Israel pounds Beirut and Gaza after rockets hit Israel’s north

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******* pounds Beirut and Gaza after rockets hit *******’s north

A view of damaged buildings following ******** attacks on Laylaki and Haret Hireyk neighborhood of Dahieh region in Beirut, Lebanon on October 1, 2024. 

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******* struck what it said were Hezbollah arms facilities in southern Beirut on Saturday after the Lebanese armed group fired rockets into northern ******* and a spokesman said a drone was launched at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s holiday home.

Netanyahu was not there at the time, and it was not immediately clear if the building was hit. But he described it as an ************** attempt by “Iran’s proxy Hezbollah” and called it a “grave mistake”, as ******* prepares to retaliate for an Iranian missile barrage earlier this month.

The strikes came as medics and ****** media in Gaza, where ******* has been fighting to root out the ************ militant group for more than a year, said ******** bombardments had ******* more than 100 people across the coastal enclave and a siege around three hospitals had tightened.

Promises by ******* and its enemies ****** and Hezbollah to 

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 have chilled hopes that the ****** of 

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 on Wednesday might lead to truces in Gaza and Lebanon and prevent further escalation in the Middle East.

Officials, diplomats and other sources say that with U.S. elections approaching, ******* 

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 to use intensified military operations to try to shield its borders and ensure its rivals cannot regroup.

On Saturday, ******** planes dropped leaflets over southern Gaza with a picture of Sinwar and the message: “****** will no longer rule Gaza”.

******** strikes later on Saturday on a multi-floor building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya ******* at least 73 people and wounded dozens, medics and ****** media said.

The ******** military is checking reports of casualties from an airstrike in northern Gaza, an ******** official said, adding that a preliminary examination suggested the numbers had been exaggerated and did not match information it had received.

In Beirut’s southern suburbs, ******* carried out heavy strikes on several locations, leaving thick plumes of smoke hanging over the city into the evening.

The strikes targeted “a number of Hezbollah weapons storage facilities and a Hezbollah intelligence headquarters command center”, *******’s military said.

******* had issued evacuation orders for four separate neighborhoods within the suburbs, urging residents to get 500 meters (yards) away, but carried out strikes in other areas as well, witnesses said.

Tens of thousands of people have fled the southern suburbs – once a densely populated zone that also housed Hezbollah offices and underground installations – since ******* began regular strikes there about three weeks ago.

An ******** air ******* on Sept. 27 ******* Hezbollah’s secretary general 

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, and strikes nearby have ******* other top figures from the Iran-backed group.

The ******* States 

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 to see ******* scale back some of its strikes in and around Beirut, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.

New area struck

Earlier on Saturday, an ******** strike ******* two people as they were travelling on Lebanon’s main highway near the **********-majority town of Jounieh. *******’s military said it was looking into the incident.

Another strike ******* at least four people in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, health authorities said. One of them was the mayor of a nearby town, the 

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 to be ******* this week.

In a series of Hezbollah rocket salvos in *******, one person was ******* and at least nine injured, the ******** ambulance service said.

There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on any drone ******* targeting Netanyahu’s house in the northern ******** town of Caesarea, which the prime minister said was aimed at ******** him and his wife.

The conflict over the past year has caused direct Iranian-******** confrontations, including missile attacks on ******* in April and on Oct. 1.

Netanyahu has vowed to respond to the October ballistic missile *******.

“I say to Iran and its proxies in its axis of evil: Anyone who tries to harm *******’s citizens will pay a heavy price,” he said in a statement following the Caesarea *******.

Iran’s mission to the ******* Nations said in a statement: “We have already responded to the ******** regime, and the action in question has been carried out by Hezbollah in Lebanon.”

Stalled talks

Hezbollah has been trading ***** with ******* since the war between ******* and Iran-backed ****** began in Gaza last October. On Saturday alone, Hezbollah launched around 200 “projectiles,” the ******** military said.

Nearly three weeks ago, ******* launched a ground ******** inside Lebanon in an attempt to stabilise the border region for its citizens who had fled the fighting.

*******’s military said on Saturday said it had destroyed tunnel shafts and underground infrastructure in southern Lebanon. It also said it had ******* Hezbollah’s deputy commander of the Bint Jbeil area on Friday.

The ******** military has opened an investigation into the ****** of a Hezbollah detainee in Lebanon, ******** media said.

Since October 2023, more than 2,400 people have been ******* in Lebanon, most of them in the last month, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, while 59 people have been ******* in northern ******* and the occupied Golan Heights, according to ******** authorities.

******-led militants ******* some 1,200 people and took 250 hostages in the ******* that triggered the war, according to ******** tallies. *******’s military response has left more than 42,500 people *****, ************ officials say.

The ******** offensive has made most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people homeless, caused 

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COGAT, the ******** military agency that oversees administration in the ************ Territories, has stepped up deliveries of aid into Gaza amid international pressure. ******* and the ******* ***** Emirates made an air drop of aid into southern Gaza on Saturday.

Western leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden, have said Sinwar’s ****** offered a chance for a deal for a truce in Gaza and the release of the remaining hostages.

Negotiations for such a deal have been stalled for weeks. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has led diplomatic efforts, is expected to travel to ******* on Tuesday as part of a regional tour, Axios reported on the social media platform X.

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