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Netanyahu says ******* has ******* the successor to the head of Hezbollah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that ******* has ******* the successor to the head of Hezbollah while the militant group’s acting leader promised more fighting in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah’s overall leader,

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were ******* in recent weeks after heavy ******** airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon. Netanyahu did not name the successor who was ******* Tuesday.

Sheikh Naim Kassem, the acting leader of Hezbollah, said in a defiant televised statement that his group’s military capabilities are still intact and that Hezbollah has replaced all of its senior commanders.

************ militants in Gaza fired a barrage of rockets into ******* on Monday, the anniversary of ******’ Oct. 7 *******, underscoring their resilience in the face of a devastating ******** offensive in Gaza that has ******* about 42,000 people, according to local medical officials.

A year ago, ******-led militants blew holes in *******’s security fence and stormed into army bases and farming communities, ******** some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting another 250. They are still holding about 100 captives inside Gaza, a third of whom are believed to be *****.

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, which began ******* rockets at ******* on Oct. 8, 2023.

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******** military besieges a Gaza hospital, health ministry says

CAIRO — The ******** military has besieged a hospital in the town of Beit Lahiya on the border with *******, the ************ Health Ministry in Gaza said Tuesday.

The ministry said in a statement that ******** forces have opened ***** on Kamal Adwan Hospital’s management office and detained a medic transporting a patient to another hospital despite coordination with the military.

The ministry said the military also called for three hospitals in northern Gaza — Kamal Adwan, Awda and the Indonesian — to evacuate patients and medical staff.

“The military contacted me directly and said in a threatening way, tomorrow all the patients and staff in Kamal Adwan must be removed or they will be exposed to danger. Clearly, it’s a clear threat,” said Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

He said the evacuation order is part of “a new plan to drive out the people of northern Gaza by removing the medical system with all its specialties.”

Heavy clashes have been underway this week in northern Gaza as the ******** military launched another ground operation in the area a year into the war with ******. The military has reportedly ordered hundreds of thousands of ************ in northern Gaza to leave the area and head southward.

There was no immediate comment from the ******** military.

Meeting between US and ******** defense chiefs postponed, Pentagon says

WASHINGTON — Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said in a briefing Tuesday that ******** Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s expected meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in the Pentagon on Wednesday has been postponed. Asked the reason for the delay, she referred reporters to ******** officials.

Singh said Austin and Gallant had not spoken by phone Tuesday and she was not aware of any planned call. She added that while in-person visits are beneficial, there is nothing they can’t discuss by phone.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office had no immediate comment.

******** strike hits building in Damascus, Syrian media reports

BEIRUT — An ******** strike hit a residential building in Damascus on Tuesday evening and ******* seven, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported.

The strike obliterated the first three floors of a building in the Mezzeh neighborhood, east of Damascus, according to an Associated Press journalist at the scene. The debris covered the surrounding area, crushing several cars. Ambulances and excavators arrived at the scene to rescue survivors and clear the wreckage.

The ***-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the strike ******* four people and wounded at least 10 others. The group said that the targeted building is “frequented by Revolutionary Guard leaders and Hezbollah” and that Syrian air defenses had attempted to intercept the *******.

Citing a military source, SANA said three rockets were launched from the direction of the Golan Heights.

There was no immediate comment from ******* on Tuesday’s strike and it was not immediately clear what the intended target was.

On Oct. 1, ******** strikes on Damascus ******* three people and wounded nine others.

Netanyahu says ******* has ******* successor to head of Hezbollah

JERUSALEM — ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says ******* has ******* the successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah — but he does not name the successor.

In an address to the people of Lebanon, Netanyahu said Tuesday that ******* has “degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities.”

“We took out thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself, and Nasrallah’s replacement, and the replacement of his replacement,” Netanyahu said. He did not name either of the two replacements. Nasrallah was ******* last month in a bunker in Beirut by an ******** airstrike.

The militant group’s acting head, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said in a video address issued earlier Tuesday that Hezbollah’s top leadership was directing the war and that the commanders ******* by ******* have been replaced. “We have no vacant posts,” he said. He said Hezbollah will name a new leader to succeed Nasrallah “but the circumstances are difficult because of the war.”

Hashem Safieddine, a cousin of Nasrallah’s who oversees the group’s political affairs — not Kassem — was generally regarded as the leader’s heir apparent. But no announcement on a successor has been made, and Safieddine has not appeared publicly or made any public statements since Nasrallah’s ******.

******** army dismantles Hezbollah tunnel from Lebanon

NEW YORK — The ******** army says it has dismantled a Hezbollah tunnel crossing from Lebanon a few meters (yards) into *******.

The army released footage of the tunnel, which is says tunnel was detected a few months ago but destroyed during the ground operation launched last week. It also claimed soldiers found weapons, ****** and anti-tank missiles.

UN secretary-general calls the Middle East ‘a powder keg’

******* NATIONS – The head of the ******* Nations is warning that “the Middle East is a powder keg with many parties holding the match.”

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters Tuesday that Lebanon is on the verge of “an all-out war” and Gaza is “in a ****** spiral.”

He said the ****** toll in Lebanon has already surpassed the number of people ******* in the 2006 *******-Hezbollah war.

The conflict in the Middle East “is getting worse by the hour,” Guterres said, and every airstrike, missile launch and rocket fired “pushes peace further out of reach and makes the suffering even worse for the millions of civilians caught in the middle.”

But the secretary-general said there is still time to stop the spreading *********.

He again called for an immediate cease-***** in Gaza and Lebanon, the release of all hostages taken in ******’ Oct. 7 ******* in southern ******* and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the multitudes in desperate need.

Guterres also said he has written to ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express “profound concern” about draft legislation that he said could prevent the U.N. agency helping ************ refugees, UNRWA, from continuing its work in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

UNRWA provides food, health care, education and other services to Palestinians and is more and more “indispensable” and “irreplaceable,” he said.

Approval of the ******** legislation “would be a catastrophe in what is already an unmitigated disaster,” Guterres said.

36 people ******* and 150 wounded in Lebanon in the past 24 hours, officials say

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s crisis response unit announced Tuesday that 36 people were ******* and 150 wounded in the past 24 hours, raising the total toll over the past year of conflict between ******* and Hezbollah to 2,119 ******* and 10,019 wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The report also recorded 137 airstrikes and incidents of shelling in the past day, mostly concentrated in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley.

Some 990 centers — including educational complexes, vocational institutes, universities and other institutions — are sheltering 181,700 people people who have been displaced by the ******** offensive in Lebanon, the report said. Of those shelters, 781 have reached full capacity.

Schools near Haifa suspended after rocket ***** from Lebanon

JERUSALEM — *******’s military suspended schools near the northern city of Haifa Tuesday following several rocket barrages that targeted the area over the last week.

Hezbollah has upped its rocket attacks on the city and other areas since the ******** army launched its ground incursion into southern Lebanon. The military said 170 rockets were fired from Lebanon into ******* on Tuesday.

******* air force organizes a fourth evacuation flight from Lebanon

BERLIN – A ******* air force plane is flying another 89 ******* citizens out of Lebanon, the fourth such flight in the past 10 days.

The Foreign Ministry wrote on X that the military Airbus A321 flew 2 tons of medical aid for Lebanese civilians to Beirut.

Germany already organized three military flights out of Beirut last week, which took a total of 460 of the country’s nationals out of Lebanon.

Italian TV crew attacked by a man while filming in southern Lebanon

MILAN — A man attacked and followed the crew of Italy’s Tg3 public broadcaster as they filmed in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, trying to break the video camera. The crew’s driver ***** of a heart ******* suffered during the confrontation.

Lucia Goracci, an international correspondent for the state broadcaster RAI’s third channel, said the crew was filming in a village north of the coastal city of Sidon that had been bombed two days ago, having signaled their presence to the local Hezbollah authority, when a man tried to grab the camera.

“We were filming without problems. People were speaking with us,’’ Goracci said on a midday broadcast. When the man lunged for the camera, they quickly returned to the car. “Others arrived and starting pushing the car. The first man tried to throw a huge stone at us,’’ she said.

They drove away quickly, apparently unaware the man was still following them. When they stopped at a gas station, he grabbed at the car keys and tried to break the video camera through the open windows. “No one came to help us,’’ Goracci said.

The driver collapsed as he pled with the attacker to leave them alone, Goracci said. He was taken to a hospital, where he *****.

Norway’s security service raises ******* threat level in the country

HELSINKI — Norway’s domestic security service said Tuesday that threats against ******* and ******** targets in the Scandinavian country have increased due to the escalation of the conflict.

That has prompted the Norwegian agency, known by its acronym PST, to raise its estimate of ******* threat in Norway from moderate to high — standing now at level 4 on a scale from 1 to 5.

“There are several negative conditions that have increased the ********** threat that are linked, among other things, to the ongoing escalation of the conflict in the Middle East,” PST spokesman Eirik Veum told the Norwegian news agency NTB.

“In Norway, it is primarily the threat to ******* and ******** targets that has further intensified,” he said.

He said the agency had no information about any concrete plans for attacks.

Brazil’s second repatriation flights lands in Sao Paulo

RIO DE JANEIRO — The second repatriation flight from Lebanon organized by the Brazilian government landed in Sao Paulo with 227 people, including 49 children, the Brazilian air force said.

On its journey to Lebanon, the plane chartered by the Brazilian air force took medical and hospital supplies donated by Brazil, the Foreign Ministry said, adding that more flights will follow.

About 21,000 Brazilians live in Lebanon, which is home to the largest community of Brazilians in the Middle East. Two Brazilian adolescents have been ******* by ******** bombardments in Lebanon.

Turkish ministers brief lawmakers over Erdogan’s claim of ******** threats

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s foreign and defense ministers are briefing lawmakers in parliament about a claim made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that ******* would target Turkey after Gaza and Lebanon.

The country’s main opposition party has labeled the claim as implausible but nonetheless called for the meeting, which is being held behind closed doors. These discussions are classified as state secrets and will remain confidential for 10 years.

Last week, Erdogan asserted in a speech that “the place that ******* — which is acting with the delirium of the promised lands — will set its sights on after Palestine and Lebanon will be our homeland.”

Critics say it was an attempt by Erdogan to divert attention from the country’s cost of living crisis and to consolidate nationalist and Islamist votes following a significant setback in local elections earlier this year.

China evacuates over 200 citizens from Lebanon

BEIJING — China has evacuated more than 200 citizens from Lebanon by ship and chartered flight, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

A total of 211 residents of mainland China, three Hong Kong residents and a Taiwan resident have been evacuated, according to ministry spokesperson Mao Ning.

At the request of the Lebanese government, Beijing has agreed to provide Lebanon with emergency humanitarian medical supplies, Mao added.

Fighting rages in northern Gaza after *******’s evacuation order

CAIRO — Palestinians say heavy fighting is underway in northern Gaza, where ******* has ordered another wholesale evacuation and launched a ground operation a year into the war with ******.

At least 15 people, including two women and four children, were ******* Tuesday in the fighting in Jabaliya, the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital said.

The ******** military said it ******* around 20 militants in airstrikes and ground fighting in Jabaliya. It said troops located a large quantity of weapons, including grenades and rifles.

The north, including Gaza City, was the first target of *******’s ground offensive. Entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble and the region has been largely isolated by ******** troops since last October, when ******* ordered everyone to leave.

Hundreds of thousands of people have remained there despite the harsh conditions, leading ******* to order another mass evacuation in recent days. ******* has prevented residents who left the north during the war from returning.

******** forces are battling ****** militants in Jabaliya, home to a densely populated urban ******** camp dating back to the 1948 war surrounding *******’s creation. ************ residents said ******** warplanes and artillery were pounding Jabaliya as well as Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, towns near the border.

“The situation is extremely difficult. The ******** and explosions haven’t stopped,” said Mahmoud Abu Shehatah, a Jabaliya resident. “It’s like the first days of the war.”

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged “total victory” over ******, even as the war has expanded to include Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups across the region. Months of diplomatic efforts aimed at reaching a cease-***** in Gaza appear to have fizzled out, with each side accusing the other of making unacceptable demands.

85 rockets launched from Lebanon into northern *******, military says

JERUSALEM — The ******** military said 85 projectiles were launched Tuesday from Lebanon toward northern ******* in a significant burst of *****.

The military said most of the projectiles were intercepted. Hezbollah confirmed it fired the salvo Tuesday.

*******’s rescue service Magen David Adom said a 70-year-old woman was moderately wounded by shrapnel. ******** media aired footage of what appeared to be minor damage to buildings near the coastal city of Haifa.

The military also said that it struck Hezbollah targets in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, where the militant group has a strong presence.

Hezbollah leader says more Israelis will be displaced as it extends its rocket *****

BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s acting leader said Tuesday that even more Israelis will be displaced as the militant group extends its rocket ***** deeper into *******, in a defiant televised statement marking the anniversary of fighting that escalated into war last month.

Sheikh Naim Kassem said Hezbollah’s military capabilities are still intact and that it has replaced all of its senior commanders after weeks of heavy ******** airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon, including targeted strikes that ******* much of its top command in a matter of days.

He also said ******** forces have not been able to advance after launching a ground incursion into Lebanon last week. The ******** military said a fourth division is now taking part in the incursion, which has expanded to the west, but operations still appear to be confined to a narrow strip along the border.

******** reserve division begins ‘limited operations’ in southwest Lebanon

JERUSALEM — The ******** military said a reserve division has begun limited operations against Hezbollah in southwestern Lebanon, in an apparent widening of its ground incursion.

The military said Tuesday that the 146th Division is the first reserve division to enter Lebanon since it launched ground operations just inside the border last week.

The announcement came a day after the ******** military warned residents to evacuate from over a dozen towns and villages in southwestern Lebanon, including the coastal town of Naqoura, where U.N. peacekeepers are headquartered.

******* has called on people to evacuate several dozen communities across southern Lebanon, many of them north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone established after the *******-Hezbollah war in 2006.

******* says its operations are aimed at halting a year of Hezbollah rocket attacks so that tens of thousands of its citizens can return to their homes in the north. Hezbollah has vowed to keep up the attacks until there is a cease-***** in Gaza.

The fighting, which escalated in mid-September, has displaced over 1 million Lebanese.

UN officials in Lebanon call for talks on anniversary of *******-Hezbollah fighting

BEIRUT — The U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon and the head of the peacekeeping force deployed along the border with ******* said that a negotiated solution is the only way to restore stability and the time to act is now.

The statement by Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro of the U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL came on the first anniversary of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group starting attacks on ******** military posts along the border in support of its ****** allies in the Gaza Strip.

Over the past weeks, the exchanges along the border have expanded into ******** airstrikes and Hezbollah missile attacks that are hitting deeper inside both countries. In Lebanon, more than 1 million people have been displaced and over 1,300 ******* since mid-September.

Plasschaert and Lázaro said Hezbollah’s attacks starting on Oct. 8, 2023 were in violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the 34-day *******-Hezbollah war in 2006.

“Too many lives have been lost, uprooted, and devastated, while civilians on both sides of the Blue Line are left wanting for security and stability,” the statement said referring to the border line along the Lebanon-******* border.

“Today, one year later, the near-daily exchanges of ***** have escalated into a relentless military campaign whose humanitarian impact is nothing short of catastrophic,” the statement said.

It warned that further that further ********* and destruction will neither solve the underlying issues nor make anyone safer in the long run.

“A negotiated solution is the only pathway to restore the security and stability that civilians on both sides so desperately want and deserve,” the statement said. “The time to act accordingly is now.”

Turkey sends navy to evacuate citizens from Lebanon

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey is deploying two navy ships to evacuate its citizens from Lebanon amid the rising tensions in the region.

According to a statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry, the ships, which together can accommodate up to 2,000 passengers, will depart for Lebanon on Tuesday. The evacuations are scheduled to begin on Wednesday.

The ministry said additional evacuations would be organized if necessary.

Besides evacuating citizens, the ships will be carrying humanitarian aid for Lebanon, the ministry said.

****** toll from ******** strikes on Gaza rises to 30

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — At least 30 people, including six children and two women, were ******* in ******** strikes in central Gaza late Monday.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where the bodies were taken, provided an updated toll Tuesday as more bodies were recovered from the rubble.

The strikes took place on the anniversary of ******’ Oct. 7 ******* into southern ******* that triggered the war.

Two strikes hit houses in the built-up Bureij ******** camp, which dates back to the 1948 war surrounding *******’s creation. An Associated Press journalist counted 21 bodies on Monday, along with about a dozen wounded, including several children.

The ************ ****** toll in the war in Gaza is nearing 42,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and militants.

******** military says it ******* a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut strike

JERUSALEM — The ******** military says it ******* a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike on Beirut.

The military said Tuesday that it ******* Suhail Husseini, who it said was responsible for overseeing logistics, budget and management of the militant group.

There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.

The military said Husseini was involved in the transfer of advanced weapons from Iran and their distribution to different Hezbollah units, and that he was a member of the group’s military council.

******** strikes have ******* Hezbollah’s overall leader,

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in recent weeks. Last week, ******* launched what it says is a limited ground incursion into southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah says it has already replaced its slain commanders. It has vowed to keep ******* rockets, missiles and drones into ******* until there is a cease-***** in the Gaza Strip, where its ally ****** has been at war with ******* for a year.

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