* and ****** to end the war in Gaza. But negotiations have repeatedly stalled amid mounting ***** of an all-out war between ******* and Hezbollah, an ally of ******. Diplomats see a cease-***** in Gaza as the best way to avert a regional war.

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